Jezza's Blog

I bought a ZTE Open for my son. His cheapo Android had more or less broken and it seemed a good time to try one out, what with having writ...

Saw this a few hours ago. I thought it was good - much better than the mainstream reviews suggested, and managing quite well to show at the ...

Recent revelations about PRISM and TEMPORA have made people more aware about the threats to their privacy on the internet. There have a...

This is an important and interesting book that covers a lot of ground in a succinct and clear way. It explains a lot about how the world of...

Enjoyable quirky sort of anti-romcom romcom. Some plot and character implausibilities, but also some sharp dialogue and nice observations;...

This was recommended by someone that I trust, but I really didn't like it. It is overlong and the writing is not that good. Fitzroy seem...

As the mainstream reviews say, this is a long-awaited return to form by Woody Allen - a serious, sombre drama centred on the character fla...

I am not one of those who treasures everything that Mike Leigh does, but this was great - a really touching, poignant portrayal of late midd...

This was enjoyable, exciting, and – most necessary on this occasion – distracting. It’s not nearly as bad as some of the really hostile rev...

I went with friends to the William Morris Gallery on Saturday. It was a lovely day, the gallery had lots of beautiful things to look at, a...

This is the only Saudi film I've ever seen (well, a Saudi-German co-production) and it was thoroughly depressing. It focused on the li...

A really enjoyable, beautiful modern black and white silent film - funny, sad, totally engaging. Loosely based on Snow White, this is a very...

...which is no reflection on Chang, just on how far mainstream economics has become dominated by ideology and equations. There is nothing ...

I absolutely loved the book, and I only quite liked the film. Even though it was an independent production, it still felt Hollywood-ized. At...

Bit of a disappointment. The review in the LRB (of the book, not this film) made the whole thing sound terribly post-modern (well, post-pos...

Last week I demonstrated to my colleagues how cool and down with the kids I was by knowing about the Dark Internet , and proposing that we c...

At times this seemed sort of empty and dragged a bit - too much sweeping footage of the beautiful houses and gardens, too many CGI aerial ...

I loved The Big Short, and I liked this a lot. Lewis has the knack of bringing complicated financial stuff to life, and making it compreh...

I really enjoyed this, though I am not entirely sure I should have. It's very violent - lots of people get killed, though they are mainl...