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A hard one to review, because it arouses such mixed feelings. Shlomo Sand is a clever, sharp thinker and writer who says a lot of sense a...

A made-for-TV film, watched via the All4 app and Chromecast - actually the first thing I've watched in exactly that way, as until rece...

Watched on the Middle Floor screen at Springhill Cohousing, on a DVD from the private collection of the incomparable George Platts. A real...

Watched on a laptop from a library-rented DVD, this is one of the strangest cinematic experiences I've had for a while. Although none ...

I watched this on Netflix last night (via Android phone and Chromecast) and ought to write a review, except that this one from The Guardia...

Not much joy in this one. It's a rather long, remorseless account of life in what Americans call the middle class (and is really the w...

A much more emotionally engaging film than any I've seen lately. This deals with the relationship in the 1920s between two young Danis...

Watched as broadcast on ITV2, with lots and lots of breaks for adverts. I've not been a James Bond fan for years, but I recently found...

Pleasant romcom with some nice characters and a few good jokes – or rather one good one, developed to the full. A group of women set up a...

I've been meaning to watch this for ages, as compensation for deciding not to go to the Guca festival itself (Ruth decidedly lukewarm...

A better than average American college movie, with some romcom and some buddy-movie elements. Too-cool girl goes to college (she wants to...

Went to see this yesterday, with my sons, their friend, and my nephew - all in their twenties. We watched it at an Imax cinema in 3D, and ...

Watched for the first time in many years, via a laptop, VGA cable, and projector, on the big screen in the Common House at Springhill Coho...

I watched this on our TV, via Chromecast and Netflix. It's a very well made film, but I found it really upsetting. It's about a ca...

I didn't like this very much. Rather like Harold, I felt compelled to finish what I'd started, but it was really a hard slog. The...

Very disappointed with this, and I think it is part of a general trend with the 'very short introduction' series - they are often...

Janeen Webb is a good writer with a wild imagination. That's my conclusion after reading the whole collection - but I was tempted to...

A suspense thriller without much suspense or thrills, this was nevertheless enjoyable to watch, if only for the way that the environment o...

This is an enjoyable time-travel science fiction novel, mainly set in the 1300s in Languedoc. It's about a scientific mission, but th...

An enjoyable historical novel, mainly about the characters of the two men - Humboldt and Gauss - who each seem to have been insufferabl...