Jezza's Blog

Hi All, I would like the Stroud Red Band to have the song of the Jewish Partisans, ' Zog Nit Keynmol ', in its repertoire. That me...

A film about bored rich people (and obnoxious rich people, at that) doing nothing very much in beautiful locations, I ought to have hated ...

A melancholy sort of autobiographical account of the city, interspersed with historical interludes but essentially the history of the auth...

I was a speccy, nerdy kid who spent his early childhood lunch-breaks reading from the dictionary, so I've always loved lexicography an...

This book is trash - or at least pulp - but in the best possible way. This is the most enjoyable steampunk novel, with giant steam-powered...

Period drama, nicely made with lots of detail that looks well researched. I couldn't tell exactly when it was supposed to be set, whic...

A sad film about two boys growing up in Brooklyn whose families are thrown into contact, and then into conflict, because of a legacy - the...

Well, everyone loved this, but I was a bit bored. Maybe I was tired, but I kept falling asleep so I missed bits. I didn't see where t...

Pretty much a live action remake of the earlier Disney cartoon, with CGI used to provide the spellbound characters turned into household o...

A strange, uncomfortable film. It's a US-Israeli collaboration, but as I watched it I couldn't help thinking that this was the sor...

Re-watched after several years...I thought I'd have more time to focus on the look of it, because I wouldn't need to follow the ra...

A creepy, uncomfortable film about a man crushed by the sheer mundane-ness of his life. It's an animated film, and the animation is mo...

A remarkable film - lots of plot twists (helped by the fact that I hadn't read the book on which it is based, though I knew about it),...

A really good film - with quite a few laughs, though I wouldn't really call it a comedy. I was touched emotionally and personally by i...

Sad and beautiful film about two cowboys (well, shepherds really, though one of them does ride in rodeos) who discover that they love each...

A Spanish western, set in Bolivia in the 1920s, with a not-dead-after-all Butch Cassidy planning to return to the US to meet up with the s...

Haven't watched since the 1980s...I remember feeling rather uncomfortable watching it then, because drag queens didn't fit with my...

Not sure why this was Best Picture - a film about a gay black drug dealer's coming of age in Miami. Bits were very poignant and well d...

I was rather disappointed with this. The book was great - it explained complex things and unfamiliar institutions without being patronizin...

A thoughtful, moving film about adoption and lost children. A little Indian boy gets lost from his family, swept in to an orphanage, and t...