Jezza's Blog

I can't believe I've never got round to seeing this before. It's a classic, and though it's old it's really funny and ...

A fish and chip supper of a film - you know it's really not very good for you, but it's still enjoyable. Or rather, since this is ...

I've been meaning to watch this for a long time - what with being 'Ex Machina' myself - but somehow never quite managed to get...

Quite a difficult book, with a narrative that darts about in time and lots of Hungarian history - not all that many novels have footnotes,...

A film about the love affair between Novalyne Price Ellis and Robert E Howard, the author of the Conan books. Sort of long and slow, set...

A rather different book from 'Restoration', even though it continues with the same first-person narrator as is obviously a sequel....

Palestinian film, set in Nazareth (i.e. within the 'Green Line' of pre-1967 Israel), depicting the relationship between a father a...

A well-made film intended to illustrate that 'we' (the good guys, the West) don't just carry out a massive program of long-dis...

An enjoyable liberal anti-racist film, in which a working-class Italian man with prejudices against Black people (in an early scene we see...

Surprisingly enjoyable book about a couple's holiday in Belgium. Pearson is very interested in sport (and I'm not) but he still ma...

Nice British comedy about prisoners who take up gardening with the encouragement of a TV celebrity gardener played by Helen Mirren. Redemp...

Film about children trafficked from Nepal to Indian circuses - a big thing, it turns out, mainly sold by their parents in the belief that ...

Bleak and sometimes beautiful dystopian film, set on an earth which has become inhospitable to life as a result of some unexplained change...

A slightly over-long but fascinating documentary, spent in the company of some of the most obnoxious people you will ever meet. 'Entre...

Absolutely amazing alternative-history novel about slavery in the US, including a fantasy that the 'underground railroad', the smu...

Beautiful, interesting animated film about a girl growing up in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Good script, very striking to look at, and...

Well that's what period drama ought to be like! Not obsessed with historical accuracy - the dance scene was hilarious - but fabulous t...

A film about a troupe of improvisational comedians who have been doing the same act for years, and then one of their number makes it to pr...

Ok-ish period drama set in fin-de-siecle Paris, with nice costumes and locations, but not much sizzle - despite the fact that plot contain...

Nice British film about mid-life crises for men and how a group responds by forming a men's synchronized swimming team - only to find ...