Jezza's Blog

I just loved this collection of stories. Overall I think they count as 'weird fiction', but I'd say they stay well clear of th...

A time travel film, and one that reminds me why I generally don't like the genre. Very confusing, and I'm not sure whether my conf...

An American remake of a French film with dodgy racial politics, that was an unexpected and somewhat inexplicable success. A rich white guy...

Not read any Tim Powers before, and I ended up really liking this. It's a bit of a romp, with touches of horror too (and I try to neve...

Re-read after many years, and not as much fun as I remember it having been. Desperate to gratify my craving for steampunk, but it's ha...

A worthy successor to 'Comrades Come Rally', Phil Brett's sequel is set in the same post-revolutionary Britain. Our hero Pete ...

I enjoyed this way more than I expected to...I'm not very interested in sport, and less so in figure skating. I have only the dimmest ...

Another beautifully written book by Rose Tremain, with a great portrait of the central character - Lev, a middle-aged Polish man who leave...

Re-watched this after attending some events at the Stroud Steampunk Weekend . I remembered the film as being visually arresting but couldn...

The "hardest" hard science fiction I have read for ages, with lots of theoretical physics in it. Lots of ideas and weirdness too...

Rather plodding biopic about Tolkien, who didn't have a very interesting life (student then professor at Oxford). Some interest from t...

Liberal film about the days when the mainstream media were the good guys, exposing the crimes and lies of the government, and focusing on ...

Another slow emotional film, with Emma Thompson as the judge who must decide whether to force a blood transfusion on an unwilling 17-year-...

Slow film about an old guy in a small town in Arizona (I think) contemplating the closing stages of his life. He is remarkably well and me...

A clever, beautiful graphic novel about the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, told through the eyes of an anarchist fighter who has a m...

Quite a nice film, set in post-troubles (is that a bit premature) Belfast, about a writer who comes back for his unloved Dad's funeral...

Great if bleak survey of current thinking and perspectives on climate change, this works well as a gateway to the literature. It's wel...

Quite decent Scottish road trip/coming of age story, with some beautiful scenery and decent acting. Nice music too, and good characters, w...

Family saga comdedy drama, with some decent acting and cinematography, rather let down by a script that looks like it was rushed through a...

I'm not sure this straightforward biopic of Mary Shelley/Wollstoncraft-Godwin is really necessary. It's not terrible, but I'm ...