Jezza's Blog

Depressing but well-written book about men's ageing and mortality - specifically a man, who is an advertising executive and serial mar...

A good historical film about anarchists - especially the 'Free Women' - in the Spanish Civil War. It rather plays down the conflic...

Well, this is a book of its time if ever there was! I F Stone, a Jewish-American left-wing journalist travels to Europe to see for himself...

Well, so much for the suggestion that satire is always conservative (see earlier review of The Twelve Chairs). This is a really powerful, ...

I saw the Mel Brooks film years ago, and remember it as quite funny - enjoyable to watch as a socialist, not horribly anti-Soviet and with...

Another early Almodovar, and was probably quite shocking to a Spanish audience when it first came out, but now seems quite contrived and e...

Film about a lawyer who moves to LA so that her divorced husband can have access to their son, becomes involved with a firm that does migr...

French film in which a woman whose factory is closed to be relocated to Morocco decides to take up the statutorily-defined offer that she ...

Another awful liberal film about race and class in contemporary. Very wealthy couple have a troubled relationship (he's having an affa...

Well-made Spanish film about a disturbed young man and his relationships - with his peers (awful), his grandmother (in a home, near-vegeta...

Wanted to watch a feel-good cheerful film, and ended up watching this - about the children of a man on death row who attend anti-death pen...

A slow start but a good film about academic psychology, sexual relationships and jealousy, and bondage. Lots of bondage. Professor Marston...

I don't think Barbara Kingsolver has written any bad books - this certainly isn't one. It's a sometimes gruelling story about ...

One of Almodovar's more recent films, and really good - very poignant, almost painful to watch, about the relationship between a mothe...

One of those book that I'm amazed that I hadn't already read - it's been around me for years and years, and somehow I'd be...

Almodovar's first film, and obviously intended to be shocking and obscene. It's a bit shapeless, with some scenes and characters t...

I've had this knocking around for years, but never quite got round to actually reading. But lately I've been thinking a lot about ...

Blimey this was a remarkable book - an indication is that I really hated it for the first 80 pages but persevered with it. I hated it beca...

This is so not 'a definitive collection of Stephenson's writing' - it's a rag-bag of old journalism and short fiction, som...

An intriguing mystery book set in the world of multinational toy corporations, with lots of clever insights into marketing and demographic...