Jezza's Blog

A comedy about a kid in the Hitler Youth, whose imaginary friend is Hitler, doesn't sound very promising. I was a little stunned by th...

I think this is a dangerous book, and not in a good way - in the way that a manual for a difficult and important task with significant mis...

On the 25th of January I joined with my comrades from the Stroud Red Band to play at a Holocaust Memorial Day interfaith event in Rodborough...

My first Kate Atkinson book, and on the strength of this I don't think there will be others. I'd heard this one discussed on a boo...

The 2004 version, with Reese Witherspoon - there have been lots of film versions. Notable for being a bit more sexy than one might have ...

Upbeat, jolly and enjoyable heist movie, with some not-very-surprising plot twists. Good to look at, and some fun 'Robin Hood' the...

I read this - I'm not calling this post a review, because GBS does not need any reviews from me. Just noting that I felt a very odd mi...

Again, one that I meant to write a while ago and then got distracted. This is a rather good dystopian science fiction novel, set in a near...

Sorry I forgot to finish this review...a nice documentary film about Hedy Lamarr, who was a rather brilliant woman but had a less than bri...

Good science writing about psychedelics, that made me think a lot about whether I wanted to try them or not, and also about how the mind a...

Quirky, disturbing very short short stories...occasionally touching on the politics of Israel and Palestine, but mainly focused on the abs...

So jealous of James Meek to have written such a wonderful book - set in Siberia during the Russian Civil War, and focused on the soldiers ...

Judy Dench is usually in good films, and this is one - 'based on a true story', it's really about Melita Norwood, who passed o...

Surprisingly enjoyable comedy...not exactly a romcom, more a comedy of manners, with lots of acute observations about various English ...

After VE Day in May 1945 the British government lifted the Defence Regulations under which the country’s home-grown fascists had been inte...

Really sad film about a nice young couple in Glasgow - he's not very Scottish though his dad seems to be , she's Spanish - who get...

Nice, feel-good sort of film with a mildly intriguing scenario - following some sort of unexplained discontinuity Jack has a road accident...

Another one in the Almodovar season watched at Jane's shop, the Old Co-op on Horns Road in Stroud. Very much in the spirit of 's...

Not very interesting or enjoyable film about a middle-aged phone sex operator, overweight and unattractive and back living with her hyper-...

A quite nice film about a country singer in Glasgow - a young single mum with a great voice and stage presence, but no other musical skill...