Jezza's Blog

  Can't believe that I've never seen this, but I haven't. It was more fun than I was expecting...the main joke is that the two m...

A poor rom-com, short on the rom and on the com. Millie is a fund manager but she dreams of being an opera singer...even though there is abs...

Half way through watching this I realised that I'd started watching it before, and given up. I could see why, even though its heart is m...

We had a little girl visiting us, and and a friend who has decided to watch only Disney films because everything else is so feel-bad, so we ...

Based on the James Baldwin novel, and really good, though hard to watch because it's so grim. The acting, the dialogue, the cinematograp...

This was more fun that I expected - I liked the music, the clothes, and wondering where the locations were (some of them weren't anywher...

I enjoyed this more than I have his other books - it's not only optimistic and left-wing (don't often go together, do they?) like hi...

Sort of a second-rate, updated version of Groundhog Day, with the time loop theme, but without any of the poignancy or thoughtfulness. This ...

Nice British film about...well, quite a lot really. Two half brothers are brought up by their gran after their parents die in a freak balloo...

A while ago I watched a documentary about the too-close relationship between Hollywood and the US military...I'd sort of suspected that...

Gritty London-based crime and family drama, in which a rather deadbeat dad comes out of prison to find his two young sons living a precariou...

Quite nice film about a NZ man living in NY, in the process of separating from his partner and mother of his cute twin daughters, and trying...

A sort of spy/conspiracy thriller that ought to be good, but really isn't. Lots of good actors, directed by David Hare, but a half-assed...

A surprisingly good novel about the 1714 siege of Barcelona. I set out to read this as background 'research' for the third book in m...

The last few years have not been fun for a lot of Jewish socialists. No sooner had the Labour Party - which some of us had written off as a ...

A Stroud Radical Reading Group book. I'm embarrassed to say I'd never heard of Federici before, because she's great. A brilliant...

OK film about David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton going to New York on Vogue's budget and making themselves famous, despite the best efforts...

Worthy, beautifully filmed, but a bit dull biopic of Mary Anning, the early-Victorian working class fossil hunter who laid the basis for so ...

I sort of liked this...well, I read through 476 pages so it carried me along. It's hard science fiction, with lots of detailed descripti...

This starts off as a silly comedy sort of film, like a slightly more grown-up version of "Honey I Shrunk The Kids"...scientists at...