Jezza's Blog

Is it possible for a film to be boring and enjoyable at the same time? Well, this one does a pretty good job. Bill Nighy is a bureaucrat at ...

A short book, but one with a lot to it...coming of age as gay in rural Connecticut, the Vietnam war and its impact on Vietnamese and America...

A feel-good film about nature, child abuse, male violence, rape, murder...what's not to like? Actually a really good film, with a modera...

Hard to do justice to this while avoiding spoilers. It's a great, clever, well-written and thoroughly nasty book. It's written in th...

Really good animated feature film about a young gay man who is fleeing from Afghanistan. Every so often it's inter-cut with some archive...

Oh blimey, what a book! A depiction of rural, underclass, off-the-grid life. The people here are one fraction of that subculture...the kind ...

A film about activist and scientist Vandana Shiva that left me slightly uneasy. It's more or less a biopic, from her early days as a sor...

Really interesting as a phenomenon, but as a film...well, that's two hours of my life I'm not going to get back. Nothing that you ca...

Nice, sweet film about the relationship between an older white woman and an isolated British-Asian young man in Bradford. Among the things I...

A lovely short film shot within 100m of where I live, with people I know as actors. Despite the brevity (11 minutes) it covers a lot of stuf...

I was so excited by Roland Denning's film about James Castle, The Society for the Protection of Unwanted Buildings, that I had to watch ...

I'd seen this film before, about my friend and fellow Red Band member James Castle, but it was different watching it with an audience......

A fairly straightforward war film, rather well done by Christopher Nolan as director. I didn't recognise many of the actors, so it felt ...

Not as enjoyable as her Circe . The latter part seems to be mainly a straightforward retelling of the Illiad, which was made even less enjoy...

A polemical, one-sided look at the damage done by exporting western models of education to non-western societies, with a particular focus on...

Occasionally interesting but mainly rambling and self-indulgent book about a man's love of books and what they meant to him through his ...

Really good dystopian/post-apocalyptic novel about a world devastated by a pandemic that kills 99 per cent of the population. Quite a comple...

Not very satisfying film by Carlos Saura about an entertainer couple in the Spanish Civil War. Early on in the film they are busy cheering u...

A film almost as weird as the KLF itself, which seems to have been as much prank as music band. I must admit that I rather liked " Last...

A surprisingly enjoyable read from the 1950s, written by the Vicar of Doncaster and intended as a guide for other parish priests covering wh...