Jezza's Blog

  I was drawn in to this story about a group of over-privileged white kids at a posh and slightly useless American college...the narrator ha...

Film about Olga, a young woman athlete who is on verge of being selected for the Ukraine national gymnastics team, but gets the opportunity ...

Amazing, clever, emotionally laden Irish film about conflict over the ownership of a field in a poverty-stricken rural village. Bull McCabe,...

Strange genre-crossing Danish film, which switches between philosophical considerations (the meaning of events and the chain of causality in...

A really unusual book, with a slightly fantastical but also gritty subject and setting - a birth-deformed young man abused by his disabled m...

Sickbed reading, and very suitable - interesting without being too emotionally taxing, despite the subject matter. A good family saga, well ...

The first thing to say is that this is a brilliant book...even better than their other book " The Post Internet Far Right ", which...

A really funny, enjoyable, clever romcom. Great to look at, witty, cool. It's a romcom so the plot is never going to be very sophisticat...

I begin this review with some unease...some years ago I wrote a review of one of David Graeber's other books (I think it was "The U...

It's really annoying that there are two David Mitchells, the author and the comedian . It's even more annoying that they are both s...

Really rather good biopic, which foregrounds but does not demonise the figure of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis's manager who took 50% of eve...

What a wasted opportunity! The first fifteen minutes are great - views of the prosperous and beautiful fictional African country, a great an...

For years the Red Band in London, and then the Stroud Red Band, played a tune called Kasatchok. It's a Russian traditional dance tune, o...

A well-told tale about the Welsh reporter who broke the story about the 1930s famine in the Ukraine, when the rest of the Moscow-based weste...

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 ...