Jezza's Blog

This has sat on my shelf for more than a year. Someone was clearing out his Jazz books collection, and I took this one, mainly because I rem...

A Paul Verhoeven historical drama with heresy, blasphemy, lurid visions and lesbian nuns. Not ridiculously over the top like Ken Russel'...

A disappointing, ramshackle, often boring film, with occasional glints of interest. It's a fly-on-the-wall documentary - no narrative or...

I watched this as part of my birthday celebrations. A few months ago I found myself - unusually - listening to Radio 4, and there was a prog...

I've belated become a John Le Carre fan. I think this film captures the atmosphere of the books, especially the shabby interiors of the ...

The ratings and reviews of this book seem to be overwhelmingly positive, and I see it's been turned into a TV series. Still, I wasn'...

  This is a film about Shoshana Borochov , a real person who was the daughter of Dov Ber Borochov , a "Marxist Zionist". There...

The hardest science fiction I've read for a long time, and a mashup of cyberpunk and hard boiled detective noir. I really loved it. It...

I watched this in the company of about a hundred people who were devotees of Kumar and thought he was perhaps literally God's gift to hu...

A papal election thriller, with lots of twists as the various candidates are revealed to have things in their past, or even in their present...

Absolutely relentless documentation of the way that first the Israeli army, and then settlers, try to evict a group of Palestinian villagers...

It's been a long time since I read any Tracy Chevalier - so long that there aren't any reviews of the books that I did read in my bl...

I really enjoyed the movie a few years ago, and reading the book I see that it was really faithful to the text. I enjoyed the book too - th...

Spanish rom-com about two introverted people living in adjoining apartments who develop a relationship without actually meeting- he's an...

Sad but nicely executed film about a young girl and her dad living rough in the woods in an effort to avoid contact with authority and burea...

Heavy handed buy enjoyable satire about wealth and power. Young bloke model Carl is in a relationship with model-influencer Yaya, who is nar...

Well, that was quite hot. Not my kind of erotic fantasy, but still quite sexy. Nicole Kidman is the CEO of a warehouse automation company, a...

That Bob Dylan film, which everyone has seen and everyone has liked. Not surprising, because it's very good...the acting, the cinematogr...

Tennis biopic of Arthur Ashe. I've watched a few tennis films lately, and I think this was the least interesting. Although the film says...

Embarrassingly bad. Gave up after 40 minutes Watched via informal distribution...at least we didn't pay money to see this.