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A poignant romantic drama, made much more interesting by the unusual narrative structure - non-linear, so events are jumbled up in an out-of...

Nice, mainly gentle animated film, in which a young boy is storm-washed from the deck of his parents' sailing boat and (somewhat implaus...

As I write here quite often, I'm not a big fan of graphic novels. I find them hard to read, distracting and non-linear- maybe I have an ...

A beautiful, clever book, mostly told through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy in wartime England, though with a frame first person narrati...

Sad, slow but engrossing Moroccan film about a man who works as a maker of embroidered kaftans, and his wife who is dying of cancer. Their b...

A fun comedy-thriller that actually has some laughs. Three improv comedians (well, one is a class tutor and one has just walked in off the s...

Interesting and thoughtful book about the politics of veterans - both the politics of the veterans themselves and the way they are used by p...

Remarkable book by the author of " Orbital ", and almost nothing like that. It's a first-person narrative set in the late C15t...

A very unusual film - about how David Lipsky (a journalist for Rolling Stone) goes to interview the writer David Foster Wallace by joining h...

Everyone loved this book when it came out, didn't they? I didn't like it so much. First there's the picaresque humour - the old ...

Another really enjoyable novel. I watched the TV series first, which was also great, and then when it finished I was missing the characters ...

 Really enjoyable novel made up of different stories set in the same place through history.  I feel there ought to be a name for that but I ...

I was disappointed and upset by this book. It's not specially well written, and it feels poorly edited too - sometimes the same episode ...

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...