Film, TV & Books
“I haven’t watched this” – My Favourite DVD Reviews On Amazon
“I haven’t watched this. My husband ordered it. He likes foreign films. He said it was really good. It arrived promptly and…
Film, TV & Books
Cinema, television and literary commentary.
9 essays
Film, TV & Books
Film, TV & Books
Champagne in Films and Television Part 1
In Series One, Episode Two of Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes enters the apartment of a stockbroker he suspects has been murdered and opens the fridge to…
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Woody Allen’s Wonderful Alice
I watched Alice (1990) for the first time in a long, long time and realised it is one of my favourite Woody…
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One Way of Looking At Rock And Roll
Interviewing a young Mick Jagger in 1963 or 1964, a conservative BBC type asks: “How much longer do you give yourself doing…
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Germaine and Humbert
“At other times I would tell myself that it was all a question of attitude, that there was really nothing wrong in…
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Claude Chabrol Doing Barry Humphries And Animals
The (recently deceased) French New Wave director Claude Chabrol looked a little like Barry Humphries. Here he is in a brilliant cameo as a zoophile…
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Germany’s Willy Wonka
Willy Wonka came up with the Everlasting Gobstopper and the Scrumdiddilyumptious Bar. Germany’s Willy Wonka, Hans Riegel Sr (Haribo), has the Schnecken!, the Stafetten!…
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Mailer: Middleweight and Model
Martin Amis says the worst photo ever taken of Norman Mailer shows him with a black eye. There’s a worse one –…