( Finally I got my computer working again. Ever cloned a hybrid SSD/physical hard disc? It takes ages . But now? Now comes catchup.) Som...

My expression on reading Polanski's Wikipedia page.  (First, I need to say that my writing here has faced another setback, with th...

Yesterday I received notice, sensitively given, that someone I had once worked for had died.

Lorcan Finnegan must have seen A Field in England before embarking on the production of Without Name. The sense of menace imputed to an ar...

It's been a couple of weeks  since I've posted. Life got a bit complex, in ways both good and bad, and I needed to take a while to...

In Summer 1999, The Matrix came out, and that's pretty uncontroversially one of the most culturally significant films of the last two...

The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin was very much part of the fairy tale repertoire when I was a kid. I remember seeing Cosgrove Hall...