Reviews of books, films, exhibitions, performances etc, and my Reading Diary. Read Other Folk’s Flowers for more details or scroll down.
There are some great lines in Fantastic Voyage (some of them cited below), but I ended up going for a cheap joke at the expense of Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence. I was inspired by the strip in the middle of the postcard above here, which is a still from the DVD. (What she’s actually … More…
The second DVD out of the box as I work through my birthday present to myself, is JJ Abram’s Star Trek from last year (2009). Taking this film as my subject here also gives me an opportunity to brush off and republish my original review. (‘Review’ doesn’t seem quite the right word, but judge for … More…
A review of two books by Nigel Slater, food writer and journalist. The books were presents to me on my recent birthday.
Review of NTLive’s broadcast of London’s National Theatre production of The The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett with Richard Griffiths and Alex Jennings.
All’s Well that Ends Well – a review of the British National Theatre’s production, seen live in a cinema in Gothenburg on Thursday 1st October 2009 – the transcript of an audio recording.
Review of the British National Theatre’s production and direct-feed broadcast of Phaedre made on 25th June 2009 and seen at Bio Roy in Gothenburg.
Star Trek rebooted. A review of JJ Abram’s reconception of the original Star Trek series – as the first episode in a series of big-screen films.
Gothenburg International Film Festival 2009 Revolutionary Road is not Titanic despite Kate and Leo – and both of them have appeared in better films – but as a costume drama it’s certainly worth seeing Suffocation of youthful dreams by 1950s US middle-class norms. None of the characters really sympathetic – mostly rather pathetic. All immature … More…
Derek: this blog’s first review – really more notes towards a review – I was attending the 2009 edition of the Gothenburg Film Festival.