Moonballs from Planet Earth

The Umbrella Academy - Now on Netflix The Sound of Music - circa 1965 Spoiler Alert Season 1 of The Umbrella Academy is great. It features s...

Since I can’t physically holiday on the Mediterranean this summer, I’m doing the next best thing and reading about Mediterranean holiday loc...

A Manifesto for McCluskiegunge A Death in the Ganj, Konkana Sen Sharma’s debut as a director, is on Amazon Prime. It’s worth watching. Fea...

My family I are hooked on a TV miniseries called WandaVision.  WandaVision is a part of the Marvel-verse - an alternative reality with many...

Surtur straddles the ruins of Asgard as Thor and Hela face off "Asgard is not a place. Asgard is a people." But is it?  Woul...

Bohemian Rhapsody - the superb Freddy Mercury biopic which triggered this post [Scene: Heathrow airport, 1970] Baggage handlers are on the t...

Julian Assange, photographed outside Ellingham Hall Wikileaks has radically changed the way I see our world. Not the way I see war,...

Jack Reacher, the movie, starts with a gripping premise: Normal people are living their everyday lives on a crisp sunny morning in an Am...

Bollywood India For the same reason that Sweden does crime fiction. Camilla Lackberg Sweden's best selling crime writer, Cam...

Sitting around staring at brick walls is called "woozling" in my family. I just discovered that James Bond woozles too...

Snow White and the Huntsman Just watched Snow White and the Huntsman. Enjoyed the movie, in much the same way that I enjoy watching B...

Luke Skywalker strides towards the twin sunset on Tatooine I'd posted yesterday about the poem "Keep Ithaka always in the mi...

This picture of Mark Zuckerberg’s wedding with Priscilla Chan was one of the few truly heart warming images from the last few weeks. Thi...

F.R.I.E.N.D.S was more than a successful TV serial, it was a cultural phenomenon. I think it had such a big impact, beyond what one wo...

An old friend put me on the spot recently, and quizzed me on how I found the enthu to keep blogging. I wasn't expecting the ...

"At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around...

Blistering barnacles! Thundering typhoons! Ostrogoths! Bashi bazouks! Why has Steven Spielberg given Captain Haddock a Scottish accent...

I read, and enjoyed, a book that called Christ a scoundrel. The book is by Philip Pullman, a well known atheist. Pullman isn’t being su...