Monday, 7 April 2025

Let's Do It : The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley - Chapters 1-10

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  A huge volume that I will review in stages. These are the first ten chapters of the 52. Foreword by Lenny Kaye In New York City in the mid...
Thursday, 3 April 2025

Ascott in April

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  In the middle of a period of wall to wall sunshine, an early visit yesterday to the National Trust property at Ascott near Wing. Not many ...
Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Movies at Home: This Beautiful Fantastic, The Motorcycle Diaries and The Man Who Never Was

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  A small film from 2016 about gardening. Luckily the garden is just flowers, hardly a vegetable in sight. This Beautiful Fantastic is super...
Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Sight and Sound Magazine - April 2025

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  Cover Here is Bong Joon Ho, the director of Mickey 17 - see below. Editorial Mike Williams lays into Trump, Bannon and Musk with this edit...
Tuesday, 25 March 2025

The Tasting (La Degustation) at the Rex Berkhamsted

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  The Tasting is a wonderful French film set in the town of Troyes. All you need to know about wine is here as shop owner Jacques (played by...
Sunday, 23 March 2025

Inside Cinema: Shorts - Episodes 81 to 90

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  Here are the next ten episodes of Inside Cinema: Shorts starting with Episode 81 The Lord of the Wings ,   narrated by Catherine Bray. She...
Saturday, 22 March 2025

La Traviata at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre

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  Alison was convinced we had been to the opera before but I was not so sure. So when Ellen Kent's company were performing La Traviata i...