The Return is no corny sword-and-sandal epic like 2004’s Troy …. by contrast, [it] manages to capture something of the epic spirit of Homer’s story, along with a modicum of historical verisimilitude.
‘Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag is a classy, gripping psycho-political spy drama. The best synopsis I can give is to say it’s an updated version of John Le Carre’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: there’s a mole in the ranks of the British Secret Service, and the George Smiley character has to find him or her.’
Wherein your correspondent and her companion visit Oman, Iran, Armenia, Georgia and Qatar in October 2018. This is […]
The Collins Dictionary has named ‘brat’ its Word Of The Year. Not brat as in a naughty child, […]
When I first saw the Aussie crime comedy Gettin Square the one thing that stuck in my memory was David […]
‘Despite its sometimes sombre mood, Conclave is a gripping and suspenseful movie, brilliantly written an acted and never predictable. Five stars from me. ‘
This is a retelling of the terrible events which occurred over two days in 1972 when the entire Israeli team of athletes and coaches at the Munich summer Olympics was taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. A botched rescue attempt resulted in the deaths of 17 people – eleven Israelis, five Palestinians and one German police officer.
How are your New Year resolutions going? My major resolution, which goes back a few years but tends […]
I’ve been rereading the blogs I wrote when my squeeze and I visited Ukraine and Russia in 2002. […]
You don’t have to be a Dylan fan to enjoy this terrific biopic that takes us through the early years of Bob Dylan’s career from his arrival in New York City in January 1961 as a penniless 19-year-old to the Newport Folk Festival of 1965 where he notoriously went electric.