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A View From The Greenhouse; Reflections

18th February 2025 Colin Cross 2635 Comments

As expected (once DJT got his feet back under the table), it became more than a possibility that the war in Ukraine could be brought to a conclusion of sorts. It may not bring the [more…]

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Briefs Encounter – A reappraisal

10th February 2025 Going Postal 2647 Comments

After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, [more…]

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Film Review : The Leopard

21st October 2024 Going Postal 2044 Comments

Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece is his 1963 historical epic The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, which – pendant alert – actually refers to a smaller spotted wild cat, the serval – the heraldic animal of the Princes of [more…]

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A true Beauty – The Depth and Limits of Alain Delon

16th October 2024 Going Postal 2029 Comments

Forgive me, Puffins. I know he’s French. And an Actor. But I’d like to talk about Alain Delon’s face for a minute. In truth, it’s hard not to. Certainly, in the early years of his [more…]

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Scandal After Midnight

6th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 2481 Comments

Busy times for Mrs Francis Killen. The adverts had been placed. The VIPs were on their way. The early weeks of 1960 saw her guests begin to converge on Merseyside. If her curly-wired bakelite GPO [more…]

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About Little Women

23rd August 2024 Always Worth Saying 2528 Comments

We play a game at work with girls’ heights. There is a reason for this. Colleagues are going to build a tunnel to the shop next door and steal their toys. To confuse the local [more…]

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Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann

19th August 2024 Going Postal 1922 Comments

The ‘Flower Moon’ is the term the Osage Indians of Oklahoma use to describe that time of year with a full moon in May when the plains around them suddenly burst forth in millions of [more…]

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Totally NOT Star Wars, No sirree : Starcrash – The Movie…….

29th April 2024 Going Postal 2212 Comments

It’s the late 1970s, and just hitting the big screen is a space opera in which a lightsabre-wielding smuggler embarks on a royal rescue mission, a talking droid sidekick provides comic relief, and a classically [more…]

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12th April 2024 Always Worth Saying 2127 Comments

No review of Scoop, now available on Netflix, is likely to spoil the plot. The world and his country cousin can recall the 2019 Orphans’ Away Day trainwreck when BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis scooped an [more…]

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