Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025 RIP For many young men growing up in Europe during the 60s and 70s Brigitte Bardot represented the epitome of sensual womanhood... long before most…
CODA
I am pretty difficult to please when it comes to films - though there are those that I love deeply. Back in the day - when one used to go…
Déjà vu – again!
I had an odd experience this evening... I had just returned - on a dismal and dank November Wednesday evening - from three hours teaching on the trot at the…
Sir Thomas Sean Connery
Sean Connery 1930 - 2020 RIP There is very little that can be said in addition to all that has been and will be printed on the subject of the…
Bizarre gardening accident
Those of us of a certain age - and in particular those of us who played in bands 'back in the day' - will be familiar with Rob Reiner's 'mockumentary'…
All we are saying…
A couple of weeks back The Girl and I went to a movie. Long term followers of these scribblings will know that I am not entirely enamoured of the cinema…
On the beaches
Every so often comes a film that finds itself the subject of much earnest discussion - not with regard to the subject matter nor to any particular individual performance, nor…
Lovefilm – Hatecinema!
Regular readers of this blog will know that the Kickass Canada Girl is a huge film buff. More than that she is also a great enthusiast for the whole cinema-going…
Remake/Remodel
For English chaps of a certain age - those who were in their mid-teens at the turn of the decade from the 60s to the 70s - memories of those…