Tuesday, 25 July 2017

twenty-seven word reviews of films seen since April

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The Way Ahead (1945, dir. Carol Reed, starring David Niven, Stanley Holloway, William Hartnell).   Romanticised but open-ended portrait...

twenty-seven word reviews of books read since March

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Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon .  Liked incursion of Nigerian folktale into Lagos-set SF; wanted to like more; found ‘putdownable’; polyphonic,...

twenty-seven word review of a noticeboard outside where the home-care agency used to be; empty for a while, this unit's since been redeveloped as an antique shop called 'Presence of the Past'

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Walking past homecare office for years: glossy staff photos yellowing and faded.  Office closed, now – workers elderly, infirm themselv...

we need to judge widths all the time

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Wednesday, 12 April 2017

twenty-seven word reviews of 'Britain in Focus' exhibition (Science & Media Museum, Bradford; with BBC4) and of photography collections by featured artists

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Peter Mitchell, Mr and Mrs Hudson in Seacroft Green.  Leeds, 1974 .   update (July 2018): twitter conversation about Leeds, Peter Mitch...

twenty-seven word review of Martin's Parr's 'Boring Postcards' (London: Phaidon, 1999)

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Butlins, Filey; M6 motorway; Cross Gates Arndale Centre, Leeds. Boring’s a misnomer; these are 1950s/ early 1960s dreams of modernity an...
Saturday, 1 April 2017

twenty-seven word reviews of films watched during March 2017

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House of Mirth  (2000; dir. Terence Davies; starring Gillian Anderson)  - original novel’s probably good; film felt like a somewhat rou...
Wednesday, 1 March 2017

twenty-seven word reviews of books read during January and February 2017

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Ursula Le Guin’s Wizard of Earthsea .  “Not many girls,” say daughter. True – wizards are all boys, girls do housework. “Female author th...
Wednesday, 1 January 1975

brezhnev

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Okay, so let's begin this 'weblog' - I'm running this on Windows 75, which requires three steam operators who (I don't m...