Occasional Jottings

Unexpected  by Lori Foster (2003) Some good bits, some "wtf??" moments, a sense of slightly different plots and fiction styl...

The Adam Project  (2022) Saw this on Netflix and was tempted to watch it again. Perfectly reasonable entertainment, if a slightly unea...

Calendar Girls  (2003) An amusing and quirky British story but a little underwhelming. Obviously a whole film about just making the ca...

Hello World  by Hannah Fry (2018) Subtitled "How to be human in the age of the machine", this is an interesting but possibly...

The Shawshank Redemption  by Frank Darabont (~1993) It always surprises me how quick it is to read a script compared to the impact it ...

Ocean's Eleven  (2002) Watched with Z. As enjoyable and ludicrous as ever. The Two Popes  (2019) To say I find organised rel...

State of Emergency: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook (2010) It's taken me four months to finish this (and I've read 26...