Ramblings of the Easily Distracted

Last week we caught a rewatch of the Coen Brothers rather excellent Hail, Caesar, which is probably best described as a quirky take on t...

I didn't write it up, but last week we watched the recent movie of The Man From UNCLE , a film that can be best be summed as "O...

I think it's fair to say that expectations were running pretty high for Legends of Tomorrow, a full spin-off of both The Flash and A...

It's strange to think of the 1980s as "history". As I commented when I was talking about Deutschland '83 , the 1980s i...

I was 10 years old in 1983. It seems hard to believe these days - especially if you're of a younger generation - but back then we di...

After some dailliances with "mere fiction" recently, I seem to be solidly back on a History kick at the moment. This is partly...

So to finish off our trilogy of 2015 reviews, we come to the written word. This year I've managed to read 30 books, which I think is...

Britains Colonial and Imperial History seems to be something that, by and large, our general culture has become keen to forget. It's...

One of the nice things about being on holiday is that I usually get chance to catch up on some big reading of big books, the sort of th...

I don't think I ever got around to writing up my thoughts on the BBC's swashbuckling Sunday night adventure series, The Musketee...

As I've mentioned before, I've become dimly aware, over the last couple of weeks, that we've had 12 Years a Slave sat under...

Studio Ghibli's international acclaim is probably the most enduring legacy of the 1990s anime boom, not least due to the distribution...

There was a bit of a buzz phrase that went around the gaming review world about the time that Bioshock Infinite came out; Ludonarrative ...

As much as I am believer in the oft-quoted idea that we live in a "television golden age", it's also a strange, shifting o...

I realised with some pleasure recently that I've hit my target of reading 20 books this year, which may not seem that many to some ...

No DVDs or much TV this weekend, as we took a rare opportunity to leave the kids behind (with grandparents, I hasten to add) and jet off...

Unusually, this week, we got a double-header in on movie Saturday, something we've not done for a while, as we usually wait for our y...

I'm not sure I can think of a writer who fits the term "Jack of All Trades" better than Bill Bryson. Starting out as a trav...