Unattended Articles

  Not this.    I feel I'm only just beginning to get Miyazaki. Some context: Kiki – for this is a scene from Miyazaki's 1989 Kiki...

     I never mentioned Hockney on here before yesterday , but I've mentioned Fred Spencer, with good reason. He used the internet as I f...

"How do you feel?" "Squidgy." "You get used to it."     Towards the end of 2022 I wrote about a few PINOCCHI...

"This is the record of our second expedition to the site of Britain. It was a grim undertaking. But we had to go, otherwise all the mem...

     It is true, I am in a Mark Wahlberg film! A Christmas movie called THE FAMILY PLAN 2. Although, noticing it had gone up on Apple TV and...

 Okay, a little more about what's happening in US...   B.J. Novak's superb comedy "Vengeance" – released in 2022, but on...

 Happy Hallow, as I guess today is! Above is not a picture of Hallowe'en. I have not been working here over Hallowe'en. God knows w...

  In which I belatedly honour THE film of 2023...    ( A placeholder's good for more than one day, right?)  The summer evening I saw ...

 Just as Autumn was beginning, sitting in a festoon-lit beer garden on the South Bank, I got to thinking about Pinocchio, and about how much...

     You may have seen this substantially meme-ified pig before, in its original untouched-up form . Online reactions to the film have been ...

        Also starring JEFFREY WRIGHT as Sidney Bechet!!!  Here's a Saturday treat! No need to wait now for "The Dial of Destiny...

  "I was really the very first, I think, to sing naturally, to sing as you speak. And of course, it wasn't accepted by everybody. C...

 Having skirted its making in my "research" for Love Goddess , I decided today to actually rewatch Citizen Kane which happily app...

  "Look here, upon this picture..."     "... and on this." Different Play, Act III Scene 4    After the surprising delig...