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• Dave’s Odyssey #9

  

  In May 2008, I went travelling on my own for the first time and was out of England for a month. Along the way I took in Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, ENVIRONMENT, OUTDOORS

• This Week’s Films (03/02/14)

  

  All That Jazz (1979) Part tragic, part comic, this outrageous look at life in the fast lane in the Academy Award-winning musical about Bob Fosse’s excessive lif... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• This Week’s Books (02/02/14)

  

  Stephanie Dalley – Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh and Others (2000) The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT

• Dave’s Odyssey #8

  

  In May 2008, I went travelling on my own for the first time and was out of England for a month. Along the way I took in Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, OUTDOORS, TRAVEL

• This Week’s Films (27/01/14)

  

  The Kid with a Bike (2011) Twelve-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret), all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• This Week’s Books (26/01/14)

  

  Xavier Herbert – Capricornia (1937) “Capricornia has been described as one of Australia’s ‘great comic novels’ – although Herbert’s humour is often as bitter an... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT

• Dave’s Odyssey #7

  

  In May 2008, I went travelling on my own for the first time and was out of England for a month. Along the way I took in Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, TRAVEL

• Masterpieces #4: Donnie Darko

  

  About Donnie Darko (2001) In the tradition of Urban Legends and Final Destination, Donnie Darko is an edgy, psychological thriller about a suburban teen coming... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT

• This Week’s Films (20/01/14)

  

  Trapped Ashes (2006) Seven strangers are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror during a Hollywood movie studio tour and are forced to tell their most... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT

• This Week’s Books (19/01/14)

  

  Richard J. Evans – The Third Reich at War (2008) The final volume in Richard J. Evans’s masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Dave’s Odyssey #6

  

  In May 2008, I went travelling on my own for the first time and was out of England for a month. Along the way I took in Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT

• Masterpieces #3: Akira

  

  About Akira (1988) It’s 2019, the world is on the brink of absolute destruction. Tokyo shimmers with tech-noir fetishism, gangs of cyber-punk bikers cruise the... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• This Week’s Films (13/01/14)

  

  The Deal (2008) Charlie Berns is a veteran Hollywood movie producer who has given up on his career and life. This is until his idealistic screenwriter nephew... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• This Week’s Books (12/01/14)

  

  Michel Faber – The Crimson Petal the White (2002) Sugar, 19, prostitute in Victorian London, yearns for a better life. From brutal brothel-keeper Mrs Castaway... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT

• Dave’s Odyssey #5

  

  In May 2008, I went travelling on my own for the first time and was out of England for a month. Along the way I took in Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT

• This Week’s Films (06/01/14)

  

  Fatal Move (2008) Action film set in Hong Kong’s triad gangland. After a drug deal goes wrong and a simple kidnap escalates into murder, one of Hong Kong’s... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT

• This Week’s Books (05/01/14)

  

  Randy Shilts – And the Band Played On (1987) By the time Rock Hudson’s death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT

• Dave’s Odyssey #4

  

  In May 2008, I went travelling on my own for the first time and was out of England for a month. Along the way I took in Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT

• The Best Films I Saw This Year (2013)

  

  By the time the world waved farewell to 2013 I had sat through no fewer than 375 films. I’ll be honest and say that sometimes it was an honour, other times I... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT

• The Best Books I Read This Year (2013)

  

  I suddenly became a voracious reader in 2013. Not that I didn’t love books before but this year I have read paperbacks, ebooks and enjoyed audio books as well. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT