Contemplating three years' cultural diet. Secondly, the music. Returning to Edinburgh has kicked the blog back to life after three ye...

Contemplating three years' cultural diet. First, the films. As life took a new direction, I all but disappeared from Googleable ter...

Photography of a surrealist's friends and lovers A dominant figure of Dada and Surrealism, Man Ray worked prolifically throughout his ...

These thoughts on Michael Haneke's beautiful study of ageing I left unfinished in January, forgot about and have now rediscovered. Here ...

Oh hi, blog. Django Unchained hits us blasting and smirking, bestrewn with Morricone and enormous type. This is unmistakably a Quentin Tar...

After something of a silence I return, boldly reaching into the deeper blogosphere. Fortunate enough to be part of this year's ...

Coming back for more... Thoughts on three novels, each by an author to whom I was returning for a second taste. All are fast becoming favou...