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Tag Archives: Film
Music Roundup 05: 6 October to 19 October 2023
The acts which feature in this roundup are Gengahr, Black Country New Road, Honeyblood and Taylor Swift. No concerts for a month after End of the Road, but a great holiday in Zakynthos (Greek island in the Ionian Sea), some … Continue reading
“Blinded by the Light” – the film
“Blinded by the Light” is a film about a British Asian teenager growing up in the 1980s in Luton who discovers the music of Bruce Springsteen. It transforms his life. The film comes out on 9 August here in the … Continue reading
“Chasing Trane” – the life and music of John Coltrane
Last week I went to the ICA Cinema to see John Scheinfeld’s “Chasing Trane”, a new documentary about the great jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. For me, the greatest of the sax players, the man who took the instrument to the … Continue reading
A magnificent three: Star Wars, Jane Eyre, Hunger Games
In the the last few days I’ve been to two awesome films and a wonderful piece of theatre. A great cultural finish to 2015 – assuming there won’t be too much of that in the next few days! First up, … Continue reading
“Inside Llewyn Davis” – a review
My son Kieran and I went to see “Inside Llewyn Davis”, the latest Coen brothers film, this evening. It has just been released in the UK. We both really liked it. I was drawn to it after reading a brief … Continue reading
“The Hunger Games” trilogy
I’ve just finished reading ‘The Hunger Games” trilogy. The books have been absolutely brilliant. Utterly gripping. The number of times I almost missed Victoria station, where I get off the Tube for work, because I was so engrossed in the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, District 12, Film, Jennifer Lawrence, Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games
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