What a lovely idea KFD – I wish more places did the same, but given that I didn’t know about this one, maybe they do…

My top 10 for the year: 1 Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light 2 One Day 3 Blue Lights 4 Inside No.9 4 Slow Horses 6 Colin From Accounts 7 Sherwood 8 The Penguin 9 Until I Kill You 10 Baby Reindeer

Thanks KFD, I do little else in my leisure time. You’re quite the cinephile yourself, as your posts attest.

A Different Man was bubbling under my bubbling under list – Adam Pearson was terrific. Didn’t like Smile 2 at all, bar the “dance” scene, which I thought was suitably creepy. Quite enjoyed Gladiator II at the […]

Here’s my list, collated for something else I do: My Top 25 Of 2024 1 Strange Darling 2 The Beast 3 Poor Things 4 Made In England: The Films Of Powell & Pressburger 5 The Wild Robot 6 Anora 7 About Dry […]

29/30 – got the Shirley Bassey one wrong.

Have you seen “Strange Darling” yet? It’s terrific, but you’re better seeing it without any prior knowledge of the story, so I’ll leave it there. The soundtrack is by someone I’d never heard of before call […]

It’s a fantastic doc – I went twice when it was on at my local.

I have El Sur which is pretty good (Victor Erice made The Spirit Of The Beehive also), and Blancanieves which is just wonderful. Drew a blank on the rest of them.

Looks like all seven seasons are on 4.

Sunchyme is a great tune. I have fond memories of managing to get about 350 white label 12” of it before release and selling them all in HMV in Hull (where I was Assistant Manager) before it’s official release at […]

“The range. He’s got such range…It’s f*ckin’ Pauline, the whole lot. Pauline…Pauline, Pauline, Pauline, Pauline”. https://podca […]

Good to see most of the hits, but sadly no Weekend In New England. Always a huge live act, and I remember the BBC used to have his shows on quite often in the late 70s and 80s.

Always loved this, written for American Gigolo:

Great piece here by Gillian Reynolds.

Delighted to see this has just reached it’s target of £40k.

Great review Mosely, and totally agree that Chic felt a bit overlooked in an otherwise excellent series. I presume the “fair right” exemptions to use copyrighted clips and music that illustrate a documentary sto […]

The first gig I ever went to, 1974 I think, I must have been 7, was Mud at the Ulster Hall. I had several of their singles and was a fan, so my Mum and Dad took me. Was a good night.

It’s up on the top floor, something of an afterthought in a shop that’s an absolute travesty of the brand. Fortunately the other stores don’t seem to have gone the same way, though high margin merch is a bigge […]