Seen at Curzon Soho on 10 September 2026 The Incomer, written and directed by Louis Paxton, had me laughing out loud several times! It’s about a brother and sister – Sandy (Grant O’Rourke) and his …

Seen with Barbara, David and Sumiko at Crouch End Picturehouse on 7 July 2026 This historical drama, directed by Antonin Baudry, tells the story of the French resistance against the Vichy governmen…

Seen with Graham at The Garden Cinema on 1 August 2026 Coup 53 is a powerful documentary by the Iranian film-maker Taghi Amirani which shows how the events of 1953 have shaped the recent history of…

Seen at ArtHouse Crouch End with Graham, David, Barbara and Janice on 20 July 2026 The Invite opens with grumpy middle-aged Joe (Seth Rogen) leaving his job as a music teacher in San Francisco and …

Seen at Curzon Victoria on 2 July 2026 Apparently, director Steven Spielberg has long been interested in aliens and, in Disclosure Day, he brings these ideas into film. Colin Firth (Noah Scanlon) h…

Seen at Curzon Mayfair on 14 June 2026 Written and directed by Peter Glanz, Savage House is a black comedy set in 18thcentury England about the downfall of the impoverished, yet decadent, aristocra…

Maud – this is how you lead a team out onto the field of play Thanks to our secret formula, we are guaranteed either 2 or even 3 points in Uncle Tony’s competition, as hosts Mexico face South Afric…

Seen at Curzon Bloomsbury on 4 June 2026 Directed by Steven Soderbergh, The Christophers is an unusual black comedy about the world of contemporary art – and it was nice to see it just a couple of …

Visited on 27 May 2026 We met at Fortnum and Mason, which is opposite the Royal Academy of Arts, for a bottle of F&M champagne – very nice, although the wine bar was not as elegant as I remembe…

Seen with Janice, David and Sumiko on 12 May 2026 Seeing the title of The Sheep Detectives (directed by Kyle Balda), I wondered if it was in the Shaun the Sheep genre. George Hardy (Hugh Jackman) i…

The cast and crew of Blondi at the London Comedy Film Festival (Lexie on the far right of the picture) Seen with Dominic at The Ritzy, Brixton on 9 May 2026 Blondi was Hitler’s German Shepherd dog …

Seen at Curzon Victoria on 26 March 2026 I have not seen the Peaky Blinders TV series, but this historical drama, written by Steven Knight, is based upon the activities of an urban gang of Romany a…

Seen with Barbara, Sumiko and David at ArtHouse Crouch End on 9 March 2026 Directed by  Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent is set in Brazil in 1977, in the midst of the miliary …

Sirât Seen with Graham at Curzon Soho on 8 March 2026 Directed by Oliver Luxe, Sirât is an intriguing film set in the Moroccan desert. At the start we are told that Sirât means the bridg…

RIP Lucy – the sweetest of dogs Hello everyone. It’s been a while, I know. The reason for my absence is that my beloved sister Lucy passed away a few months ago, and I have been in mourning. But Mu…

Seen at The Depot, Lewes on 3 March 2026 It was interesting to learn that the writers of this historical drama, Mona Fastbold and Brady Corbet are married and also wrote The Brutalist – the differe…

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Seen with Barbara at ArtHouse Crouch End on 9 February 2026 No Other Choice is the latest film from the Korean director Park Chan-wook and is based upon the 1997 horror-thriller   &n…

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Seen with Sally at The Commemoration Hall, Huntingdon, on 5 February 2026 This was our first attendance at a Huntingdon Youth Theatre play, although this was the company’s 30th performance (fo…

Seen with Dominic at The Ritzy, Brixton on 27 January 2026 Written and directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, The Voice of Hind Rajab is a powerful, harrowing docudrama about a six-year-old girl trapped…

Hamnet  Seen at Curzon Kingston on 14 January 2026 Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of the same name, Hamnet, which won the 2026 Golden Globe Award for Best Film, is an engaging story about t…

Seen at ArtHouse Crouch End with Janice and Graham on 12 January 2026 Directed and written by Josh Safdie, this is a comedy-sports drama about table tennis. The story opens in 1952 and Timothée Cha…

Film Club Awards 2025 These are the films we saw last year: A Real Pain I’m Still Here Black Bag The Penguin Lessons The Phoenician Scheme The Ballad of Wallis Island Four Letters of Love Oslo Tril…

Seen at the Lyric, Hammersmith, with Dominic on 3 January 2026 Directed by Nicholai la Barrie and written by Sonia Jalaly, this panto was a contemporary and imaginative version of this classic tale…

Seen with Dominic at The Bread & Roses Theatre, Clapham, on 2 December 2025 Prescription: Murder is based upon the first-ever pilot episode of the 1970s American crime drama series Columbo. The…

Seen with Barbara and David on 24 November 2025 Written by Alan Bennett and directed by Nicholas Hytner (the creative partnership that also brought us The Lady in the Van, The History Boys and The …

Seen with Barbara and Janice at Picturehouse Crouch End on 27 October 2025 I Swear (as the title suggests) is a fantastic biopic about the life of John Davidson, who lives with Tourette’s syndrome,…

I saw two contrasting films at the London Film Festival this year. I also noted Choir, written by Alan Bennett, which was fully booked but will no doubt come out later on general release, and Chris…

Seen with Dominic at Shakespeare’s Globe on 1 October 2025 Troilus and Cressida is not often performed, and it was the first time we had seen this tragi-comedy. It’s set in the later years of the T…

I omitted to credit Teyana Taylor with the role of Perfidia!

Seen at ArtHouse Crouch End with Barbara, David and Janice on 29 September 2025 Written, directed and produced by the great Paul Thomas Anderson, and based upon the Reagen era novel Vineland by Tho…

Seen at ArtHouse Crouch End on 22 September 2025 Directed by Jay Roach, the Roses is an updated version of the 1989 film The War of the Roses, based on the novel of the same name by Warren Adler an…

Oslo Trilogy: Sex Seen with Janice, Barbara, David and Sumiko at ArtHouse Crouch End on 25 August 2025 This has to be one of the oddest films we have seen together! Directed by the Norwegian direct…

Seen with Graham and Sally at the Hope Theatre, Islington, on 15 August 2025 First, what actually is a tenner bag? My research tells me that it refers to a small quantity of illegal drugs sold for …

Seen at Curzon Soho on 31 July 2025 Friendship is a black comedy from Andrew DeYoung, the TV director and writer, and is set in a small town in the USA. Craig (Tim Robinson) meets his new friend an…

Seen with Barbara, Sumiko and Janice at ArtHouse Crouch End on 28 July 2025 Based on the novel of the same name by Irish author Niall Williams and directed by Polly Steele, Four Letters of Love has…

Seen with Graham at Curzon Bloomsbury on 26 July 2025 Graham has a special interest in Stanley Kubrick’s work and neither of us had seen the 1975 classic, Barry Lyndon, which has been re-released t…

Seen with Debbie and Dominic at Stephens House & Gardens on 24 July 2025 What could be more pleasant than open air theatre just five minutes’ walk from your home?! We very much enjoyed this new…

Seen with Sally at The Commemoration Hall, Huntingdon, on 16 July 2025 The summer production from Huntingdon Drama Club might have been written (by Amanda Whittington) and put on especially for us!…

Seen with David, Sumiko, Barbara and Janice at ArtHouse Crouch End on 30 June 2025 Directed by James Griffiths and written by Tim Key and Tom Basden (who star as Charles Heath and Herb McGwyer), Th…

Seen at Curzon Victoria on 26 June 2025 I thought the combination of Danny Boyle, director, and Alex Garland (writer, was impressed by Civil War) would make this well worth my attention. And films …

Seen with Sally at Buckden Towers on 25 June 2025 The George Hotel in Huntingdon was once the home of Oliver Cromwell’s grandfather and later the headquarters of Charles 1. And, since 1959, a talen…

Seen at Crouch End Picturehouse on 15 June 2025 My thanks to Dominic for bringing this remarkable animated feature film – part of Crouch End Festival – to my attention. Survivor was created by the …