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Sunday, 30 June 2024
Film: Hoard (dir. Luna Carmoon) at London Film Festival 2023
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The makers of The Taste of Mango , a very moving documentary, after which my sister was in floods of tears (thanks, Chloe Abrahams), gav...
Friday, 5 January 2024
Film: The Way We Were, with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford
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I realise that most of my secretsquirrelsays reviews are negative with the exception of some books about Frank Sinatra and a couple of sing...
Thursday, 2 September 2021
Book: A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
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His struggle! How about mine? I was misled by the great reviews and all the plaudits that this book (most of them reprinted in the prelims) ...
Thursday, 27 May 2021
Film: Dark Storm
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A movie starring a lesser Baldwin (Stephen, they’re all ‘lesser’ to Alec since he’s been around the longest) who spends the whole film looki...
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Book: Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
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I've got to admit that this book was a bit of a disappointment after The Poisonwood Bible , which I loved. In fact, the title itself i...
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Book: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
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I did not get this book and was misled by the blurb and cover quotes to think that it would be `grand and powerful', `accomplished and...
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
TV Series: Close to the Enemy (2016)
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Unlike another reviewer, I didn't make it to the half hour mark. I only lasted twenty-five minutes. In my defence, each minute felt...
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