Another great article in the same Times and close to my heart.

We tried to get hold of The Electric Cinema in Portabella years ago, but the present owners have done a damn good job.
Iv'e had my own...

And the movies get better...
here's a couple of goodies, White Boy Rick with Eddie Marsden

and The Festival with a classic bit of Nick Frost.

Enjoy.... 'lovers of celluloid & the silver screen...

Some Countries Are Proud of Their Heritage.

Well sort of.

Spain has treasured its Muslim architectural heritage, and remarkable garden design, in Cordoba, Toledo and Seville. There were also great...

For those that enjoy the travel programmes by Joanna Lumley, there is a new series starting tonight at 9pm on ITV - Joanna Lumley's Silk Road.

I'm looking forward to seeing it, although fear the...

Here's a good one..

Made me think! If the Chinese are paying for this new super duper 'smart City, do you think that
they will be putting their knowledge of Feng shui also known as Chinese...

We’ve All Been Trumped.

A Scottish doco from 2011 abut the opposition of the simple people of Aberdeen Shire to Trump’s proposed ocean view new golf course and residential/hotel development for rich...

Wagner who died in 1883 is banned from Israeli radio stations.
Why ? because Adolf Schicklgruber liked his music.
Banning Wagner is akin to burning books, because you don't agree with their...

If anyone can get the series on TV or one of the catchups like BBC I-player then the mini series ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ is well worth a look. It is based on the book by Joan Lindsay and set in a...

Joanna Does Greece And Another.

Its not as touching nor as well photographed as her travel series on India and on Japan but it has strengths other travel programs don’t have. As in the past a deal...

Egyptian/Arabic Film.

Its featured on a serious Arabic Literature site and are films based on prominent novels made in, by the look of it, the 50’s, 60’s and possibly early 70’s.

Not all the films...

A very good, balanced doco on Syria and the rise of ISIS since 2011, first shown about 18 months ago.

Graphic photos of corpses, extreme injuries and the torture of kids so be warned. Made by...

Savitsky museum Uzbekistan

It’s a story about dictatorships – how they hate change, deal harshly with people with novel ideas, see art as propaganda but how some brave people can preserve what is...

Well this has a good cast, lets hope it's better than the last one The Hatton Garden Robbery.

And this lot are crime journalists with 'Basil Uncle Fred, after us spending a huge amount
of Rupert...

I’d forgotten the screamingly obvious – there is already a modern opera on an Egyptian Pharaoh – Akhnaten – Tut’s father.

The Akhnaten Opera is by Philip Glass (b1937) a US Jew – which explains why...

Now I have a huge collection of people that get to go on D.I.D.
Today from the archive was Paulo Coelho.

When I was wandering around on my Clementine with a few Army people plus 3 Bedu,
and a...

Trump and Russia.

A 3 x 50 minutes documentary over 3 weeks going back several years on Trump and ignoring the usual James Bond angles the media likes.

It identifies the complex and legally...

It’s a superbly made, brilliantly edited and deeply interesting TV doco on a strange isolated, talented US photographer of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Made by John Maloof -which I guess is the variation...

Coming soon thousands of 'kiss me quick scouser's..... 8)

Politics Dead In America.

It’s a TV doco. about what has died in America and in its politics in the last 30 years and the grievance and resentment (and anger) combined with small brains and big...

What a fantastic performance on Britain's Got Talent (for once)

Makes you proud to be British.