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.

This is to me the best version! Soul and Blues at it's very best...

Here is another, people you may never know but sing with real soul....

I enjoyed the music of this great ney player from Cairo, when he was here to create a musical scene for a Ramadan TV series. He also found time to make this Ramadan video with Local singer Yasser...

Yomeddine review – Egyptian leper colony drama is slight and sugary.

A man who has recovered from leprosy goes in search of the father who abandoned him in a sentimental drama that infantilises...

Google inform me Omar would be 86 today.
Here's Nick & Omar (p*ssed) at Peter O'Tooles wake, for a joke they tried to call me here,
but as usual I had mislaid my phone again, shame.... 8)

RIP Omar...

Saw an article in today's London Standard on theatre pubs, two of which are 10 minutes from my home.
Not discounting Sadlers Wells & The Lilian Baylis Studio, the former since c1683.
And not that I...

The Travel Show on BBC World is featuring Egypt this weekend. Not the usual tourism tour but worth a look for anyone interested in antiquities.

The programme includes a visit to the Grand Egyptian...

Taking body painting to a new level!

This unbelievable body painting is created by Mirjana Kika Milosevic. She specializes in skin illusion and special FX makeup

Probably the best film I watched in 2017.... 8)

Saw the Churchill movie at the weekend starring Gary Oldham.

Its received near universal acclaim.

It presents a franker view of Churchill - the drinking, the mental instability - than is commonly...

Fascinating BBC Hardtalk interview today featuring Zineb El Rhazoui.

I recommend it to anyone interested in the struggle between Islam - which she regards as a form of fascism - and secularism....

An interesting coverage of the rise and fall of Bassem Yousef's satirical show Al Bernameg. The film is available through various internet outlets....maybe some have subtitles to cover the Arabic...

Over the weekend I came across an old film being shown on TV and decided to watch it, I had last seen it many years ago and probably well before I had made any visits to Egypt. The film was...

I've just been catching up with some programmes that I've downloaded from BBC iplayer. For those that have access to it, I recommend the two episodes of Alternativity . The first one is a documentary...

There is a new TV/film documentary that tries to put the bits together in the complicated story. Its got faults but is beautifully made, maybe a bit too poetic, and by arguably the world’s greatest...

For weeks now, various TV channels in the UK have been showing Christmas movies. I moan that they start showing them too soon but must admit to having already seen more than more fair share. I get a...