Book · March 19, 2016
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Book · March 18, 2016
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Blog · March 17, 2016
Smart cookie
Book · March 16, 2016
The Art of Conversation by Judy Apps
Book · March 15, 2016
Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
Album · March 14, 2016
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis
Album · March 14, 2016
Storyteller by Carrie Underwood
Book · March 12, 2016
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future by Michael J. Fox
Book · March 11, 2016
Dark Tides by Chris Ewan
Book · March 8, 2016
The Evening Chorus by Helen Humphreys
Album · March 7, 2016
Debut by Björk
Blog · March 7, 2016
Way too fast and a little bit too furious
If things had worked out differently, I don’t think I would have ended up watching any of the Fast and Furious films. I like pretty people driving gorgeous cars as much as the next person, probably more so, but I wasn’t convinced they could make one feature length film out of such a thing, let alone seven. Yet, those seven movies later, I’m an emotional wreck. Paul Walker’s death was …
Film · March 7, 2016
Fast & Furious 7
Album · March 7, 2016
I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it by The 1975
Book · March 3, 2016
Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
Book · March 2, 2016
The Memory Game by Nicci French
Book · March 1, 2016
Emma by Alexander McCall Smith
Album · February 29, 2016
Graceland by Paul Simon
Album · February 29, 2016
Phase by Jack Garratt
Blog · February 29, 2016
Watching like a hawk
It was nearly seven years ago I wrote up some thoughts about Hawkeye, the super-accurate camera tracking system that allows line calls in tennis to be queried and corrected. At the time, I spoke of its benefits and pondered whether we would ever get to a stage where there are no linesmen at all, instead umpires would rely on Hawkeye to make all the decisions. This hasn’t happened, but more …
Blog · February 26, 2016
Tour of the city
I found myself with a spare hour or so whilst in Bath recently, and suddenly remembered something I’d spotted online – an audio walking tour of the city. Rather than having to wait at a tour stop and join with a random group of people to be ferried around the famous streets, this was a solo adventure. The site offers two tours, for free, and the one I opted for …
Book · February 25, 2016
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
Film · February 22, 2016
Fast & Furious 6
Album · February 22, 2016
Face Value by Phil Collins
Album · February 22, 2016
Chaos and the Calm by James Bay
Blog · February 22, 2016
Taking Jane Austen in your stride
I was browsing through the App Store recently and found a new app called Stride & Prejudice - an endless running game with a difference. Instead of traversing through jungle lands collecting coins, or jumping across rooftops to escape the cops, this one is far more simple. You're a lady in a nice frock, running and jumping across the text of Pride & Prejudice. Makes sense, right? It's primitive in …
Blog · February 20, 2016
Joining the book club
When Emma Watson started up a new Goodreads book club that focused on works about feminism and equality, I immediately signed up. That was all I did though, and I’ve thoroughly ignored the email digests that have been emailed to me, and I have yet to buy the first book on the list let alone catch up to what the second one even is. That’s not to say I don’t …
Book · February 20, 2016
Secret Smile by Nicci French
Film · February 19, 2016
Spectre
Book · February 19, 2016
The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson
Book · February 18, 2016
The Utopia Experiment by Dylan Evans
Album · February 15, 2016
Mezzanine by Massive Attack
Album · February 15, 2016
Get Weird by Little Mix
Film · February 13, 2016
Fast & Furious 5
Blog · February 13, 2016
Wide open
This music video from The Chemical Brothers is incredible. A single-shot sequence of a lone dancer moving around a grungy industrial warehouse space. So far, so normal. But gradually parts of her body become like wireframe, see-through, and that's when the magic happens. It's just so detailed and intricate. That you can see her leg through her other leg. That the red pants are wrapped around an essentially non-existent body …
Film · February 12, 2016
Fast & Furious
Film · February 11, 2016
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Film · February 8, 2016
2 Fast 2 Furious
Album · February 8, 2016
Play by Moby
Album · February 8, 2016
All I Need by Foxes
Film · February 7, 2016
The Fast and the Furious
Film · February 6, 2016
Sicario
Album · February 1, 2016
Automatic for the People by R.E.M.
Album · February 1, 2016
Nine Track Mind by Charlie Puth
Film · January 31, 2016
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Film · January 30, 2016
The Wolverine
Film · January 29, 2016
X-Men: First Class
Blog · January 28, 2016
On the record
It started like this: John: Rumours? You ever heard Rumours? Kayleigh: What? John: What?! Rumours is one of the best albums in the whole wide world! Kayleigh: Never even heard of it. John: Excuse me? You've never heard of Rumours? Oh, you'll love it. I'll burn you a copy. Tonight. One of my all-time favourite albums. Kayleigh: Mine's Now 48. John: Now 48?! Kayleigh: They're all on it, all me …
Blog · January 28, 2016
Mr C's top films of 2015
As previously mentioned, Mr C was unable to narrow his shortlist of top songs down to just five. And by the time we got to talking about films we were both pretty exhausted by the whole subject. So, I let him get away with expanding his list to ten films as well! I'm such a pushover. Anyway, these are in alphabetical order with links to my Film Watch reviews for …
Blog · January 28, 2016
Mr C’s top songs of 2015
Now, normally at this point in the year, I hand over a portion of my site to Mr C, allowing him to pick his top five songs and top five films that we consumed in the previous twelve months. It's a joyous process for me - throughout the year, we keep a note of potential contenders and then I get to watch him writhe in agony as he tries to …