We watched Black Klansmen last night. I enjoyed it very much indeed. Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is one of my favourite films but this came in around second place. Funny, sad and light of touch, with a remarkable ability to push, push, push and then stop, holding the pressure. Spike Lee is not […]
Flashbacks
In around 1995, I and a couple of friends at my posh private girls’ school wrote a play retelling Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I played Sir Gawain, a friend played the Green Knight, another played King Arthur and a fourth played The Mouse. The Mouse character was added in because we wanted to […]
Lap of luxury
I went to see The Gentleman last night, of which I knew nothing at all, though once it began I realised I did know that Hugh Grant had a film in which he gleefully played a scuzzy tabloid journalist of the sort he loathes and established an actual NGO about. It was entertaining stuff: very […]
Passable
Last night we went to someone’s house to watch a film, Little Women, over bowls of khao suey. The film suffered from the environment: the volume was very low, as there were infants somewhat asleep in adjacent rooms; our hosts were the types who talk and bustle about through films so it was distracting, and […]
Lost interest
Spoilers follow. I came to Star Wars late, in my mid-teens instead of the more usual pre-pubescent sort of phase. What can I say? Movies were only to be rented from a video shops and only one, in Mini Market, had a decent selection that wasn’t 90% camera prints of the year’s Indian releases. You […]
Sepia to technicolor
Much of Saturday was spent firefighting at work, including chasing down people who had already left for their Christmas vacations but the machine never stops, so most of them had replied by Monday. Saturday morning I made it out to an early breakfast with a couple of friends, both with an interest in heritagey stuff, […]
Sweet noodles
For lunch we went down to the main road in Picton where we had been told there was a noodle bar that made surprisingly good noodles. I had a tom yum with noodles, which was decent, though much too sweet. The Gentleman Friend had a pad thai which was surprisingly good though also too sweet. […]
Flying fox
I went for an unproductive yet reviving trip to the centre of town, hoping to try on some shoes and trousers before ordering them online, but didn’t find them. It was reviving as it was the first in a while I’d had time to myself, and a desi meal albeit South Indian (from Saravana Bhavan) […]
Into the city
We went into Soho for a lunch to celebrate a birthday, at Xu, a Taiwanese restaurant. Quite nice, not great, though hobbled by one of our party being vegetarian on one hand, and the current London focus on meaty specialities on the other. The Gentleman Friend’s gammy knee gammed up rather badly (after nearly three […]
Cannoli by the canal
Another pleasant weekend day as the Gentleman Friend and I took a bus down to St John’s Wood (a cut-rate Westbourne Grove) and then got onto the canal, walking eastwards through Regent’s Park (warthogs), Camden (tourists and dope smokers) and finally King’s Cross. The development here was looking fabulous. The first time I was in […]