‘Love is All Around Us’ sang Wet Wet Wet in that dreadful song which was number one forever all those years ago, and those are the twin themes of this film – love and water (and it’s all around us and it’s wet, wet, wet). Sally Hawkins – last seen playing the title role in … Continue reading The Shape of Water

Nacer Bouhani will garner a lot of publicity for his team without actually winning anything. Romain Bardet will do well at the Tour but he won’t win. Neither will Nibali or Pinot or Richie Porte. Tom Dumoulin won’t ride the Tour although he should. He will win the Giro again. Peter Sagan will win a … Continue reading Cycling predictions for 2018

Few films about the First World War can match the bathos and comedic horror and plumb the depths of sadness quite as well as the last scene of Blackadder Goes Forth but Journey’s End comes close. It is a film of browns – brown hair and moustaches, brown uniforms, the brown wood shoring up the … Continue reading Journey’s End