When I read the news two weeks ago that Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard had tragically passed away in a motorcycle accident, I was confounded and aggrieved. At just 56 years of age, he was still so young, and yet he…
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When Your Mind’s Made Up – Glen Hansard
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Once, When Your Mind's Made Up
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
When We Were Kings – Brian McKnight & Diana King
Today we have a double-billing of sorts, featuring both the sporting documentary When We Were Kings and the song of the same name featured in the film. I have mentioned the film and Muhammad Ali’s colossal feat on other occasions,…
Tagged with: Brian McKnight, Diana King, George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, When we were kings, Zaire
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Anne of Green Gables – Kevin Sullivan
I revisited this 1985 Canadian made-for-television drama two weekends ago with my daughter Katherine. It was one of the most watched movies in our family while I was growing up, so it will always hold a special place in my…
Tagged with: anne of green gables, kevin Sullivan, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Megan Follows
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Mandy Soundtrack (2018) – Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhannsson said of the film: (It’s) a surreal sort of supernatural thriller, an extremely visionary film, unlike anything I’ve seen before. Back in 2019, I wrote an article on the supernatural horror film Mandy starring Nicolas Cage and made mention…
Tagged with: chainsaw fight, forging the beast, Jóhann Jóhannsson, mandy, nicolas cage, Sand, soundtrack
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Cafe Society (2016) – Woody Allen (Friday’s Finest)
I hadn’t had as much fun watching a movie for a good while as I did watching Cafe Society by Woody Allen yesterday. Someone once wrote that you either get Woody or you don’t, and judging by the sharply contrasting…
30/03/26 – 5/04/26 – Larry the Gentile, Mark Twain & ABS Challenge System
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Curb Your Enthusiasm: Larry the GentileVideo extract at Curb YourTube Being a Curb and Seinfeld fan – as most of you will know –…
Tagged with: Curb Your Enthusiasm, gentile, Jew, larry david, mark twain, MLB, umpiring
Posted in Movies and TV, Reading, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Movies and TV, Reading, Sport and Adventure
Land Ho! (2014) – Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz (Friday’s Finest)
You might have seen those “bucket list” movies where ageing stars team up to tick off lifelong dreams and get into a bit of mischief along the way. You know the type – pleasant, sentimental, and fairly predictable. Now we…
This is England (2006) – Shane Meadows (Friday’s Finest)
This Is England is a historical fiction coming-of-age drama set in Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s England. It centres on a troubled 12-year-old boy, Shaun, who lives with his widowed mother, Cynthia, in the East Midlands of England. Both are trying to…
Tagged with: Ludovico Einaudi, Shane Meadows, Stephen Graham, this is england
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
War Scenes from ‘Saving Private Ryan’ – A Friday’s Finest Special
It’s said that Steven Spielberg’s war film Saving Private Ryan is one of the greatest war films ever made. The opening scene at Omaha Beach, in particular, is often cited as the benchmark for throwing the audience headfirst into what…
Marty Supreme (2025) – Josh Safdie (Friday’s Finest)
Marty Supreme hereby completes the trilogy of movies starring Timothée Chalamet I’ve written about so far, in this order: Dune, A Complete Unknown, and now Marty Supreme. I was looking forward to watching Marty Supreme just as much as his…
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