It’s time for another spin on the news wheel of cultural anarchy so round-and-around-and-around we go, and where it stops first is … penguins visiting and art gallery. Looks like we have a winner! After that it’s more usual fare (the word usual is used very loosely), children’s books by children, children’s books by James Patterson, a Woody Allen film taking the number one spot at the global box office, MP Michael Gove’s questionable bookshelf, republished Johnson fiction (this time it’s Dad), real-life-yet-still-fictional Terry Mindhunter, and what may be an early entry (pardon the fully intended pun), into the Bad Sex Awards. We also have a quiz about translations of English words into other languages, and vice versa.
Czechmate - In Search of Jiri Menzel (2018) a love letter to Czech New Wave (Review)
Let’s get the big thing out of the way first – and I mean big. The new Second Run Blu-Ray, CzechMate – In Search of Jíři Menzel, is a 448-minute documentary about Czech and Slovak cinema. It’s been cited as the longest Indian film ever made, and that’s a country […]
