I went to Bush Theatre to see the first night of the London run of After Sunday. The play is performed in the main Holloway Theatre, in a 3-sided configuration. The stage set represents a kitchen a…

I went to Picturehouse Central near Piccadilly Circus to see Odyssey followed by a Q&A session. This is not the Christopher Nolan blockbuster treatment of Homer, which will be coming out next y…

I went to see Bugonia at West Norwood Picturehouse. Along with Sinners, Weapons, and Eddington, it forms a thematic tetralogy of 2025 films which argue convincingly that America is simply a meaning…

I went to see Men I Trust at Eventim Apollo, which is the current name of the venue historically known as Hammersmith Odeon. I first heard of Men I Trust when I saw a poster for them outside Electr…

I watched the new disc release of Object Z (1965), a story of a world gripped with fear at the appearance of a new extraterrestrial threat. It was broadcast in 6 instalments of 25 minutes, each wit…

Over Christmas I read Dissipatio H.G. by Guido Morselli. This is a story about a man who finds he is suddenly the only person alive in the world. The book commences with the narrator surveying the …

I went to see Not Your Superwoman at Bush Theatre. The play is in the main Holloway Theatre, with the stage in a 3-sided arrangement. There was a lower-level of seating from where I was looking up …

I watched The Eternaut on Netflix. It has 1 series of 6 episodes, but another series has been commissioned, and it has plenty of threads to continue with. All action occurs in Argentina in what see…

I went to see Eddington at West Norwood Picturehouse. I thought it was superb. From the very beginning this film makes clear that it is set in the recent, explicitly dated past, in our universe, an…

I watched Night Always Comes on Netflix. I thought it would be an unusual, weird and eerie thing to watch on that platform, since it was advertised as featuring no time travel, secret powers, seria…

About two years ago a friend of mine died. Today I was with some other people who knew him, having a meal in a pub near where he lived for the last 2 decades. I was startled at one point when one o…

I watched the Maze Runner films. The Maze Runner (2014) starts with a confused young man awaking in some sort of elevator moving him along with some supplies rapidly up to the surface. When he arri…

I went to see Miss Myrtle’s Garden at Bush Theatre. The play script is already available, and the writer seems to have had an interesting and varied career: The performance is in the main Hol…

I watched the new release of Dig! XX. This is a 20th anniversary augmented re-release of the 2004 documentary Dig! It starts with a new Foreword by Dave Grohl, declaring this is the best documentar…

I went to see Cloud. It already seems to have finished a very brief run in a few other London cinemas, and the only place I could find still showing it after the first week was the Garden Cinema ne…

I went to see Warfare. The film is based on an account of a US Navy Seals mission in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006. The action starts rather unexpectedly with the boys all watching the video for “Cal…

I went to see Sinners. We start with a battered and bloodied young man turning up in the morning at a wooden hall out in the US Deep South; a subtitle tells us this is in 1932. He is clutching the …