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Fiddle Drill – Top Shelf Lunch East Yorkshire
Picture the scene, I have just arrived in Hull, my first time out of my city in some time, and Nick's (erstwhile Saint) first suggestion is for us to leave Hull. More precisely, Nick was an advocate of a 76km bike ride through East Riding and Yorkshire, briefly. We...
The Conjuring III – The Devil Made Me Do It – Exquisite New Horror
Avid readers of this blog will know that I am a devotee of the horror fiction genre in cinema. I am not entirely sure why, perhaps for the thrill of being moved (even if towards nightmares), perhaps because the acting muscles needed to succeed in horror are so vastly...
The Band – The Band – AOTM May 2021
Authored by Nicholas Jenkins History is apt to throw up curious ironies. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that the definitive album in the “Americana” style should have been produced by a band, 4 out of 5 of whose members haled from Canada and not the U.S.A....
The Righteous Gemstones – Ecclesiastical Comedy
Once again I must thank my father for introducing me to this superlative comedy a few weeks ago. Written by Danny McBride (top, centre in the picture below), this 2019 series follows the story of the Gemstone family, a collection of remarkably egotistical...
Gunmakers Arms – Powder Keg of a Pub – Birmingham
Home to the Two Towers Brewery (named after the Asinelli and Garisenda towers in Bologna, I believe), the Gunmakers Arms has become a much loved consistently visited haunt for me. It has in effect become my local. My heartfelt thanks to Nick (formerly Saint) for...
Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Magical Cinematic Experience
Unsurprisingly this film was made by the same team as made Mary Poppins 7 years prior. Disney, to their great credit, have managed to create a film with enduring magic. What surprised me when watching again was how much of it I remembered from my childhood and the...