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  • The House I Live In

    The overriding feeling one gets after viewing Eugene Jarecki’s powerfully disturbing prize-winning documentary about the ‘War on Drugs’ is a such a huge sense of denial.  We may not have been aware of every fine line of detail that Jarecki includes in his far-reaching research but we are all aware of the problem to some…

  • GAYBY

    Jenn’s biological clock is ticking away and she wants to have a baby whilst she still can. Trouble is none of her beaus stick around longer than a few months, so she falls back on her Plan B.  Many years ago at College she entered a pact with her best friend Matt that if she…

  • STIFF UPPER LIPS

    I discovered this amusing parody of all those Merchant/Ivory British period costume dramas when researching the work of late great Peter Ustinov, and it rather tickled me to be reminded of how very silly Brit comedies can be.   This one is like an EM Forster novel (with a nod to Thomas Mann’s ‘Death in…

  • HOLY ROLLERS : THE TRUE STORY OF CARD COUNTING CHRISTIANS

    Over the years I have come across countless instances of questionably, immoral and downright dangerous practices that were justified by the perpetrators with four simple words : I am a Christian.  But this it is the first time I have ever heard it to justify the actions of a organised gambling syndicate. Actually they themselves never…