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Hitchcock

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Excellent performances, particularly from Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren as the Mr and Mrs of the title and a pretty impressive overview of an ageing director still desperate to prove his relevance in an ever changing film business. Focusing on the 18 months or so during the production of Psycho, it doesn’t shy away from the manipulative and voyeuristic nature of the director, but also examines his …

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Dave Kelly & Paul Jones

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Great acoustic blues set at the Riverside Theatre in Woodbridge (last Wednesday). Hard to believe it’s well over two years since we last saw them at the same venue. Always fine stuff and this was no exception. Dave Kelly must be one of the most underrated slide guitarists around. The backdrop to the chosen songs are also always worth hearing, although Paul did seem to …

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The Leveson Report at local level

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I sent an email to my local MP (Daniel Poulter) outlining my support for the general recommendations and findings of the Leveson Report and arguing, no doubt quite pompously, that there was no intellectual rationale to the arguments that statutory underpinning would necessarily inhibit press freedom.

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Dara O Briain – Ipswich Regent

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Thoroughly entertaining, high energy and intelligent stand up. TV psychics, astrology and school nativity plays in secular schools all come in for a gentle hammering and the speed he picks up on material from his interaction with the audience is truly remarkable. Clearly ‘big of brain’ and wide ranging in his subject matter, it’s refreshing to see him also hit the easy target with relish …

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Four more years in the White House…..reaction

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Whatever his failings, perceived or otherwise, can’t help feeling that electing Obama for a second term makes the world a slightly saner place. It remains to be seen whether or not the worryingly deranged extreme right take control of the Republican Party as a result of another defeat. Speaking of deranged, here is Melanie Phillips’ startling reaction to Obama’s re-election. It is sobering to remind …

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Importance of Being Earnest – Mercury, Colchester

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Good, solid production of the Oscar Wilde ‘classic’. Played as naturalistically as the period will allow, the dialogue was delivered crisply and clearly; and given that the script is everything in this play, both cleverly delivered monologues and wordy interplay needed to be spot on. All the performances were well executed, and Diane Fletcher’s Lady Bracknell was particularly good. How to deliver the ‘Handbag’ line? Cleverly avoided …

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More Heritage

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On a roll with this heritage stuff. Watch it die down as the cooler weather hits and the fair weather photographer goes into hibernation. I also suspect it will be at least another year before any photographs find their way on to the site. Sounds pessimistic but I know this man’s track record!

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