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    • Biography
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    • Work
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  • Acting
    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    • East Lynne
    • Heatstroke
    • Murder By The Book
      • Review
    • On Acting
    • Roles since 2003
    • Stage Fright
    • The Rivals
    • The Rivals publicity piece
    • There but for the grace…
    • They Came To A City
  • Blogs
    • Archive
      • 2009 highlights
        • Art for art’s sake? (August 2009)
        • Catastrophe and the craft of writing (April 2009)
        • Fear and loathing, Larry & dentists (Aug 2009)
        • In praise of London buses (May 2009)
        • Lazing on a sunny afternoon… June 14th, 2009
        • Mature learning for beginners (Aug 2009)
        • Nostalgie de la Boue (Aug 2009)
        • Philandering Phil Caught on the Hop (June 2009)
        • The foodie Frankenstein creates a monster… (July 2009)
        • The subtle art of wooing… (July 2009)
        • The tale of a left ankle… (June-July 2009)
        • Toads… (July 2009)
      • 2010 highlights
        • A tale of five cats (April 2010)
        • British eating patterns: rise of the zombies! (June 2010)
        • Conducting an orchestra or being a one-man band? (Oct 2010)
        • Coping, or what can we learn from Hamlet? (June 2010)
        • Domesticity and in praise of ex-wives (May 2010)
        • Election fever? (April 2010)
        • Pause for reflection… (Oct 2010)
        • Saxophone music for kids (June 2010)
        • Tranquility (June 2010)
      • 2011
        • “Money up in smoke…”
        • Brand marketing & silly car names…
        • Brand marketing revisited…
        • Christmas as a kid
        • Darkness cannot drive out darkness
        • Halloween
        • My favourite poem
        • Non, je ne regrette rien…
        • Speed (cameras) kill!
        • The Healthcare enigma
        • Toilet Roll Theory
        • Traditional English bank holidays…
      • 2012 01-03
        • A gripe about car parks…
        • Afghanistan
        • Another New Year
        • Black Dog
        • Blasphemy
        • Death note
        • Drug culture
        • Eccentricity: Byron, Sitwell & Wilde
        • Fashion statement
        • Gambler’s anonymous
        • Lift psychology
        • Pensions are retiring
        • Relationships & stuff
        • Revenge of the Toads
        • Single mothers: the reality
        • Sorry….
        • Suicide button
      • 2012 04-06
        • Bridge for Beginners
        • Capital punishment yet again…
        • Euthanasia
        • Female shoe fetish
        • Gadget fever
        • Gun culture
        • Job Titles
        • My Heroes
        • Passion & Apathy
        • Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
        • Politics with a capital P
        • Politics with a small p
        • That singular anomaly…
        • The Shape of Women
      • 2012 07-09
        • Britishness
        • Budget Challenge Journal
        • Embarrassing incidents
        • Gay marriage & the Scottish Catholics
        • Great Budget Challenge
        • Internet ramblings
        • Manifesto for Democracy
        • Mature education
        • Monarchic revolution
        • Sleepy time
        • The “Oldest Profession”
        • The University of Life
        • This blog has no title…
        • Transport 1: Unintegration
        • Transport 2: The cars that ate Britain
        • Wealth motivation
      • 2012 10-12
        • Building on flood plains
        • Car boot bargains
        • Customer service & local empowerment
        • Francis Bacon, a true artist
        • Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas everybody
        • Jennings & Darbishire play up and play the game
        • Junk mail
        • Long-distance relationships
        • My adopted home town: Tiptree
        • October
        • Qs
        • Romance for the middle-aged
        • Schadenfreude
        • Sir Jim & the skeletons in the closet
        • Spoilt for choice
        • Tax: avoidance & evasion
        • The great cover-up
        • Ties: why bother?
        • To sleep, perchance to dream…
        • Waiting…
        • When freedom of speech costs a fortune
      • 2013 01-03
        • Allan Roy Millward
        • Ennui & the urge to write
        • Guilty pleasures
        • Patricia Mary Millward
        • Pricing smoke and mirrors
        • The NHS Experience
        • This working life
        • Worth
      • 2013 04-06
        • Anticlimax
        • Cat psychology
        • Customer service (revisited)
        • Energy: all debate, no decisions
        • Freelance status
        • Gender politics updated
        • Gongs for the masses
        • Headless chickens
        • Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
        • Magic moments
        • Mall shopping
        • Meat market
        • Odds against
        • Perfectionism
        • Railways for the 21stC
        • Respect
        • Self-service checkouts
        • Shaving
        • Shhhhh!!!
        • Simplicity
        • The Thatcher phenomenon
        • Why bother?
        • You get what you pay for
      • 2013 07-09
        • “I have a Dream…”
        • Architecture
        • Artifice
        • Corruption & morality: a quiz
        • If I ruled the world…
        • IOS7 and tales of software updates
        • MBA profile
        • My car(s)
        • Organ donation
        • Politicians on oath
        • Rejection
      • 2013 10-12
        • “Dont beat yourself up”
        • Breakdowns
        • Cool!
        • Deference
        • Iconic photos
        • Mandela
        • NHS Trust Management
        • Pedants’ charter
        • Power down
        • The giving and taking of offence
        • Working away
      • 2014 01-03
        • Body breakdowns
        • British Public Service Broadcasting
        • Dementia
        • Hair today…
        • In the ageing zone
        • Leadership
        • London Transport Policy
        • Moving back home
        • Policing for the 21st Century
        • Shifting sands: Managing NHS through change
        • Sleep paralysis
        • Time Travel
        • What’s in a name?
        • Winners and losers
      • 2014 04-06
        • Educating our kids
        • Europe and the Immigration Debate
        • Justice for some?
        • Meritocracy
        • Montagues vs Capulets
        • National anthems
        • Rock Bottom
        • The Honours debate
        • The Wonderful World of Innovation
        • Trust
        • Woke up this morning…
      • 2015-16
        • A complaint on behalf of commuters
        • A quick blog about health and well-being
        • Cancer: the modern plague
        • Coping
        • Handedness
        • In, out, shake it all about…
        • My car (part 2)
        • My Philosophy
        • NHS ‘has busiest year in its history’
        • NHS weekend working: the inside story
        • Psychoactive Substances Act 2016
        • So what’s Big Brother up to?
        • The Murder of an MP
        • The NHS under pressure
        • US Presidential election 2016: a commentary
        • What I mean and what I say
    • Election Reflections
    • Manifesto commitments on healthcare policy
    • NHS revisited
    • The Gig Economy
    • The Health Service in Crisis: issues and solutions
  • Dining
    • Americas & Burgers
      • Bill’s restaurant, Soho
      • Bodeans BBQ Smokehouse, Soho
      • Byron, Chelmsford
      • Chimichanga, Braintree
      • Clarke’s, Kensington
      • Dean’s Diner, Braintree
      • El Gaucho, Kensington
      • Five Guys, Bluewater
      • Home, Manchester
      • Honest Burgers
      • Loaded, Stoke Newington
      • Patty & Bun, Liverpool St
      • Pork & Co, Canterbury
      • Smokeworks, Cambridge
      • Tomfoolery at 34, Alderley Edge
    • B&Bs & hotels
      • Clifton House B&B, Bristol
      • Court House Farm, Duffield, Derbyshire
      • Croft Corner, Wilmslow
      • Granny Anne’s B&B, Marlow
      • Malmaison, Glasgow
      • Oxford Spires hotel
      • Regency Guest House, Cambridge
      • Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton
      • The Angel Hotel, Lavenham
      • The Old Rectory B&B, Winterbourne Steepleton
      • Wessex Hotel, Bournemouth
    • British, traditional & modern
      • Aurora, Ipswich
      • Blue Anchor, Feeing (part 2)
      • Blue Anchor, Feering
      • Browns, Bristol
      • Chop Bloc, Chelmsford
      • Cosy Club, Bristol
      • Foxlow, Stoke Newington
      • Highland Restaurant, Oban
      • Maldon Pie & Mash
      • Market Bistro, Kings Lynn
      • Marriott’s Warehouse, Kings Lynn (part 1)
      • Marriott’s Warehouse, Kings Lynn (part 2)
      • Rivington Bar and Grill, Shoreditch
      • Sand Bar, Praa Sands, Cornwall
      • St John, Smithfield
      • The Booking Office, St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
      • The Cambridge Chop House
      • The Compasses at Pattiswick revisited
      • The Compasses, Pattiswick
      • The Ivy
      • The Ubiquitous Chip, Glasgow
      • Tramshed, Shoreditch
      • West Street Vineyard, Coggeshall, Essex
      • Yarlbury Cottage, Lower Bockhampton
    • Cafes, coffee shops etc.
      • Asda v Morrisons
      • Batte-Lay Tearoom, Minories Gallery, Colchester
      • Cook & Baker, Wilmslow
      • Good Egg, Stoke Newington
      • Holloway Road Cafes
      • Kim’s Tea & Coffee House, Saffron Walden
      • Lily’s Bistro & Catering, Canterbury
      • Marlesford Farm Cafe
      • Max’s Sandwich Shop, Crouch End, London
      • Mayfield Farm Bakery, Old Harlow
      • Mo’s Cafe, Tiptree
      • Red Dog Cafe, Inworth
      • Samworth & Mee, Broadstairs
      • The Book Club
      • The Exchange Cafe, Tiptree
      • The Food Company, Marks Tey, Essex
      • The Haberdashery, Stoke Newington
      • The Refectory Kitchen, Canterbury
      • The Shoulder of Mutton, Fordham, Colchester
      • Tony Lorenzo’s Café, Rochester
      • West Street Vineyard, Coggeshall
      • Wilkins & Son Jam Factory tea rooms, Tiptree
    • Chains
      • Cosmo Pan-Asian Grill & World Banquet dining
      • Damons, Lincoln
      • KFC
      • McDonalds
      • Nandos
      • Pizza Express
      • Red Hot Buffet
      • Taco Bell
      • Tutti “Tuscan Grille”, Freeport, Braintree
      • Welcome Break Services, Newport Pagnell
      • Westfield Shopping Centre Global Food Court
    • Chinese, Japanese, noodle
      • Crystal Palace, Chelmsford
      • HKK Hakkasan, London
      • Lantern House, Chelmsford
      • Plum Valley, Witham
      • Sakura Casual Dining, London
      • The Maypole, Tiptree
      • Zen Noodle Bar & the noodle phenomenon
    • French
      • Baumann’s Brasserie, Coggeshall
      • Blue Strawberry Bistrot, Hatfield Peverel, Essex
      • Brasserie Blanc, Cheltenham
      • Cote Brasserie, Islington (and sourcing chickens)
      • Glassboat, Bristol
      • La Muse, Holloway
      • Les Trois Garçons, Shoreditch
      • The Great House, Lavenham
    • Gastropubs
      • Anchor Inn, Nayland, Colchester
      • DuCane Arms, Great Braxted, Essex
      • Monro, Liverpool
      • Paradise by way of Kensal Green
      • Square & Compasses, Fuller Street, Essex
      • The Duncombe Arms, Ellastone
      • The Lion at Leavenheath
      • The Londesborough, Stoke Newington
      • The Narrow, Limehouse
      • The Old Crown Inn, Messing
      • The Old Dairy, Crouch End, London
      • The Swan at Lavenham
      • The Swan at Lavenham revisited
      • The Thomas Lord, West Meon, Hampshire
      • The Unicorn, Cublington
      • White Lion, London N4
    • Indian subcontinent
      • Ayo Gurkhali, Wilmslow
      • Chadni, Chelmsford
      • Dishoom, Kings Cross
      • EastZEast, Manchester
      • Kayal, Leamington Spa
      • Khandoker, Didsbury
      • Lahore Kebab House, London
      • Malabon, Petersfield, Hants
      • MyLahore, Curry Mile, Manchester
      • Namaste, Stourport-on-Severn
      • Spicy Swan Inn, Bradwell, Essex
      • Star of India, Leytonstone
      • Taste of India, Euston
      • Thali Cafe, Bristol
      • The Gurkha Restaurant, Chelmsford
      • The Purple Pakora, Congleton
    • Italian
      • 47 The Street, Rayne, Essex
      • Bocca di Lupo, London
      • Franco Manca
      • Gatti’s Restaurant, City of London
      • Gusto, Alderley Edge
      • Il Principe, Inworth, Essex
      • Jamie’s Italian, Norwich
      • La Figa, Limehouse
      • La Piazza, Braintree
      • Micatto, Warwick
      • Nonna’s Kitchen, Hoddesdon
      • Polpo Covent Garden
      • River Cafe, Hammersmith
      • Rubedo, London
      • Villa d’Este, Marlow
    • Memorable foodie nights…
    • Middle East, Greek & Turkish
      • Baba’s Cafe & Bar, Greenwich
      • Comptoir Libonais
      • Kapadokya 50, York
      • Kosmos Taverna, Manchester
      • Ottolenghi, Islington
      • Souk Kitchen, Bristol
      • Stone Cave, Dalston
      • The Greek Larder, Kings Cross
    • Other European etc.
      • Alexander Nevski, Helsinki
      • Honours restaurant, Malmaison, Glasgow
      • The Salt Bar, Macclesfield
    • Pubs
      • Burston Crown
      • Fowlers Farm, Braintree (Vintage Inns)
      • Fox & Raven, Chelmsford (Vintage Inns)
      • Hazlephron Inn, Cornwall
      • JD Wetherspoon
      • King and Mill, nr Mansfield
      • Plough & Flail, Cheshire
      • Rose & Crown, Warwick
      • Saxon Mill, Warwick
      • The Bull & Willow Room, Great Totham
      • The Chequers, Goldhanger & the great English pub
      • The Chequers, Marlow
      • The County Arms, Truro
      • The Cricketers, Enfield
      • The Duke of York, Barnet
      • The Green Dragon, Willington, Derbyshire
      • The Plough and Flail (part 2)
      • The Plough at Eaton
      • The Steamhouse, Urmston, Manchester
      • The Swan at Chappel
      • The Wharf, Dartford
      • White Hart, Puckeridge
    • Seafood
      • Fosters Fish & Chips, Alderley Edge
      • George & Dragon, Kelvedon
      • Harry Ramsdens, Brighton
      • Henley’s Fish & Chips, Wivenhoe
      • Pot & Fin fish & chips/Wild Boar, Warwick
      • Rick Stein’s Fish (takeaway)
      • Smiths of Ongar
      • Sole Bay Fish Co, Southwold
      • Sutton & Sons, Stoke Newington
      • The Company Shed, West Mersea
      • The Crab House Cafe, Wyke Regis
      • The Friendly Fryer, Maldon
      • West Mersea Oyster Bar
      • Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company
    • Spanish & Latina
      • Black Pig With White Pearls, Stoke Newington
      • Cabana Brasilian BBQ, Islington
      • La Tasca
      • The Cuban, Bristol
      • Uno Spanish Tapas, Sutton
      • Zorita’s Kitchen, London
    • Thai, Vietnamese etc.
      • Baan Thitiya, Bishops Stortford
      • Kwan Thai, Ipswich
      • Mien Tay, Hoxton
      • O’cha Thai Restaurant, Macclesfield
      • Tampopo, Manchester
      • Tiien Thai, Bournemouth
      • Totally Thai, Warwick
      • Viet Kitchen, Chelmsford
      • Viet Kitchen, Colchester
      • Vietnamese Kitchen/Cay Tre Soho
  • Food
    • Cooking techniques etc
      • British BBQs
      • Kitchen essentials
      • On quantities and recipes…
      • Science vs Nature
    • Dishes & dinners
      • Charlie Bigham’s range
      • Economical dinners for students
      • Fish & chips: Mr Ramsden is spinning in his grave
      • Hello Fresh
      • Mixed Grill
      • Perfect creamed mushrooms
      • Pies and pasties
      • Pizza origins
      • Salads
      • Tesco Finest: “Indian king prawn tikka masala & rice”
      • The art of a great steak
      • The Great English Breakfast
      • The humble sandwich
      • Vegetable soup
      • Waitrose Mushroom Risotto
    • Drinks
      • Beer
      • Booze & health
      • Coffeeeeeee
      • OJ habits
      • Spirits
      • Wine culture
    • Food culture & habits
      • A condiment story
      • Buffet dining
      • Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
      • Eating out
      • Ethnic eating
      • Fast food
      • Healthy eating
      • Home deliveries
      • Icelandic dining
      • Land of the Bland
      • Picnics & festival food
      • Pop-up restaurants
      • Restaurant service charges
      • Sensory denial, or why we really go to restaurants
      • Slow food revolution
      • The Aga file
      • The Great British Pub
      • Variety is the spice of life
    • Ingredients & sourcing
      • Bacon – the edible variety!
      • Charcuterie & other meaty delights
      • Cheap burgers and the horsemeat saga
      • Cheaper cuts
      • Cheddar: a bastardised delicacy
      • Cheese please…
      • Cure & Simple bacon: taste test
      • Local sourcing p1: Eggs
      • Local sourcing p2: Veg
      • Local sourcing p3: Meat/Fish
      • Luxury foods
      • Sausage quest
    • Miscellany & rants
      • A letter to Branston
      • Faddiness
      • Food marketing revisited
      • HP Sauce: the truth!
      • Intro to Student Recipe Book
      • Levi Roots, the brand
      • Red Tractor: the quality we deserve?
      • Shelf life
      • The UK bread scandal
      • What’s a portion?
      • Why I’m a foodie
    • Past and present
      • 70s food
      • Food nostalgia
  • Movies
    • Lists
      • 20 iconic movie scenes
      • A selection of seriously scary movies
      • Best ever performance in a movie
      • Movies I detest
      • Movies that make me cry
      • My Top 20 Movies
      • What irritates me most about movies
    • Movie miscellany
      • Movies & cinemas, past & present
      • Oscar hysteria
      • Pain and suffering
      • Popcorn rip-offs
      • The Lord Chamberlain’s legacy
      • The TV Christmas movie season 2013
    • Stars & performers
      • My spooky Peter Sellers story
      • My Tarantino story
      • Orson Welles: my favourite actor/director
      • Philip Seymour Hoffman
      • Woody Allen
  • Music
    • Artistes, Composers & Performers
      • Bob Dylan
      • Chopin
      • Christy Moore
      • Jacques Brel
      • Robert Cray
      • SAHB
      • Tom Lehrer
    • Lists
      • Best gigs ever
      • Desert Island Discs
      • Favourite TV Themes
      • Funeral music
      • My Favourite Love Songs
      • My Favourite Riffs
      • My Favourite Sax Solos
      • My favourite songs by… Bob Dylan
      • My favourite songs by… David Bowie
      • My favourite songs by… Elton John
      • My favourite songs by… Steely Dan
      • My favourite songs by… The Smiths
    • Musical miscellany
      • Millward’s minor key theory
      • Prog rock and me
      • Vocal tics
  • Novels
    • Carpe Diem
      • Carpe Diem
      • Sample: Dr Handley
      • Sample: escape!
      • Sample: Festive cheer
      • Sample: Redbrook Place
      • Sample: Rich Carver
    • Catastrophe
      • Catastrophe (full version)
      • Sample: Evacuation
      • Sample: Marco
      • Sample: torture
      • Synopsis
    • Cold Spot
    • Cold Spot 2: The Two Gregs
    • Cold Spot 3: The Legacy of Dick Pepper
    • Constantinople
    • Ideas for future novels…
  • Recipes
    • Asian dishes
      • Andy’s Pork Dansak
      • Channa dal
      • Curry home-style
      • Indian roast lamb & accompaniments
      • Sizzling fillet steak (for Lindsey)
      • Tarka dal (simple version)
      • Thai-style Seafood Red Curry
    • Breakfasts & egg dishes
      • Corned beef hash
      • Devilled kidneys & offal cookery
      • Eggs Benedict
      • Pancakes, Anglo-American style
      • Scrambled eggs
    • Desserts
      • A mere Trifle…
      • Butterscotch
      • Poached pears
      • Roasted vanilla peaches
    • Meaty mains
      • Another Spanish chicken dish…
      • BBQ sticky ribs
      • Beer can BBQ chicken
      • Burger & chips
      • Burritos
      • Cassoulet mark 2 & confit duck
      • Cassoulet Millward
      • Duck breast dinner
      • Fillet of pork with ginger, honey and cider
      • Goulash variations
      • Jerk chicken, rice & peas
      • Lamb, done two ways
      • Lancashire hotpot
      • Pollo en la sartén
      • Porcetta
      • Porcine Shepherd’s Pie
      • Pot roast brisket
      • Rabbit casserole
      • Sausages braised in ale
      • Slow roast Belly Pork
      • Spanish chicken & chorizo casserole
      • Spatchcocked chicken, roast veg
      • Stuffed chicken breasts wrapped in pancetta
      • Stuffed chicken thighs with Moroccan chick pea sauce
      • Tagine
      • Tea-smoked chicken
      • Tiptree pulled pork
    • Pasta
      • A summer menu
      • Andypasti
      • Bolognaise
      • Macaroni cheese
      • Seafood tagliatelle (for Lindsey)
      • Slow roast lamb & porcini ragout
    • Seafood
      • Beetroot gravad lax
      • Bream encrusted with za’atar & sumac, roast chickpea salad
      • Panfried sea bass with samphire
      • Scallops in cream sauce
      • Seafood gumbo
      • Seared scallops, Jersey royals, asparagus
      • Thai Fishcakes
    • Sides & accompaniments
      • Andy’s tutti-frutti Christmas stuffing
      • Andy’s vinaigrette salad dressing
      • Braised red cabbage
      • Bread sauce
      • Caramelised onions
      • Easy pea & mint puree
      • Mayonnaise & Potato Salad
      • Perfect steamed rice
      • Pommes Dauphinoise
      • Port & Redcurrant sauce for lamb
      • Thrice-cooked chips
      • Yorkshire puds
    • Snacks & starters
      • Andy’s toastie
      • Cheese soufflé
      • Hummus
      • Minestrone & Gazpacho
      • Prawn cocktail
      • Roasted squash, shallot and thyme soup
      • Salt Beef and Reuben Sandwich
      • Scotch eggs
      • Spanish omelette
      • Tomato soup
    • Veggie dishes
      • Mushroom risotto
      • Spiced bean stew
  • Reviews
    • Action & adventure
      • Argo
      • Baby Driver
      • Captain Phillips
      • Django Unchained
      • Dunkirk
      • Elysium
      • Fury
      • Hell or High Water
      • Inception
      • Inglourious Basterds
      • Iron Man 3
      • Kingsman: The Secret Service
      • Leon
      • Limitless
      • London has Fallen
      • Now you see me…
      • Oceans 11-13
      • Pulp Fiction
      • Reservoir Dogs
      • Saving Private Ryan
      • Scarface
      • Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
      • Sicario
      • Skyfall
      • Snakes on a Plane
      • Source Code
      • SPECTRE and the Bond phenomenon
      • The Adventures Of Tintin: Secret Of The Unicorn
      • The Art of the Steal
      • The Brothers Grimm
      • The Edge
      • The French Connection
      • The Hurt Locker
      • The Nice Guys
      • The Revenant
      • The Road to Perdition
      • Thief
      • V for Vendetta
    • Art exhibitions
    • Biopics
      • 12 Years a Slave
      • A Dangerous Method
      • A Walk In The Woods
      • American Gangster
      • Apollo 13
      • Behind the Candelabra
      • Bernie
      • Born to be Blue
      • Breach
      • Burton & Taylor
      • Capote
      • Catch Me If You Can
      • Chaplin
      • Dallas Buyers Club
      • Denial
      • Distant Voices, Still Lives
      • Donnie Brasco
      • Eddie the Eagle
      • Erin Brockovich
      • Escape From Alcatraz
      • Florence Foster Jenkins
      • Frida
      • Frost/Nixon
      • Girl, Interrupted
      • Hitchcock
      • Hotel Rwanda
      • Hunger
      • Immortal Beloved
      • Last King of Scotland
      • Legend
      • Lincoln
      • Lovelace
      • Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
      • Miles Ahead
      • Mr Turner
      • My Week With Marilyn
      • Parkland
      • Persepolis
      • Philomena
      • Rush
      • Saving Mr Banks
      • Selma
      • Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
      • Spotlight
      • Stan
      • Steve Jobs
      • Suffragette
      • The Big Short
      • The Boston Strangler
      • The Butler
      • The Fifth Estate
      • The Imitation Game
      • The Impossible
      • The Iron Lady
      • The Lady in the Van
      • The Look Of Love
      • The Most Hated Woman In America
      • The Social Network
      • The Theory of Everything
      • The Wolf of Wall Street
      • Thirteen Days
      • Topsy Turvy
      • Trumbo
    • Books etc.
      • Bluffer’s Guide to Management
      • Bluffer’s Guide To Your Own Business
      • The Collected Poems of Roger McGough
      • The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
    • Classics
      • 12 Angry Men
      • A Clockwork Orange
      • A Matter Of Life And Death
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      • A Touch of Evil
      • Aguirre, The Wrath of God
      • All About Eve
      • Amadeus
      • Anna Karenina
      • Au Revoir Les Enfants
      • Breakfast at Tiffany’s
      • Brief Encounter
      • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
      • Casablanca
      • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
      • Chimes at Midnight
      • Citizen Kane
      • Coriolanus
      • Dr Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
      • Goodfellas
      • Great Expectations
      • Hamlet (Branagh)
      • Hamlet (RSC)
      • It’s A Wonderful Life
      • Kind Hearts and Coronets
      • Macbeth (1971)
      • Macbeth (2015)
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • Network
      • One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
      • Psycho
      • Raging Bull
      • Schindler’s List
      • Some Like It Hot
      • Sunset Boulevard
      • The Apartment
      • The Elephant Man
      • The Godfather trilogy
      • The Pawnbroker
      • The Third Man
      • To Kill A Mockingbird
      • Vertigo
      • Vertigo (with spoilers)
      • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
    • Comedies, animations etc.
      • A Bunch of Amateurs
      • Airplane!
      • Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
      • American Hustle
      • Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
      • Arthur Christmas & kids movies
      • As Good As It Gets
      • Beginners
      • Birdman
      • Brazil
      • Bright Young Things
      • Broken Flowers
      • Bunny & the Bull
      • Calvary
      • Catch 22
      • Chef
      • Death at a Funeral
      • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
      • Fight Club
      • Filth
      • Forrest Gump… and why I don’t rate it!
      • Gambit
      • Gemma Bovery
      • Harold and Maude
      • Horrible Bosses
      • Hugo
      • I Give It A Year
      • In Bruges
      • In The Loop
      • Irma la Douce
      • Julie & Julia
      • Juno
      • Last Vegas
      • Le Week-End
      • Lesbian Vampire Killers
      • Monty Python’s Life of Brian
      • Monuments Men
      • My Cousin Vinny
      • Nine Lives
      • Paddington
      • Parked
      • Paul
      • Pride
      • Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
      • Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
      • Seven Psychopaths
      • Sightseers
      • St Trinians (original film series)
      • Starter for 10
      • The Angels’ Share
      • The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
      • The Big Lebowski
      • The Blues Brothers
      • The Full Monty
      • The Grand Budapest Hotel
      • The Guard
      • The Hippopotamus
      • The Hundred Foot Journey
      • The Legend of Barney Thomson
      • The Lobster
      • The Love Punch
      • The Men Who Stare At Goats
      • The World’s End
      • Today’s Special
      • Up In The Air
      • War Machine
    • Documentaries etc.
      • Amanda Knox
      • Amy
      • Bobby Fischer Against the World
      • Casting JonBenet
      • Five Documentaries
      • Man On Wire
      • Mea Maxima Culpa
      • More Netflix documentaries
      • Nobody Speak: The Trials Of The First Amendment
      • The Keepers
      • The Smartest Guys In The Room
      • Tim’s Vermeer
      • Tower
      • What happened, Miss Simone?
    • Dramas
      • 45 Years
      • A Little Chaos
      • A Single Man
      • American Beauty
      • Anomalisa
      • Another Year
      • Atonement
      • August: Osage County
      • Black Snake Moan
      • Boyhood
      • Brokeback Mountain
      • Brooklyn
      • Carnage
      • Carol
      • Dangerous Liaisons
      • Deception aka The Best Offer
      • Diary of a Teenage Girl
      • Doubt
      • Equus
      • Gangs of New York & Martin Scorcese
      • Glengarry Glen Ross
      • Good Will Hunting
      • Hector
      • In The Heat Of The Night
      • Inside Llewyn Davis
      • Life is Beautiful
      • Life of Pi
      • Locke
      • Lost in Translation
      • Manchester by the Sea
      • Margin Call
      • Mr Holmes
      • One Day
      • Philadelphia
      • Precious
      • Quartet
      • Remains of the Day
      • Requiem for a Dream
      • Revolutionary Road
      • Safe Haven
      • Shawshank Redemption
      • Still Alice
      • Still Life
      • T2:Trainspotting
      • Tallulah
      • The Artist
      • The Book Thief
      • The Company Men
      • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
      • The Departed
      • The Forger
      • The Great Gatsby
      • The Help
      • The Hours
      • The King of Comedy
      • The Lovely Bones
      • The Railway Man
      • The Reader
      • The Time Traveler’s Wife
      • This is England
      • Trainspotting
      • War Horse
      • We Need To Talk About Kevin
      • Whiplash
      • Wit
    • Foreign language movies
      • A Very Long Engagement
      • Amélie
      • Cinema Paradiso
      • Das Boot
      • Delicatessen
      • Departures
      • Downfall
      • Good Bye Lenin
      • Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources
      • La Vie En Rose
      • Livid
      • Mid-August Lunch
      • Son of Saul
      • Tampopo
      • The Battle of Algiers
      • The City of Life and Death
      • The Closet
      • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
      • The Lives of Others
      • The Secret In Their Eyes
      • The Tin Drum
      • Untouchable
    • Gigs & festivals
      • Antonio Forcione & Adriano Adewale, 606 Club
      • Braintree: home to the Ska revival revival
      • Branford Marsalis, Union Chapel
      • Cambridge Folk Festival
      • Greenwich
        • Buzzcocks
        • Pogues
      • Hop Farm
      • Latitude
        • Paolo Nutini
        • Seasick Steve/Bellowhead
      • Mawkin
      • Simpson Cutting Kerr
    • Horror
      • Black Swan
      • Cabin in the Woods
      • Dark Shadows
      • Don’t Look Now
      • Eraserhead
      • Halloween
      • Horns
      • It Follows
      • John Carpenter’s The Thing
      • Repulsion
      • The Orphan (and the horror genre)
      • The Shining
      • The Woman in Black
      • Unfriended
      • World War Z
    • Micro-reviews
    • Mini-movie reviews
    • Miscellaneous
      • Black Ops: Call of Duty 2
      • Hyundai Blue i40
      • Mini One Convertible
    • Music albums
    • Musicals
      • Cabaret
      • Chicago
      • Les Misérables
      • My Fair Lady
      • Oh! What A Lovely War
      • Quadrophenia
      • Sing Street
      • Sunshine on Leith
      • West Side Story
    • Sci-fi & fantasy
      • 2001: A Space Odyssey
      • Attack the Block
      • Brazil
      • Dark Star
      • Ex-Machina (with spoilers)
      • Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them
      • Gravity
      • High Rise
      • Interstellar
      • Looper
      • Prometheus
      • Source Code
      • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
      • The Martian
      • Under The Skin
      • What Happened To Monday?
    • Stage operas & musicals
      • Iolanthe (ENO)
      • La Traviata (ENO)
      • Little Shop of Horrors, Royal Exchange, Manchester
      • Madame Butterfly (ENO)
      • Pirates of Penzance (ENO)
      • The Magic Flute (ENO)
      • The Mikado (ENO)
      • The Nutcracker, ROH
    • Theatrical productions
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, London
      • Amadeus (National theatre)
      • Billy Liar, Royal Exchange Manchester
      • Calendar Girls (Writte CARDS)
      • Enchanted April (Writtle CARDS)
      • Frankenstein (Writtle CARDS)
      • Good, Royal Exchange, Manchester
      • Hamlet (RSC)
      • Hamlet, National Theatre
      • Hello Norma Jeane, Park Theatre
      • Julius Caesar, Donmar at Kings Cross
      • King Lear, Royal Exchange Manchester
      • Of Mice And Men, National
      • Retail Therapy / The Jailer’s Daughter, The UnDisposables
      • Richard III, Almeida
      • Romeo & Juliet, St Albans (Irrational Theatre/OVO)
      • The Boy Who Climbed Out Of His Face (Shunt)
      • The Caretaker, Old Vic
      • The Crucible, Royal Exchange Manchester
      • The Homecoming, Trafalgar Studios
      • The Ladykillers, Lowry Centre, Manchester
      • The Play That Goes Wrong, Colchester
      • The Revenger’s Tragedy, Pleasance Theatre
      • Travesties, Apollo Theatre, London
      • Uncle Vanya, Almeida
      • War Horse, Bristol Hippodrome
      • Wit, Royal Exchange, Manchester
    • Thrillers
      • Before I Go To Sleep
      • Blood Simple
      • Buried/The Vanishing (spoilers!)
      • Chinatown
      • Contagion
      • Copycat
      • Day of the Jackal
      • Duplicity
      • Enemy at the Gates
      • Eye In The Sky
      • Girl on the Train
      • Gone Baby Gone (with spoilers)
      • Gone Girl
      • LA Confidential
      • Layer Cake
      • Memento
      • Michael Clayton
      • Nightcrawler
      • Prizzi’s Honor
      • Se7en
      • Shallow Grave
      • Shimmer Lake
      • Shutter Island
      • Side Effects (slight spoiler)
      • Sleuth/Deathtrap
      • Spellbound
      • The Birds
      • The Bone Collector
      • The Conversation
      • The Disappearance of Alice Creed
      • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (remake)
      • The Hateful Eight
      • The Limehouse Golem
      • The Name of the Rose
      • The Negotiator
      • The Passengers
      • The Prestige, The Illusionist & the great era of magic
      • The Sixth Sense
      • The Taking of Pelham 123 (old & new)
      • The Usual Suspects
      • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
      • Trance
      • Unthinkable (with spoiler)
      • Zodiac
    • TV
      • A Series Of Unfortunate Events (TV series)
      • Apple Tree Yard
      • Better Call Saul
      • Bojack Horseman
      • Breaking Bad
      • Broadchurch (series 1)
      • Come Dine With Me
      • Daredevil
      • Dexter
      • Fargo
      • Game of Thrones
      • Gotham
      • Grace and Frankie
      • Hannibal
      • Homeland
      • House
      • House of Cards
      • How To Get Away With Murder
      • Humans
      • I, Claudius
      • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
      • London Spy
      • Luke Cage
      • Luther
      • Mindhunter
      • Murder One
      • Narcos
      • Orange is the New Black (series 1)
      • Prison Break
      • Santa Clarita Diet
      • Sense8
      • Silk
      • Soaps
      • State of Play
      • Suits (series 1)
      • Syndicate (series 3)
      • The Apprentice
      • The Crow Road
      • The Good Wife
      • The Killing vs The Bridge
      • The Returned
      • The Shadow Line
      • The Shooter
      • The Tudors and the importance of historical accuracy
      • Trapped
      • True Detective
      • W1A (and Twenty-Twelve)
  • Scribbles
    • Guests
      • Duncan Gusterson
      • Elaine Lawrence
        • Passion and Apathy
        • Where I grew up
      • Joe Thomas
        • Why You Should Buy Local Food: 10 Reasons
    • On writing
      • Atychiphobia and writing
      • Blog for Brick Lane Publishing
    • Other writing
      • Alison’s Bathtime
      • Cinema Couple
      • Clubbing
      • Control
      • Fantasy island
      • Gym Workout
      • Holidays
      • Lucy & the Dress
      • Something Special…
      • Spiteful
      • Surveillance
      • The Initiation
      • Tube Train
      • Twas the Night before Christmas
    • Short Stories
      • A Ghost Story
      • Aftermath
      • Amelia @ 04:13
      • Appetite
      • Backdrop
      • Brown and Pink
      • Cat and mouse
      • Death and the Maiden
      • Distance
      • If love is the answer, what is the question?
      • Lost and Found
      • Memento Mori
      • Pandemonium on the Plains of Dorset
      • Pickled onions in the snow
      • Sonata
      • Succession
      • The Public Face
      • The Ritual
      • Wild Bill Hiccup
      • YOLO
    • Sketches
      • Mixed Metaphors
  • Sports
    • Human v human
      • Boxing into trouble
      • Why I don’t like horse racing
      • Why tennis bores me
    • Motorsport
      • Speedway, a dying breed
      • Why I don’t like F1
    • Sporting rants & miscellaneous
      • Class & Sport
      • Olympic fever
      • Olympic likes and dislikes
      • State of play: sport issues
    • Team ball sports
      • Essex v Kent (day 1)
      • Fulham v WBA 15/09/12
      • Ice Hockey
      • The Blatter factor
      • What’s wrong with football
      • Why I DO like cricket
      • Why I don’t like rugby
  • Store
  • Travel
    • American archive
    • Culture shock
    • Far East 1994
      • China
      • Hong Kong
      • India
      • Nepal
      • Thailand
    • Iceland for new visitors
    • Memories of the WTC, 9/11 and Ground Zero
    • Summer 2010: Prague, Vienna & Budapest
    • Summer 2011: West Coast fly-drive
      • Frisco
      • Hollywood nights… and days
      • Route One adventures
      • Seattle
      • Vancouver
      • Yosemite
    • Vatnajökull and the Northern Lights 2015
    • Western Cape 2001