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The Queen’s Gambit/Netflix

I have previously and favourably reviewed Walter Tevis novel The Queen’s Gambit in the Rust.   It tells the story of the rise of Kentucky born Beth Norman from orphan to world chess champion. You cannot make chess a watchable game as it’s far too static and technical but this film of seven [...]

October 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

Giving praise where it’s due

I am no particular fan of BT Sport football coverage. Jake Humphreys, their number two presenter, does not float my boat – nor their chief one, Gary Lineker. However I have always liked James Richardson who hosts a show on Champions League night.  Richardson cut his teeth on Channel 4 in the [...]

October 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

Morozov/Natalya Semenova

Generally there are two types of reviewers: those that use a book review to illustrate their own knowledge of the subject and those that seek to show why said book might be of interest or enrichment to the reader. Most of the reviews of this biography of the Morozovs I read fall into the first [...]

October 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Undoing

I very much enjoyed this psychological thriller on SKY ATLANTIC. It’s set in New York and stars Hugh Grant as Jonathan Fraser, a paediatric encologist, and Nicole Kidman, his wife Grace a psychiatrist, specialising in marital breakdown. Both actors starred as villains in the excellent [...]

October 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

I am back to betting form again with an each way finish for young Spaniard Arni Arnaus in the Italian Open on the European Tour and betting against Manchester United in a dreadful match a goalless draw v Chelsea. My fancy Webb Simpson finished  out of the each way berths in the Zozo USPGA event at [...]

October 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Crystal Palace 2

Two years and two months ago Fulham’s first game in the Premiership was at home to Crystal Palace and we were well beaten 3-0. I came across the programme. Our chairman in his column wrote: “We have worked hard this summer to build a squad that will not be satisfied by merely holding on [...]

October 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ The Squire and Horse

Yesterday I met an old friend at the Squire and Horse gastro pub in Bury, near Arundel. It’s a beautiful part of the world. As we passed in the car under trees with golden leaves and rolling meadows I felt how lucky I am to be in West Sussex rather than London. I normally meet my friend who lives [...]

October 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

Rebecca/Netflix

If you have not seen the Alfred Hitchcock 1940 version with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, nor read Daphne du Maurier’s novel, you might enjoy this recent adaptation which director Ben Wheatley is anxious to point out is not a remake. The plot of two Mrs de Winters – one dying in a [...]

October 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

Real Madrid 2 Shakhtar Donetsk 3

Last night I had a serendipitous moment. It was 6-30 pm. I was neither hungry nor fancied a sundowner. It was one of those pandemic moments when it was necessary to while away the time. So I switched on the telly and the channel was BT Sport. They were showing Real Madrid v Shakhtar Donetsk. Given [...]

October 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Billion Dollar Heist/BBC 4

The difficulty with this BBC4 Programme broadcast on Monday is that at the end of it you had no clear idea as to the whereabouts of the Vermeer and Rembrandt paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart  Gardner museum in Boston or who committed the theft. The FBI agent believed them to be in [...]

October 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

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