Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for December, 2020

I Want To Stay Here (link)

Posted in Uncategorized on 27/12/2020| Leave a Comment »

While we’re putting up these In English Book 3 songs, we might as well do more. This is Gerry Goffin & Carole King’s “I Want To Stay Here” (LINKED) – it was a big hit back in the day, but doesn’t appear on any Goffin-King compilations.

Read Full Post »

Stay (version)

Posted in Uncategorized on 26/12/2020| Leave a Comment »

Just put up the first audio file here. STAY from In English-Book 3, our cover of Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs classic (as also done by The Four Seasons, The Hollies, Jackson Browne). This was specially recorded for IN ENGLISH (now out of print). Follow the link to the page.

Read Full Post »

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – review

Posted in Uncategorized on 20/12/2020| Leave a Comment »

Christmas and the Oscar season means new films are coming thick and fast, and this year that’s on Netflix. MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (linked) is a predicted Best actor / Best actress for Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis. They may be right. It’s based on August Wilson’s stage play and is a snapshot, a day in the life, not a bio-pic. A must-see, though it has some issues.

Read Full Post »

The Prom – review

Posted in Uncategorized on 19/12/2020| Leave a Comment »

Review added of Netflix musical THE PROM (linked) … with a stellar cast, Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Andrew Rannells. A major 2020 version of the 2018 Broadway Musical. No plot spoilers or joke giveaways at all, as it’s on now.

Read Full Post »

Best of 2020

Posted in Uncategorized on 18/12/2020| Leave a Comment »

My annual review of reviews BEST OF 2020 is linked. I usually do three, but I’ll do two this year. Recorded music to follow, as I’m waiting for more to arrive. This is different. Very different. Theatre? Up to the end of February. Film? All except one was seen at home. Only two concerts … and lots of 60s Retrospective reviews. Take a look …

Read Full Post »

Mank – review

Posted in Uncategorized on 08/12/2020| Leave a Comment »

This year, it’s a question of Netflix or Amazon Prime rather than Odeon v Cineworld. The latest review is MANK on Netflix, (SEE LINK) the “Citizen Kane” prequel or how Citizen Kane was written by Herman Mankiewicz (and not by Orson Welles). Gary Oldman, Tom Burke, Charles Dance … hold on, they’re all British. See the review.

Read Full Post »