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John Lee, who gave us the eccentric joys of Confessions of an Actuarial Tutor , turns his brand of nerdy humour into re-telling well-known...

Set 64 years before The Hunger Games , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is Suzanne Collins' prequel to her dystopian YA trilogy, a...

The work aesthetic that I aim for with my sartorial choices is demure and classy. Whether or not I realise those objectives are another m...

Earlier in the lockdown, I'd tried my hand at making a pizza from scratch . It was a solid effort given my complete lack of experienc...

As part of my job, I have to sit actuarial exams in tandem to working. I sat CM1 and CS1 in April, and CS2 in September (the M stands for...

A waitress talks to a dying man. Two bickering assassins await orders on their next hit. And a quirky janitor lurks around a dilapidate...

A friend recommended Lahore Karahi to me as a tasty, cheap curryhouse, and being an ardent fan of both Pakistani food and bargains,...

This blog contains spoilers for season 2 of 13 Reasons Why . Since its release last March, 13 Reasons Why , the Netflix adaptation...

A shady investment manager Zhong Xiaonian (Xu Zheng) wakes up one day to find that the safe where he kept records of his dodgy dealings, ...

Now that there’s a post-Oscar lull, my blog feels weirdly directionless. I’m currently consuming any black and white films I can get my h...

Just before the turn of the New Year of 1947, renowned stage actress Sheila Page (Joan Leslie) shoots her emotionally abusive husband...

I tried to write a review of Dunkirk without using the vernacular 'twink', or slagging off Cokehead Delevingne. Did I succeed? Re...

Kevin Maher of The Times wrote a fantastically scathing review of the mess that was mother !. He's on form again, slating Jennifer L...

Make-up remover is an essential product, because if you don’t wash off your makeup before you go to sleep, it facilitates build-up of ...

For me, the score can make or break a film. A good film can be elevated into the realms of greatness by a standout score, and even a poor...

Renowned sleuth Hercule Poirot finds himself in the first class carriage of the Orient Express, due from Istanbul to London. In torrid an...

Matthew Norman of the Evening Standard found Daisy Ridley's performance in Murder on the Orient Express  forgettable. So much so, tha...

London has some venues which do some fabulous cocktails, ranging from Yauatcha to The Escapologist , and I wondered if The Hide, about ...

Summer 1962. In a Dorset hotel, overlooking the seaside, two virgins, Edward and Florence, navigate their wedding night with shared...

During Friday nights around Bank, it is extremely difficult to find pubs or bars where one can sit down and have a proper conversation. N...