The Marrying Kind dir. by George Cukor
In the domestic courts it is time for Keefer vs Keefer. But the various arguments carry on until it is six o’clock and the presiding judge calls a halt. She wants...
4 May 2014
The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
Life for Mr and Mrs Dearly and their dogs, Pongo and Misses, is going well. They live near Regent’s Park in London and are very comfortably well off, Mr Dearly having...
29 March 2014
A town like Alice by Nevil Shute
In post World War II England Jean Paget is tracked down by a solicitor. She is the only surviving member of a client of his, and so stands to inherit his...
26 May 2013
The death of grass by John Christopher
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge It is the 1950s, and a devastating virus is sweeping Asia. It attacks grass, and grass feeds the world. Wheat is grass....
8 March 2012
Me Cheeta: the autobiography by James Lever
by James Lever
I should have known from that opening paragraph that I wasn’t going to enjoy this book. It has that “amn’t I amusing and witty” narration style that, for me, simply fell flat. Perhaps it is just that I don’t know enough about the stars of the 1940s & 50s to get all the hilarious references and anecdotes. Or maybe it was just written in a style that left me uncaring. Who can say.
8 August 2010
The Reader [based on the book by] by Bernhard Schlink dir. by Stephen Daldry
based on book, Der Vorleser. In Germany, 1958, Michael Berg is feeling unwell. He wanders through the streets for a while before almost collapsing in the entrance to an apartment block....
10 January 2009
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
ISBN: 9780330445320 Book 1 in the Quirke series See also: MetaCritic ; Grumpy Old Bookman ; PopMatters ; She was glad it was the evening mailboat she was taking, for she...
15 April 2008
The Good Shepherd dir. by Robert De Niro
This is the story of Edward Wilson, a man who has believed in the United States of America all his life, who has always done what he thinks is right, a...
2 March 2007
Good Night, and Good Luck dir. by George Clooney
It is the 1950’s, and McCarthyism is rife in America as the hunt for reds under bed trundles on. In CBS Ed McMurrow begins to highlight McCarthy’s scare tactics and methods...
25 February 2006
The Producers dir. by Susan Stroman
If you go see this film looking for nothing more than simple entertainment then you should come out entirely satisfied. It made me laugh, although the songs, with the exception of...
8 January 2006
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
ISBN: 0349116156 Set in the 1950′;s this is the story of Stella as she becomes part of a theatre group She lives with her aunt and uncle in a boarding house,...
5 September 2005
The Fog Of War dir. by Errol Morris
I saw the trailer for this when I went to see Van Helsing, it stood out because I hadn’t seen it before. Yes the gorram “day after tomorrow” trailer was showing....
12 May 2004
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