BY ED CHURCH (JANUARY 2025) If the past is “a foreign country”, as L.P. Hartley once wrote, then the advent of mobile phones is its hard border. I’m always glad I got 25 years on the pre-mobile side of that dividing line. Glad I got to experience things like school, university, and travel, before we […]
THE ‘REAL’ ROCKY (MAYBE)
BY ED CHURCH (September 2022) For any fan of the Rocky films, it is almost impossible to watch footage of an Oscar Bonavena fight without experiencing an uncanny sense of familiarity. Aside from a basic physical similarity between the Argentine heavyweight and Sylvester Stallone’s screen creation, there is something about the way the pair go […]
HITCHCOCK’S HIDDEN MESSAGE
BY ED CHURCH (January 2022) William Boyd’s excellent novel “Restless” touches upon an interesting period of World War 2 – the time before the United States entered the fray when Britain was doing all it could to sway public opinion on the other side of the Atlantic. Whether it was talk of enemy spies infiltrating […]