My book on the Medieval Balkans has been published. Technically, it became available a couple of weeks ago to everyone via the miracle of the internet. I couldn't be more excited, as this is the culmination of more than 2 years of work on the project. Those in the historical wargaming community - an extraordinarily interesting alternate society ( Read more... )

Just in case you think I'm totally undiscriminating - I was fooled into watching "Love Actually" last night ( Read more... )

Last night - I watched Beat Takeshi's new version of "Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman ( Read more... )

After Jon Stewart's funny and low key monologue, the Oscars began to weave their spell over me and put me to sleep for a few minutes. So little of this year's award ceremony was about movie-making (honestly, I know that it barely exists for that reason anymore, but at least they used to pay the movies lip service), that I abandoned the sorry, ( Read more... )

Ugghhh....

Patrick, your Auntie Mame is hung...

..ouch..

Derek Jarman's movies continue to amaze ( Read more... )

Well ( Read more... )

Ugh ( Read more... )

Tilda fans ( Read more... )

Ahhh ( Read more... )