The little white attic

I’ve just watched Enemy , which is meant to be a smart film.   Guess what, I think it’s rubbish.  This is the full plot: Adam Bell (Jake...

Spoiler alerts.  1/ I’ve concluded that the Flintwinch marriage presents a case of gaslighting (before the term was “coined”, from Patrick...

Amy Dorrit can be infuriating. She allows other family members to make unfair accusations about her, almost without protesting. She doesn’t ...

Other readers have pointed out the 2 main themes of Little Dorrit , so I don’t need to write much about them. The main one is the prison the...

Recently I went to Blackpool and visited the SeaLife aquarium. Here are 2 videos I've just made:  This one also contains footage from...

In chapter 26, Henry Gowan, Minnie Meagles’s suitor, brings Arthur Clennam to his family for a meal. This is a good scene, and we get wonder...

Tom at Wuthering Expectations wrote 2 blog posts about Amy:   http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2012/01/nobody-cares-about-little-d...

As Barbara Hardy wrote in her The Appropriate Form: An Essay on the Novel , “Henry James is almost always telling a single story, while Dic...

Yesterday I graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree with Honours in Filmmaking.  This is my 2nd degree, after another BA, in European and Americ...

I’m on chapter 15, about Mrs Flintwinch’s dream. Check this out:  “Strange, if the little sick-room fire were in effect a beacon fire, sum...