Darren Scott died this week. Many legends attached themselves to him, but i know this one is true, because I was there. bristowbovey.com/2025/05/29/d...

Thrilled Anora won the Oscar. One of my best movie-going experiences last year was watching it in Deauville, with a full house of 1500 people roaring with laughter, Francis Ford Coppola in the next row, a French woman in the row in front of me, breathless with anxiety and shouting at the screen.

They say that looking for delight makes you more likely to see it, more likely to live a life of delight. For the past several years of a very peripatetic life, I have been recording a delight a day, sometimes more: bristowbovey.com/daily-deligh...

Favourite 10 movies watched in January: The Apartment (1960) Algiers (1938) The Major and the Minor (1942) Little Darlings (1980) The Miracle of Morgan Creek (1945) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) The Happy Prince (2018) The Thomas Crowne Affair (1968) Flight Risk (2025) Nosferatu (2024)

White Lies is recommended by the Sunday Times, which means I finally have some return on my Times subscription.

It's winter in Morocco.

Ireland will continue to be a good team for a while yet, but you do get the impression their golden age is just gently on the wane. It will happen to us all, one day.

My first post here! Let's try out the piece I wrote this week about werewolves and playing rugby against England. www.vryeweekblad.com/en/news-and-...