by admin | Sep 16, 2015 | Review
Here is my highly-selective Top 5 of the best feature writing to have come out of America. A ridiculous idea, I know. From Norman Mailer to David Foster Wallace, here are the US journalists who have certainly influenced me. To my mind, the apogee of art is where...
by admin | Sep 6, 2015 | Review
As a teenager, Tim Adler associated Pink Floyd with the worst of Prog Rock. Thirty years on, will a new concert movie of Roger Waters performing The Wall change his mind? Celebrities often get stuck at the emotional age they first became famous. So Michael Jackson was...
by admin | Aug 31, 2015 | Review
Reggie, left, and Ronnie Kray in 1966. Photograph: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis British gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray are back in the limelight, thanks to a new movie Legend about their rise to power. Local resident Tim Adler still feels wisps of their...
by admin | Aug 16, 2015 | Review
Tim Adler grumbles about two new fiction writing books giving away trade secrets I hesitate to review these books. Who wants a magician to give away the secret of how he does it? Keeping a secret from the audience is after all a perfectly valid position. Both these...
by admin | Jul 25, 2015 | Review
Poor Ian Fleming. All that success in his own lifetime as he witnessed James Bond taking off, selling millions of copies around the world — Even his wife called him “Beatle Bond” –yet he was utterly miserable. “He gave the impression of not geing able to...
