JAMES McGEE

Came upon this little gem when I was flicking through my Netflix listings. Well, there was stuff-all on regular TV, so I thought I'd give it a go. Watched th...

Back for a third year, the No Surrender Festival, held at Vilanova de Bellpuig, in northern Spain, to celebrate the music of The Boss. This year, the crowd'...

The new album from The Boss

Came upon this as I was zapping through to the news this morning: Schedule for 2nd Jan 2019 on the Yesterday TV Channel: 0800-1400 South Pacific Series 1 ...

NETFLIX December 16th "I've never held an honest job in my entire life, I've never done any hard labour, I've never worked nine-to-five, I've never seen the ...

Following on from my previous blog entry (Jun 26th), here's the link to the official video of this year's No Surrender festival in Vilanova de Bellpuig, Cata...

As you might have gleaned from my bio and the occasional blog entry you'll know I'm a massive Springsteen fan, so when I chanced upon this You Tube vid a cou...

From the sublime to the ridiculous... A few weeks ago, I was fired up by the news that The Bridge was returning to the Beeb for a fourth series. Cue cheers a...

A note for the diary: 11th May, BBC2 THE BRIDGE: SEASON IV

'Blimus..!' as the great general and politician Marcus Antonius once said. Well, as he might have said had he tuned in to watch the latest Sky/Amazon Prime s...

When I was asked by my editor to describe the provisional plot for The Reckoning, I replied, before I laid pen to paper - well, all right, finger tips to key...

Last Sunday's edition of Desert Island Discs had me heading to You Tube as soon as the programme ended. The castaway was Professor Phil Scraton, Professor Em...

Y'know when you happen upon something unexpected that turns out to be something rather special..? It happened to me the other week. There I was, poodling dow...

It's been 35 years since the original Blade Runner was released. It did nothing at the box office when it came out. In some places derided, many critics decl...

Say what you like about those old German philosophers but they didn't half come up with some cracking quotes. Take Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, for example...

Came across a fascinating news article on the BBC website a couple of days ago explaining how modern doctors have confirmed a diagnosis made more than two ce...

One to look out for... Martin Scorsese's new film, due out towards the end of December, is an adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel. It follows the fortunes of ...

Well, not quite... As The Boss was just honoured by President Barack Obama - alongside a host of notable names, including Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Michael ...