A friend recently sent me a post by David Goodhew about the latest figures on attendance at Church of England ceremonies. It’s as interesting as it is depressing. His primary focus is on how Covid …| Matter Of Facts
This has been a slightly odd year in cinema. Covid related production delays and studios still figuring out how best to combine releases in cinema and on streaming services. Indeed, this got downri…| Matter Of Facts
A pet hate of mine is the extent to which our culture conflates being a ‘book lover’ with being really into novels. This view tends to erase the literary merit of non-fiction. I would submit that t…| Matter Of Facts
Obligatory preamble For the purpose of this list, a show counts as a 2022 show if the majority of a season was released in the UK this calendar year. I’m just a guy watching shows while eating dinn…| Matter Of Facts
[Spoiler-free] I have seen the future of animation and it rocks! On Thursday, I dutifully shuffled down to my local Odeon to see Spider Man: Across the Spider-verse. There, I found myself in the bu…| Matter Of Facts
Polite Society is the funniest, most gonzo film of the year so far There exists a sub-Reddit devoted to technically accurate but, nonetheless, deeply misleading summaries of film plots. For example…| Matter Of Facts
Watching John Wick: Chapter 4 is a bit like coming across a jewel made up of huge diamonds held together by Sellotape. If that sounds like a rather lukewarm endorsement, it isn’t necessarily so. Fo…| Matter Of Facts
My review of return of the Mandalorian in S.3 ep.1 the Apostate SPOILERS AHEAD ‘New season, new structure’ seemed to be the order of the day in the Apostate. Indeed, it often felt like the structur…| Matter Of Facts
Light spoilers for Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania but full spoilers for the rest of the MCU up to that point I spent much of Marvel’s phase 4 remaining enthused about the MCU as a lot of people …| Matter Of Facts