On Monday, I took a trip to the cinema to see ‘Wicked Little Letters,’ This tells the frankly incredible story of a spate of rather rude, poison pen letters that were sent, initially to one woman, Edith Swan, but later to many other people, in the quite seaside town of Littlehampton in the 1920’s. Edith’s neighbour Rose Gooding, an Irish immigrant who ‘was no better than she should be’ was blamed, and actually jailed for the letters, but the real culprit was later revealed through the clever detective work of  ‘woman PC’ Gladys Moss, with the unravelling of the case proving to be a even more shocking tale than even…

Even if you have zero interest in motor racing, Ferrari is a pretty special film. A true story, it is set in 1957, a watershed year in the life of Enzo Ferrari, with his namesake company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and Enzo living a double life, in the form of marital hell with his wife estranged wife Laura, with both grieving the loss of their son a year previously. He also has a long term lover Lina Lardi, and a 10 year old son, an open secret known to everyone except Laura.  To try to save his company and restore the prestige of the name Ferrari, he gambles…

Christmas is always a time to rediscover Agatha Christie, and this festive season, a whole range of film adaptations were shown, including the one that Agatha loved best of all, the 1957 adaptation of an original short story, ‘Witness for the Prosecution’. This was a brilliant adaptation, with a very starry cast, and Agatha absolutely loved it, which was certainly not always the case for film adaptations of her books (she hated the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple’s for instance.) Witness for the Prosecution has been adapted many times since this film, most recently as a stage play that has wowed audiences in London, but, for me, this version is certainly…