Stories By Jem Bloomfield
Movies
Family Values
May 27, 2026Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
Fiction Reviews
The Key to the Case
May 22, 2026The locked room mystery has been a staple of detective fiction since Edgar Allan Poe’s The...

Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
May 5, 2026Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...

Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’
May 2, 2026The whole episode seemed to revolve around questions of perception and memory, and the way recognising...

Mystery
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Reichenbach Fall’
April 28, 2026Now, this is the premise of the episode. What it asks us to accept in order...

Blog-Theater
Theatre Review: The Duchess of Malfi, the Old Vic, London
April 25, 2026It has an older woman marrying her employee in secret, her incestuously-inclined brother who believes he...

Great Britain
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 5
April 24, 2026Of course we can’t know what goes on in the writers’ rooms, but combining Martin’s hand-turned...

Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 6
April 22, 2026You wonder if you’re hallucinating the whiff of gender politics until Nicola turns up. I love...

Movies & TV
Merlin Recap – Series 2, Episode 1
April 22, 2026You know what’s good about Merlin? (No, not that, we’re leaving that ‘til the second paragraph,...

Music
The Cunning Little Vixen, Live-streamed from Glyndebourne Opera House
April 21, 2026It has not been an altogether popular production, not least with the huffy Glyndebourne reactionaries who...












