The Moon - A Bit of Culture

The Moon Recommends - The Looming Tower

2019-07-03T08:51:00.000+01:00

John O'Neill.

The Looming Tower is an American television miniseries, based on the book of the same name by Lawrence Wright, from 2018 and has just been screened on the BBC and is also available for free on the interweb

Moon Film Review: Green Book

2019-02-20T08:09:00.000+00:00

Your Cultural Correspondent (Film) immediately followed 'If Beale Street could talk' with 'Green Book' an altogether much better and more engrossing film. And one which we cannot praise enough, not least for it showing us what people who had to have recourse to the Green Book had to endure.

Moon Film Review: If Beale Street Could Talk

2019-02-18T08:00:00.001+00:00

Your Cultural Correspondent (Film) thinks that 'If Beale Street could talk' it would surely ask, 'What on Earth have I done to deserve this film?' swiftly followed by 'Couldn't my story have been told in a more engrossing and less boring way?' To which, of course, the answers would be 'We don't know' and 'Yes and yes'.

Moon Film Review: Mary, Queen of Scots

2019-02-07T08:09:00.000+00:00

Two of the Queens who have featured prominently in the life of Your Cultural Correspondent (Film) are Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. We have read many books about them and seen their joint story acted out on screen by Glenda Jackson and Vanessa Redgrave and on stage by Harriet Walter and Janet McTeer. The latter two were appearing in a production of Mr Friedrich Schiller's 'Mary Stuart'. Had we been writing reviews for The Moon at that time, we would have noted how affecting the play was and in particular these words uttered to the Scottish Queen by Mortimer:

Moon Film Review: Vice

2019-02-06T08:36:00.004+00:00

As The Moon's Editor inserted in one of our first reviews of the year, Your Cultural Correspondent (Film) is 'blissfully unsophisticated'. Thus it was that the occasional, perhaps even too often, diversions into 'sophistication' rather spoilt 'Vice' for Your Cultural Correspondent (Film).

Top Moon Tunes 2019 Volume 1

2019-02-05T09:45:00.000+00:00

Johnny Longstaff

Another year and so another yearly round of monthlyish Top Moon Tunes for 2019 begins.

It is one of the more eclectic editions and also bit gruesome. It has a brilliant version of a traditional folk song about death and a brand new classic folk song which also features a death, a bit of soul and a great slice of Top Pop Soul, some traditional and modern Americana, a top slice of Welsh Psychedelica, some brand new London Britpop and more "folk", including the last track about the death on a hill in Spain of a 1930s Oxbridge Communist.