Monday Movie: Reflections on Baftas 2023
(All photos and video by me, save the cover photo of Cate Blanchett and Austin Butler together) It didn’t rain
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Rehna’s red-carpet roundup
I’ve walked a great number of red carpets already in 2023 and several in the last couple of weeks. So,
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Rehna’s Round-Up
The roundup has a music theme this week. The Grammy awards took place last Sunday- and they were the usual
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Friday Film: Oscar thoughts 2023
The Oscar nominations for the films of 2022 are out. Overall, it’s been a pretty good year; audiences of all
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Weekend: Rehna’s Roundup – week commencing 9th January 2023
Rehna’s roundup (week commencing 9th January 2023). Jeff Beck death Musician Jeff Beck died. Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with his
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Monday Movie: Desert Storm Stars
The Palm Springs Festival Awards Gala is an important stage on the route to Oscar. The festival is held in the first week
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Tuesday tremors: Majesty and the mess
(picture credit : @eleema.masci_illustrations) I’m glad the queue to see Queen Elizabeth ll lying in state was public and not
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Monday memory: The prince and the paki
(Credit to The Wanton Wench on Twitter for the cover image) ‘Paki!’ I had barely noticed the young man walking
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Welcome 2023!
Wishing you all a joy, healthy, safe and beautiful New Year!
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Thursday Theatre: A streetcar named desire – review
A Streetcar named desire : Almeida theatre ‘A streetcar named desire’ is my favourite play. So, when I was invited
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Friday Film: Tar
Director : Todd Field Cast: Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong, Nina Hoss By Rehna (Venice film festival premiere) Tar stars Cate Blanchett.
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The Legal Style Awards part 2: Videos
Check out the photos from the event in part 1 Here are some of the video highlights: Winner of the
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The Legal Style Awards 2022
Some 6-7 weeks ago, itsalawyerslife.com and 42 Bedford Row teamed up to host an awards event. 42BR are sponsoring The
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Friday Film – LFF 2022: Empire of Light
Director: Sam Mendes Cast : Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Micheal Ward, Toby Jones Empire of Light gets only two stars
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Monday Movie: The Legend of Maula Jatt
I once came across two employees of a big supermarket excitedly chatting about film they had seen the night before.
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Friday Film: Bones and all – LFF 2022
I first saw this film at the Venice film festival but it’s screening at LFF too. Bones and all is
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Friday Film: White Noise – LFF 2022
This review was first written for another outlet, after I saw the film at Venice 2022 Director: Noah Baumbach Cast:
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QueueE2: The queue to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state
by Rehna I found the experience of seeing her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, lying in the state at Westminster hall,
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Friday Film : Music biopics. Whose life next?
By Rehna Bohemian Rhapsody (about the band Queen) was a huge hit of superhero proportions . It is the highest grossing
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Thursday thoughts: Improving concentration and focus
Earlier this year, a barrister friend and I met for dinner. Like me, she practices family law. We are both
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Tuesday triumph:The wonder of Austin and Elvis
The wonder of Austin and Elvis. Reflections on Awards season. John Lennon famously said, ‘Before Elvis there was nothing.’ Well, before
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Weekend Woman: Keeley and baby George
Some of you will know that our beauty and fashion editor, Keeley, suffered a devastating loss earlier this year when
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Friday Film: The Shuroo retreat
The Shuroo Retreat Director: Emrhys CooperCast: Fiona Dourif, Donal Brophy, Emrhys CooperAvailable on paying streaming platforms from Monday 25th July Loosely
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Clerking: A balancing act. A well-being story.
By Stuart Taylor, deputy senior clerk at Westgate chambers As any Barristers’ clerk will tell you, they are always busy
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