Friday Film: Venice 2021 – Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a journey, a song
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen a journey, a song Documentary Writer/Directors : Dayna Goldfine. Daniel Geller The warmest and most rapturous applause I heard at
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Friday Film: Venice 2021 – The Lost Daughter
Venice 2021By Rehna The Lost Daughter Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal Cast: Olivia Coleman, Jessie Buckley, Ed Harris Summary: middle-class intellectual angst
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Friday Film – Venice 2021: Last Night in Soho
Venice 2021: Last Night in SohoRehna AzimDirector: Edgar WrightCast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Terence Stamp, Thomasin McKenzie, Diana Rigg This film had
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Monday Movie: Venice Film Festival 2021 -Spencer
by Rehna The dismal ratings for the 2020 Oscars led some to quip that the only way the show could
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Friday Film: Walk with Angels -Edinburgh Film Festival
Some films have brutal scenes that are unwatchable. Walk with Angels does it with words. Shocking is too small a
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Sunday sermon: Thou shalt take care of yourself
I tweeted on Friday about having to prep a trial during a 3 day ‘break’. To-date the tweet has been
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Wednesday wanderlust Weekend away: The Belfry
With foreign travel currently a quarantine nightmare, more Brits are discovering home pleasures around the UK. Birmingham probably wouldn’t list
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Friday Fragrance: scent of the woman Rina!
Do you have a favourite perfume, aftershave or an aroma that just makes you weak at the knees? A scent
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Thursday thrill: National Lipstick Day
Is it your armour? Your weapon of seduction? The focal point of your face? Your trademark look? 29th July is
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Tattoos, the ink of a life. By Shelly
Friday Fashion : Tatoos, the ink of life by Shelly I got my first tattoo immediately after I completed the law conversion. I designed
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Tuesday Treat: Lady Boss, Jackie Collins
Documentary Director: Laura Fairrie Leopard print and big hair. That would be the answer, if the question was, how do
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Thursday Throwback: Diana 60
It’s a long story but I once found myself sitting in Kensington palace, leafing through photographs of Diana, Princess of
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Tuesday Trends: Dare to bare or denier?
It started as a question on social media by Anneka: should counsel have to wear tights in court to appear
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Monday Movie : Cruella
What a joy it was to finally go to the cinema on Saturday evening . Even being unable to get
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Monday Musing: Dieu et mon droit by Rehna
I first wrote this story for Counsel magazine. It was published in the May edition. Dieu et mon droit That’s
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Never had you : short film by Rehna
I have written and produced/co-produced for short films about family law. They are all legal dramas. The current president of
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Tuesday Taste: Caterpillar Controversy – let ‘em eat cake!
Few news stories have garnered as much public interest and sparked as much fierce debate as the recent case of
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Wednesday wellbeing: walking with grief and loss
During the first lockdown, once restrictions were eased to allow small gatherings outside, a friend called to invite me for
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Monday musing : Oscars in memoriam
Call me Nostradamus lite. Some of my pre-Oscars show predictions were spot on. The one I got spectacularly wrong, however,
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Oscars 21: some predictions
The academy will put on as spectacular and entertaining a show as it can in the current circumstances. There will
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Prince Philip: end of an era
Years ago I ran with a crowd that had close links to the Royal family. Through my friends I got
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Monday Music and Movies BAFTAs
Good evening all! In case you hadn’t noticed, yesterday evening saw the 74th BAFTA ceremony in a virtual broadcast in
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Tuesday Times : Lockdown anniversary
It started as a far away idea. That we might have lockdown. That we might be confined to our homes
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Friday Face: Stephen Lue -LGBTQ life and the law
Stephen Lue, barrister at Garden Court chambers talks to us about his life as a gay man, his career at
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Wednesday wellbeing : Lockdown reflections by Fareha
LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS As we find ourselves in lockdown v3, it is an opportunity for reflection. A year ago, no one could have
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