Top Gun: Maverick as a sequel is light years away from the original. This time it’s seat of the pants action superbly directed with the viewer in the cockpit.
Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem poses existential questions about contact with alien life form but ultimately the hard sci gets in the way of a good story.
Would Burnley FC want to win more than Newcastle FC? Can Leeds beat an in form Brentford FC. In the end I saw a miracle. Leeds beat Brentford FC and stayed up.
Another red card turned the match into a deja vu of the last one- early goal, a sending off, the match over within half an hour – Leeds United 0 Chelsea FC 3.
In 2022 I visited Penang. I walked the streets of George Town. The Penang street art may have lost an audience but it still gave the city its own authenticity.
