Movie Roundup – February 2021
Color out of Space / Welcome to Marwen / Capone / Locke / Prevenge / The Black Cauldron / Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb
Smoking at your funeral
A poem.
6 TV shows to cure those lockdown blues
Vikings / Ted Lasso / Back to Life / Brave New World / The Great / It’s A Sin
5 Netflix movies
The Dig / Spree / Midnight Sky / IO / ARQ
3 books, 1 graphic novel
Antony Beevor – Crete: The Battle and The Resistance / Neil Gaiman – The Sandman: Overture / Charles Bukowski – Ham on Rye / Bernard Cornwell – Fools and Mortals
Movie Roundup – January 2021
Parasite / Black Mass / Hotel Artemis / Kingsman: The Golden Circle / Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
Death to 2020
A messy roundup for the tail-end of 2020 including some movies, comedy TV, books and a thumb-killing game.
Bernard Cornwell – Redcoat
Redcoat is set in the year 1777 in war-torn Philadelphia. It’s a bit like a Sharpe book but with less battles and more intrigue and romance. Spoilers ahoy!
December midpoint movie roundup
Wolfwalkers / Ava / Apocalypse Now: Final Cut / Mary Queen of Scots / The Nutcracker and the Four Realms / Slaughterhouse Rulez / Man of Tai Chi / 1984
Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars
In 2014 Disney laid waste to the existing canon of Star Wars spin-off novels, comics and games. Tartakovsky’s 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars micro-series was one of the casualties – relegated to the status of a ‘Star Wars Legend’…
