Movie Roundup – June 2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness / The Princess Bride / Venom: Let there be Carnage / Morbius
Author: couchmagpie
I was born in North Wales to English parents with their roots in Cheshire and Lancashire. I left Loughborough University with a BSc and PhD in Economics. I worked in IT for about 17 years and then changed jobs to become a Communications Consultant – a job in which my interest and skills in writing come in very handy.
I love film with a passion and have an eclectic music taste. In my spare time I read a lot and write books of my own.
I have written several books and there is a lot of information about them on couchmagpie.com as well as my somewhat random musings on film, tv, music, games, books, writing, food, drink and life in general.
Detroit: Become Human
Detroit: Become Human is a 2018 game about androids from Quantic Dream and, at least at the time I downloaded it, available for free to PlayStation Plus subscribers.
Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall is a Man Booker Prize winning historical novel which treats the reader to a highly historically-accurate yet fictional account of the rapid rise to power of Henry VIII’s chief advisor Thomas Cromwell.
William Gibson – Agency
Agency can be considered a sequel to The Peripheral in that it reuses the fanciful time-hopping remote technology and idea of parallel alternate realities.
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and the Sun
A short ramble about Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about a solar-powered android called Klara looking after a sickly girl called Josie.
Madeline Miller – Circe
Miller’s book presents us with a captivating rendering of Circe, daughter of the sun god Helios and the ocean nymph Perse, and who features in Homer’s Odyssey.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Now I have 100% completed the game, which brings together all 9 of the main Star Wars movies, I think I can provide a balanced opinion.
Movie Roundup – May 2022
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood / The Courier (2020) / Candyman (2021) / Exposed / Arrietty / The Killing of a Sacred Deer / Videoman / Spiral
The Batman
A quick and spoiler-free post about the new Batman film. Now available for rental or purchase on various digital streaming services.
Spider-Man: No Way Home
This film truly is one for the fans and if you haven’t seen the 5 non-Tom Holland movies then there’s going to be quite a bit of the story that falls rather flat for you.
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