Movie Roundup – February 2021
Color out of Space / Welcome to Marwen / Capone / Locke / Prevenge / The Black Cauldron / Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb
Tag: Fantasy
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
Death to 2020
A messy roundup for the tail-end of 2020 including some movies, comedy TV, books and a thumb-killing game.
2020 Retrospective – top TV drama
My top five TV shows this year, that weren’t comedy. Spoilers ahoy!
2020 Retrospective – top movies
In this post (which, be warned, will contain some spoilers) I write about some of the best movies I’ve seen in 2020.
Stephen King & Owen King – Sleeping Beauties
This 720-page long novel is the first time the legendary horror writer has written a book with his son Owen…
November midpoint movie roundup
It: Chapter Two / Doctor Sleep / Onward / Sixteen Candles / The Night Clerk / Kill Me Three Times / The Da Vinci Code
Nine more binge-worthy Netflix shows
Space Force | Santa Clarita Diet | Living With Yourself | Drifters | Chewing Gum | Staged | Warrior Nun | Community | The OA
A quick catch up – misfits, puzzles and sand
There’s no ‘midpoint’ movie roundup this month because I haven’t seen that many so far. Instead I’ve been spending my time watching TV shows, doing jigsaws and listening to the audio version of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman.
Books – 3 fictional / 2 factual
Stewart Lee – The Perfect Fool | Antony Beevor – D-Day: The Battle for Normandy | Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 | Ben Aaronovitch – Broken Homes | Michael Moorcock – A Cure for Cancer
