November midpoint movie roundup
It: Chapter Two / Doctor Sleep / Onward / Sixteen Candles / The Night Clerk / Kill Me Three Times / The Da Vinci Code
Tag: Fantasy
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
Mervyn Peake – Titus Alone
I planned to read Titus Alone, the third book of the Gormenghast trilogy, over Christmas 2016, having thoroughly enjoyed the second book earlier that year. Instead I read it a few weeks ago. Here’s what I thought about it…
Film Roundup from March 2020
Spirits in the Forest | Horse Girl | Night is Short, Walk on Girl | The Hustle | Dolemite Is My Name | Shaft | Knives Out | Christopher Robin | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Wild | Incredibles 2 | Aladdin
Gene Wolfe – Peace
Peace is an enigma. A puzzle to be cracked. Perhaps fittingly my copy appeared mysteriously to me a month or so ago, having sat forgotten on a low bookshelf for a year.
Six films for a rainy day
Some quick ramblings about: Wind River | Robin Hood | Mother! | The Dark Tower | Noah | You Were Never Really Here
7 films versus 1 rambler
Captain Marvel | Avengers: Endgame | The Greatest Showman | The Commuter | War Horse | King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Hail, Caesar!
Holiday Books 2019
Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe’s Waterloo It’s been a long-standing habit of mine to read at least one Bernard Cornwell book
