Movie Roundup – June 2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness / The Princess Bride / Venom: Let there be Carnage / Morbius
Tag: Fantasy
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.
Stephen Fry – Troy
Troy is everything I had been hoping for after reading Stephen Fry’s other Greek mythology books – Mythos and Heroes.
Midpoint movie roundup – September 2021
Kate / Army of the Dead / The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf / Shaun the Sheep Movie / Ponyo / Choke / The Empire Strikes Back / A New Hope / Rogue One / Revenge of the Sith / Spoilers, lots of spoilers!
Ben Aaronovitch – The Hanging Tree
The Hanging Tree is the sixth book in the Rivers of London series and follows on from Foxglove Summer.
Ben Aaronovitch – Foxglove Summer
Foxglove Summer is the fifth book in the Rivers of London series and follows on from Broken Homes, Whispers Under Ground, Moon Over Soho and the original Rivers of London.
Movie Roundup – February 2021
Color out of Space / Welcome to Marwen / Capone / Locke / Prevenge / The Black Cauldron / Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb
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!
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