I've spent a lot of time recently recommending a couple of fantastic resources to anyone and everyone I know in the middle of slogging it out on a screen story. The below two story lectures are fantastic for lots of reasons, but key to their impact is that they're incredibly useful, craft-focused overviews for anyone …
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A few months ago, a friend tagged me in one of those '10 day film challenge' things on Facebook, where you're meant to share a picture of your ten favourite films over ten days. They're fun, but for people like me, a little daunting. I basically love film lists (and book lists, and art lists...), …
Inspired by Austin Kleon’s Ten Things, and in awe of Pip Lincolne’s Taking Stock blog posts, I’m going to give a weird hybrid of the two a crack. Here we go! Here’s what I’ve been up to this month: WATCHING the brilliant The Good Place, which I’m utterly THRILLED for (it’s perhaps the best thing …
So you may well have seen my previous post where I shared the five Christmas movies I'm looking forward to re-watching these holidays. Well, I have a terrible confession. There are a LOT of Christmas films I've never bothered with, but I think I probably should. Like I've said before, I love the festive …
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I love the festive season. It’s always a good time of year to catch up on reading, movies, sunshine and cheese-eating. Or, of course, to reacquaint yourself with some old favourites – books, films, relatives, etc. Here are my five favourite festive flicks that I heartily look forward to re-viewing over the holidays. …
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In which I share my Friday the 13th movie for this year, a horror film about the mind’s ability to bring the shadows of grief and worry to life. I didn’t exactly plan to make yesterday’s Friday the 13th a scary movie night! I really wanted to see The Babadook but really did not …
In which I rediscover my fear of heights and give away a spoiler. But just the one, and if you look at the film’s title, you’ll probably guess what it’s going to be anyway. Above: Columbia Pictures' official trailer I recently started working my way through Neil Gaiman’s seminal Sandman graphic novel (i.e. ‘comic book’) …
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