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Originally posted on CoochieCrunch as Tiger Tiger

Directed by Stephen Frears
Produced by Norma Heyman and Bob Hoskins
Screenplay by Martin Sherman
Starring Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly, Will Young, Christopher Guest
Release date: November 25th 2005

Let’s first start with the real story…

Mrs Henderson and The Windmill Theatre

Laura Henderson (1863 – 1944) was a wealthy, well-traveled and eccentric woman, the wife and later widow, of a merchant, with whom she tra...

Originally posted on CoochieCrunch as Tiger Tiger

Directed by William Friedkin
Produced by Norman Lear
Screenplay by Norman Lear, Sidney Michaels and Arnold Schulman
Based on the novel by Rowland Barber
Starring Jason Robards, Brittt Ekland, Norman Wisdom, and Bert Lahr
Release date: December 22, 1968

I will start by saying I have not read the novel and cannot comment on whether it was adapted well to film, nor the historical accuracy of the novel its...

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, a great opportunity to grab some free titles whether you are new to comics or an old hand.As you’re going to be at the store anyway I thought I’d take the opportunity to recommend some titles to you –

The thing with Marvel and DC is that they are much of a muchness. Don’t get me wrong, there are some things I love about them, but they can often be a bit samey. Marvel is branching out a lot more now with espionage (Black Widow, Winter Soldier) and sci-fi/fantas...

The night my life changed I wasn’t even watching the television, I was with friends. It wasn’t until the next day that people on my social media started to send me messages asking if I’d seen the TV talent show. I hadn’t. They said I must. More and more people directed me to catch up channels, until finally I watched it.

It was that guy from school. Toby, I think he was the younger brother of a classmate, a year or two younger than us. He was sweet, I’d met him a few times but not really tho...

Given that it has been 7 months since my last post, and that was the first one in some months at the time also, I thought I’d catch you all up with a personal post.

As you may know from my last post, I was pregnant and have since had my baby in February. Whilst I was pregnant I was really sick, which made it pretty difficult to go to my a day job each day and completely unable to get on the computer in my spare time. Which sucked as my blog suffered, my writing has suffered and I had to turn...

This is my first post in a long, long while! As those of you who follow me on social media may be aware, I am currently pregnant and have been pretty sick. Now at almost 24 weeks I’m better than I was, but have overall been plagued by fatigue and “morning” sickness which has made it difficult to even get through my day job, much less write.

I’ve felt a bit desolate really. Writing is such a large part of me and I’ve worked on practically nothing – blogs, short stories or on my novels as I am...

I guess I’m one of the target audiences for Jurassic World. I was 13 when Jurassic Park came out, I watched it in the cinema with my family, and it fed into my childhood love of dinosaurs. I grew up with the movie and later the sub-par sequels, and as with many my age, have a fond and protective nostalgia. The other target audience is children, and over all the aim is for a family friendly action adventure, which is essentially what we have here.

This isanother of my Almost Reviews – a review...

Horns
Author – Joe Hill
Published –2010

Horns isn’t a book I thought I’d read. I saw the ads for the movie when it came out in 2013 and was intrigued. However, several people told me it was about a rape and murder and so was a little put off, being aware that it might be something that wouldn’t sit well with me depending on how it was done. But then I happened to pick up a copy of the novel whilst in a discount book store and was intrigued enough by the blurb to buy it. Still a little dubious...

Spolilers for Mad Max: Fury Road contained below

I’ve got to tell you, I really want to stop calling Mad Max: Fury Road a “feminist movie”. I’ve read some amazing stuff over the last few days, having seen the movie at the weekend and had it blow my goddam mind! The Mary Sue touched on Fury Road addressing the possible lack of feminism in the previous movies, Consequence of Sound called out the male outrage over the movie, and Vox gives an amazing overview of the world of Mad Max – ending on...

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Recently, fellow Bristol based author, Thomas David Parker, reviewed my novel and gave a great write up on his blog. One thing he mentioned that I was really happy about, is the lack of romance in the story. I was especially pleased with his comment that it was far more effective by not having a romance at the centre of it. The character dynamics are far more interesting and makes the outcome far less predi...