Casting Dune – Oscar Isaac initial reactions

Various news outlets are reporting that Oscar Isaac is now attached to Denis Villeneuve’s Dune project. I was so thrilled when I saw it because I instantly thought: Duncan Idaho. As it turns out, the role he’s up for is Duke Leto. I had mixed feelings about this at first. He’s a quality actor but is […]

Monday Music 2 – 2019

So, another of my favourite musicals. I’m going to do one more week of this and then move on to something else. I’ve been thinking about my favourites and, after some deliberation, I decided on this one as I have some strong memories of it from childhood. My Fair Lady With sterling performances from Rex […]

Casting Dune – Charlotte Rampling initial reactions

“What’s inside the box?” “Pain.” I just checked and saw that Charlotte Rampling has been cast as the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, truthsayer to the Emperor. This is one of my favourite characters from the book, a powerful woman with lots of venom. Sian Phillips did wonderfully well in the Lynch version. […]

Monday Music 1 – 2019

I’m carrying on with my favourite musicals for a couple more weeks. The next one on my list is another one that I remember watching a lot when I was young. It was one of Mum’s favourites and the cassette soundtrack was a regular fixture in her little Ford Fiesta… Grease (or Vaselina if you […]

Casting Dune – Stellan Skarsgård initial reactions

Wow. I only did one of these a couple of days ago so I hope it won’t annoy anyone that I’m back. I’m just so excited about this upcoming version of my favourite book and it seems like ages ago that we had some news. To have two big casting announcements in a week is […]

Casting Dune – Dave Bautista initial reactions

Dave Bautista, Drax from Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and recently seen in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, has been signed up for the upcoming Dune films. I just saw this pop up on a couple of news websites. The details are a little vague but one of these reports says he is set to […]

Monday Music 30 – 2018

Last time I started my look at my favourite musicals with West Side Story. This week, and for the last Monday Music post of 2018, it’s something very different. Dr Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog I just love how ‘thrown together’ this feels, even though it was done very professionally by Joss, Jed and Zak Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen. […]

Merry Christmas Mr Jeffries – a haiku sequence

Hi everyone, I couldn’t resist one more longer poem. I was thinking of poor Philip Jeffires and wanted to tell his story in a longer sequence of haikus. Here it is. The title is an indulgence on my part but it seemed appropriate. Merry Christmas Mr Jeffries It’s lonely in here Metal walls echo my […]

Monday Music 29 – 2018

Moving on from my look at my favourite movie soundtracks, I’ve decided to devote a few weeks of Monday Music posts to my favourite musicals. I love a good singalong as much as the next person, and the next few posts should give you a taste of what I’m about. So, here’s the first – […]

No Daughter’s Embrace – a haiku sequence

I’m getting close to the end of my haiku project, with only one month of haikus left to go until I finish. That means that there might not be another longer sequence of this kind. I think I’ve done about eight of them over the course of the year. This one, which is about the […]