Wow. That took me a good couple of hours but I’ve been through the entire manuscript and looked at all the variations on “saw”. There were over 300: one per page at least. It really made me think as I was doing it that its a great idea to do this. I can understand now […]
Read more "2nd draft update – see, saw, seeing, seen"I’m a bit obsessed at the minute. Game of Thrones and Twin Peaks are both coming to an end pretty soon and I’ll have to move on. However, in the meantime, I can’t seem to completely switch off from either. In fact, I can’t even seem to read a book to my two-year-old boy at […]
Read more "I see them everywhere!"I was in the car with my wife on Friday and, to make the trip go a little quicker, I opted for one of my favourite 80s soundtrack albums. Footloose. A few songs in, we came to this week’s tune. It’s one that I had completely, inexplicably forgotten was on there. When I heard it, […]
Read more "Monday Music 20 – 2017"Today, I’m starting the process of writing the second draft of The Crossing, thanks to the great advice I received from Katie Clark and author, Leslie E Heath. So far, I’ve taken out a load of instances of passive voice which slows the pace of the story. Additionally, I have found 128 uses of the […]
Read more "Time for 2nd draft"I’ve missed a couple of Mondays. This week I’m going with some of composer Angelo Badalamenti’s most moving music. I’ve cried twice watching David Lynch’s work. Both times it was during The Straight Story. It’s a film that doesn’t get a lot of attention amongst Lynch’s other films, perhaps because of its straightforward, biographical narrative. […]
Read more "Monday Music 19 – 2017"Here’s a link to my latest conversation with Cameron and Hal on the Obnoxious and Anonymous YouTube channel. Really enjoyed it and we talked about loads of stuff including stopwatches, arm wrestling and the threat of nuclear war before we get to the season finale. Beware of spoilers if you’re not up to date. Cheers […]
Read more "More Twin Peaks talk"May contain spoilers, etc. . . . . . . I was lucky enough to get an unexpected chance to go to the cinema earlier this week. What I went to see will be obvious from the title of this article. Since I became a parent on New Year’s Day 2015, I’ve seen the following […]
Read more "Valerian – My thoughts"This contains spoilers for episode 1-11 of Twin Peaks: The Return. Not many but it’s possible. . . . . . . It’s Sunday night here in the UK. Usually, I’d be looking forward to waking up tomorrow and having a new episode of Twin Peaks to watch. However, I’m on holiday in Cornwall at […]
Read more "Twin Peaks: The Return – Still loving it!!"I’ve been thinking lately about two films: you can probably guess the them from the title. Anyway, they’re both widely regarded to be the high watermark in their respective franchises, Star Trek and Star Wars respectively. I started thinking about whether there was any reason for this. What do the two films have in common? […]
Read more "The Wrath of the Empire Strikes Khan Back"My latest article for Taste of Cinema is now live here: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2017/all-13-star-trek-movies-ranked-from-worst-to-best/ Took me a while to get it done as it turned out to be a longer piece than I expected but I’m quite happy with it. Let me know if you disagree with my order in the comments. Thanks for reading, now I […]
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