Monday Music 20 – 2017

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, […]

Time for 2nd draft

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 […]

Monday Music 19 – 2017

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. […]

More Twin Peaks talk

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 […]

Valerian – My thoughts

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 […]

Twin Peaks: The Return – Still loving it!!

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 […]

The Wrath of the Empire Strikes Khan Back

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? […]

Star Trek: The Movies

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 […]

Star Trek article coming up!!

Yay, finally finished the Star Trek article for Taste of Cinema. I’ll post a link when it goes live. What a relief!!! That took me much longer than I expected. Richard

Monday Music 18 – 2017

Last week’s news was all about the new appointment of Jodie Whittaker to the role of the Doctor. So, for this week’s Monday music I decided to celebrate some of the great women who have stepped into roles which were initially written for men. Some have attracted more controversy than others but they have all […]