Monday Music 6 – 2017

The late, great James Horner’s brilliant soundtrack for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is one of my favourites of all time. Hard to believe he was a relative unknown when he was given the gig. Here’s one of the best pieces!

Monday Music 5 – 2017

So, one of my presents this year (I’m still on about my birthday) was tickets to see Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds at the Apollo tomorrow night, courtesy of my lovely wife. As a result, this week’s Monday Music is those two doing one of my favourites: Crush. Enjoy Richard

A little something from me.

Hi there, One more post for my birthday. Here’s a little taster from Book 2, which I am currently working on. The black car sat idling by the roadside, a figure discernible at the steering wheel. Ruby strained to see through to the back seat but the angle was not good enough and she had […]

Monday Music – Birthday Special

Hi there, It’s my birthday today, March 13th, and I almost share it with a favourite TV show of mine. March 10th, 2017 marked the 20th Anniversary of the start of Joss Whedon’s bold and brilliant Buffy The Vampire Slayer. As a result of this, my Facebook feed started to resemble a Buffy app as just about […]

10 Great Body Snatcher Movies

Hi there, Check out the link to my latest article on tasteofcinema.com It’s all about great ‘body snatcher’ films from the 1950s to the present day. http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2017/10-great-body-snatcher-movies-that-are-worth-your-time/

Excited!

Hi everyone, I’m very excited. I’ve got the title of my next Taste of Cinema article and it’s all about the films of David Lynch. I’m going to be writing a piece ordering all his feature films from worst to best. I’m really looking forward to this one as it gives me the chance to […]

Sunday Writing Session

After spending last week writing my ‘body snatchers’ article for Taste of Cinema, this week I’m back in Starbucks for three hours of work on Paul and Tempe’s adventures on the X5. Target: 2300 words.

World Book Day

So, today was World Book Day. Last year, I borrowed my brother’s Obi Wan Kenobi outfit. (complete with boots which were way too big for me). This year I decided to keep it much more simple: So, I came as Dr. Alan Grant from Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, complete with my inflatable buddy. All stuff […]

Game over man, game over!

Terribly sad news about the passing of Bill Paxton today. He’s been a constant in my movie-going experience since I was very young. I’ll always remember his roles in Weird Science and Appllo 13 but mostly as Simon in True Lies and Hudson in Aliens. Everything I read about him backs up what I thought […]

Saturday Night Photoshop

Decided to do something different for a change of pace. I was walking the boy down to the park yesterday and happened upon some big rolls of pipework. It reminded me of something so I took a photo and set to work on Photoshop. My skills with this are not exactly great, but I […]