Review: Franklyn

Britain doesn’t make many films anymore let alone Science Fiction or Fantasy but that wasn’t the reason I decided to watch Franklyn. In truth, it sounded like an interesting film with the kind of narrative play that I tend to like a great deal. Franklyn follows...

Review: Star Trek

I managed to see the new reboot of Star Trek.* Some background: I am, for my sins, a long term fan of the series although I lean towards TNG over any of the other offerings, and best not to get me started on the TNG films. I do not consider Star Trek to be science...

Smile

A quote from Michael Sheen on The Guardian made me smile: “You could imagine a character on some kids show called Mrs Discombobulation – and in a truly Welsh sense it’s trying to get as many syllables into a word as you possibly...

Day Thirty-One

And this blogger is really quite tired. The blog-post-a-day-for-a-month experiment is rolling to an end today and it’s been fun but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t running out of steam. Tomorrow, when I’m not retrieving my niece from climbing...