SNAPSHOT A common piece of writing advice is that your main character must have a character arc. Today, I take a look at a number of well-regarded films where the main characters never change, and why these stories are still compelling. (synopsis via Laughing Squid (c) Sage Hyden) As Continue Reading
Book review: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
We are captives of our calendars. How else to explain the way looming dates, particularly those for major life events, send us into a flurry of activity and anxiety, a maelstrom of hoping and wishing, planning and organising that in the end, Shakespeare be paraphrased, amount to nothing? Or Continue Reading
Mass of movie trailers – Stan & Ollie, Captain Marvel, Prospect, Ralph Breaks the Internet
So many films, so little fun and yet these three films, all utterly different in their own ways, make you want to find all the time in the world to see them. And so, of course, I will. Granted I am trying to stick to just one movie a Continue Reading