It is generally agreed that every book worth its captivating storytelling novel needs a damn good protagonist, someone who may not be perfect but who is able to drive things forward, get things done and hopefully end up suitably well-changed by the time the narrative draws to a satisfying close. Continue Reading
Movie review: The Lost City
The Eighties were many things – Hypercolor T-shirts, big hair and shoulder pads – but they were also the era of wildly, escapist blockbusters like Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, two films which took us on grandly silly adventures, throwing in some romance, derring-do and a Continue Reading
Documentary review: Prehistoric Planet
There is no denying that we have a fascination with prehistoric life. And really, why wouldn’t we? The creatures of long, LONG ago capture our imaginations because of their considerable removal from our own modern world, their otherworldliness and difference which stands in marked contrast to anything we have in Continue Reading