I went to see The Avengers on Saturday. Being a massive fan of the Iron Man, Thor and Captain America movies, and a long-term reader of The Mighty Thor comics (though I’ve switched allegiance now that Loki has his own series) I had EPIC FEELS about this one. I’d been looking forward to it at…
It’s probably some kind of blasphemy to group those two together, but on the other hand I had exactly the same reaction to both of them; they did not bore me but they did not wow me either. I wasn’t familiar with the Green Lantern comics, though I admit to a prejudice on the grounds…
What a great year it’s been so far for films I wanted to see! I can’t remember another year like it. But perhaps I’m getting jaded as a result, because I went into X-Men: First Class with high hopes and found it very … meh. Part of this may be that I’m still obsessing over…
The first ever novel I wrote and finished (as opposed to abandoning 5 chapters in) was a historical fantasy that featured Loki interfering with the lives of people in two Anglo-Saxon villages, while simultaneously re-telling some of his adventures from the Norse myths. It was called “Wildfire (in his own words)” and seeing the film…
I went to see The Eagle last night. I’m fairly certain that I read the book in my youth, but it must have been at least 30 years ago, and the only thing that struck me as familiar in the film was “Roman discovers that his slave is actually a very important person & undergoes…
and I may have a new fandom 🙂 What an excellent film! I do like a film where I come away from it with a head that feels as if it’s been stuffed full of new and interesting things to think about. I’m not a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio, and this hasn’t really changed that. …
There’s a great discussion going on here at the ‘Romancing the Blog‘ blog about one of the reasons NY publishers have for being unwilling to risk publishing m/m romance. Namely the idea that the female reader needs a female heroine to identify with. Someone’s also raised the ‘well it won’t sell as romance, but if…
I had an interesting Bank Holiday weekend 🙂 Spent Saturday being a Saxon and discovered that I honestly have lost any interest I had in the period. However, wandering around the multi-period show, we found an outfit called NFOE (New France and Old England). They reenact mid 18th Century America, when it was still a…
Still laughing, hours later 🙂
