Tag: scifi

  • Top 5 Reasons to Start Listening to Audible

    Top 5 Reasons to Start Listening to Audible

    1. Autobiographies There’s just something special about hearing someone tell their own life story, particularly when it’s someone who is familiar/famous, whose inflexions might seem odd if they were pronounced by anyone else. Current favourite Brian Blessed’s ‘Absolute Pandemonium’ – it honestly hurt listening to this book, I laughed so much! Blessed’s booming anecdotes are the…

  • Midnight Special

    I like science fiction. I am aware that, for many, this is the one genre which they are not prepared to tolerate but you can blame ‘Star Wars’ for my infatuation. In fact, I suspect that my entire love of cinema is born out of that first film’s glorious opening moment, as the Star Destroyer…

  • BFI London Film Festival 2015

    BFI London Film Festival 2015

    It was the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival in October and I was delighted to see many great and inspiring new flicks. So, thirteen films, in as many days? Let’s get going…