Category Archives: film/tv/book

New Prompt ~ Six Degrees

Posted on August 4, 2020 by

Paula has a new prompt Blog Carnelli, and I thought I’d give it a go More details and origins here The idea is to start with one thing, then link something to it, and something else to that, etc. What … Continue reading →

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Truthful Tuesday #2

Posted on August 4, 2020 by

Frank has posed another question with his new challenge. You can find out more here This week’s question is: What three movies best sum up your taste in movies, and why? For years I loved a good horror story, James … Continue reading →

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Terminator: Dark Fate review

Posted on July 30, 2020 by

It arrived today and we watched it this evening. What can I say? Forget any thought of another John Connor story. He is bumped off at the beginning by a T101 when he is a teenager (neat bit of editing … Continue reading →

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It’s arrived!

Posted on July 30, 2020 by

Delivery was promised for Friday, 31st July, but it arrived today, so guess what we’re watching tonight???? Yay!! I have deliberately not read any ‘professional’ reviews or the synopsis as we like to watch things like this with an open … Continue reading →

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Five things: Movies

Posted on June 2, 2020 by

Dr Tanya over at Salted Caramel asks us to list 5 Movies you love to watch over and over again: My choices might seem a little odd: The Terminator The Glenn Miller Story and It’s a Wonderful Life (cos I … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Rambo, Last Blood

Posted on May 20, 2020 by

I bought this yesterday as we hadn’t had a new film for a while and as we’d seen the other 4, I was interested to see where they’d take the story. I’d read years ago that Clint Walker was going … Continue reading →

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The Year That Changed Everything: Book Review

Posted on May 8, 2020 by

You may recall this post Well, I finished it last night, so here is my take. The above book is by Cathy Kelly, an author I have read a lot of over the years because I like her style of … Continue reading →

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Now about that book I’m reading

Posted on May 1, 2020 by

I was given three books two Christmases ago and hadn’t picked up any of them. That changed a couple of nights ago when I thought maybe I ought to make the effort and do something different to blogging or playing … Continue reading →

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Double Review : TV and DVD

Posted on December 28, 2019 by

Our Christmas pressies to Us this year were season 15 of NCIS and a couple of DVDs: White Christmas, X-Men Dark Phoenix and Angel has Fallen. White Christmas is a classic, and I’ve already done a review of the X-Men … Continue reading →

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DVD Review: X-Men Dark Phoenix

Posted on December 21, 2019 by

This is the twelfth film in the franchise, and the sequel to X-Men Apocolypse (which we watched the other night, and Hubby could not remember AT ALL). And it would appear it was not very popular! Unfortunately, even a star-studded … Continue reading →

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