This week has been rather nice weather wise, apart from the last few days. On a normal week Liz and I would perhaps have started up the motorhome and driven off somewhere. Scotland perhaps or maybe even Wales. It’s a long time since I’ve been to Wales. A long, long time ago, my Grandfather and […]
via Michael Palin, Monty Python and a Good Lockdown Read — Letters from an unknown author!
I have grown up pretty much with Satyajit Ray’s works. Not that it is the most significant thing I remember of him. How weird it is, when I say, ‘I remember of him’? But when you think of any artist who has touched you in some ways, you realise that through their art, they become […]
Director: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra Writer: Maria Camila Arias, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal (Screenplay) Starring: Carmina Martinez, Jose Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narvaez, Juan Bautista Martinez, Miguel Viera Plot: During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to […]
via ABC Film Challenge – World Cinema – B – Birds of Passage (2018) Movie Review — Movie Reviews 101
One of the older notes on my board just reads: “Armageddon (1998) vs Deep Impact (1998)”. On weirdness points, the note could just as easily have read: “Antz (1998) vs A Bug’s Life (1998)”. The coincidence that both coincidences take place in 1998 (ah, the good old days) does makes it a bit weirder, but […]
Here, we are going to talk about the english books that I consider are good for beginners. These 10 Books are easy to comprehend, easy to ready, interesting and might provide new dimensions to your mind and thoughts.
via 10 Easy to Read Good Books for Beginners — The Top 10s List
Recreating those “water cooler” interactions while everyone is working remote is not easy… Grain Farmers, a Canadian nonprofit group got creative with their communication platforms to keep employees connect. They hosts a staff website where they post a joke and a funny quote each day They also share pictures of the pets that keep us […]
Film Fridays is a project initiated by Sarah and I. After doing a daily music challenge for a month last year we talked about doing something similar for movies. The current global lockdowns give us the perfect excuse to start. Many of us are confined to home with only the TV for company so we […]
via Film Fridays – ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ — The Arty Plantsman
“This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good… yeah, still good”. – Stitch I love that quote from the animated Disney movie, Lilo and Stitch. It has me thinking about family, how we define it, and what it means? Family has been described as the […]
This Is What Literature Is For: Helping Put a Name and a Face to Our Fear—So We Can Confront It. We all know what’s going on. And in case you’re reading this after the pandemic is over, I’m writing this in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. Fear is rampant. Misinformation is everywhere. Leadership at […]
via Fearless Friday: When There’s Fear All Around. — Brandonia
Let’s begin with the court jester of quotes, Will Rogers——he’s really the king but he wouldn’t like to be called that. Mind you, this is from about 90 years ago. “I sure hate to admit it, but there is no use trying to bull it through that I have done much book reading, for I […]
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First Scene Screenplay Festival 