Monkey See
The scene is familiar: our Hero Detective’s supervisor – a lieutenant in an American show or a superintendent in a Commonwealth show – having had his arse chewed out by his superior, seeks out our...
View ArticleAbout Time –
– writers got some television-love: there’s a new show called The Writers’ Room that’s about – you guessed it – TV shows’ writers’ rooms. Host Jim Rash with the “Breaking Bad” team. Yah, bring it.
View ArticleMeet and Greet
The past few days’ burning question has been: Would I still write this post if I hadn’t been an award recipient? Close behind it has been this Schrodinger follow-up: Would I still be an award...
View ArticleLegacy
Last month I was asked what kind of legacy I wanted to leave behind – that if I had ten years left in my writing career, what would I want to be known for – film? television? theatre? I was stumped in...
View ArticleWhite vs Crawley
Fortress Mamea had been pretty good at hoarding recordings of the final eps of Breaking Bad, until loose lips in the real world threatened to spoil the surprise. A little bit of binge-watching has...
View Article2013 on Screen
2013 went by rather quickly, didn’t it? Here’s my best–of, in no particular order. Features 2013 was a year when, more often than not, the fifteen or so bucks I paid to watch a feature on the big...
View Article2013 in Print
A terrible year for the reading diary: a meagre 72 titles passed through my grubby fingers. Still — stand–outs were: Comics iZombie Volume 1: Dead to the World by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred...
View ArticleEscape and Evasion
I was catching up on some small-screen viewing when I was presented with this: [PREVIOUSLY: Our Hero has been investigating strange goings on when he is knocked out and thrown into a van by Mysterious...
View Article2014
Goodness gracious, that’s 2014 done already. Boring stats first. My exercise diary is a little depressing: less than half the number of runs this year than I would/should have on average (see here for...
View Article2015 by Dots per Inch
Whangarei Central Library I actually read stuff this year — 91 titles as a matter of fact, seven of which I didn’t finish for various reasons. This compares very well with 2014’s measly 24 titles....
View Article2015 by 4K and 720p
Ay caramba, that was quick. “Sicario poster” by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia. Enjoyed immensely on the big screen: A Most Wanted Man Top Five Ant-Man Love is Strange Inside Out Amy...
View ArticleBoxwatch: The Return of Fox and Dana
By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, $3 The original run of The X-Files was not quite the appointment viewing that Law & Order was. When I did watch it, I thrilled to the case-of-the-week but quickly...
View ArticleKINGSWOOD: a workshop
Last weekend, the wonderful people at Titirangi Theatre granted the script and I a one-day workshop in which the script was read, scenes were stood up, and a number of passages blocked out for a...
View ArticleBox Watch: The Flash (2014 onwards)
By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44059392 … a man who moves so fast that his life is an endless gallery of statues — Saga of the Swamp Thing, 24 May 1984,...
View ArticleBox Watch: Marvel’s Jessica Jones
By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47431125 Ten episodes in and I feel like I’m on a hamster wheel where: our heroine, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) catches her nemesis,...
View ArticleBox Watch: The Good Wife
I was looking forward to the week’s viewing when I realised that The Good Wife ended last week. Hard to believe it’s been seven years since housewife Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) stood by her...
View ArticleGo To
Contrary to popular belief, when energy, motivation, and/or creativity is low in the Writing Cave Keep, I do not resort to singing along with Ms Krall ad infinitum. If it’s a technical challenge, I...
View ArticleBox Watch: Offspring
By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43487416 What possessed me to try this show with The Goddess six years ago? Was it recommended to her and I was humouring her? Was it a...
View ArticleEndings
Two six-ep mini-series were consumed recently: The Night Manager, a BBC-AMC co-production based on the John Le Carre novel, directed by Susanne Bier and stars Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Olivia...
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