The 20th Raindance Film Festival is now well underway and films this weekend to look out for include Banaz: A Love Story, Trashed and Zero Killed. To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this brilliant festival, here are the top ten things you may not know about Raindance…
Archives for September 2012
Bad Hair Friday
27 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
A couple of years ago my husband and I embarked upon a crazy journey round Europe with a couple of friends. Our aim was to visit all 50 countries of Europe in one year. We didn’t quite make it (although I do still want to finish the tour) and we did manage to visit quite a good number of countries…
City Slacker
25 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s probably not very professional of me to admit this, but I do judge books by their cover and films by their names and posters. If a film has a poster which is all jaunty and has someone (usually Matthew McConaughey or Gerard Butler) leaning onto something I usually feel slightly nauseous and avoid like the plague..
Eeny Meeny Miny Moe
13 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
One of the joys of reviewing books is in discovering new authors and seeing their career move on from debut novels to the establishment of a series of novels. This time last year I reviewed Joanna Price’s debut A Means of Escape, the first to feature Somerset detective DS Kate Linton. I thoroughly enjoyed it…
Man Booker Shortlist Announced
11 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
The shortlist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize has been announced this morning. The six nominated novels are:
The Hunger Games
10 September 2012 by 2 Comments
A few weeks ago I read The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The dystopian saga of a teenage girl who becomes the face of resistance against a dictatorial government caught my attention more than any books I’ve picked up in quite a while. They were literally unputdownable…
X-Men: First Class
6 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
I have a bit of a strange relationship with the X-Men films. I loved the first one, thought the second was good enough and the third was a big steaming pile of…
20th Raindance Film Festival Launches
4 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
The 20th Raindance Film Festival was launched this morning with details of 104 feature films being announced including a fascinating Mexican thread, the best of independent British film making and a number of thought-provoking documentaries on the schedule…
The Submission
2 September 2012 by Leave a Comment
The September 11th 2001 attacks have inspired a number of novels, films, plays and compositions from artists trying to make sense of a tragedy witnessed by the world. Some such as Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close have focused on how family members cope with their grief…