I’ve been wondering for a while about how I score my reviews. I don’t have a checklist or criteria, I go on gut instinct and although I think that works most of the time…
Top Ten: TV Box-Sets
14 December 2011 by Leave a Comment
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve started watching TV in a completely new way. I very rarely actually sit down and watch a programme as it is transmitted and there’s several series that I’ve barely seen on television at all..
How TV Box-Sets Have Changed My Life
14 December 2011 by 2 Comments
The development of technology has changed much about how we live our lives. Sometimes these are the big, useful changes like the use of computers in our working days, other changes are smaller and less enjoyable – the self-service checkout…
Skipping Christmas
13 December 2011 by 1 Comment
I love Christmas, as is probably evident from the fact that I’m running a 12 Days of Christmas series. I love the gifts, the sentimentality and the sheer corniness of the whole season. I cry at films like Miracle on 34th Street and White Christmas…
The Muppet Christmas Carol
12 December 2011 by 2 Comments
Ever since I set up LouiseReviews there’s been one film I’ve been desperate to review and share with you all. Starting the website in July however did mean that I was at exactly the wrong time of year to review The Muppet Christmas Carol….
It shouldn’t be this hard to find a Christmas book…
9 December 2011 by Leave a Comment
I started planning my 12 Days of Christmas feature in a little tinselly flurry. I was going to have so many posts that it would take me months to write them all…
Delia Smith’s Christmas
8 December 2011 by Leave a Comment
It’s coming up to Christmas and I’m starting a new series – The 12 Days of Christmas. There’s going to be book reviews, movie reviews, thoughts on the best Christmas movies and some Christmas present suggestions. Up until about two weeks ago I hadn’t really started …
Almost 4 million British children don’t own a book
7 December 2011 by Leave a Comment
Of all the news stories I’ve read recently, this is undoubtedly the most depressing. According to a survey by the National Literacy Trust almost 4 million children in Britain do not own a book. This represents almost one third of the kids in the UK, a massive rise from one in ten in 2005. I find this really quite upsetting, I think back to my own childhood and how many books I had and the magical lands that they took me to…
Independence Day
7 December 2011 by 3 Comments
My husband has been away on a training course for a few days and I’ve been left home alone. I always have such civilised plans – good food, classic films and reading serious books. It never works. I usually sit up until 2 in the morning eating Super Noodles and watching mindless blockbusters…
Les Mis – Some Good News
6 December 2011 by Leave a Comment
As regular readers know I am half excited and half terrified by the forthcoming movie version of my favourite musical, Les Miserables. The recent announcement that rising star Eddie Redmayne had been cast as Marius was a real relief, I couldn’t have stood it if Nick Jonas had got the role. More good news came this week from director Tom Hooper who has confirmed that filming would be in 2D rather than 3D