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Writing humour is not something I have a lot of experience with, although I have always loved Terry Pratchett’s well-timed comedic dialogue. I’m therefore at a loss to explain what I just experienced. I took my middle girl and her friends to see the new Minecraft movie, sitting a few rows back from the kids…

With all the to-ing and fro-ing over the latest Snow White adaptation, I keep thinking back to a film from the late 90s, one that stuck to the traditional themes of the Brothers Grimm – a high body count and a lot of supernatural horror. Snow White: A Tale of Terror is a 1997 horror…

(Largely Spoiler Free) One of the ongoing debates between my wife and I is whether the transporters in Star Trek are genuinely transporting a person up to the Enterprise or just killing the original and making a cheap copy. While I think that’s a debate we’ll still be wrangling over when we’re 70, a recent…

Have you ever seen that film about two office workers who desecrate a corpse for 48 hours, parading the cadaver in front of the deceased’s closest friends? No, it’s not a psychological horror, although it possibly was for the careers of those involved with it. The film is Weekend at Bernie’s, a 1989 a dark…

The education of my daughters continues, with my girls giving the thumbs up or thumbs down to the highlights and lowlights of 90’s movies. This week’s entry? 1993’s The Three Musketeers, adapted from the original novel by Alexandre Dumas. For those new to the story, the Three Musketeers follows the adventures of young D’Artagnan, who…

This week my wife and I showed our teenage girls a selection of old movie trailers from the 80s and 90s, and amongst the stories of vampires, spies and computer-generated dystopias, the one they were intrigued by was a small, simple “what if”: what if you were trapped reliving the same day, over and over?…

So, my daughter’s birthday DnD campaign has come and gone, and a good time was had by all. Our band of intrepid cut-price adventurers braved the laboratory of Arrad the Mad, trying to stop him before he released a plague upon the kingdom. After being shrunk. the tiny heroines fought monsters, rival adventurers and at…

My eldest girl is about to have her birthday and has asked me to write a DnD campaign as a present for her and her friends (I raised ‘em right!). It’s been a few years since I’ve written a campaign, but I’ve dusted off my notes and bought the latest books, and we just spent…

I’ve been watching the Crow reboot get eviscerated by the critics, and as a result there’s a clamour over the genius of the original movie. But was it that good? Let’s take a look. The Crow, filmed in 1994 and adapted from a comic series by James O’Barr, is a moody gothic story of revenge,…

Now that my girls are in high school, they will inevitably have to read Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. When I bounced this off them, they announced that they didn’t want anything to do with it because it was “too old and stuffy.” With that in mind, I dusted off a copy of 1996’s Romeo and…