Le Geek, c’est chic (and so the Force Awakens)

**CAUTION! ONE SPOILER FOR STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI AT THE END OF THIS POST** OK, I admit it. And I’m sure this will come as a total surprise (not). I have always been a bit of a fangirl. Back from the time I first encountered the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon as an eight year old, to journeys […]

Fanvid: The Lake House

I haven’t made a fanvid in ages; in fact, the last full length one was the Holmes/Elizabeth Reincarnated vid for the film Young Sherlock Holmes that I made back in 2013, but the minute I sat down to watch The Lake House,  I felt my vid senses starting to tingle. It’s an achingly romantic tale of two […]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier…vids.

It’s no secret that I’ve loved fanvids, both watching and making them, for a long time, so it’s inevitable that when a film or TV show catches my eye, I end up googling fanvids for it. In the case of TTSS, I’m so glad I did, as the sheer beauty and quality of what I found has […]

Quick and dirty blog post: Sherlock Holmes, A Game of Shadows

For reasons too weird to get into here, I was reminded of my 2012 fixation with the Robert Downey Jr/Jude Law/Guy Ritchie Holmes fest that was Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows last night. Anyone who knows me knows that I adore Sherlock Holmes in any incarnation, and the Guy Ritchie reimagining was no exception. So, I […]

Throwback Texts: Stigmata (1999)

I was reminded of Stigmata this week, when my subconscious gave me a rather nice dream about the wonderfully  charismatic Gabriel Byrne. I’ve always loved watching him onscreen, and for a long time, Stigmata was on my radar. The tale of a scientific priest, a lost gospel and a party girl who starts to exhibit the signs […]

Throwback Texts: Sex, Lies and Videotape (and my vidding response to it).

A song came on in the car today that really got me into the mood for writing about the protagonists in my second novel, Sweeter than Cider, Jonathan and Caroline. It was Bryan Ferry’s ‘Slave to Love’. This is a song I’ve long loved, and a few years ago I made a fanvid for the film Sex, Lies […]