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Category: Films

‘Do you want to come in?’

On July 2, 2019 By Andrew G LockhartIn Books, Films2 Comments

Let The Right One In (Let Me In) John Ajvide Lindquist I was reminded of this post (written over three years ago) when I picked up a copy of another Lindquist novel at a book sale. Entitled Harbour, I'm about half way through and will post a review as soon as I can. No vampires, …

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'Do you want to come in?'

On April 13, 2016 By Andrew G LockhartIn Books, Films, Science fiction and fantasy6 Comments

I sometimes wonder why Hollywood has to go one better than Europe when it comes to adapting novels for the screen. Last week, my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to buy the Bluray disc of the Hammer film Let Me In. For the benefit of anyone who doesn't know it, Let …

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Happy New Year!

On December 31, 2015 By Andrew G LockhartIn Books, Films, radio fantasy, Science fiction and fantasy, Writing and Publishing8 Comments

I do hope you all had a pleasant Christmas holiday! I haven't been thinking too much about blogging over the past few days, being pretty much occupied with launching my new book, It's a Fantasy World!, which is out on Amazon now. ** However, I have been reading some detective stories (three in all in …

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The Theory of Everything

On May 2, 2015 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Books, Films, Science, Writing and Publishing6 Comments

Travelling to Infinity by Jane Hawking A few weeks ago, I went to see the award-winning James Marsh film, The Theory of Everything, with Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife, Jane. I don't know Stephen Hawking personally but have been an admirer of Hawking the scientist for a long time …

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To Boldly Go (4)

On March 20, 2014 By Andrew G LockhartIn Films, radio fantasy, Science fiction and fantasy, television fantasyLeave a comment

The BBC Joins the Sci-fi Party Until about 1953, fewer than ten percent of British households owned a television set. There were still regions of the British Isles that could get no signal. Though television broadcasting had begun in the thirties, it was suspended at the outbreak of World War II and did not resume …

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To Boldly Go (3)

On February 27, 2014 By Andrew G LockhartIn Books, Films, Science fiction and fantasyLeave a comment

Sci-fi finds new inspiration and a new audience The film collaboration between Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick in 1968 was a landmark in the history of science fiction cinema. 2001, A Space Odyssey did indeed go boldly into new sci-fi territory. Yet, though it won an Academy Award for special visual effects and BAFTAs …

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