Halloween – A horror classic

Halloween Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again. The plot for this film, which is one of the earliest in the slasher genre and helped to create it, is so basic it's hard to...

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea Jules Verne Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they...

Oliver Twist – The Book

I'm not sure I really need to give a precis of Oliver Twist, I'd guess that nearly all of you already know what it's about, but I will for the sake of those few who don't. Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Oliver Twist is a young orphan, barely into double figures, who runs away after suffering...

Westward Ho!

The house clearance and tidy-up continues, and I must confess that I am feeling a little like Harry, Ron and Hermione in The Order of the Phoenix as they struggled to clean up Sirius' house; there's so much to be done that it doesn't seem as if I'm making any progress, though I know I...