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Movie Review: Project Hail Mary (2026)
“I was sent to save the world… I just didn’t expect to do it completely alone.” Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Screenplay: Drew Goddard Starring: Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace, Sandra Hüller as Eva Stratt, James Ortiz as Rocky (voice/puppetry) Ken Leung, Lionel Boyce, Milana Vayntrub, Priya Kansara, and others When we look at the plot , the Hail Mary set up may came over as a bit dry and unrelatable. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), a middle-school science teacher and former molecular biologist, wakes up alone on a spacecraft light-year from Earth with no memory of how he got there. As his memories gradually return, he learns the truth and…
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The Reckoning: Short Story
As the wind sighed and murmured through the old trees outside her bedroom window, Gina woke with a start. The cottage bedroom was in explicably colder. She saw her breaths coming out in plumes of steam. Not again she thought. How had the duvet worked itself free again, pooling at the bottom of the lumpy four-poster bed? And why was it always exactly 1:35 a.m. when her bladder, without fail, announced its demands? Groping in the dim light, she pulled the duvet back to her chin and stared at the frost spreading across the small windowpanes. Thin white lines like spider silk, stretching left to right in uneven patterns—suggestive…
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Movie Review-Wuthering Heights (2026)
“Wuthering Heights” (2026) Running time: 2 hours, 7 minutes “Whatever our souls are made of … his and mine are the same… Why did you leave me… Why did you betray your own heart?” Director/Screenwriter: Emerald Fennell Principal Cast: Margot Robbie (Catherine Earnshaw), Jacob Elordi (Heathcliff), Hong Chau (Nelly Dean), Shazad Latif (Edgar Linton), Alison Oliver (Isabella Linton), Martin Clunes (Mr. Earnshaw) Review Those speech marks around the title may be the most important and savvy piece of punctuation action in Hollywood since the famous * used in Thunderbolts! It effectively lets writer and director Emerald Fennell off the hook with…
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January
January January often arrives like an unwelcome guest — cold, broke, and full of expectations. This poem imagines him sitting down anyway.
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Movie Review of the Year!!
Christmas Crackers to catch up on and 3 Turkeys to avoid, Part 1 So, Christmas is over – a big Woo Hoo (!) or “Oh no!”, which largely depends on whether you are over 13 or not. Xmas, at least in our Western European culture, is a great leveller in that we all feel the same emotions and go through universal experiences – feelings stuffed with turkey and still hoovering / cleaning up mysterious stuff from the carpet. All of us running on the remnants of Baileys and Christmas pudding. Let us keep up / resuscitate the jolly holiday feeling with the 1st wordsbywright.com Movie Review of the Year!! Hooray!!…
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Folk Me – I’m Getting Old
There are many signs that you’re getting old, my friends. That sighing/groaning noise you make as you get on or off the sofa. Creaking bones and muscles as you mentally hark back to the Good Ol’ Days when you used to run up the stairs two at a time instead of an arthritis-like trek. The shock of spotting that grey hair or, worse, pube. Finding yourself, inexplicably, going willingly to a garden centre or Homebase on a Sunday — I did it today, and I am only 55! Britpop, BBC6 Music & Thinking I Was Still Cool On to the music link. I would like to think that I am…
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Movie Review: Bugonia (2025)
“ The workers gather pollen for the Queen…but the bees, they’re dying…and that’s the way they planned it…to make us the same as the bees” Bugonia (2025) DIRECTOR: Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster (2015), Poor Things (2023), Kinds of Kindness (2024) WRITER: Will Tracy MAIN CAST (CHARACTERS): Emma Stone (Michelle Fuller), Jesse Plemons (Teddy Gatz), Aidan Delbis (Don), Stavros Halkias (Casey), Alicia Silverstone (Sandy) Weirdness and Eccentricity in Modern Hollywood Weirdness and eccentricity seem to be the “new normal” now in Hollywood, and HEY, let’s suck it up! Horror fans, we are already living in a golden age – let’s look at the evidence and consider the downright spooky Weapons (unsettlingly…
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Real Gone – a Halloween song
What was it you said, that day at the lake?Before he pushed you in.What was it you felt , that day at the party?As she sharpened the knife.What was it you saw, that you shouldn’t have?As they whispered and plotted in that little,dark alley.Who was you touched as you smiled, self-content?As I left my seat, club in hand.What was it you wore , on that wintry, icy day?As he followed , black hearted, behind.And what is it like , on the other side of now?Gone.
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Halloween Story- The Touch
He didn’t have to turn his head to know it was 2.37 a.m.—the same every night: the nightmare, the waking, and the hopeless attempt to get back to sleep. Outside, the wind moaned like a dying breath, and the frost crept across the windowpane like a web of ice.
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Dog Day Afternoon: Fifty Years of Heat, Tension, and Heartbreak
During a blistering New York summer, a desperate man walks into a Brooklyn bank and tries to rob it. But this isn’t just any heist—it’s the beginning of a standoff that grips the city, exposes the media’s voyeuristic hunger, and reveals the unexpected humanity of a criminal who, despite everything, wants to be loved. Fifty years on, Dog Day Afternoon still burns with raw emotional intensity and relevance. Released in 1975, just a year after Chinatown and The Godfather Part II, Sidney Lumet’s film struck a nerve with a public already disillusioned by Watergate, Vietnam, and political corruption. America had entered what novelist Joan Didion described as “the era of…
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The Rhythm of Life – Music & Meditation
Discover how sound can deepen your meditation, boost calm, and connect you to your inner rhythm through mindful, intentional listening.
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Movie Review -One Battle After Another (2025)
“The message is clear. Free borders, free bodies, free choice and free from f@*$ing fear.” Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio (Bob Ferguson – “Ghetto Pat”),Sean Penn (Col. Steven J. Lockjaw), Chase Infiniti (Willa Ferguson),Teyana Taylor (Perfidia Beverly Hills), Benicio del Toro (Sensei Sergio St. Carlos),Regina Hall (Deandra) Written/Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Strap yourself in because One Battle After Another is a wild roller coaster ride of a movie. It starts with a bang (you will see what I mean) and keeps banging all the way through its 2 hours and 41 minutes run time. The trade-off for the numb posterior and bursting bladder is the enjoyment to be had in this…
