The Mancunian Yank

 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (10/10🌟) Lockdown has given me the perfect opportunity to catch up on my long list of tbr books. I loved this novella which is, in part, about some of the nonsensical practicalities of being an adult told through the adventures of a child but it is also about the importance of exploration, adventure and love. I found it poignant, sweet and slightly melancholy and I  can understand why it's stood the test of time. 

I love films of all genres for different reasons. Black and white films always captivate me because the stories, sounds and characters are always colourful, and Hobson's Choice is no exception for me. Widowed father and successful bootmaker Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) is determined not to let his three daughters Maggie, Alice and Vicky (Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson and Prunella Scales) get married, but his oldest daughter, Maggie, rebels completely in an intelligent and quick witted way by choosing Hobson's own boot maker William Mossop (John Mills) to be her husband. This film is set in Salford and so of course I love it, as well as how sweet William is and how Maggie doesn't put him down but builds him up, their relationship at first being slightly unequal but as the film progresses they do even it out and end up falling in love. Maggie respects William the same way he respects her. She not only teaches him to read and write but also to be proud of his craft. The...

 When I heard in 2018 that one of my favourite books was finally going to be made into a film I was ecstatic. Eoin Colfer's series is very close to my heart and so I, like many others in the small but loyal Artemis fandom (we are so small that we haven't got an official fandom name), were hoping for the adaptation that the original source material deserves. Many of us are also a part of Harry's and Percy's fandom too and despite the disaster of the latter's adaptation we were all hopeful for Artemis. You have an excellent book series that seems perfectly MADE for the big screen and I was hoping it would be worth the wait. When  I heard it would be a Disney film I was still hopeful...at least they've got the budget to pull it off, I thought. And then I saw the cast list and my heart broke. Disney had "updated" the cast for "today's market". Let me just say that I wasn't the only one in the fandom severly pissed off. But I still wanted ...