How does Star Wars begin again? Ah yes: “Another galaxy, another time.” That’s right. Wait – what? Star Wars geeks among you already know that the above is true – from a certain point of view. That’s because the sentence comes from Alan Dean Foster’s 1976 novelisation, published under George Lucas’s name. It came out … Continue reading The joy of film novelisations
Copy supplied for review Helen Grant's previous book Too Near The Dead was a thoroughly absorbing ghost story, and well worth a read. Her new novel Jump Cut is, I'm pleased to say, even better. Writer Theda Garrick is fortunate enough to have succeeded where others appear to have failed, and gained access to elderly … Continue reading Review: ‘Jump Cut’ by Helen Grant (2023)
TV shows had scared me before. But nothing had ever given me the true sense of awe that Close Encounters did (and, largely, still does) the first time I saw it. That's awe in the Romantic sense of the sublime, in which it borders on terror. Every time I watch the film, there's some new … Continue reading First Frights: ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ (1977)
Into the Gyre 