http://stephencashmore.com Stephen's blog http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250519152217 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250519152217 rant incoming I've just spent an hour trying to talk to someone at Virgin Media. Anyone. By the time the hour was up, I'd have been happy to talk to one of the cleaners, or canteen staff. The AI answer-bot took me round so many circles I nearly flung my phone out of the window. The only reaso... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250519151712 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250519151712 I've read this before, but so long ago I couldnt really remember much about it. It's not bad. The hero, Alex Verus, is a mage who can see a little way into the future, and the way Jacka uses this apparently niot very useful power is quite clever. The overall plot isn't bad, although you can see ... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250519150938 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250519150938 About half way through this film I remembered I'd seen it before. D'oh. But it's not bad, starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman. It appears most humans utilise only about 10% usage of there cerebral power, but Scarlett has a lot of chemical accidentally injected into her bloodstream and end... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250519150443 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250519150443 This film, starring Tom Holland, was getting a lot of mixed reviews. Don't bother reading them - and don't bother watching the film, either. If you boil the plot down it's not awful, but unfortunately some 80% of the film is just action sequence after action sequence, with lots of gunfights wher... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250505154333 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250505154333 Ahem As I managed to win a prize (for the best opening of an unpublished novel), I was invited to attend this event to read out 750 words or so from Dead Scared. You can learn more about the book by clicking on its icon above. If you want to learn more about the Prize night, including a ph... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250505153531 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250505153531 Well, what can I say? How does he do it? On top of the other zillion bestsellers he's written, add this to the list. I have two minor gripes. The most minor is that I spotted some editing/proofreading errors. Ha! My life is complete. In due course I will add them to my errata page under the cash... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250505152615 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250505152615 We splashed out £3.49 to watch this on Prime Video, and ended up glad that we did. This is a splendid film. I wasn't too sure about it at the start, as there's a lot of voice-over and it's a little slow, but it soon eases into it's own storyline and offers a vivid picture of 1920s Montana. The ... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250505152016 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250505152016 I grew up with comics portraying Marvel (and DC) characters and it's unlikely I'll tire of actually seeing them. I knew Thunderbolts was going to be different from usual Marvel fare, focusing more on characters than usual, less on splendid special effects than usual, so I wasn't quite sure how it wa... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250421000229 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250421000229 I was on my own, so picked out what looked like an interesting thriller from Netflix. It tells the story of a Finnish ex-commando who finds some gold at the tail-end of the second world war, and fights through a bunch of universally evil Nazis to get to a bank. Two things interested me about this fi...