Nat Wassell

“I can hardly even believe you turned up. You’re not the most reliable woman, Val.” “Shows how much you don’t know about me, then. I always clear my diary when it’s important.” Captain was busy enjoying the newly discovered fact that…

The Return of the King feels different to the other two films, and I am not completely sure why that is. Something in the story telling shifted as the focus came onto the fight for the whole of the Middle Earth, rather than the small or…

The Two Towers is, in my most humble of opinions, the best of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth films. I don’t think this is too controversial a thing to say but I’m sure I will be corrected by someone on it. Anyway, the point is that there are…

Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films came to life at a seminal time in the lives of us millennials. I know for me, they are some of the first films I remember seeing, right down to which screen was showing them in the local cinema. As…

Anyone who has studied William Shakespeare for more than ten minutes knows that the guy really had a way with words. It’s kind of his thing, after all. When there wasn’t a word for what he wanted to say, he just made it up, and people…

The life of Vietnamese Memories began when the author, Clement Baloup, finally heard the true story of how his father had been forced to leave occupied Vietnam, and evolved from there into what is more accurately a graphic biography. It…

Hamilton only rolled into the West End a few months ago, but it is continuing on its mighty streak of world domination with a record number of nominations for this year’s Olivier Awards.

Andy Serkis deserved more preciouses than he got for what is arguably the best motion capture performance in movie history.

So in the spirit of encouraging myself and maybe encouraging others, I had a look at the Nano site to see some of the success stories, the real novels that have come out of the exercise. The results are very encouraging.

Hollywood had the worst performing summer it has had in many years, and a huge number of remakes and sequels flooded our screens, many of which have under-performed.

2017 may nearly be over (we know, we know), but there are still plenty of big new shows set to hit our screens.

Our favourite Discworld book revealed!

With Discworld Discussions now over, it's time to look back and rank the Discworld books until we pick a favourite.

After two years, our re-read of every single Discworld book is over. What a journey it's been.

Only one more book in Discworld left to tackle.

A look at the last Sam Vimes story in Discworld.

OF COURSE Hamilton is on here.

"I see these last novels as a statement, as Pratchett saying as much as he possibly could, all of the things he might not yet have said, and trying to say them quickly before he lost them forever."

We're getting near the end of Discworld Discussions after two years!

Sorry, but can we talk about the doggo on the cover of Making Money, please?