Great Adaptations: Carrie on screen
Over at Five Books For this month, I've been thinking about a different type of Halloween read: the kind of book that leaves you feeling deeply unsettled, so much so that you have to keep putting...
Author: Kate Lillie
The dawn of a Golden Age: Late to the Movies
I've been so excited about this month's column, because I've now reached the Golden Age of Hollywood and the earliest talking movies. Since the golden age of Hollywood spans such a long period of...
Great Adaptations: My Child And Other Mistakes and Cravings by Ellie Taylor
Normally in this column I take a book that’s been turned into a TV show or film, and see what happens in the shift from page to screen. However, this month over at Five Books For I've been looking...
Learning to see through shadows and machines in German Expressionism: Late To The Movies
When I first started this history cinema project, I mostly expected films to be about stories - plots, characters, events unfolding. But with German Expressionism, I’ve learned that sometimes films...
The sound of silence: Late To The Movies
Welcome back to Late To The Movies, one woman’s attempt to learn about the history of cinema and fall in love with films as an art form. After watching some of the first-ever movies last month, I...
Great Adaptations: Richard Sharpe on screen
Welcome to this month’s Great Adaptations, where this month we're talking about heroes, specifically the kind of heroes who seem to be able to handle anything. Not the unlikely heroes, or the...
Great Adaptations: The Great Gatsby on film
Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, a tale of love, loss, wealth and excess, is now 100 years old. Over at Five Books For this month we've been looking at classics that are quicker reads and this is...
The first films: Late to the Movies
It would be fair to say that, generally speaking, I'm not much of a movie person. While others can quote entire scenes from their favourite films or debate the merits of different directors, I've...
Classical music for sceptics: 10 unmissable pieces of music for people who think they don’t like classical music
Let’s be honest: “classical music” doesn’t always sound like much fun. For many, it conjures images of stern men in wigs, concert halls filled with people in ballgowns and black tie, or the...
From starscapes to starships: how sci-fi art imagined the future
I've been writing recently about science fiction book recommendations and it got me thinking about sci-fi art - and some of the spectacular artworks which the genre has inspired. Science fiction...