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Film of the book: ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’ (1949)

11/06/2025 nsford Leave a comment

Did you know that this Ealing Studios film was based on a book? Published in 1907, Israel Rank by Roy…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, crime fiction, films, reviews, Roy Horniman

Film of the book: ‘The Secret Garden’ (2020)

09/05/2025 nsford 2 Comments

I love the 1993 film of The Secret Garden, which is based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel. I used…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: children's fiction, films, Frances Hodgson Burnett, reviews

Film of the book: ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.’ (2023)

09/03/2025 nsford Leave a comment

Judy Blume herself was one of the producers on this first ever film adaptation of her novel. It’s set in…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, films, Judy Blume, reviews, YA fiction

Review of ‘The Boy Who Lived’ by David Holmes

07/03/2025 nsford Leave a comment

David Holmes, the stunt double for Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter films, was paralysed while filming the Deathly Hallows…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, David Holmes, films, memoir, reviews

Film of the book: ‘Bullet Train’ (2022)

09/02/2025 nsford 2 Comments

I enjoyed Kotaro Isaka’s novel Bullet Train, which was published in English translation in 2021. I was struck by the…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, films, Kotaro Isaka, reviews, thrillers

Film of the book: ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ (2004)

09/01/2025 nsford Leave a comment

An award-winning, beautifully-animated film from Studio Ghibli, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Howl’s Moving Castle is based on Diana…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, children's fiction, Diana Wynne Jones, fantasy, films, reviews

Films I watched in 2024

31/12/2024 nsford 2 Comments

It’s time for the traditional list of films I watched this year! I’ve linked to those which already have ‘film…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: films

Film of the book: ‘Color Out of Space’ (2019)

09/12/2024 nsford Leave a comment

Adapted from the classic H P Lovecraft story, this film is suitably weird and is in some ways similar to…

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Posted in: Film & TV, Reading Filed under: books, films, H P Lovecraft, horror, reviews, science fiction

Film of the book: ‘Paddington’ (2014)

09/11/2024 nsford Leave a comment

This movie has a lot of fans. I’m not one of them. I thought it was all right at first,…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, children's fiction, films, Michael Bond, reviews

Film of the book: ‘The Day of the Triffids’ (1962)

10/10/2024 nsford Leave a comment

Entertaining in a b-movie horror kind of way, although not as lurid as the movie poster suggests, this is a…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, films, John Wyndham, reviews, science fiction

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