janemerrow.com, this and that for cool November day Just saw “12 Years a Slave“‘ what a great film, such a bleak sad story. Wonderful performances by everyone, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt.. The tragedy of slavery, which started over a 2000 years ago and still goes on today, is one of the darkest blots on the page book…
I am definitely getting there, re the Website, after a few days of frustration and miscommunication. If those who built the Affordable Health Care site had this multiplied by at least 500, I feel sorry for them. Actually I don’t. Sometimes we take on more than we should and then it causes anger and frustration…
Hello everyone and thank you for taking a look at this! It’s sort of fun having a brand new site, but issues abound and I am working to make sure we get over these! So bear with me and we will get there……I hope. All the best Jane
The Awards Season is Hotting up! While I was in LA I saw three movies, one wonderful, one a bit so-so and the third, interesting but challenging. These included “The Counsellor”, interesting but challenging to watch and “Kill Your Darlings”, a true story about the early careers of some of America’s great poets. I went…
I am now juggling between three websites, all becoming one in due course and the technical aspect is quite a challenge on the new one: janemerrow.com an update of janemerrow.net. In the meantime life goes on and we are preparing a clip from THE DAMNED THING to put up on to some crowd funding sites, to raise…
My Favourite people this week are Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and the English writer Joanna Trollope. Both are talking about the falling literacy rate in both our countries. Justice Day O’Connor is appalled by the fact that too many Americans have no idea which three branches of government exist in the US. This is amazing ..…
A spine-chilling tale of magic and retribution. Based on the short story “The Monkeys Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, the film won the Jury Prize for Best Art Direction at the Barcelona Film Festival. This is the first of a projected series of films under the generic heading of “New Chilling Tales. This film is proposed…
A heart beating, a man obsessed with an old man’s eye, these are at the core of the magnificent story by Edgar Allan Poe and here is a brand new film to give you that story. Learn More
The Woman, who is driven mad by her obsession with the wallpaper in the bedroom, while is trying to recover from a near nervous breakdown. Confined to the room, the Woman is finally driven over the brink into madness, by seeing herself trapped in the wallpaper. This film is from the 19th century story THE…
We’re in the middle of a massive heatwave in the USA and here in Idaho it’s 104 degrees Farenheit, whew! And I have no air conditioning in my little house, could do with it now. I remember a horror film I did way back when, called THE NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT…… in the US…
