I think I may have mentioned that, being a member of the Academy and BAFTA, I get to vote during the Awards season. This is a an honour and a privilege that I covet, as I love watching movies. Well here’s two more to add to the current list…I watched Fruitvale Station, which is a…
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…
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 ..…
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…
Recently I moved Hosting Companies..again. I had found one that I really liked and suddenly, I found that the actual hosting had become grindingly slow and any time I wanted to add something to the newchillingtales.com, I could hardly get a sentence up. I don’t know what happened and as no explanation or help was…
The one good thing about the weather has been that one is more or less forced to stay indoors and GET ON WITH IT. In my case it has been writing and sending out our recently completed film to various film festivals. Now I am just waiting for the results, will we be accepted at…
