Skip to main content

Posts

Featured

I Watch Films: The King's Man

  The King’s Man (2021) In 1902 Orlando Duke Of Oxford (Ralph Fiennes) is bringing humanitarian aid to concentration camps in the Boer War with his wife and young son Conrad. His wife is shot, and makes him promise Conrad will never go to war. He attempts to honour this by creating an intelligence network of domestic servants amongst the great and the good of Europe (and later America) to try and prevent war. His assistants are his butler Shola (Djimon Hounsou) and maid Polly Wilkins (Gemma Atherton). He meets with his friend/ally Lord Kitchener at their tailors, Kingsmans, to avoid drawing attention, only Kitchener and his aide present. Getting wind of a conspiracy to throw Europe into war by assassinating Archduke Ferdinand, Orlando and Conrad join him on his visit to Sarajevo. Conrad manages to prevent a bomb thrown by Gavrilo Princep from killing him, but later the car takes a wrong turn and Princep shoots him. This is from real history; unlike in real history this is bein

Latest posts

Monster Of The Week 248: HatOfTheWeek

Butterbean Casserole

I Watch Films: Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster

I Read Stories: The Night Jane Didn't Come Out The Chair by Kate Faigen