Category: True Story
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Straight Up, No Twist
So many films rely on a last minute twist…M Knight Shyamalan built a career on exactly that. However Baz Luhrmann, in his Red Curtain trilogy, said that one of the basics was “that the audience knows how it will end when it begins”. Personally, I think “when it begins” is overstating things but within the…
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Movie Review – Peace River
Peace River caught me off guard. I knew nothing about the movie going in. Lucky for me, prior to the showing there were interviews with the writer/actor, Benjamin M. Jones. He truly wrote this from his heart. I felt it throughout the entire film. The story was endearing, heartbreaking, and full of real-life situations and…
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Indie Movie Review – Echoes Of The Past (2021)
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Let me get something straight right from the start. Echoes Of The Past was quite hard work. Not because it was badly made or acted but because it was based on a true story that was one of the most appalling examples of humanity or, more accurately, the lack of it: The Kalavryta Massacre (Σφαγή…
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I wrote a book > Entrepreneurship: captain of your ideas
I wrote Entrepreneurship: captain of your ideas (free to download on Kindle) about my experiences creating and managing the RunPee business. If you didn’t already know, I’m a software developer by trade. I created the RunPee app as a project to improve my programming skills and have something to show in my developer portfolio. When…
