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The Castle

Posted by Kilb50 on Fri, 29 Sep 2023

My historical novel, The Castle , from which extracts were posted on AbcTales last year, is now available on Amazon in digital, paperback and hardback editions. Overview of book: Cornwall, 1646; England is in a state of civil war. In the town of Falmouth, the population awaits the arrival of General Fairfax’s Parliamentary army which is sweeping through the south west. Only Pendennis Castle remains under Royalist control, its garrison refusing...

Rhino, Film 4, written and directed by Oleh Sentsov

Posted by celticman on Thu, 28 Sep 2023

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/rhino/on-demand/74813-001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(film) Right-wing followers of the moron’s moron and former President Trump are trying to indict President Joe Biden ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/28/biden-impeachment-inquiry-what-to-know ) because of his son, Hunter’s, links with Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Corruption was and remains at a high levels in Ukraine. Standard...

Dinno's Adventure and Other Tales by ABCTales writer Mary-Ann Storm

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Wed, 27 Sep 2023

Big congratulations to Mary-Ann Storm who writes on ABCTales as Mary-Ann and has just published her first collection of children's stories' Here's what she says about it: 'Dinno's Adventure takes you on a self discovering journey, whilst it highlights the importance of family and friendships.In this fun pact adventure of short stories lessons are learned and anything is possible and can be overcome,if you just believe in yourself.' There doesn't...

Minari, Film4, written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung.

Posted by celticman on Fri, 22 Sep 2023

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/minari/on-demand/73507-001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minari_(film) Minari is a type of planet used in cooking South Korean dishes that grows like a weed. Monica’s mother Soon-ja (Youn Yuh-jung) travels from South Korea to help look after her grandchildren. She plants minari seeds in the creek bed where it grows abundantly. There’s a metaphor there. As Jacob Yi (Steven Yeun/ Yeun Sang-yeop) explains his...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Posted by airyfairy Hope everybody has had a good week! Story of the Week is another funny, charming and insightful tale from Hudson Moon. We all get The Bothers, and Hudson offers a solution which is guaranteed to work. Until it doesn't. A delightful read for your weekend: The Bothers | ABCtales Poem of the Week is Dynamaso's 'Scratched'. It's beautifully written, slightly unnerving, and will stay with you long after reading: Scratched |...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Hope everybody has had a good week! Story of the Week is another funny, charming and insightful tale from Hudson Moon. We all get The Bothers, and Hudson offers a solution which is guaranteed to work. Until it doesn't. A delightful read for your weekend: The Bothers | ABCtales Poem of the Week is Dynamaso's 'Scratched'. It's beautifully written, slightly unnerving, and will stay with you long after reading: Scratched | ABCtales This week's...

Night of the Kings, Film4, Directed and written by Philippe Lacôte.

Posted by celticman on Thu, 21 Sep 2023

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/night-of-the-kings?.none.none.popular|| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Kings Most prison movies tend to be about escape, or redemption, or both and act as morality plays. Stephen King’s short story turned into a longer film, The Shawshank Redemption , is familiar to most of us. Night of the Kings has a fairy tale feel to it which lifts it out of the ordinary. The plot is simple. Roman (Koné Bakary...

Josiah and Archibald hit the air(waves)*

Posted by philwhiteland on Thu, 21 Sep 2023

Great news about Josiah and Archibald! The very first story in their adventures - 'A Dubious Undertaking ' - which appeared first here on ABCTales, has been selected for broadcast on Yorick Radio's podcast on Friday, 17th November, 2023. I'm very excited about this and very much looking forward to hearing how these two make the transition to audio. My thanks to everyone here who have been kind enough to read the continuing Undertakers stories...

The Mustang, Film4, director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. Screenplay by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Mona Fastvold, Brock Norman Brock 

Posted by celticman on Wed, 20 Sep 2023

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-mustang?.none.none.popular|| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mustang I was brought up watching Champion the Wonder Horse . It could do pretty much anything apart from shoot a gun and dance backwards like Ginger Rodgers. The Mustang is from the same breed. The spiel before the film tells the viewer there are thousands of horses running wild. But they’re overbreeding. Ironically, they are also dying off...

Them That Follow. Film4. Written and directed by Britt Poulton and Dan Madison

Posted by celticman on Mon, 18 Sep 2023

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/them-that-follow/on-demand/73188-001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them_That_Follow Olivia Coleman is in this film. She doesn’t usually make duff movies. So I decided to watch the start and see if I liked it. I thought it would be a naff horror about some kind of poltergeist. A curse of some kind. In a way it was. Set in rural Appalachia on ‘the mountain,’ the curse was religion. The kind of Pentecostal...

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