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Guest Post -James M's review of the Austin Powers films

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Spy films, comedy films, we love them. The James Bond films along with other countless spy films were very popular back in the 60s and seventies, they still are today. But after years of being unchallenged in the film industry, James Bond got some much needed competition from a new, kinda sorta action spy hero, Austin Powers. "YEAH, BABY, YEAH!" During the 1990s, Canadian actor Mike Myers was already popular enough having been on Saturday Night Live and starred in the Waynes World movies. However, things changed when Myers wanted to do a film that served as a spoof of the 1960s spy genre movies. Due to him impressing his wife with British accents a lot, Myers eventually got the idea for Austin Powers; International Man of Mystery. Eventually, after the casting was done and the script was finalized, Austin Powers was born and so was his nemesis and (unbeknownst to us at the time) long lost brother, Doctor Evil. Since Austin Powers is basically a James Bond spoof, ...

Guest Post: James M’s movie review The Terminator

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Hiya people, James McCormack the Crazy Video Gaming Wizard aka CrazyGamerHistorian1999 here today and I'd like to discuss something and do a little review. Yes, as you can see, I am here as a guest on my mum's blog to talk about the classic 1984 movie known as The Terminator starring our former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger himself. I saw the movie months ago and it was really good, James Cameron did a good job and all the actors, Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Kyle Reese actor Michael Connell Biehn were incredible actors. The idea for the Terminator all started when film maker Cameron, as you can guess, had a nightmare about a huge robotic being emerging from the fire with red eyes. Since that day, Cameron began working on a movie inspired by that. Well, fun fact, not only was the movie inspired by a dream, the other main inspiration was Outer Limits. Specifically, the episode Soldier and the episode Demon with a Glass Hand. Soldier was the inspiration more so due to ...

Writerly Wednesday: Moving Forward

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Artist - Marie Anne Foucart Moving Forward Keep moving forward, looking ahead, staying in the present, learning from the past. eyes to the future. No regrets. Thoughts, fast and fleeting, heart beating a timpani, nerves and stress. Nothing in reserve. Time to regroup. You gather yourself together. Give up what you can't control and charge forward. Time to write,  time to ponder, wonder and believe everything will fall into place. You press for movement. Do this, do that.  Why nots and how comes, demand a finish date. How do we pay for it all? Ever anxious, always afraid to ask. We sit back in wonder. Grateful, thankful. Possible becomes probable. Money, help, advice Comes to hand, never early, never late.  Creativity stilted, blocked, quieted,  hums in the background, never ending, waiting for hand to put pen to paper. Some days, one sentence, two. Other days, pages. Angst, ...