The Essential Voice of Red

Posted on December 27, 2015     1 Comment

Narrative voice is always important in fiction but especially in Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption…. It is this, the narrative voice in the book, that makes this role so right for Morgan Freeman.

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The Much Maligned Movie Re-Make

Posted on November 15, 2015     Leave a Comment

The age we live in now is such that it is difficult to write a book without it being made into a film; it is difficult to produce a film without it being turned into a computer game; worst of all, computer games have a nasty habit of spawning cinematic abominations with all the substance of reality TV show for amoebas.

So, do re-makes ever have any value?

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