It’s great to see that we already have more teams in the fantasy tennis league than we did for the French Open. Six teams have now registered in the Trapped by Monsters mini-league. Come on folks. Roll up, roll up. It’s free. There are prizes. The more people who enter teams, the more generous I [...]
Archive > June 2009
Tentacular Spectacular
Following on from Mark’s post below, here’s a link to another piece of awesome CG animation that I’ve just discovered via my favourite film site, Twitch. Got eight minutes to spare? Then go there and watch the incredible OCEANSIZE. Here’s a pic to give you a flavour: This eye-popping little film is apparently the work [...]
Film Review: Beowulf
Here’s another film that I meant to go and watch at the cinema – Beowulf. Again, this is my sort of thing – monsters getting hacked to pieces, (oops! There goes my food rations for another month!) dragons, swords, magic … all the sort of stuff that good fantasy stories are made of. First a [...]
Trapped By Monsters – LIVE!
I think this clip‘s pretty self-explanatory… Are you, reading this, anywhere near Abingdon, England on this coming Saturday June 20th? Then click here for all the details!
Film Review: The Golden Compass
Whatever one might think of Philip Pullman’s personal beliefs and the themes that run through the His Dark Materials trilogy, it is hard not to admire his writing. I particularly enjoyed the first book: The Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in the US). When the film released a couple of years ago, many author friends [...]
Wimbledon Challenge.
We have been challenged by Scott Pack (former senior book buyer at Waterstones HQ) at the Me and My Big Mouth blog to a fantasy league challenge. Overall the Trapped by Monsters tennis league did not fair too well in the rankings at the French Open, but we’ll do better this time, I’m sure. (Matt [...]
From Jack Slater, Monster Investigator (I)
Via TBM guest blogger, John Dougerty… Cherry and I get a lot of messages on our website asking for help. Most of them turn out to be hoaxes, so when I got an email from some guy calling himself Tommy Donbavand, I was sure it was fake. I mean, what kind of a name is [...]
A Killer Read!
The next on my recent reading list was the first in the Jimmy Coates series by Joe Craig. Wow! What a killer read this is. The action hits in the first chapter and doesn’t let up right through to the explosive finale. I was left breathless by the end. Although it’s not a marathon read, [...]
The Enemy – Charlie Higson
Thanks to Mr Ripley of the excellent Mr Ripley’s Enchanted Books, I managed to get my hands on a proof copy of Charlie Higson’s new teen novel – The Enemy. Look, here it is here… I sat down to read this book last night, and didn’t move from that spot until I finished it some [...]
Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Fire!
I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading recently, so stand by for some recommends for readers who like their stories to hit hard and race them through to the last page. The first of these is Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy. It’s fast. It’s furious. Oh, and it has a wise-cracking, fireball-flinging skeleton for [...]
