Velvet Film and More

On Saturday 16th April I attended the Shadowhunter Super Fan Event at Leicester Square theater and I had the most amazing time! I was lucky enough to get a copy of Lady Midnight, meet Cassandra Clare and have my copy signed and then meet Dominic Sherwood who plays Jace Wayland in the TV adaption of The Mortal Instruments series; Shadowhunters. Now I could type for hours and detail everything amazing thing that happened on that fateful day but instead I am just going to show you guys some pictures I took and put them below and if you want to know the WHOLE story and all the awesome bits and bobs I got, then please go ahead and watch the kinda long video I have uploaded to the Velvet YouTube Channel which I have put above! It is my first attempt at blogging and I learnt that I'm a wobbly camera vlogger, ohhhhh welllll! Enjoy, because I certainly did! Cassie and Dom during Q&A. Cassie and Dom during Q&A. Cassie and Dom during Q&A. Dom during an int...

Today I received a pretty package through the door which was my first EVER Nerd Block; now a Nerd Block, for those who don't know, is a genius idea in which they pack collectibles and figures and t shirts and many others things from your favourite films, TV shows, Games and more! You only know a couple of the themes for each box and this month was Game Of Thrones and the original 80's Karate Kid so I had to! The exciting thing about Nerd Block, is not just that it's great value for money, but the fact that you have no idea what you are going to get, making it like a monthly present surprise! Tracking back a bit, this box costs $19.99 and it is around that actual price in GBP which is relevant to me, but compared to the total all the bits in the box comes to, it's completely worth the money because you save and gain, as well as having the best tools to nerd out with! I wanted to post all the pictures of the wonderful pieces I got but my camera has died and I hav...

Throughout my life I have found much solstice in music; it's been my escape, it's been my rhythm and it's completed whatever style phase I am tragically going through at that time. However, in the nicest why it's only been the music for me, I haven't found a depth to it, well at least not for the past 4-6 years. I have definitely lost that strange bond with a band that I used to find so easy to tie when I was younger, perhaps I was more sensitive back  then or I'm listening to irrelevant music now, I have no idea! But that loose end has been tied once again, so worry not my Velvet-y readers, music is making me sell my soul to it yet and again and thanks to the band Years & Years, I have already passed it over and now just waiting for the receipt! Years & Years Current Album 'Communion' 2015 Polydor LTD (UK) I am quirky as I can be, or at least think I am, in my ramblin's and my articles, but I don't want to use that side of my perso...

Davalos & Dean still from East of Eden (1955) Image from Tumblr I am a huge fan of James Dean and in that it has lead onto other obsessive people and past mediums that are connected to the amazing work he has done and that is how I found the awesome film that is East of Eden (1955). It was a fantastic adaptation of the last few chapters of John Steinbeck's novel of the same name, which I actually ended up reading after seeing the film and even though it isn't the type of book that I usually read, I could not put it down and was in shock at the brutal realism that I seemed to forget everyone goes through. Davalos still from East of Eden (1955) Image from Cinemagay.it In speaking of this glorious part of cinematic history, this piece isn't actually completely about that, this is not a review and it's not even a piece on James Dean, apologies if I misled you; this piece is to talk about the sad loss of actor Richard Davalos who sadly passed on Tuesday, who ...

I went through my ever-growing book collection and realized that I was extremely happy with some of the books I owned and the versions I had of them; so that being said, I decided to share it with you guys! I noticed that to pick every single one of my favorite books was just a ridiculous idea, since that would be pretty much all of them and it would make this blog post longer than the Harry Potter series! 1. ' The Making of Penny Dreadful'  by Sharon Gosling. This book is amazing for any  Penny Dreadful  fan, (I am an obsessive one!), it is noted as the official companion book to the Showtime series and it is indeed. I get excited every time I open it, not in that way naughty!, but it is just as magical opening this book as it is watching the series; there are some fantastic chapters in this book that explain how they created the dark, Gothic and classic world through the literature and special affects. You can feel like part of the team with this book and become ...

   Three days ago the BBC uploaded the trailer for Taboo on their YouTube channel and we are not disappointed; although there is some mild disappointment that the trailer has been shown to us now when the show itself will not be aired on BBC One till 2017. The show is based in the year 1814 around Tom Hardy’s character, James Delaney, who makes a return to London from Africa to inherit what his passed father has left behind of his shipping empire. Delaney was believed to have died and his father has created quite a reputation for himself, so the 8 part period drama is Delaney’s war with the evil, selfish, determined people lurking in the shadows around him. My reaction to the trailer was a good one, but I have to admit my happiness and hope at this trailer and for the show is partially bias as I am a huge fan of both Hardy and Ridley Scott. However, I am an admirer and fanatic when it comes to Victorian London and by the trailer it looks like they have captu...

It has been a while since I have posted and I am so sorry guys! I hope you all had a good Christmas and a good new year and a good Valentine’s Day aaaaaaand any other holiday I haven't said or forgotten; there's too many! However, all those days are in the past and I am back to make the future a little more velvet-y, is that a word? To kick off the absence of my ramblings about the great media world of film & more; I thought I would share with you one of my most favourite subjects to ramble about and that is on - screen psychopaths, woo! Another reason why I have chosen this topic as my return is because my clever little Google statistics thingy keeps telling me that not only have you guys kept coming back to Velvet, but that my most viewed post is my Making the Perfect Psychopath essay which is insane! See what I did there? Mwhaha. So, sit back, procrastinate and enjoy my list of my top all-time favourite on-screen psychos. Buuuuut first let me mention the list I have...