Hey everyone,

I hope you enjoyed my new Short Story – A Knock At The Door. I’ve had some nice feedback from it, which I’m happy about. If you haven’t already, you can read it here:

https://ashleymanning.com/2021/07/02/a-knock-at-the-door/

I am working on a new short story, that I hope to be ready by the end of month. I’m about a third of the way through I think. This one isn’t as dark, but it’s still horror/fantasy.

I’ve also got the next Franchise Catch Up ready to go up tomorrow morning. This time for The Purge. I binged the first 4, ready for number 5 next week. My originally idea was to do these un-edited, but I rambled a fair bit so I’m going to shorten it down, but it’s still my initial impression without thinking too much about it. I’m going to start on the next Franchise Catch Up soon, I’m thinking John Wick. I’ve never seen them, which always seems to shock people and a 4th one is on the way.

My daily film reviews will still be coming. After posting this, I’m going to be working on the one for this evening. I’m also going to see Black Widow tonight, so will be uploading my review for that tomorrow afternoon. I know they’ve been a bit random and all over the place so far. I don’t know whether it would be better to list what I’m going to do each week or just release them randomly. If you have a preference, let me know.

I’ve separated my top 50 films in to 10 groups of 5 for posts, starting this Friday. They are in a kind of random order as I couldn’t list them from 50-1. So I’ve grouped them in my head, some will be an obvious grouping while others will seem random, but it might have something to do with when I saw them first or how I feel about them. The only ones that are in a kind of order will be the last 2 posts. These are Tier 2 and Tier 1. Any of the 5 films in Tier 1 can take the top spot, depending on what day of the week it is. They’re going to be pretty short summaries of why I like them so much. I hope you enjoy.

I’m also going to be putting up a post about what I’ve been reading recently, on Saturday or Sunday. I’ve ready a couple of books that I can’t wait to talk about.

I’m going to go back to it, got 2 reviews to write this morning before more writing this afternoon and then back to work tomorrow to Saturday. Thanks for reading and until next time,

Ashley