James Hayward Films

The Month by ME: End of the year edition

Well hello there, how are you? Can you believe it is the end of the year already? Well Neither can I. All sorts of festivities have happened in the last two months of the year so I thought why not combine them all into one big post. November would have had its own post but around the time I would have written it I had my birthday, work got busy and well here we are. Speaking of my Birthday the…

The Month by ME: October 2021

October began as September had ended in the midst of a fuel crisis. The first of October saw me work an extremely quiet 11 hour shift but while the craziness would persist for a while longer. By the end of October it was more like a distant memory. Meanwhile one of my good friends turned 30 and we all had a nice get together. It was so nice to see everyone and especially the birthday girl and a…

The Month by ME: September 2021

September is over and I am finally awake although thinking back on the past month most of that time seemed to be spent at work. Between Holidays and people feeling a bit under the weather I felt that a lot more time was spent working. But don’t worry I got up to some fun stuff as well. YAY Friends One such fun event was my friends 30th birthday which was not only a good chance to catch up with…

The Months by ME: July/August

Hello again, it has been a while hasn’t it. sorry about that. The last couple of months have been super busy with both a wedding and the UK Games Expo with the latter of the two already featured on this blog. Check it out below. https://jameshaywardproductions.wordpress.com/2021/08/08/the-return-of-the-cardboard-christmas/ Both the early days of July and August were pretty busy and after a…

The Return of the Cardboard Christmas

Thats right I am talking about the UK Games Expo which finally returned after more than a year. It was of course cancelled last year due to the covid situation but with reduced numbers and safety precautions in place I was confident enough to make the trip across the country to the Birmingham NEC. Die of the Dead As is tradition myself and my good friend WeirdFTW set out the day before the…

The Month by ME: June 2021

Over half the year gone already, how crazy is that. June turned out to be quite a busy month with plenty of cinema, gaming and time with loved ones all thrown into the mix. June began with a trip down to my grandparents Jean and Lionel’s old place where my dad and I helped my uncle and Cousin clear it out ready for sale. It was already sad to not see them there anymore but to see it so empty as…

The Month by Me: May 2021

It has been a long time dear reader, my apologies for that. I usually write these at the start of the following month but this time work got in the way of that. Then life did until I eventually realised I was just making excuses and so here we are. The middle of June about to talk about May. Right at the start of May there was a bank holiday and that was the day I did my first day shift in over…

The Month by ME: April 2021

My apologies for the lateness of this upload, I usually like to get these monthly updates up at the start of the month but life and work had other ideas. Still here we are another chance to catch up. I hope you have been well. April was a month of mixed emotion ranging from the excitement of finding out another couple I know had their first child all the way to the sadness of saying a goodbye to…

The Month by ME: March 2021

March has been a month of beginnings and endings. A month of ups and downs for myself and everyone around me. Once again I am here to talk about what has been going on during the past month and what a month it has been. New life was welcomed into the world this past month when two good friends of mine went into hospital to give an eviction notice to their first born. I was so happy for them and…

The Month by Me: February 2021

Welcome back everyone. I enjoyed writing last months post so much I thought I’d come back and keep it going. Having the motivation to start something like this is one thing, it is entirely something far greater to keep it going February got off to an interesting start with an invitation to book my first covid vaccination at a place only a short drive away. The only complication came from the…

The Month by ME: January 2021 An opportunity to write about what I have been doing. Who knows maybe you will get more of these in the future.

It is finally over. Whom amongst us thought that January would end or that we would even make it through in one piece. It was another month in a long series of months that feel like they went on forever and all it brought us was another Lockdown. At least before we had Christmas to look forward to and the first Lockdown even saw some absolutely glorious weather. This time around we just had the…

Game of Thrones: The Final 3

Life has been pretty busy recently which has meant that I have been unable to spend time writing my posts about this show liked I had hoped. So I thought I would talk about the last three episodes here in this post so if you haven’t watched them yet then this is the only warning you will get.

The Last of the Starks:

The episode began with the survivors saying goodbye to those that they had lost…

Game of Thrones S8 EP3: The Battle for Winterfell

Spoilers Beware:

Game of Thrones with its third episode of series 8, after this we only have three episodes left to go until it is all over. After the first two weeks the pieces are finally in place for a dramatic showdown between the living and the dead.

Much of this series has focused on Winterfell and this episode is no exception. The Battle lines have been drawn with many of the major…

Game of Thrones S8 EP2: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

The Things We Do For Love.

After taking the bank holiday of to do some gaming I am back with another post about series 8 of Game of Thrones. As usual there will be spoilers here so if you haven’t seen the episode yet I suggest you do that first.

After last week”s episode concluded with a dramatic stare-down between Bran and his old friend Jamie Lannister who kindly pushed him out a tower way…

Game of Thrones S8 EP1: Winterfell

Game of Thrones has finally returned to our screens. The hit series took a break in 2017 because of the amount of work needed to conclude such an incredible series in only 6 episodes. Before I go any further there will be spoilers in this post so do yourself a favour and watch the episode first.

The first episode of series 8 had a lot of callbacks to earlier episodes starting with a kid climbing…

Don’t know if it was a coincidence or great timing on the part of the people who schedule films but I went to see this on its release day which was also international Women’s day.

Brie Larson does a great job as Captain Marvel as she deals with the truth about who she is and what she can do. Thought she did great as the lead character and worked really well alongside her co stars, Jude Law…

Fighting with my Family

Went to see this film because like this family I am also from Norwich and I was mostly just looking forward to seeing my home city on the big screen. I am not a wrestling fan and I wasn’t expecting to like this film as much as I did.

Jack Lowden gave a great performance as Zak Knight and this is actually the second film I have seen him in this year after watching Mary Queen of Scots back in…