About

My name is Sue. I live in Cyprus with my husband of more than forty years, and one cat. We are empty-nesters with two adult sons and two young grandchildren in the UK. 

We moved to Cyprus in 1987 when our sons were quite young. At the start of the new millennium, we bought our first DVD player. There were online sites that sold DVDs, with free postage to Cyprus. I thought our sons, by then in their teens, should be aware of some of the great classic films. I bought 'Mary Poppins', and 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', and 'ET', and 'Back to the future'... and many more. I thought perhaps we might collect twenty or thirty...

Our DVD collection, in Billy bookcases
At the last count, our DVD collection numbered around 570.  Of those, nearly a hundred are collections of TV show episodes, many of them from the 1980s. In 2006, after our first son had left home, I decided to start watching DVDs as a way of doing something with my husband in an evening.  Not every week; not even every other week at first. But I managed thirteen in 2006, including some I had not seen before. 

I kept a note of what I thought of each one I watched, and eventually turned that into this blog. I have a similar blog for reviewing books that I read, which I updated much more frequently as I read a great deal more. As evidence of this: the book blog goes back to April 1999, and has, as I write this, over 2500 reviews of books I have read in that period.  (An average of around 100 per year).

This DVD review blog, by contrast, which goes back to 2006, has only 430 posts. An average of around 22 per year.  But now we're in a routine of watching at least one film on DVD or blu-ray per week, and an episode or two from a couple of different TV series on DVD. 

Blogging is a hobby for me, and I write this primarily for my own interest, to see how my tastes change and to record impressions of films or TV shows that I would have forgotten. I'm pleased to see that most posts have attracted at least a handful of visitors. 

I have added Amazon UK affiliate links so as to give a bit of visual interest to what would otherwise be text only. If anyone ever buys anything through one of those links (it hasn't happened yet with this blog...) I would earn a few pennies. 

If you want to get in touch, please comment below, or on one of the reviews. 

'About page' last updated June 26th 2025

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