Media things
A quite nice X Files 2 poster. Apparently they’re still haggling with the studio over what the film will be called. I don’t mind “The X Files 2” personally. It’s been so long since the first one they...
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The X-Files 2 is now titled “The X-Files: I Want to Believe”. Because that’s not crap at all. Apparently the Torchwood Season 2 finale was most appreciated by Welsh females aged 16-34. You just can’t...
View ArticleThe Hobbit 2: The Revenge
Guillermo Del Toro will be filming not one but two Hobbit movies. The first to be based on a book by J.R.R.Tolkien called “The Hobbit”. The second… less so. He states: ‘The Hobbit’, the book, is really...
View ArticleDeprivation
Yesterday we had no internet access. We arrived home to find that some random contractor had dug metre-deep holes into the grass verge at intervals all the way down our street. For no obvious reason....
View ArticleIron-y
My review of Iron Man is up at Strange Horizons today. Should you care to take a look.
View ArticleOuter Space, Cyborgs and Dragons
Things that share little in commmon except that I saw them recently: The Phoenix has landed. The Mars probe, that is. That’s a bit of a relief. Watching the video of everything it had to do on its...
View ArticleIn which I become an IT bore
What the– Steve Martin has apparently made The Pink Panther 2. Sometimes the world is far a more surreal place than I generally allow myself to believe. Anyway, the actual point of this post was not to...
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Tom McRae “guests” on the new single by Wills and the Willing, Lipstick. This seems to mean that he wrote and performed all his bits of the song –which are excellent– based on hearing the rap parts...
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Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen are making a spoof Sherlock Holmes movie (as Watson and Holmes, respectively). This is almost certainly a bad idea, but as usual they failed to run it past me before...
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Assorted movie trailers: Watchmen. The trailer is a strange mix of extremely faithful images, overly stylised slow-mo and slightly unreal visual effects. I think I sorta like it. (EDIT: now working.)...
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Not entirely sure about this poster as a design, but how perfect is Zachary Quinto as Spock? That’s Eric Bana with the tatoos, although it’s pretty hard to tell. Plus Chris Pine as Kirk and Zoe Saldana...
View ArticleBatman Continues
I’d been forewarned, but I still wasn’t entirely expecting such a sprawling ensemble piece. There are eight million stories in the naked city, and this is most of them. Right from the start the film...
View ArticleSnubs, stubs and subs
The Wire star hits out at Emmys. Sergeant Ellis Carver thinks the Emmys are ignoring his show, and rightly so. I still can’t believe that The Wire has never won an Emmy. It does at least have a single...
View ArticleBooks 5 to 9
I last did a books post waaay back in February. It’s fair to say my pace has slowed a bit since then, but I’m still doing much better than last year. 5. Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman The familiar Gaiman...
View ArticleBleargh
The moment I started my holidays last Saturday I started coming down with the lurgy. Funny how often that happens. So even though I’m on holiday this week I’m also bunged up and feeling like the back...
View ArticleAt the Movies
The second trailer for Watchmen is out. (There are some new posters too.) I know that movie trailers are filled with Lies, but impossibly it looks like they may actually have succeeded in adapting the...
View ArticleModicum of Consolation
We finally went to see Quantum of Solace at the weekend. I adored Casino Royale mainly because it succeeded as a film not just as a Bond Movie. Even my wife liked it and she’s hardly a Bond fan. It...
View ArticleFilm 2008
Yes I’m still doing reviews of 2008. I only managed 28 films last year, as recorded on 52 Film Challenge. Barely over halfway! 1. I Am Legend – Misjudged CGI but darker and less linear than expected....
View ArticleRound up
Not had time to post much recently what with working late, going to hospital appointments, shopping, attempting to decorate, going to leaving dos and trying to at least pretend to have a social life....
View ArticleShiny, stompy
Janet is now the proud owner of a black 16GB iPod nano 4G. It’s shiny. It’s curvy. It’s tiny. It even has a motion sensor so you can play little marble-rolling games — for some reason. Considering that...
View ArticleJanuary
Films 1 to 5 of 2009 (Defiance, Persepolis, Frost/Nixon, Valkyrie, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) are reviewed here. Bookwise I’ve completed His Dark Materials but that’s it so far. Reviews to follow.
View ArticleWho Watches the YouTube?
More viral marketing for Watchmen. Following on from the 1970s news pastiche about the tenth anniversary of Dr Manhattan is this 1970s public service film pastiche about the dangers of vigilantism....
View ArticleTrailers
Unexpectedly, the latest trailers (Trailer 3 in both cases) for Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation are not just good but *so* good they’ve more or less sold me on the films. I wasn’t sure either of...
View ArticleTalking pictures
A gracious open letter from creator Josh Friedman on the sad cancellation of Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles. When it was bad it was slightly meandering, but when it was good it was excellent....
View ArticleIn a world…
Nothing new to report on the Bump front, so here’s some nice eye candy that distracted me last night. Here’s a really impressive trailer for a film that was completely off my radar, Daybreakers. Stars...
View ArticleLe Film
My film watching in the year to date can be found on 52filmchallenge here. Only 13 to date and I don’t think we’ll be doing a lot of film watching in the near future by all accounts! I’m quite keen to...
View ArticleMister Sherlock Holmes
We’ve been watching the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series from the start. We’ve just made it to ‘The Final Problem’, featuring Holmes’s apparent death and the final appearance of Watson #1, whom I...
View ArticleCinemattractions
My latest film watching is here. Wonderfully we’ve been able to sneak out and see films at the cinema two weekends in a row. Anna’s been fantastically well-behaved recently, and even slept for five...
View ArticleNostalgia and Newspapers, part 1
During the 1980s, I went through a phase of keeping newspaper cuttings from my favourite obsessions. Which were, as ever, Doctor Who, Star Trek and a side order of Star Wars.
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