Movie time
We had a small and belated family celebration of my advanced age on Sunday. Among the gifts was the DVD of Sin City. It's a stunningly shot film. Time and time again I found myself wondering just how...
View ArticleGW / DW
I’m really looking forward to the new series of Green Wing on Channel 4 tonight – the first series was hilarious. Very strange at first, and it took until at least the second episode before I “got it”,...
View ArticleTV viewers, get a clue
The BBC News website reports reports that there have been 500 complaints about “provocative” comments made in Top Gear over the last series. Quite rightly, many of them have been rejected as being part...
View ArticleSOA, the Movie… (trailer)
This looks quite funky… (good excuse for me to try out the YouTube embedding functionality in WordPress.com, too, since I hadn’t had the chance to do so yet… like so many other features on WP.com, it...
View ArticleThings to see and do
Watch The History Boys. See Spamalot. Go to the exhibitions on my Upcoming.org list.
View ArticleTorchwood
The BBC’s new spin-off from Doctor Who, Torchwood (spot the anagram), starts on Sunday. The trailers look flash. Bad: I’m away this weekend; plus, we don’t get digital, and this is on BBC3. Any news on...
View ArticleTorchwood initial review
I was going to write up my thoughts on last night’s first two episodes of Torchwood, but bsag has done a good job already. If you are interested, go have a read. I added a comment on the post with …...
View ArticleShiny!
I’m probably the last Joss Whedon fan in the world to see it, but on Saturday I picked up the series box set of Firefly from HMV for less than half price, and last night I watched the opening double …...
View ArticleThis Life + 10 = Outstanding
Last night saw a slice of nostalgia, when This Life returned for a one-off special, ten years on. Ten years ago I was a few months away from leaving university (stop rolling your eyes, at the back!)...
View ArticleYarp. Narp?
Last night we saw Hot Fuzz. I actually wasn’t massively keen on Shaun of the Dead – it was funny, but just a little bit too weird, and I’ve never been a big horror fan so I probably didn’t get …...
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