Category Archives: Movies and TV
The recent Doctor Who episode set on a Britain-turned-spaceship in the 33rd century featured a creepy police state overseen by the Smilers – fairground fortune-telling machines turned nasty. I’ve commented on – and reviewed the episode – with a Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space-slant over on my Who blog – Renegade Time Lord
You work for The Bank. You work hard, you get a bonus. Heck, you might even get a promotion. You often look at the penthouse offices and aspire to be one of the Board someday. OK, so the work isn’t very interesting, but this is a bank, right? What could be interesting about a bank? [...]
‘City of Ember‘ seems to have some familiar elements. People living beneath the ground because you can’t live on the surface. A society desperate for resources maintaining an antiquated infrastructure. A ruler with secrets. A relic from before the disaster. Yes. It’s a trailer for a film based on a book. I should probably try [...]
I watched the movie ‘Doom‘ at the weekend. I know – I should save statements like that for the nearest confession booth and expect at least a mild brainscrubbing. I claim no great worth for the movie as anything other than a CGI-daubed, gore-splattered gunfest. I did take great glee in the BFG1 and watched [...]
Anyone in the UK or with access to Channel 4′s on demand output on 4od should check out the Charlie Brooker trilogy Black Mirror. Tonight’s episode, 15 Million Merits, took a glance at star making popular TV and the potential it gives the masses to rise above the role of drones. From a PARANOIA perspective [...]
The recent Doctor Who episode set on a Britain-turned-spaceship in the 33rd century featured a creepy police state overseen by the Smilers – fairground fortune-telling machines turned nasty. I’ve commented on – and reviewed the episode – with a Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space-slant over on my Who blog – Renegade Time Lord
You work for The Bank. You work hard, you get a bonus. Heck, you might even get a promotion. You often look at the penthouse offices and aspire to be one of the Board someday. OK, so the work isn’t very interesting, but this is a bank, right? What could be interesting about a bank? [...]
‘City of Ember‘ seems to have some familiar elements. People living beneath the ground because you can’t live on the surface. A society desperate for resources maintaining an antiquated infrastructure. A ruler with secrets. A relic from before the disaster. Yes. It’s a trailer for a film based on a book. I should probably try [...]
I watched the movie ‘Doom‘ at the weekend. I know – I should save statements like that for the nearest confession booth and expect at least a mild brainscrubbing. I claim no great worth for the movie as anything other than a CGI-daubed, gore-splattered gunfest. I did take great glee in the BFG1 and watched [...]