“There’s texture to it, there’s weirdness to it, there’s a Hinchcliffe Doctor Who-ness about it.”
And so with the grinding and wheezing of millennia-old engines, the second season of the Ood Cast pulls itself into corporeal existence. This week on the show we get a bit over-excited about the new series, wave aside petty disputes about [...]
“Perhaps it’s time. This is only the furthest edge of the Time War. But at its heart, millions die every second. Lost in bloodlust and insanity. With Time itself then resurrecting them, to find new ways of dying, over and over again. We have become a travesty of life. Isn’t it better to end it? [...]
February 11, 2010 - 3:10 pm
Tags: comedy, illusion, popular culture
Posted in Blog | 1 comment
I don’t let my day job entrude on the pages of this blog very often but this is such a well put together film, the performance is brilliant and the impact it could have on the lives of the world’s poorest people so immense, I couldn’t resist it.
Please take the time to watch it, it’s [...]
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Do you remember the old days of “Classic Who”? You know, the days when budgets were the size of your mum’s weekly housekeeping allowance which meant that stories were claustrophobic and terrifying, even when the monsters occasionally seemed to be constructed from items you saw her making a cake [...]
February 7, 2010 - 9:35 pm
Tags: films, friends, geeks, popular culture
Posted in Blog, Film Club | 1 comment
A baleful sun rose over the grey streets of New Malden as I hauled my tenderised carcass up from beneath the sheets. It seemed like a low life bar and a bottle of gin were a match made in hell and my throbbing head and half-closed right eye testified to this fact as my teeth [...]
Film and literature are very different media. Even the laziest of observers will confirm that yes, books tend to be small, oblong and papery whereas cinemas are larger, less portable and serve popcorn. But those are just the surface differences, each art form has its own strengths and weaknesses, especially when it comes to the [...]
It’s episode three of The Ood Cast and this week we’re talking about the first installment in the ‘He will knock 4 times’ saga that ends the Tenth Doctor’s life – the aptly named Planet of the Dead.
Flies in boiler suits, dodgy CGI, a wrecked double decker bus, Lara Croft and fires of iniquity all [...]
Once again, The Stairwell welcomes Mr Hunt as he rails against something inconsequential to such a degree he loses his perspective completely and thus fails to elicit any sympathy from his readers.
SMUG: The attitude of idiocy
Like my smiling dullard of a blogmate, I use a Mac. I’m not going to go on about it, I [...]
Take a look at this picture.
It’s a pretty rubbish picture, isn’t it? It’s grainy and someone has taken chunks out of it. It’s low resolution and you can’t see much of anything.
Well it may interest you to know, gentle reader, that this unassuming picture is currently making the internet geek out in a fairly major [...]
