I like Twitter
I don’t do Facebook status’. Not more than one every 3 months in the last few years anyway. I share links I find interesting that others will hopefully do also. So in my… Continue reading
Category Archive: Film & Television
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Why I watch Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) will be celebrating forty years on the air next year. It’s a comedy juggernaut that has been consistently delivering about 20 live episodes a year throughout those forty… Continue reading
Measure of a Man: The most exciting episode of Star Trek (and it doesn’t have any action)
Do you have a soul? Do I? Does anyone? What is a soul? Is it a metaphysical force that contains ‘you’ that our bodies simply house? Or is it just a glorified name… Continue reading
The Comeback ahead of it’s…comeback.
Until a week ago, I had never watched The Comeback, the 2005 sitcom starring Lisa Kudrow. But ahead of it’s return to TV after nine years off the air, I decided to give… Continue reading
Doctor Who and the Adventure of the Rose-tinted Glasses
Doctor Who has become a bit divisive recently. Stephen Moffat has been tearing many away from their childhood favourite through bad plotting with ridiculous premises, frantic episode pacing and bad characterisation. Or has… Continue reading
The Films of Summer 2014
September is here and therefore the summer season of films has pretty much come to an end. The tent poles have been brought down and now begins the season of films vying… Continue reading
What Makes A Good TV Pilot: Revisited
Earlier this week, I laid out what I believed were the five objectives that a television pilot should do in order to lay out to it’s audience what it is and what… Continue reading
What Makes a Good TV Pilot?
What makes a good television pilot? You’re going to get different answers depending on who you ask that question. It wouldn’t surprise me if the answer from television writers differ quite drastically from… Continue reading
How to Fix the Star Wars Prequels
Much has been said/ranted/shouted about the prequels. Do you live under a rock? No? Then you know what I am talking about; the horrible writing, bland characters and direction, bizarre creative choices and… Continue reading
Oblivion (2013) is underrated
Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise running, deserves your attention. At the time of its release it was branded as having dull characters, reused ideas from other science fiction films and being generally uninteresting. Now… Continue reading
