Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Blue Harvest, the Star Wars parody episode of Family Guy was on TV recently and, having enjoyed it so much before, I feel compelled to watch it. Once again it is a brilliant and humorous reminder of how great the original Star Wars film is, such is the warmth ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
I am somewhat tardy in reporting this as it was a few months when ago I picked up the Mystery Science Theatre 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition DVD box set. I was only making a routine scan of on-line shops and looking at what MST3K episodes had been released in ...
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
I've finished watching the fourth series of The Wire, after getting the DVD box set for Christmas. I greatly enjoyed the previous three series and was expecting more great drama from this one and I wasn't disappointed.
Before I watched an episode I wondered if this fourth series would be ...
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
I picked up The Dark Knight on DVD and revisited this action-packed and enthralling super hero adventure, after having seen it twice at the cinema earlier this year. Heath Ledger is simply amazing as The Joker, slipping in to a rôle that he makes complex and engaging with experienced ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
It is occasionally said that you shouldn't revisit your childhood heroes once you've grown up, because they will never live up to your expectations or dreams. This makes sense, because the world moves on and we all grow in different ways, our experiences shape our perceptions and nostalgia clouds ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
It was an animation spectacular for the Friday Film Night this time, with Kung Fu Panda and Futurama's third special Bender's Game lined up for viewing.
First to be watched was Dreamworks Animation's Kung Fu Panda, which I saw at the cinema earlier this year. I have been getting in ...
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
There's me whining like a schoolgirl about Columbo showing spoilers at the start of each episode on DVD when I have technology to rescue me! I feel foolish now for turning the sound down and trying to avoid looking at the screen, until the cut-to-black signals the start of ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
I have reached the fourth series of Mission: Impossible now, and Leonard Nimoy has taken over the role of the man of many faces and sleight of hand. Martin Landau, as Rollin Hand, left the programme, going off to star in Space: 1999.
I was hoping that when Jim Phelps ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
When I picked up some Mission: Impossible series on DVD along with the box set of Columbo, I mentioned in passing my dislike of the snippets of the episode shown at the start of Mission: Impossible. Whilst the snippets don't really show spoiler information for the episode as such ...
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
I watched the excellent budget sci-fi film Primer again recently. By the way, although referring to it as 'budget' is accurate it can give the wrong impression, as the lack of budget isn't noticable. There are few special effects but the film doesn't need them, instead relying on ...
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