Poor quality fantasy TV risks a return to the 90’s
Robin Hood has been axed, a mild cause for celebration in many ways given the ongoing refusal of producers to acknowledge and fix the show’s glaring failings.
Michael Powell Award winner ‘Moon’ opens July 17th
July 17th sees the UK release of Moon, the first feature from writer/director Duncan Jones, which has just won the Michael Powell Award for the Best New British Feature Film at the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is living on the far side of the [...]
I’ll be keeping my reservation at Hotel Bablyon
Squeezed into the Friday night schedule between the usual dreary and lamentably bad soaps and the self-indulgent and utterly crass Jonathan Ross was an hour of fun, lively and stylish British drama, yup Hotel Babylon (BBC One, 9pm) is back.
COD Online to be subscription only?
A flurry of articles have been hitting the internet in the last three days discussing the possibility that Activision are planning to make a number of Call of Duty’s online features subscription only. Rumours first started after screen grabs of a survey were published by Destructoid. The survey seems to be testing the water and [...]
Sony - Barking up the wrong tree
I have to wonder if Sony are barking up the wrong tree with “Home” for the Playstation 3. For those of you who have not heard of this product it’s a free to use virtual environment where Playstation users may create, upgrade and decorate a virtual “home” Interact with other users in spaces designed by [...]
The BBC’s woes are wholly of its own making
The decision to force the BBC to share some of the licence fee was only possible because its bosses, including the trust, have become deaf to the complaints and grumbles of ordinary licence fee payers and frittered money away with no regard for the institution they were entrusted with.
Angels and Demons: The Crazy World of Dan Brown*
I know quite a few people who are critical of Dan Brown and are very dismissive of his books. I have to admit that I don’t think he is a particularly good writer, but when I read his books I do feel driven to read on and find out what happens next - which [...]
The Elgin Marbles, they’re incomplete so not really worth anything…
One of my guilty TV pleasure’s is ITV’s Dickinson’s Real Deal, a sort of Antiques Roadshow meets Cash in the Attic where members of the pubic queue up to sell their family heirlooms for a few quid to dealers or, in the case of the wary and greedy, in a local auction.