I’m a sucker for a good zombie book, and while my zombie based reading is mostly in comic form (The Walking Dead), one book in particular stood out for me this year, being a completely different take on the standard zombie tale. This is a love story, told from the point of view of a [...]
2011 has been a strong year for both British and American TV, with some outstanding comedy, and some other, much darker stuff as well. I’ve written a bit about my particular highlights here. For me though, one show stood out above the rest for sheer enjoyment, and it was Trollied, on Sky1. The first sitcom [...]
Being as 2011 is drawing to a close, I figured I’d follow convention for once and start rounding up all my favourite things from the year. To start with, I thought I’d go with television, and give you a brief description of some of the things that I liked most on the tellybox this last [...]
So, this year is drawing to a close, and I thought I’d inflict on you some of the highlights of my year. Then I realised the general highlight was winning £12.80 on the Euromillions, and I’ve managed to impart that knowledge in the space of one sentence. So instead, I’ve decided to write a bit [...]
Top 10 – Movie Deaths (Part 2)
Following on from part one of my Top 10 Movie Deaths, here’s the rest of the countdown, from 5 to 1. 5. Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future- This is a movie death that serves as a bit of a shock. Why kill off one of the main characters right at the beginning [...]
2011 has been a strong year for both British and American TV, with some outstanding comedy, and some other, much darker stuff as well. I’ve written a bit about my particular highlights here. For me though, one show stood out above the rest for sheer enjoyment, and it was Trollied, on Sky1. The first sitcom [...]
Being as 2011 is drawing to a close, I figured I’d follow convention for once and start rounding up all my favourite things from the year. To start with, I thought I’d go with television, and give you a brief description of some of the things that I liked most on the tellybox this last [...]
Following on from part one of my Top 10 Movie Deaths, here’s the rest of the countdown, from 5 to 1. 5. Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future- This is a movie death that serves as a bit of a shock. Why kill off one of the main characters right at the beginning [...]
Following on from my Top 10 Robots article, someone at work suggested that my next top 10 should be of memorable movie deaths, and so here it is. I suppose this sort of article could potentially be described as containing spoilers. I wouldn’t imagine there are any major surprises on this list to be honest, and if [...]
In an effort to inspire myself to write a bit more, I’ve decided to start compiling lists of things. Like a real bloke. And just like a real bloke, my lists will be of things like spaceships, computers, and robots. Damn right. These lists are in no way definitive, they’re more a list of whatever [...]
Every time Memorabilia in Birmingham comes up, both me and my wife agree that we will absolutely give this next one a miss. And every single time, they manage to pull a couple of amazing guests out of the bag, that pretty much mean we simply have to go. Last winter, it was Angel Coulby [...]
This week sees the release of Tangled, a Disney animation, based on the classic fairy tale of Rapunzel. According to an article in the LA Times, Tangled is to be the last of the fairy tale films from Disney, at least for the foreseeable future. When you think back over the back catalogue of Disney’s [...]
This weekend, my wife and I attended Memorabilia at the NEC. For those not familiar with Memorabilia, it’s essentially a convention for all those people interested in cult TV, but also caters very well for sports enthusiasts. It offers the chance to meet people that in your (or certainly my) ordinary everyday life, you wouldn’t [...]
This blog entry contains mild spoilers. If you haven’t see the film, go see it, then come back and read this. Are you still here? Go see the film. I promise I’ll still be here when you get back. Right, press “Start” to continue………. Based on the comics by Bryan Lee O’Malley, this film centres [...]
After 6 seasons, one of the television events of my generation came to an end last week. The story of our castaways finished, leaving a number of people angry, confused, and also delighted in equal measure. Here are a smattering of my thoughts on the finale. They’re not all encompassing, and there are some things [...]
