Before we start: you may find the Christian Spotlight on Entertainment review site funny, annoying or helpful depending on your bent. Rated on "morals" and "moviemaking" :) You have been warned ( Read more... )

Just watched part 2 of The Guardians - absolutely brilliant. All the more remarkable because the episode consists in large part of an intense two-hander: a prolonged and uncomfortable conversation about censorship and repression between Richard Hurndall and Cyril Luckham (as a television service head and a prime minister respectively ( Read more... )

Hmmmm. Loved it - especially the second half, which was gloriously, beautifully *insane* ... not to mention just plain beautiful - and not just for the incredible gutwrench of Helith/Harlax - but really. Really. WTF ( Read more... )

But. But.

It got too camp in the end. Too self-referential, too knowing. It always gets like that, things become super-exaggerated, then they die.

-- River of Gods, Ian McDonald

Doctor Who: Fires of Pompeii - oh YES. Thank you. Closest thing we've had to real Who yet :)

( cut for minor, non-story-specific spoilers )

The Metal Mickey DVD arrived :) Skip if you expect adult-level analysis, or any brain engage at all really.

( Nutshell: it's still funny, Shail, Handl, unexpected pervjoy and 3 small pics thereof )

Finally got around to that on-spec DL of Gangsters. OMFG. Now *this* is worth watching. Colbourne, Jaffrey, fumping and grit and crime and teh absolute nasteh and not laughing at the suits honest Kline/Khan ftw. Jaffrey ftw. Especially Jaffrey. Did I mention Jaffrey?.

Y HALO THAR NU FANDOM :)

(1) she's posting on Boycott Day! o Noes!

*kindly* Get knotted. A business is entitled to make business decisions, and I'm entitled to carry on being a grown-up. Next.

( public liability, TV script standards, Any Previous, bloody Easter )

As seen on kateorman's LJ: the first music video I can remember seeing ever... (caveat: you know, I could have sworn it was Shadow Boxer but looking at the dates that has to be arse-up)

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Very strongly associated with being off school for a day and spending it cutting holes in a giant cardboard box to make a cubby-house in my Auntie Pam's living room -> ( Read more... )

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metal-Mickey-Complete-John-Edward/dp/B00113NWT6/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1205762450&sr=1-8

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