I was saddened more than I care to admit to hear that Tom Mankiewicz passed away last week. If nothing else the Superman documentaries on the Superman: The Movie DVD release reveals the great creative partnership between director Richard Donner and creative consultant Tom Mankiewicz when working on Superman The Movie and Superman II. Christopher ( Read more... )

Where are my fellow Superman fans on Twitter? Since Loud Twitter is not posting my tweets here for some reason you should definetely follow @dj_intheuk. Say hello or a Superman quote and I will follow back :)

I am about to watch Donner's Superman on big screen for only the second time in my life *yay*

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Myself and missy_manic did the geeky thing of watching Nightmare at 20,000 Feet whilst being on an airplane ourselves. And the brilliant Doctor Trek from Kelvington.com. The holiday gave me some time to read and I finished the autobiography of musician and actor Gary Kemp. I hung around stage doors back in the early 00's to get his autograph and so I read ( Read more... )

Movies 2009 - Seen at the cinema:

Slumdog Millionaire
Seven Pounds
Valkyrie
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Franklyn
Watchmen
The Boat That Rocked
The Damned United
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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Enjoyed it :) Wasn't the best but it wasn't half as bad as I'd feared (must stop reading reviews beforehand). I noticed ( Read more... )

kalalanekent asked for more photos of the Daily News building in NYC, aka The Daily Planet in Superman Reeveverse so here goes starting with a video in the direction Clark and Lois walk in the lobby because yes I'm *that* geeky ;)

Enjoy :)



( Swell?!...there are very few people left in the world who feel comfortable using that word. )

Superman fans how could I go to NYC and not visit The Daily Planet building? Better known to New Yorkers as The Daily News building. That's exactly how I started day 5. Followed by a trip to the Guggenheim via Central Park. At the Guggenheim was a bit of drama that caused a small fall out between me and Phil. Unknown to me he'd been feeling ( Read more... )

'Verismilitude' - the appearance of being true or real; likeness or resemblance of the truth, reality or a fact’s probability. Verisimilitude comes from Latin verum meaning truth and similis meaning similar ( Read more... )