More viral marketing for Watchmen. Following on from the 1970s news pastiche about the tenth anniversary of Dr Manhattan is this 1970s public service film pastiche about the dangers of vigilantism. Both have the sense of time and style down perfectly, which has to bode well for the film.

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My birthday yielded The Absolute Sandman, Volume 3 (the kind of gorgeous object of desire that's so heavy, nicely bound and on good quality paper that you'd want to own it even if you weren't interested in the contents). Also Alice in Sunderland, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, unchillfiltered Laphroaig whisky (which I'm sampling as we speak), two ( Read more... )

The Wire star hits out at Emmys. Sergeant Ellis Carver thinks the Emmys are ignoring his show, and rightly so. I still can't believe that The Wire has never won an Emmy. It does at least have a single nomination this year: Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series for its final episode. Maybe that means it'll get the 'lifetime achievement' sympathy ( Read more... )

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No Doctor Who tonight, of course, because we need to be reminded that, right across Europe, there are people with no ability to sing. However there's a mid series trailer now online (UK only) for the remainder of the year's episodes. I can't say it blows me away or looks as excitingly incomprehensible as last year's equivalent trail, and a large ( Read more... )

My review of Iron Man is up at Strange Horizons today. Should you care to take a look.

Official images of characters from the Watchmen movie.  Most of these look pretty good, particularly Rorschach whose ink-blot mask translates surprisingly well from the printed page (he's also seen in this recent shot using what seems to be a flaming aerosol can).

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