The fun never ends here at Red Flag, as I desperately try to quantify the passage of my years with lists of things; today's vision of months past takes stock of all the feature films I absorbed, good, bad and indifferent. And there were plenty of all three, let me tell ya ( Read more... )

My last list-of-the-year-end, and it's movies. I got a little more flicks in over 2014 than in previous years. The split between my two favourite genres (action vs. sci-fi) was pretty much 50-50 and top picks for 2014 were (perhaps unsuprisingly for me) the hugely fun Guardians of the Galaxy and the great LEGO Movie, which I found unexpectedly ( Read more... )

Last year-end blog of the annual series is my movie round-up. I backslid with my watching in 2013, seeing almost half the films I caught in 2012, so I’ll have to try and make that up again in the next twelve months; but on the plus side I did get out to the cinema more, and there’s nothing quite like the collective experience of a movie...except ( Read more... )

Part two of my annual "things I did last year instead of working" survey is all about movies; I saw over fifty films this year, an improvement on last year and, I'm pleased to say, a tick against the New Year's Resolution I set myself to watch more.

Here's the list:
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Yup, it's true. CBS films have officially announced that they have aquired the rights to make a movie adaptation of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the game I worked on as a writer (and also wrote a tie-in novel).

Here's a link to an article at The Hollywood Reporter which pretty much covers all the bases; note that this is a development deal, not a full ( Read more... )

And here's my final time-waste review of last year, looking over the movies I saw. I did as I intended, making the effort to see more films this time, and by coincidence I kinda book-ended 2011 with the Robert Downey Jr/Jude Law Sherlock Holmes movies - although I didn't visit the cinema as much as I wanted to.

Here's my full list:
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nd so, another year ends, and another series of 'What I Did With My Spare Time' blogs arise. First up, movies.

Last year, I said I'd watch more films and I kinda did, but I still reached the end of the year feeling like I really didn't; and I certainly didn't do what I intended, which was to patronize my local cinema more often. There were a fair ( Read more... )

Back in February I posted  this blog entry about the oncoming nerdrush of Tron Legacy, waxing lyrical about a movie from my childhood and putting my heart on my sleeve for the sequel.

I said these things: "You have to be a certain kind of geek to get Tron. It's the fever-dream of every gamer, the Narnia of the Atari generation; the fantasy of ( Read more... )

Oh, this is a good year to be a 1980's geek.

Check out more coolness from the upcoming Space Battleship Yamato live action movie Here.

As I've nerded about downblog, this December will see the release of a movie that I've been waiting to see for nearly thirty years;  Tron Legacy, the sequel to the cult videogame sci-fi classic Tron is bearing down like a Light Cycle at full throttle, and I can't wait. It's weird how I sometimes think I've outgrown the sweet thrill of geekosity ( ( Read more... )