Tonight I went off to the BFI IMAX to watch the new Ghostbusters film. I'll get to my thoughts (with minor spoilers) below, but first a bit of preamble.

It's fair to say that this film attracted quite a bit of controversy, even before anyone had actually seen it. Looking at the Ghostbusters page on Facebook, each time they posted something about ( Read more... )

Last year I went to the Nine Worlds Geekfest, and I was back there again last weekend. I enjoyed it, and I've already bought my ticket for 2015, so I'd recommend it to anyone with similar interests.

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Whenever I read a book, I put a review on Goodreads. This includes graphic novels and TPBs, but it doesn't work so well for individual comic issues or a series as a whole. So, here are some thoughts about comics I've read recently. I'm keeping spoilers to a minimum, but please proceed with caution if you're sensitive about that.

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Over at "Get Rich Slowly", there's a post about The Idea of Having, and I think some of the ideas there apply to me. ("You like the idea of having certain things, but you don’t actually use them.") However, I'm trying to do something about it, by decluttering my flat. For one thing, I realise that I've pretty much reached capacity, so I need to get ( Read more... )

Last week baratron posted a link to this post: Have you ever noticed, nobody ever says books have too many heterosexual people in them? Well, the internet being what it is, it turns out that there are people who make that objection to books. For instance, this post criticises the Harry Potter books for heteronormativity (warning: contains spoilers for book ( Read more... )

Well, today has been a long day, but it's gone a lot better than yesterday (as well as being better than I'd expected ( Read more... )