Having decided to watch a film tonight we started sorting through the miscellaneous items B. has stored on the PVR-alike he has converted the Mac Mini into. V for Vendetta? Too grim. Modern remake of The Time Machine? Not heard good things about that. Masters of the Universe? Sometimes I worry about him, I really do. Doctor Who and the Daleks? ( Read more... )

So B and I ended up watching this almost entirely forgettable swords-and-sorcery movie last night which rejoiced in the name of Kull the Conqueror. It is, apparently, an adaptation of a Robert E. Howard Conan book but with the hero replaced by Kull, much as the first Conan movie is a reworking of a Kull novel (I hope everyone is still following ( Read more... )

Bloodspell is a machina feature film that was released yesterday afternoon. To be honest, if I hadn't met cairmen, who wrote, directed and produced the film while I was in Edinburgh I doubt I'd have the first clue what Machinma was. In short its the use of computer games' engines to produce animation - this is why cairmen could make Bloodspell for less than ( Read more... )

I find it hard to view the fight scenes in martial arts movies as fights as opposed to dances. I find I watch them admiring the choreography rather than revelling in the violence in any way. This is possibly why I have no problem when they, almost inevitably, take off and fly about across lakes, jumping between tree tops, etc. etc ( Read more... )