After some discussion at work, my colleagues and I agreed that if one of us were to find himself (or herself) trapped on a desert island with only the muppets to keep him (or her) company, the first muppet he (or she) would kill and eat would be Miss Piggy.

Because bacon.

I work hard, you guys.

1) As everyone else has said, the writing on this show is pretty dreadful, the performances are fairly decent, and the action is fantastic. Which puts it ahead of a lot of kung fu movies I have loved ( Read more... )

It is, of course, widely known and accepted that Britta Perry is the opposite of Batman. Yet you never see Batman described as the opposite of Britta.

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So I'm watching Strictly Come Dancing (the British original of Dancing With The Stars, for the Americans out there), and I'm mostly enjoying it except for two things. The first is the really annoying judge named Bruno, and the second is Bruce Forsyth, who ( Read more... )

Of the Twelve Labours of Heracles, precisely none revolve around killing people. If he had been a better diplomat when he visited the Amazons, he could have completed them with no human casualties whatsoever ( Read more... )

( Asperger's and work-related bullshit. )

Crossover that someone should write: That time in 1899 when Helena G Wells, agent of Warehouse 12, teamed up with Madame Vastra the Silurian and Jenny to hunt Dracula.

1) Doctor Who was… okay. I mean, the plot was lame, but the character stuff was fun. And I liked the Brigadier’s daughter.

2) Bought Avengers on blu-ray yesterday, then had a panic when I got it home and it didn’t work. Eventually I worked out that my player needed a “firmware” update. Luckily, I had a spare LAN cable left over from the time ( Read more... )

Dredd -- which is about to arrive in America -- is an almost slavishly loyal adaptation of a comic which nonetheless manages to be impressively straightforward in its plot and characterisation. It's also a darn good action movie.

It’s also, interestingly, impressively female-centric.

( Vague spoilers. )

Dredd was almost everything I could ask from a Judge Dredd movie.

( Dredd shoots bad guys. Bad guys die. )