Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Other Peoples Stuff’ Category
Why I Write Reviews
Monday, August 2nd, 2010Why do I write what I call reviews? The short answer: Because it helps me think about my own writing. The long answer: I used to write what I’ll call proper reviews, they’d appear in Valkyrie and Ragnarok. My review of 7th Sea produced at short notice got me the writing gig with Valkyrie so […]
Inception
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Normally I write these things I loosely describe as reviews the same night as seeing a film or TV show. Waiting any longer risks thinking too much about the subject or forgetting a detail. That’s why I didn’t write about Sherlock last week and why I almost didn’t write about Inception that I went to […]
Doctor Who: The Big Bang
Saturday, June 26th, 2010Tonight’s Doctor Who, The Big Bang, was farce. Not quite pure farce. More like 90% farce. Not bad farce. Proper farce. Farce in a good way. In a The Importance of Being Earnest or Noises Off kind of way. It could take its spiritual importance from the second half of The Importance of Being Earnest’s […]
The Pandorica Opening
Saturday, June 19th, 2010So here are my random thoughts on tonigh’s Doctor Who episode The Pandorica Opening but first a little sillyness… This week’s episode could have been titled: How do you solve a problem like the Doctor? Now I know my theory about Graham Norton as the series bad guy and the crack being the gap under […]
Vincent and the Doctor
Saturday, June 5th, 2010I was worried about Richard Curtis writing a Doctor Who for two reasons – first that it could be too Richard Curtis; second that it could be Richard Curtis free. I’m glad to say that Vincent and the Doctor was Doctor Who and it was a Richard Curtis Doctor Who. First let’s get some of […]
The Losers
Friday, May 28th, 2010Half my brain liked The Losers the other half isn’t so sure. First the good things… The comedy – it wasn’t always timed perfectly – but there was plenty of humour and it was drawn from the characters. The action was solid and sometimes creative. The way The Losers could be casual when going up […]
Doctor Who: Flesh and Stone / The Vampires of Venice
Saturday, May 8th, 2010I’ve been lazy and didn’t do a post for last week’s Doctor Who, Flesh and Stone. So this week I’m doing a read one (post) get two Doctor Who reviews. I’ll come to The Vampires of Venice soon but first Flesh and Stone and then at the end the Crack and River Song. Second parts […]
Doctor Who: The Time of Angels
Saturday, April 24th, 2010Wow that went fast! One of the best signs of a really good drama is that it feels like it was shorter than it was. Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy always felt twenty minutes long. Tonight’s Doctor Who clocked in at 40 minutes but felt like 30. First there was River’s demonstration of how […]
Doctor Who: Victory of the Daleks
Saturday, April 17th, 2010So we got jammy dodgers, Where Eagle Dare, Asimov, Troughton and Daleks references for fun. Nice Dalek model on the plotting table to set them up and I thought the olive drab Daleks looked really good with the little Union Jack. The new look Daleks don’t look quite so good. I wonder if the main […]
Clash of the Titans Review in the Style of the Film
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Review of Clash of the Titans in the style of the film. Story OK but a bit like it was cobbled together for twitter. Looked good. Nice costumes and props. Mix of solid and good special effects. Sound seemed a bit lacklustre. Might have been the system in the cinema. Gods were great. So was […]