Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Other Peoples Stuff’ Category
Doctor Who: The Beast Below
Saturday, April 10th, 2010So the second outing for the 11th Doctor tonight in The Beast Below. Interesting take on future Britain as a starship. The sets were nicely dressed and with some interesting colour. There was a lovely mix of retro, post war, grimy Britain littered with British icons with incongruous details like the rickshaws. Small quibble if […]
Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010So one episode and he fixed it. Fixed the big problem I had with the RTD Doctor Who. RTD can do fun. RTD can do pulp. RTD can do adventure. RTD’s plots sometimes relied on an unforshadowed solution at the end. Steven Moffat shows you don’t have to throw logic out the window to do […]
Solomon Kane Review
Saturday, February 27th, 2010Just back from a night out with some friends for a meal and then on to see Solomon Kane at the Odeon in Liverpool 1. Before I get to the film good to see that the Odeon seems to have improved since the last couple of times I’ve been there. The cinema was clean and […]
A Town Called Eureka – Season 2
Saturday, January 9th, 2010I finished watching Season 2 of A Town Called Eureka tonight. I like TV shows about quirky communities. A Town Called Eureka is an excellent addition to the likes of Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, the first season of The League of Gentlemen and Trumpton. Each uses an outsider as a way into the strange place: […]
Sherlock Holmes
Friday, January 1st, 2010Just back from seeing the latest take on Sherlock Holmes at FACT in Liverpool. The city was very quiet tonigh with lots of restaurants shut and hardly anyone around the city centre. This take on Sherlock Holmes is a little more spirited and while not overtly steam punk certainly has something of that genres sensibilities […]
Il Forno and The Informant
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Oh dear looks like I need to get my grumpy hat out for both Il Forno and The Informant… Went to Il Forno on Duke Street in Liverpool for dinner before going to see the early evening showing of The Informant at FACT. Things started well with quick service and an excellent swordfish tart starter […]
Fantastic Mr Fox
Friday, November 20th, 2009Fanstastic Mr Fox is probably my favourite Roald Dahl children’s story. So today I decided I’d go and see it at the Odeon in Liverpool 1 and crossed my fingers they’d not treated the source material as a slum clearance job it like Disney did with Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Given the source materials brevity it’s […]
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
Sunday, November 15th, 2009Before I get to any more lucid thoughts – was it just me or did the two water zombies marching around look a lot like Ray Liotta and Mark Kermode? So the long awaited second Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars was on tonight. It was good fun. From the trailer I’d expected a […]
Aeronef
Friday, November 13th, 2009Tonight I’ve added a page to my web site about Wessex Games’ Aeronef – at the moment it is an article I wrote for Ragnarok War Kites and Flying Batteries.
Floodgate by Alistair MacLean
Friday, October 30th, 2009I picked up a lot of Alistair MacLean novels as reprints at a local book shop a few years ago and enjoyed a lot of them but there were a few gaps. So when I spotted Floodgate going for 75p in a charity shop I thought I’d fill the gap and give it a go. […]