Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Other Peoples Stuff’ Category
The Film Ghetto
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Empire (September 2007) has an interesting article “My Week in TV Hell” has an interesting article about films on terrestrial television in the UK. I thought it was a fluff piece at first: Dorian Lynskey watches every film shown on the five terrestrial analogue services in the UK for a week. However once you get […]
Live Free or Die Hard aka Die Hard 4.0
Friday, July 6th, 2007It’s been twelve years since we last saw John McClane. Now thanks to an interesting new application of the delete key by a group of bad guys who don’t seem to do things the simple way when there is a complicated way to do it, he’s back in action. This is the kind of popcorn […]
Dr Who and the Product Life Cycle
Sunday, July 1st, 2007I’ve been messing around with several projects today but have nothing remotely exciting to show. I was going through my blog today and found I’d written this back after the end of David Tennant’s first series as The Doctor but forgot to post it. What if the Doctor was an operating system… Hartnell – Doctor […]
Doctor Who: Last of the Time Lords
Saturday, June 30th, 2007I’m just going to ask one question… Just one… Has the whole point of the last three series of Doctor Who been to set up a one gag story arc for Captain Jack? In other news Last of the Time Lords managed not to be a lacklustre series finale and didn’t resort to a silly […]
Marion Raven – Set Me Free
Friday, June 29th, 2007My copy of Marion Raven’s album Set Me Free came from Amazon last week but in all the excitement of the week end I didn’t get round to blogging about it. A good mix of different style and even the tracks I didn’t like at first are growing on me. Her sound isn’t ground breaking […]
Shinny Hot Fuzz
Monday, June 18th, 2007I’m not one for buying DVDs until they drop from full price to something more sensible but I cracked at the weekend and picked up Hot Fuzz with all the shinny extras. I’ll not rave about the main film again. If you want to know what I thought of Hot Fuzz you can read what […]
Doctor Who: Utopia
Saturday, June 16th, 2007I’m not going to say a huge amount about this episode except it did the things that the better episodes of the new Doctor Who do: Foreshadowing and not just springing an ending that seems almost tacked on Pace Misdirection Interesting setting Good story Character development It also had a huge advantage in that it […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007Just back from watching Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, the second part of the two part follow up to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Enjoyed it. Plot was twisty and did some interesting things with the characters. Great action sequences. Interesting characters. I would have liked more Chow […]
Nimue's Price Out Now
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007Kim’s first fantasy story (stop sniggering at the back) came out today. I read Nimue’s Price a few months ago before it went to be editor and really, really enjoyed it. If you like your fantasy with a twist or your Camelot a little unexpected I’d recommend it. In fact even if you like your […]
Spider-Man III
Friday, May 18th, 2007Went to see Spider-Man III and Tsos for dinner yesterday with friends including Kim and The Ent. I’m not a big Spider-Man fan or for that mater super heroes. In the same way I prefer a gritty spy film to a high action one. I suspect this helped me because my expectation of Spider-Man III […]