Ok, so I went and saw another ‘super’ origin story where an emotionally flawed, but brilliant and successful middle-aged white American man hits a roadblock in life and collapses in a heap. After the inciting incident, he seeks redemption/healing and discovers a calling that's bigger than himself, but apparently still all about him. That the … Continue reading Passing Strange & another quarrel
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Doctor Who: Last Christmas Analysis
Shortcuts & slogans This Doctor Who episode, Last Christmas wore many of its influences overtly. Within a few minutes they could be identified as a formula: Alien + Inception + Christmas X 2 = Doctor Who. It's fine I guess. We can all rest and consider that we 'get' the episode. Any dream within a dream … Continue reading Doctor Who: Last Christmas Analysis
Interesting Interstellar
This will be a quick-ish review. Or just some thoughts really about Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. If you want to see it I recommend finding a big screen. The score is good too. My first thought is this is how the crew of Prometheus should have behaved. Like professionals and experts. The cast was good. Especially the … Continue reading Interesting Interstellar
Doctor Who: Blue Steal
I was going to write a post about my adventures the other Saturday. And then I was going to review the Doctor Who episode Time Heist. Then everything sat in my brain for a few days. So I'm going to write about both-ish Mainly because they involve heists, bank vaults, rare and precious things in a museum, … Continue reading Doctor Who: Blue Steal
Going Always – Writing and Doctor Who
So there has been plenty of time to think...in what seems to be a long running thing to write about writing and Doctor Who, because good TV, or even bad TV, takes a lot of effort to write. And regardless of what we write, we should bother to take note, especially in regards to dialogue, … Continue reading Going Always – Writing and Doctor Who
Burton in TV Land
Visited the Tim Burton retrospective/art exhibition at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne t'other day. I like his films. But more importantly I like the look of his films, which turns out, do truly reflect the look of his art. For someone who trained at Disney, he's not very Disneybland. He has … Continue reading Burton in TV Land
We Come in Peace: a defence of SF
Aussie Con4 got me thinking and inspired and thinking. The people who read SF (science fiction or speculative fiction) are the people who read it, but the people who don't, don't understand. Those who tuck into crime dramas look askance at fantasy dabblers, romance devotees dread science fiction aficionados and literature browsers snub all genre … Continue reading We Come in Peace: a defence of SF
Inception: Alice in Slumberland
Like everyone I succumbed and saw Inception. Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance was, again, superb. Christopher Nolan’s inventiveness, visual style and scale were impressive. However, what I liked most is what it left me with: stuff to think on. What occurred to me was films exploring notions of reality, the brain, and imagination end up referencing somehow, … Continue reading Inception: Alice in Slumberland
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