Tuesday, October 21, 2008
It would be fair to say that it’s been less than clear how you can leave comments on this blog. The main problem has been filtering out spam, but hopefully I’ve got that pretty much sorted now. So if you want to leave a comment on a post just click on comments at the side [...]
Get the feeling that you’ve been here before? They need to prevent a future where the world is destroyed by a CGI effect. The stalwarts are back. We’re not sure who’s good and who’s bad, or why. Have to confess I found the opening of the series somewhat irritating. But last night’s episode I Am [...]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Nuclear post-apocalyptic movies most often represented technology as having been rendered useless (or dust) by the bombs. One interesting feature of I Am Legend is that the infrastructure remains. Most people are wiped out or turned into zombies (let’s face it: they’re zombies) by disease, but there are still generators and there is still some [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
They were always a waste of everyone’s time. Scotland had the courage to hold out and have nothing to do with them, but like the saps we are we caved in and inflicted them on a generation of year 9s – filling them with half remembered nonsense about “key scenes” (whatever that means) in Shakespeare [...]
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Be careful about approaching it. It’s a closed environment with limited possibilities, and will eventually croak. The mood is more rewarding.