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It’s strange when a film as seemingly thoughtless as Crank 2 inspires so much thought. For someone who hasn’t seen anything from the franchise they probably appear to be big dumb action movies, with Jason Statham put in increasing situations of ridiculousness which he gets out of in increasingly violent ways, however I think there [...]

A while back I read an interesting post on Shana’s blog that got me to thinking. Being a rabid e-book advocate these days I’d not really thought much about the external influence of book covers on people other than the reader. Most people I’ve heard talk about covers in the past, when mentioning other people [...]

I first heard of David Peace a couple of months back. Knowing none of his work to date I grabbed an eBook of Tokyo Year Zero because it a) had an okay cover b) tickled my bimonthly obsession with Japan and c) was available as an eBook. It was okay – stylishly written, by which [...]

This weekend I done made a film. Not one of my ’special’ movies that the restraining order says I can’t send to Belinda Carlisle any more, but an entry for the SCI-FI-LONDON 48hour Film Challenge.
I didn’t really mean to enter, it just sort of happened. After taking some piccies of the cinema full of eager [...]

One of the lovely things about LoveFilm is that they have an almighty pile of random DVDs that I have never heard of. What is also lovely about them is that former flatmates Dave’n’Let also have an account, rent the random DVDs that I’ve never heard of and then lend them to me with recommendations [...]

My yearly bout of poking sci-fi film fans into darkened spaces is almost upon us and the Sci-Fi-London film festival will soon be opening its doors.
The schedule is now up on the website and it has expanded this year to have a programme of panels and talks running in parallel with the movies. It’s covering [...]

So April first arrived and quickly skipping over the April fools jokes I ended up in work, dressed in mufti (well, in my normal work clothes, aka ’scruffy clothes’), at first refused entrance due to not having enough ID, and ready for a day of watching protestors break against the doors of my building like [...]