Supanova Day 1 was exhausting. Costumes were worn, and many pictures were taken. I've not cosplayed before, and the experience of being regularly stopped by people wanting to take your picture is a strange one. Kind of enjoyable, though, especially when you have two others in matching outfits to pose with, the occasional costume malfunction ( Read more... )

Update o'clock ( Read more... )

A benefit song that doesn't suck? That's unpossible!

Actually, it's Shane McGowan, Nick Cave, Johnny Depp, Chrissy Hynde and a whole bunch of others singing "Put A Spell On You", all proceeds go to relief for the Haitian earthquake and it kicks ass.

Addendum to the Return to the House on Haunted Hill list ( Read more... )

I'm less than a third of the way into Return to the House on Haunted Hill (a sequel to a remake!) and the cliche list currently stands at ( Read more... )

If I don't start being creative again soon then I don't know what I'll do with myself.

"...and then Timothy Dalton fixes everything with his magic wish glove the end."

What a convoluted, maudlin mess of an episode. Bring on the new season, the new Doctor and, most importantly, a whole boatload of new writers.

A few days I thought to myself, entirely without irony, that I didn't like the way that teenagers are always shouting.

Not a great sign.

A Uwe Boll movie that I actually kind of want to see? Hard to imagine, but there it is.


More Far Cry Videos

Admittedly the premise of Far Cry is pretty hard to mess up, and I have an enormous amount of affection for the antics of Udo Kier. Plus the whole movie looks so damn eighties in its action sensibilities, which is no bad thing at all ( Read more... )

This has been an exemplary weekend. A weekend, in fact, worthy of blogging about ( Read more... )