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Fellow 'Voyage' friends - we've lost another. According to Ansible's RIP column, Terry Becker died on the 30th December 2014. (For non-'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' fans, he played CPO Francis Ethelbert Sharkey, the Chief of the Boat of Seaview in the colour seasons of that TV show - Seasons 2-4.)

Watching the DVD of Hansel and Gretel:Witch Hunters (£3 in Sainsbury last week.) Cripes! A candidate for the worst movie I've seen in many years. Renner is pretty, but, oh, that ridiculous posing with the BIG GUN (sorta.) The dialogue is just one cliche piled on another cliche, most of which are pure 20th/21st Century ( Read more... )

It's being reported on fan sources (and Huffpo) that Brian Clemens died on the 10th, aged 83. So far there is no official confirmation, but some of the sources include people who worked for Mark One, such as Ray Austin ( Read more... )

I've been catching up with 'Agents of SHIELD' over the past few weeks, mainly because of promised impacts on the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe and so here they are. I am more than a little underwhelmed. I am trying to avoid spoilers here, but one or two things may be considered as minor such so let us cut...

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From a review (linked below) of 'Exodus: Gods and Kings', Ridley Scott's latest epic (currently 46% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, though they only have just enough reviews for a critical consensus ( Read more... )

We are watching the first episode of the new BBC documentary series on science fiction (actually on filmed science fiction with the odd - very odd - excursion into text.) There has already been a lot of yelling in this household, mainly boiling down to: "Who is this idiot?" and and "If it's just about film and TV why didn't they fucking say so?" ( ( Read more... )

In Order, the MCU films coming up until May 2019 and my reactions to them:

Avengers: the Age of Ultron.

The more I see and hear of this, the better it seems to get. Partly this is because I adore the Scarlet Witch and am fond of the Vision. (Quicksilver not so much, but I suspect he is going to be used as a way into The Inhumans - see below.) ( Read more... )

What sort of researchers are these people on the Beeb researching cat behaviour who are telling viewers things that EVERY SINGLE CAT BREEDER has known for years? Yes, related queens feed each other's kittens and actually steal them, yes the tail-up signal has been known for years and years and we have all seen it used with both other cats and ( Read more... )