Okay, guys, I just have to tell you about this one! It's a made-for-TV disaster movie from 1999, dressed up as an action movie that stars Rob Lowe, and the title is actually Atomic Train. This sentence contains 100% truefax, and yet it does not even come close to describing how wonderfully, gloriously, entertainingly, awe-inspiringly terrible ( Read more... )

Saddle up, Sherlock viewers! The Sign Of Three is at hand! Awkward and badly paced as it is, this episode is actually the highlight of Series Three. While it doesn't hit the quality of The Great Game or the sheer entertaining lunacy of the first part of A Scandal in Belgravia, it is, in its own way, not that bad an episode. It's stuck with a ( Read more... )

Today, I had the great joy of seeing a stage version of Cabin Pressure at the Corpus Playroom, this tiny little hole-in-the-wall theater that I think stages mostly student productions. In a word, this one was: Brilliant ( Read more... )

Finally, finally, The Empty Hearse lurches toward its finale. Such as it is.

( Series Three, Episode One, Part Three )

Cambridge isn't London, but it is most definitely a city of theatah* A couple of nights ago, I treated myself to Henry V at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, put on by one of the many University drama societies. This one was the Marlowe Society, which sometimes produces really top-notch actors. You could totally see why, too. Henry V took itself just ( Read more... )

Dragging myself back for the next half-hour of filler that passes for actual content in The Empty Hearse. The content of the filler is clever-er than last time, but . . . it's still filler. It's only an hour into a ninety-minute episode that the show actually has something to be about, which is why it's taken me so long to do this recap. But ( Read more... )

Huzzah, hooray, and glory be! I have finally made it to the end of Season One of Queer As Folk! From the depths of dullness that was the previous episode, the first season finale pulls itself up a long, long ascent for an absolutely brilliant final eight minutes or so.

( Season One, Episode Twenty-Two )

Took me a while to get around to doing this one. Partially it's that it's a bit harder to find the episodes to watch from England. But the larger part is that this episode is just so goshdarn dull that I kept putting it off. There are a couple of plot threads going on here, but none of them are very interesting. Either they're minor incidents ( Read more... )

I was going to make this a Movie Review! post, but that seemed a bit disingenuous, because so much of my response to the movies involves the books as well. For the record: I've read all three of the books and seen the first two movies; the third movie is out, but I haven't seen it yet, so it won't be part of this review. On the other hand, don't ( Read more... )

From Cracked: 6 Weird Ways the World Looks Different When You're Asexual. . . yup. Pretty much. Some of this has happened in my own life, including an unfortunate encounter with a gynecologist who resembled my hated sixth-grade teacher in more ways than just the physical. (The sixth-grade teacher was a woman who I think became a teacher not ( Read more... )