The Doctor’s List
Mar 26Here’s the first trailer for series 7 (or 33, or arguably 34) of Doctor Who. As filming for the series is still in the early stages, most of the scenes come from just one episode, the Old West one recently filmed in Spain, though the dark indoor scenes with the Egyptian princess and the robot-looking [...]
Otter of the Baskervilles? Giant Otter of Sumatra?
Mar 23I’m not sure whether the moral is that otters look like Benedict Cumberbatch or that Benedict Cumberbatch looks like an otter: (CHT AICN.)
There Will Be Chrome, But Not Much
Mar 22After much dithering, the Mansquito Channel has decided that Blood and Chrome (the CGI-heavy Galactica prequel and Caprica sequel whose trailer I linked to yesterday) will be a standalone tv-movie rather than the start of a tv series (though its being followed up by a web-only series hasn’t been ruled out). Wouldn’t it make more [...]
Glimpses Through the Time Vortex
Mar 21Note: the following bits of info are all from official BBC announcements and so I don’t consider them spoilers, but if you’re hyper-spoiler-averse, back away now. We now know when, and to some extent how, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill are leaving Doctor Who, and who’s replacing them in the “companion” role, namely Jenna-Louise Coleman. [...]
Barsoom Hopping
Mar 18I finally saw John Carter. It was better than I expected. It had many flaws, but it did a far better job of capturing the look and feel of the Barsoomian landscape and civilisation than the trailers indicated; and it was good enough that its relatively poor performance at the box office (and consequently, poor [...]
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