Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Wednesday, 1 August 2018

idea for a comedy sequel to ‘the time traveller’s wife’

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Idea for a comedy sequel to The Time Traveller’s Wife , to be called The Time Traveller’s Toilet . This film is about the man who, once...
Sunday, 1 July 2018

twenty-seven words following the river of death downstream - and some other films i've watched recently

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Cosh Boy; also known as The Slasher in USA (1953, dir.   Lewis Gilbert, starring James Kenney, Joan Collins; feat. Hermione Gingold as Qu...

twenty-seven words about lawns, putin, the lake district, computronium etc

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Did you arrive here through my suggestion on twitter that you take Yuval Noah Harari away with you on holiday (so to speak)? If so, welcom...
Thursday, 1 March 2018

twenty-seven word review of my favourite 1960s b-movie which i watched for, perhaps, the fifth time, plus some other films i watched during november, december, january and february

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X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes (1963, dir. Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland, Diane Van der Vlis). This Kennedy-era thriller – creepy, ...
Wednesday, 1 November 2017

twenty-seven word reviews of films seen during august, september and october

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The Raven  (1935, dir. Louis Friedlander, aka Lew Landers, starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff) - If your consultant’s other specialisms in...

twenty-seven word reviews of books read during august, september and october

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Nnedi Okrafor’s  Binti.  Some great aliens in YA novella about Himba  girl (Namibia) leaving home (in various senses) for offworld uni. A f...
Tuesday, 25 July 2017

twenty-seven word reviews of films seen since April

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The Way Ahead (1945, dir. Carol Reed, starring David Niven, Stanley Holloway, William Hartnell).   Romanticised but open-ended portrait...

twenty-seven word reviews of books read since March

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Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon .  Liked incursion of Nigerian folktale into Lagos-set SF; wanted to like more; found ‘putdownable’; polyphonic,...
Wednesday, 1 March 2017

twenty-seven word reviews of books read during January and February 2017

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Ursula Le Guin’s Wizard of Earthsea .  “Not many girls,” say daughter. True – wizards are all boys, girls do housework. “Female author th...