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Yahoo Shadowlocked is reporting that Ridley Scott’s plans for the mooted Alien prequel include not just one film, but a whole trilogy, on top of getting the 3D treatment. Original Alien Art Director Roger Christian is quoted as saying “Ridley told me some of his ideas when we were here in Toronto. He has a [...]

Dunno. I just dunno. Sitting on an overcrowded train to Manchester and this kid stood up in front of me with a bag of Christmas presents to get off in the bovine hinterland of Hereford. He goes to pull up his kegs and it dawned on me that the latest craze of skinny chicken legs [...]

I caught the newly reformed Gun at Swansea Sin City last night and my ears are still ringing. Felt bad for the boys that there was not a high turnout but that said, we really got into the swing of things. They played through a string of Gun’s finest aswell as three tracks from the [...]

Science fiction fans are a special bunch, and Torchwood fans are especially enthused with their show it seems. I was meeting a friend down Cardiff Bay over the weekend, and gave a brief tour. “Do you watch Torchwood? This is where it’s based” etc… and as I pointed out the “not-so-secret” entrance to the Torchwood [...]

I am not the only person to think that Torchwood’s “Children of Earth” mini-series is up there with the best of Battlestar Galactica. The Guardian’s Daniel Martin thinks so, and heaps praise on the series. And rightly so. I have rarely seen science fiction encompass all aspects of drama, but CoE has a fair amount [...]

I don’t know what everyone is getting het up about. Really….what do people expect TF2 to be? Some sort of intergalactic Shakespearean drama? I went to see it the other night and expected a few things: Robots. Big ones. Hitting each other. A straight forward narrative. A good laugh. What did I get? All three. [...]

I am just too busy being academic. See you in April… But Being Human ended well didn’t it?

At last I think BBC3′s vampire/werewolf/ghost story is coming of age – and only in the penultimate episode too! The impending war of the vampires that was touted in the original pilot seems to be taking off, and the “taking sides” angle has borne fruit. The only issue left is whether or not this is [...]

I know it sounds a little over the top, but The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has changed my life. Never in a million years did I think that a film could have such an impact on me. It is a little hard to define in words the true scale of this as both a [...]

There are a couple of things bugging me at the moment. First thing is that I am buying the Daily Mail. Yeh…I know it’s the paper of the worried well, but they’re giving away free DVDs of British Classics dramas. And I really loved “The Way We Live Now” when it originally aired around 4 [...]