Category Archives: cinema

Here in the ogre’s cave we get only a few television channels. One of them shows, each weekend, an astonishingly bad movie; not merely the dull-witted clutter that fills up the hours between infomercials for other stations, but atrocities approaching … Continue reading →

From Michael Jennings, “how the corporate downsizing of AOL Time Warner led to a mad New Zealander making three movies of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.” But, for now, some stories can have happy endings. (At least one … Continue reading →

I understand that all three parts of LotR were shot together. I wonder, though, whether a producer of an effects-heavy series might think it wiser to make the parts in order, so that the last part won’t suffer by comparison … Continue reading →

Last night I watched Red Dwarf series VIII, and was struck by an injustice that nobody seemed to notice: Captain Hollister blamed Rimmer and Lister for the dinosaur, created by Kryten’s clumsy use (encouraged by Kochanski) of the time-wand – … Continue reading →