Category Archives: cinema

wee folk on the big screen

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 November 19 by Anton

Seeing a light blue Ford Anglia in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was a special treat for me, because we had one when I was about seven. Too bad about the script, though. In the trailer for The … Continue reading →

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fans rejoice

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 November 19 by Anton

Lost Doctor Who show revived: the BBC is remaking Shada, an episode (by Douglas Adams) that was aborted by a strike in 1979.

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mon pote

Posted on Saturday, 2002 October 26 by Anton

Any French film buffs in the audience? I’m trying to remember the title of a movie in which one of the main characters brags of his « collection intégrale des Livres de Poche » (complete collection of Pocket Books). If memory serves, … Continue reading →

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bedfellows

Posted on Monday, 2002 October 21 by Anton

Andrew Bulhak observes: (The identity of heroes/villains in films can be telling; for example, there’s Four Feathers, which glorifies the British Empire (which can be seen as a rather prestigious model to proponents of a a global American empire) and … Continue reading →

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aren’t they cute

Posted on Thursday, 2002 October 03 by Anton

In Dave Langford’s latest Ansible: FANTASY DEFINITIONS MASTERCLASS. Years ago John Clute, John Grant, and their Encyclopedia of Fantasy team wrestled with tough problems of defining fantasy and telling good from bad. If only they’d had the help of Tom … Continue reading →

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every planet has quarries

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 October 02 by Anton

If I ever visit England again, I must look up some of these Doctor Who locations, particularly Aldbourne alias Devil’s End.

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another day, another blogpost

Posted on Thursday, 2002 September 26 by Anton

Learned this week: a pimple can be quite astonishingly painful, if it’s in the ear-canal. Miyazaki’s 千と千尋の神隠し Spirited Away was fun. I wonder how many of the monsters in the background could be recognized (by a trufan) from other works. … Continue reading →

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