Year: 2019

You will find only what you bring in – Intermission – Xmas 2019

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‘As the usher brings forth the Ice cream and snacks, we wait for the main feature to resume’ You will find only what you bring in At 1 minute past midnight on the 19th December 2019 I sat in our local Cinema and watched the Lucasfilm logo as it appeared on the screen. After 42 years I finally watched the final instalment of what is now known as the Skywalker Saga. This journey had started for me at the age of 9 one sunny afternoon with my Dad. It was…

René Auberjonois (1940-2019)

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René Auberjonois who to me and many Star Trek fans will always be Odo sadly died on December 8th at his Home in Los Angeles. His career started in the 1960’s where he was in Theatre including three roles on Broadway in 1968. In 1970 he appeared in Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H playing father Mulcahy along side Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould. He also played an ornithologist in Robert Altmans Brewster McCloud the same year. Throughout the 1970 he continued doing numerous guest slots on Television shows and appeared in 1976’s…

We Need to Talk about Superman – It’s a Bug’s Life – 10/12/19

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“It’s a Bug’s life’, the weekly post when I tell you what films we’ve watched both on our film Sundays and other parts of the week (I will talk about TV shows elsewhere). Please if you haven’t read the introduction page to this series go take a look that’s where you’ll learn the history of our sorely missed Bug.” There are no spoilers for the films listed We’ve had a busy week but managed to watch a few films and even some premiere’s (for us). We started the week by…

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (40th Anniversary)

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40th Anniversary of Star Trek Who would have guessed it STTMP is 40 years old, on the 7th December 1979 it had it’s cinematic release in the United States. It had not been an easy process to get it to the big screen but it was worth it for all it brought to Roddenberry’s universe, and what it managed to set up to follow it. If it wasn’t for STTMP we wouldn’t have had the films that followed, The Next Generation, DS9, Voyager and much more. The Journey to Star…

Angels and Elephants – It’s a Bug’s Life – 3/12/19

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“It’s a Bug’s life’, the weekly post when I tell you what films we’ve watched both on our film Sundays and other parts of the week (I will talk about TV shows elsewhere). Please if you haven’t read the introduction page to this series go take a look that’s where you’ll learn the history of our sorely missed Bug.” There are no spoilers for the films listed We’ve had a busy week here in the north, due to that film viewing has been a bit stunted. We managed to finally…

Supporting Features – Intermission – Dec 2019

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‘As the usher brings forth the Ice cream and snacks, we wait for the main feature to resume’ Supporting Features This is the bit where I show my age. When I was a boy and I used to go to the ‘Pictures’ there were several things that happened in that emporium of the imagination that do not anymore. Along with intermissions, ushers selling ice-cream and those weird kia-ora juice box/container thingies, there was normally a supporting feature. This would normally be a short film shown before the main feature, most…

Crying Vulcan’s and Volleyballs – It’s a Bug’s Life – 26/11/19

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“It’s a Bug’s life’, the weekly post when I tell you what films we’ve watched both on our film Sundays and other parts of the week (I will talk about TV shows elsewhere). Please if you haven’t read the introduction page to this series go take a look that’s where you’ll learn the history of our sorely missed Bug.” There are no spoilers for the films listed   After finishing last weeks viewing with Godzilla a fitting start to our week was Kong: Skull Island. I really like this film…

Is His Dark Materials Unfilmable? – Episode 1

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In fantasy world building is important to the believability of the world you are reading or watching, it is what the whole story hangs on. Tolkien managed it perfectly in The Lord of the Rings as did Philip Pullman in His Dark Materials books. To adapt these books to other mediums care needs to be taken to ensure the world building is there, along with the spirit of the story.

War of the Worlds (2019) – First look Episode 1

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**There will be spoilers, if you’ve not watched episode 1 then come back after you’ve watched it. ** War of the Worlds is one of the most well known Science Fiction stories, written by H.G. Wells in 1897 his novel has been adapted across media many times. The much mentioned Orson Wells radio broadcast (with the Panic myth), the 1950’s George Pal film, Jeff Wayne’s Musical and Steven Speilberg’s 2005 film are all adaptations that many will have heard of. In all of these adaptations surprisingly no film or TV…

Light cycles, Kaiju and Migraines – It’s a Bug’s Life – 19/11/19

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“It’s a Bug’s life’, the weekly post when I tell you what films we’ve watched both on our film Sundays and other parts of the week (I will talk about TV shows elsewhere). Please if you haven’t read the introduction page to this series go take a look that’s where you’ll learn the history of our sorely missed Bug.” There are no spoilers for the films listed It was a bit of strange film viewing week, it started on Tuesday evening when we decided we wanted escapism. Geostorm has been…