Month: November 2019

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…

The Perfect Blogging Computer, my £10 iMac -Episode 3

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‘In the last episode we discovered what lurked at the back of some charity shops, you left me as I heard the glorious chimes of an Apple OS booting,’ I had power to my new purchase but  my next issue was being able to login. I had been provided with no login information and phoning the shop would unlikely help, as I’m not sure they even knew what they had sold me. I did however know that I would be able to access the OS via terminal (don’t worry about…

Snow Plows and Zombies- It’s a Bug’s Life – 12/11/19

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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 This week we seemed to watch a lot more films during the week than we normally do. It wasn’t just film Sunday or…

Take off! We are Live!

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So my dream is here 40 years in the making, a magazine (of sorts) on the things I love. I do hope you like what we’ve achieved here. I’ve made sure there are a variety of articles on launch (around 20), so I’m sure you’ll find something you like. Please feel free to comment and join in. As you go around the site if you find any bugs or have any problems please contact me. I’ve tried to test it as much as we can on different platforms but we’re…

The Wonder of the Film Score (5 of my favourites)

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As with many people my age I got into film music via John Williams original score of Star Wars. In some ways that one score started an avalanche, because before the release of Star Wars in 1977 very few films especially Science Fiction ones released music. There were a few compilations done by various Orchestras but original Scores were a rarity. I know everyone says they have an eclectic taste in music but I would like to claim I really do, I will expand on that in some later posts…

How do you solve a problem like Trailers?

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I don’t watch many trailers, especially for films I know I’m going to watch. The only time I will normally watch trailers is if I have never heard of a film or I am in two minds whether to watch it or not. I sometimes seem to spend inordinate amounts of time trying to avoid spoilers. One thing that exacerbates this is that due to my personal situation going to a cinema to see a film is almost impossible so I normally only see a film when it has a…

The Perfect Blogging Computer, my £10 iMac – Episode 2

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‘In the previous episode I was longing for the Heady days of Windows 8 and wishing I had a Desktop machine.’ Fast forward to this year, I was considering digging out the iMac G4 to use for some basic computing as a desktop machine. The issue is it had been retired due to a power fault that I hadn’t managed to trace and I really don’t want to have to pay for someone else to do being such an old computer. I do also have an original iMac in working…