Looks like the legislation on "video nasties" may or may not be returning.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/01/the_video_nasty_debate_rears_i.html
In this case, with SS Experiment Camp. I haven't seen the film, but I have seen rape-revenge slasher I Spit on Your Grave. The latter stayed in my mind a while and it have got me thinking more about film-making [techniques].
But here's something you never hear (and probably never will):
"BAN THE PASSION!"
Mayeb some Jews said that, thinking The Passion of the Christ was anti-Semitic, but no Christian I've heard seems concerned that this 2-hour bloodbath actually led to at least two elderly people DYING while (or after) watching it!
I'm not interesting in banning The Passion of course but if one should go about banning graphically-violent films, why not include this one?
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Monday, 21 January 2008
Star Trek Teaser
The teaser trailer for the new Star Trek film is now up:
www.paramount.com/startrek
It shows glimpses of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 being built. It definitely looks like Star Trek has had a break (the last film being in 2002 and Enterprise ending in 2005).
I think people worrying about this being a remake with new actors playing the original crew and rest at ease. The way I see it, it's like the new Doctor Who - the same show but repackaged after a long break.
www.paramount.com/startrek
It shows glimpses of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 being built. It definitely looks like Star Trek has had a break (the last film being in 2002 and Enterprise ending in 2005).
I think people worrying about this being a remake with new actors playing the original crew and rest at ease. The way I see it, it's like the new Doctor Who - the same show but repackaged after a long break.
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
RE: Doctor Who's Titanic
OK, I admit to have been wrong to complain about the Titanic in space. It was great. And purists moaning about the Queen's bit in the Christmas special - IT WAS CHRISTMAS!
Torchwood: Series 2
And so tonight we returned to Cardiff for the first of 13 weeks of Doctor Who's "adult" spin-off Torchwood. It's been a while since I've last watched it but I managed to settle in quite quickly. Visually it looks shinier than Series One (I gather that was a rather hurried production).
James Marsters (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) looks to be a recurring character as Captain John Hart (perhaps like Star Trek: The Next Generation's Q) and of course we will be seeing Freema Agyreman return as Martha Jones. We got a preview of what looks to be a near epic(ish) series (nuclear warheads, end of the world etc. - as if a giant demon stomping Cardiff in Series One's apocalyptic finale wasn't epic enough!) with all the gratuitous sex references thrown in (it's the end of the world and Owen Harper's suggestion is "Lets all have sex.")
Any Christians eager for the pre-watershed edit of the first episode should'nt expect a squeaky-clean cut though I may yet be surprised. I still expect Captian Jack awkwardly asking Ianto out on a date.
James Marsters (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) looks to be a recurring character as Captain John Hart (perhaps like Star Trek: The Next Generation's Q) and of course we will be seeing Freema Agyreman return as Martha Jones. We got a preview of what looks to be a near epic(ish) series (nuclear warheads, end of the world etc. - as if a giant demon stomping Cardiff in Series One's apocalyptic finale wasn't epic enough!) with all the gratuitous sex references thrown in (it's the end of the world and Owen Harper's suggestion is "Lets all have sex.")
Any Christians eager for the pre-watershed edit of the first episode should'nt expect a squeaky-clean cut though I may yet be surprised. I still expect Captian Jack awkwardly asking Ianto out on a date.
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