60 Second Movie Review: Attack the Block (2011)

I finally saw the first film on my randomly ordered list of Top 5 Movies I Wish I Saw in 2011. That is, I finally saw Attack the Block. It was fun. It was engaging. But Attack the Block wasn’t nearly as fun or engaging as what I’d built up inside the imaginarium of my cranium.

How did I imagine it? To quote that earlier post…

Brit-kids defending their world against an alien invasion, as produced by the same people who brought us Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. I’m hoping for similar fun, with perhaps an even bigger emphasis on the action this time.

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TV in Review: Doctor Who, “Evolution of the Daleks”

I’ve been promised that season three of the new Doctor Who really starts to heat up in the middle, probably around episode 8, which is titled “Human Nature.” In the meantime, I feel compelled to watch these things in order and the next step of the trek required me to view “Evolution of the Daleks,” the second half of a two-parter. I had found the first half (“Daleks in Manhattan”) to be passable but clunky and that’s an accurate description of this episode as well, although there is some inevitable satisfaction in seeing an ending come together.

Plus, they leap straight into the action. Fear the plunger!


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TV in Review: Doctor Who, “Gridlock”

Last night I traveled through time and space, to April 14, 2007, when Season 3, Episode 3 of Doctor Who first aired in Britain. The basic conceit of the episode, as put by the good Doctor, is

What if the traffic jam never stops?

We’re taken to the future, to New New York, underneath the city, in a motorway where people spend their lives driving a few miles.

Today's Doctor Who snap - Gridlock
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The Truths of Time Travel

I was thinking about my childhood fascination with the Doctor Who theme song the other night because, well, you’d think about it too if that was one of your childhood highlights, and also because I’ve finally been getting to the new Doctor Who. New. As in 2005.

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Wednesday Night Video – The Doctor Who themes

True confessions time: as a child I was a member of two (2) Doctor Who fan societies. In memory of that age, here are the intro themes from all the Doctor Whos, 1963-2010. It’s the BBC Radiophonic Workshop at its best.

You can also mix your own version over at the BBC.

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