Posted in Film and TV by: Alan G
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31 Mar
Andy Hallett was the actor who played Lorne on Angel. I hadn’t realised he was only 33, only 25 when he started playing the character.
It was the only thing I saw him in (although he apparently was in an episode of Buffy too) but he was constantly superb as the campy living life to the [...]
Posted in Film and TV, Review by: Alan G
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15 Jan
After checking imdb, I have watched twenty three movies with Johnny Depp in them. Some of them great (Donnie Brasco, Edward Scissorhands), some good, (Pirates of the Caribbean) some of them unwatchable dirge (Secret Window, The Brave, Dead Man, Pirates 2, Pirates 3 etc).
Having picked The Astronaughts Wife up for one and two thirds of [...]
Posted in Film and TV, Review by: Alan G
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06 Jan
Movies: First week of January 2009
Generally after making tea, doing dishes and catching up on random e-mails we settle down to a movie, anything from rom-com to horror to world cinema.
So far the ones which I haven’t blocked out this year have been:
Dead Creatures
Catacombs
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
Dead Creatures was [...]
Posted in Comics/Graphic Novels, Magazines by: Alan G
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27 Nov
It’s that time of the month again: SciFi Now Thursday!
I started getting this about issue 6 (now 22) and it’s really good. The movie reviews are focused on SciFi/Fantasy/Horror/World Cinema type stuff so really covers most of my main movie interests. So far I haven’t noticed any signs of the reviews being biased by ads, [...]