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Lead Programmer at Rebellion. Collector of cancelled TV. Fan of intfiction / sci-fi / urban fantasy / politics / beer.
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Peter Kyle, Science Secretary being a credulous moron who thinks a fabrication machine can help him do his ministerial job! Pity the FoI request didn't also ask for how much time civil servants then had to waste correcting the nonsense ChatGPT made up for him. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Red Eye (2024) really needed to be sillier. It's still completely daft (4 people, and a dog, are dead and you still won't land the plane, Captain?!), but it manages to get nowhere close to the laughable heights of Nightsleeper, BBC's 2024 entry in "daft thriller on a vehicle that can't stop".

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Watching one of the more unusual Christmas movies on my list tonight - 1961's Cash On Demand. Hammer produced a taut little thriller with Peter Cushing in the Scrooge-like bank manager role. His nervousness vs Andre Morell's suave bank robber is great, and the near-realtime plot is extremely tight.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Nostalgia clearly made more of this than there actually was. 1992's Virtual Murder only aired the once on the BBC and I have fond memories of it, but the show's fairly generic "quirky mystery". But why does a university Psychology professor keep having to solve mysteries?

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment

Starting the festive season with the traditional Christmas movie:

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

Most of my go-tos have already come up in this (VR5, Brimstone, Prey, Strange Luck below), Cupid's going to be far too well known, and Now And Again and Wolf Lake have DVD releases, so we'll have to go extra obscure with 1998's Mercy Point. bsky.app/profile/loki...

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

King And Maxwell (2013) doesn't really work. The stars have the lighthearted, buddy-cop banter, but we encounter them already as a partnership when the series opens and never get to understand why these two are working together! I just don't get why they're both there, especially at the end.

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

2022's The Imperfects feels like an urban fantasy show. A banshee, a siren and a chupacabra vs a whole bunch of mad scientists and their experiments? Maybe a bit too much government agent nonsense, but it's entertaining for its 10 episode run. Only weakness is leaving itself too open for season 2.

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

2020's "Lincoln Rhyme: The Hunt For The Bone Collector" isn't terrible, but it's a bit of an uninspired adaptation and barring 3 core characters strays pretty far from the book. Definitely hurt by comparisons to the film. Certainly didn't hate it, but the cliffhanger ending was very silly.

submitted 178 days ago • 0 comments

Not entirely clear why this got a reboot. "4400 (2021)" is a much darker show than the original, but it also suffers from a lack of focus. The original could always fall back on the basic "cop show" partnership at its core, whereas this tries to fill the same role with a pair of social workers.

submitted 183 days ago • 1 comment

The Strange World Of Gurney Slade, was, baffling, made in 1960, and yet it feels like the sort of meta comedy Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker would be making 35+ years later. Episode 4's "comedy on trial" is particularly good, having predicted audiences of the time not "getting it."

submitted 188 days ago • 2 comments