Wasteland Ronin
One of the greats of 1970s Ozploitation is MAD MAX: The Wasteland Ronin!
READ MORE..Reboot to the Future
A collection of essays about the ongoing retreading of the media of my youth.
Sketch Trek: THE NEXT GENERATION
As a follow up to some Star Trek TV sketching we did months ago, Julia and I did more sketch nights of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a favourite of Julia’s that I wasn’t so familiar with. When Star Trek: TNG was first broadcast, in the late 1980s, I was working in Asia and Europe; countries where I couldn’t understand … Read more
The Time Trickster
Old plot details (and fan-enthusiasm!) refreshed by a Netflix marathon, we recently watched the theatrical big screen debut of the 12th (or is it 13th?) actor to play DOCTOR WHO– that alien space/time traveller in the big blue box. As with last year’s 50th Birthday episode, likewise screened in movie theatres worldwide, this feature-length episode, entitled … Read more
SPACE..The Final Frontier..
Here are some left-handed drawings from recent TV sketch nights drawing Star Trek. The bright colours and simple shapes, not to mention the broad characters and melodramatic action of James T. Kirk and his iconic space-faring crew can be quite fun to draw. I remember the very first time I ever saw Star Trek; it … Read more
A Boxing Day Far, Far, Away..
I keep alight many memories of childhood wonder, trying to hold onto them lightly lest they break, or become twisted.
READ MORE..Tomorrow, You Only Have Memories Forever, Again. Twice.
The cranky guy with the eyebrows, who provoked this non-stop sequence of unexplained violence, was the “goodie” of this movie; James Bond.
READ MORE..Lost In Space
PROMETHEUS, the much anticipated follow-up to the Alien franchise, directed by franchise-creator, Ridley Scott, is a feast for the eyes in 3D, but I wasn’t sure what to make of the story.
READ MORE..Indiana Jones & the Temple Of The Phantom Menace
After that nuclear bomb blast, Indiana Jones was in purgatory for the rest of the movie.
READ MORE..Mrs. Emma Peel
At the age of 4, Grandma let me stay up late when she baby-sat me. I saw an episode of THE AVENGERS, and fell in love with EMMA PEEL.
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