Appearances update

The Shore Leave convention has posted the weekend’s schedule. As previously noted, I will be hosting a Doctor Who panel celebrating the show’s fortieth anniversary, Sunday at 5 o’clock. Yesterday’s news that BBCi will be web-broadcasting a six-episode animated special starring Richard E. Grant as the Ninth Doctor gives me something new and interesting toContinue reading “Appearances update”

Move, Countermove, Guile, and Deceit

A few weeks ago I picked up The Complete Musketeers on DVD, a collection of The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers as directed by Richard Lester in the early 1970s. (The title is misleading–the collection is not complete in that it does not contain The Return of the Musketeers, the 1989 sequel by LesterContinue reading “Move, Countermove, Guile, and Deceit”

Three happenings

Two Lord of the Rings thoughts. First, The Two Towers video game was released last week for the PlayStation2. For fans anxiously awaiting the Special Edition DVD release of Fellowship of the Ring or the December theatrical release of The Two Towers this game should probably find its way to your video game console. NotContinue reading “Three happenings”

Stones and Glass

I should be worried. I knew the two baseball teams in Gotham City without having to look it up. I even knew which league each team is in. (For those of you wondering, Gotham City hosts the Monarchs, of the National League, and the Knights, of the American League. The Monarchs replaced the Griffins, whoContinue reading “Stones and Glass”

Thank you, BBC America

At long last, BBC America has returned Jonathan Creek to their programming lineup. Last spring I discovered this quirky mystery series about a magician’s illusionist played by Alan Davies who solved locked room mysteries as a hobby, but BBC America insisted on showing only the first season’s episodes with an occasional episode from the secondContinue reading “Thank you, BBC America”

On Doctor Who: Neverland

Today I finally finished listening to Neverland. I received …ish earlier in the week (in short–excellent, very strange, and no other Doctor than Colin Baker could have done this story), and then gave Neverland another go. Oh my fucking god. I think I uttered that immortal phrase about six or seven times during the story.Continue reading “On Doctor Who: Neverland”