I’m not really in the habit of applauding TV spots. I find that television can be so disposable these days and through a general disconnection with it, I have seemed to develop an unreasonable and ungrounded distrust of TV spots – Most of which are often highly imaginative and incredibly well polished. But a couple [...]

I can see our lounge now. It’s 1989 and the windows are steamed up from the sunday-dinner humidity coming from the kitchen. The mood is sleepy and the air thick with the sort of slow-burning restlessness that you can only bring on yourself as you draw nearer to a new Monday of school or work. [...]

Every now and again I come back to the classic Manga films of my youth… Akira, Fist of the North Star, Metropolis, AD Tank Police, and the wonderful Ninja Scroll. The more I think about it, the more I realise what a significant effect they had on my mind and my perspective of science fiction. [...]

Sorry for the delay in the posts recently – work has been turning the screws horridly. But seen as it is All Hallow’s Eve, I thought I would drop a post worthy of such a night. I recently bought a copy of Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by the author of fear himself, M.R [...]

I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned this before, but I recently watched it again and thought it was worth a revisit. Not content with producing lavish blockbuster rehashes of fairy tales and building fibre-glass pink castles in California; Disney commissioned animator and director Ward Kimball to produce a cartoon called ‘Magic Highway USA‘ as [...]

Way back in yesteryear when I couldn’t reach the top of the fridge (where the biscuits lived) and when TV’s had wooden bits on them, I would wrestle with time until Sesame Street came on. It somehow felt as though Sesame Street was dealing cards that had already been dealt, but nevertheless, it provided decent [...]

In the misty hazes of this cool Summer morning, most of us in the UK were discussing our worries of the results of last night’s local elections. In such dark and troubled times when it seems we have forgotten ourselves and Politicians are left to run amok, I turn to the one TV program that [...]

I had a day off work today. Whilst eating my breakfast I caugh the last the part of what was supposed to be an ‘educational’ program for schools about reusing the things around us to make things. Apart from a midi acid trip of a soundtrack, there wasn’t one redeeming feature that I could think [...]