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Forced to take prime-time nostalgia trips
‘There’s an old Polish proverb …’ I believe it’s ‘Reality television can’t stop the motorways in Warsaw from getting icy.’ I’ve always known what sort of telly I liked, and often that was at odds with what broadcasters put on. In the 1970s, my tastes weren’t too dissimilar from the general public’s, but as […]
Remarks on the typography of Star Wars
Star Wars is in my feed in a big way. To get up to speed on the film series, I had to start with the memorable theme by John Williams. Thanks, Bill and Paul. And who better to describe the plot than someone else in the science-fiction world, Doctor Who? Seriously though, I […]
Not quite a remake, but similar
I saw the première episode of No Ordinary Family, plus a bit of the second, and I couldn’t help but think of this: Some folks fly to a strange place, have a plane crash, come back with special powers. One of them is an attractive blonde woman. Where it differs is that one […]