It’s been a busy few weeks, so busy, in fact that ‘Where’s Al?’ needs to be broken up into two entries. First off, let’s take a look at what’s been going on at Hub, Pseudopod and Escape Pod recently.. Podcasting Orrin Grey’s ‘The Worm That Gnaws’ followed Mark Felps’ ‘Raising Eddie’ at Pseudopod. It’s a …
James Cameron is coming home.The director of The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens and The Abyss Cameron was, along with Ridley Scott and John Woo, pivotal in creating the grammar of action and genre cinema in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Whilst Scott favoured worlds that were both functional and richly detailed and Woo became …
Because some people have asked about this, I’m going to put up some links to where I can be found online at the moment. Podcasting The excellent ‘Raising Eddie‘ is up at Pseudopod this week by Mark Felps and read by Cayenne Chris Conroy. It’s a great story and as usual, I’ve done the intro …
This is Sherlock Holmes’ year, we’re just living in it. No less than three new versions of Conan Doyle’s classic detective are launching this year across three different media and three very different approaches. The obvious question of course is why? The less obvious question is which, if any, will succeed? It seems oddly fitting …
I had an excellent Bank Holiday Monday in Whitby. We had lunch at one of the dockside cafes and then set off on the traditional journey to the end of Whitby Pier. It’s a huge, two stage affair and the second section is regularly gated off in high seas. It was open when we were …
Rogue Events appear to be organising what may be the oddest convention I’ve ever heard of; a convention for a TV show that doesn’t exist outside the world of another TV show. With me so far? The Ghost Facers have appeared in two episodes of the excellent ‘Supernatural’ and are the polar opposite of the …
Over the last year I’ve been to the theatre three times, all different and all fantastic shows. The Mckellen/Stewart Waiting for Godot, a production of Pirates of Penzance that was gloriously, riotously silly and the David Tennant-fronted Hamlet. I reviewed it here, and I wasn’t alone in hailing Tennant as one of the greatest Hamlets …
The hardest thing, a lot of the time, is not to know where to start but knowing where to end. Big entrances are relatively easy to pull off, but big exits? Leaving your audience wanting more? That’s hard. After all, openings have a natural structure to them, you introduce your protagonist, introduce the situation they …