I saw the new Fantastic Four film last night which was pretty good.
There was the usual blatant product placement all over it but one piece just left me open mouthed. Mr Fantastic builds a very funky FantasticFourmobile, flying, jet, ship thing which has a Dodge grill and Dodge seats! WTF?
Yes, Dodge as in the shit [...]

Hollywood seems to have run out of ideas, with every other film seeming to be a remake of an original film.
These remakes tend to be poor imitations of their forerunners - Sylvester Stallone in Get Carter anyone?
However, tonight I saw an original version of The Thomas Crown Affair starring Steve McQueen and I have to [...]

Is nothing sacred?
What’s next?
Bullitt?

For a long time I have enjoyed reading Ink Quest which features the experiences, trials and tribulations of a fellow obsessive’s search for the perfect fountain pen ink. It made me feel so much better to realise that there others out there who are perhaps slightly more obsessive even than I.
However, I feel I [...]

My flight was very good. I only watched two films as the film selection was rather uninspiring: 40 Year Old Virgin (6 out of 10) and Mr and Mrs Smith (5 out of 10).

We arrived at our hotel early afternoon on Saturday and decided to have a few hours sleep and then to head [...]

Update : It’s back on… I’m going to Tokyo at the end of the month.
I have wanted to go to Tokyo for years and now I am!
I don’t travel much for work so to have my employer fly me Upper Class to a dream city is a bit of a treat! OK, so I have [...]