I had the feeling the formula was getting stale. Do some trek in a remote corner of the world in crappy cars, done to death. Testing yet another hypercar, done, crazy challenge to the presenters they bungle up in every possible way, wash, rinse, repeat. Toss in the celeb moment and the odd bit of news. In the end…

Many years ago, French TV executives in charge of children's programming were looking for cheap cartoons to air. They bought cheap Japanese cartoons like Grendizer and Captain Harlock, which became instant hits. They invested in more shows including live ones like Spectreman and Space Sheriff Gavan. The French…

"So it's fist and knife proof ? Here, let me try the .357 magnum."

The big difference between fan-projects and the average Hollywood adaptation is that the fan project cares about the characters, the story and getting every detail right. The Hollywood types think "I'm a creative titan, a demi-god of art, by shackling me to an adaptation you narrow my incredible vision to a…

Also available in analog version.

The wrinkles help hide the eyeholes.

This was supposed to be a male cyclops makeup that was recycled into a Leela. Hence the odd look of it.

Whenever there is a crisis and the alarm goes the B2 bomber reluctantly comes out of bed, looks outside, decides there is too much dust in the air that could hurt its skin and goes back to bed. The B1 hits the snooze button and waits for the crew to come and rub it with the etheric oils of seven different endangered…

What strikes me is not how things have changed, but how much they are still the same, if you look at vintage films or pictures you can often deduce the decade it was shot in and there are clear style differences from one decade to another and it's hard to mistake somebody from 1930 for a 1950 shot. But somewhere in…

David Hasselhoff said it in an interview. "Everybody uses stunt doubles, those that claim otherwise are telling lies."

Chan originally worked in Hong Kong where actors had to perform their own stunts. He's had many accidents in his career. When he started doing films in Hollywood they would allow him to do most of his own stunts, but in recent years he's started to use more doubles to take over the most dangerous ones. The guy…

Very handy reference I always get them mixed up.

I remember Unreal mostly as one long nightmare that wouldn't stop. It just kept going on and on and just when you thought you had weathered the worst of it, just more came at you. I was completely exhausted after finishing it. That's all I remember anyway.

I agree that a lot of IQ's had halved by the second season. They tried to give Korra a bit of teenage angst and confusion, but turned her bitchy and stupid. Tenzin and Lin Beifong really had their heads on backwards.

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I had a big flashback to some of those early arcade games that used physical elements like models, projections, film etc

It can get worse (or better, depending on your definition ...)

I recycled most of my old game boxes to carry my collection of 10mm miniatures. An army will fit in one or two boxes, of course it did end up biting me in the rear bumper as some less than bright idiot wanted to know what the game was all about and recklessly picked up a full box, turned it over, heard it rumble and…

The EU was the best of times and it was the worst of times. You had some interesting work that added to the canon, but a lot was either fluff or badly conceived ideas that returned to bite the EU's Hutt-sized ample backside. What I hated most is that every single character who ever as much as partially appears in a…