Well it's both, isn't it? Chosen because it's both.

The thing is, Agent Beefcake (damned if I can remember his real name now) was hired specifically to be the character with one facial expression. It's so they can do gags like "seduce him", and all the fey characters have someone to play off, in theory.
It's the same role as Adam Baldwin does in Chuck. They should…

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Nearly everything Pinhead says in the first two films is eminently quotable.

My opinion is that Hellraiser and Hellraiser II, added together, make up one towering masterpiece of the genre. Unfortunately between them they also include enough really clunky bits to add up to one godawful direct to video travesty.
I'd be interested in seeing Barker have another go at the material, or failing that…

It's not really very good, but I'm sort of keeping an eye on it in case it comes together. BBC1 has been producing these sort of Saturday afternoon fantasy shows for as long as I can remember, and sometimes they're watchable and sometimes not, but it's nice they're there. Y'know, for kids!

Replying to myself to say that wikipedia suggests the light is air ionisation rather than Cherenkov radiation, which is more commonly observed in water than air. There's a terrifying list of criticality accidents which have actually killed people by exposure to radiation without ingesting the material:

That seems a little extreme. Nuclear test observers watched the blasts. Feynman famously watched the Trinity test through his car windscreen, having calculated it would screen the ultraviolet.
Of course, he later died of cancer, but radiation poisoning from the blast as such wasn't a problem.
It's amazing what human…

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Fair enough, I'll look out for Friday Night. But there are some much-loved directors I just don't get on with and I know it's just personal taste. Michael Haneke is an example that comes to mind.

The Fall isn't finished yet but the general idea seemed to be that he was a serial killer picking his victims from women on S&M dating sites, which is strangely appropriate. In theory the stories could be part of the same continuity.

My DVR has an odd feature which allows me to play back at either 0.8 or 1.3x original speed, and I don't often find a use for it. About half an hour in to 35 shots of Rum I was so bored I toggled 1.3x just so I could make it to the end.
Her trust in me was not rewarded.

I think last night's ep reached new heights of demented wrongness. But once The Sexy Barman found out his new power there was a sort of mathematical inevitability to the conclusion.

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Her love life's not that interesting but she's inextricably a Homeland character. She's sympathetic but morally compromised, her personal relationships drive her story more than her decisions, she's borderline mentally ill, secretive and tormented.
Sometimes her story directly intersects the terrorism plot (end of…

Is anyone else depressed by watching Masters of Sex? I like several of the female characters but the men are all so awful it reminds me of watching The Tudors.
I keep expecting Masters to sit down and eat a big swan (surprisingly, not a euphemism).

I didn't like Robert Sheehan's character as much as some people whereas I could watch Joseph Gilgun all day, so I've enjoyed the whole thing so far.
I like a show where anything can happen and the characters will overcome it with a combination of scatological dialogue and blunt force trauma.

I put Order of the Phoenix top. Best opening (Dementors turn up in 'the real world'), best villain (fluffy pink Umbridge), best climactic battle (Dumbledore vs. Voldemort, even if it's not in the books), best emotional punch (death of Gary Oldman).

Wednesday What's on tonight: unoffical UK freeview edition