alistairc_2000

Dr Who is back! Though with the lowest viewing figures for the first ep, EVER. A mere 2 million people tuned in. Shouty blond Dr Who was a disaster but at least at her lowest point she was getting 4.5 million viewers on the first showing. Everyone must have been washing their hair that night. I watched it the other day and what is fantastic about it, is that it looks great. Though, then grim reality sets in. Nu Who is like last seasons who. Boring, old hat, and not much fun.

Remember when you were young (and you shone like the sun)? You hid behind the couch, you were scared. Now you sleep behind the couch. Russy the writer just seems to be out of touch with his usual pantomine who shows and has made a new ep with is quite simply aimed at 5 year olds. A good cure for insomnia.

One of the best British movies, this century, though Stephen Fry, come on, after Fable 2, he just sounds like the butler.

The movie is wonderful nonsense and best of all it is British. So HG Well's wrote the Time Machine in 1895, who would have believed that a century and a quarter later, we would have our very own SF movie set in Muswell Hill of all places. Muswell hill is normally associated with Dennis Neilson and his vile crimes. They do not go back and stop him unfortunately, but what they do is have a wonderful time in the past which as in Ray Bradbury's The sound of thunder has dire consequences for the future.

So it is a tale of two bone headed female friends who find a time machine and decide to use it to stock up their second hand shop in Muswell Hill. Obviously, this is a wonderfully daft and British scenario, and it has a whos who of the cream of British comedy in it. Plenty of laught to be had. I really wish the Shakespear sister and Chris would make a doctor who special as it would be a marvel. This is the real deal for people who love a British farce.

A good soundtrack is essential for a movie, and fortunately this one has it in spades. Also, it is well acted as well. This could be up for an Oscar as the best picture, but come on it is British, we never get nominated for those awards.

Do yourself a favour and watch this before it leaves the cinema.

This is a movie that could have been a classic in the way the thing was. Something evil is stalking people on the ice of a frozen lake, something they awakened from the time before. Though why does it have 3 stars on Amazon? It has starred in the movie.

Then you watch the movie. Cheaply made remake of the Creature from the black lagoon. Though this one is set on the ice. The actual creature in the Universal movies was streets ahead of the monster in this load of old twaddle.

It is a shame as the idea for the movie is great. I really wanted to like it. It is not woth watching but maybe if the director had more money he could make a more competent movie.