A Labourer at the Bitface » film http://devilgate.org/blog Warning: contains language from the outset Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:45:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Aliens Among Us http://devilgate.org/blog/2011/10/11/aliens-among-us/ http://devilgate.org/blog/2011/10/11/aliens-among-us/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:09:56 +0000 Martin McCallion http://devilgate.org/blog/?p=1300 Continue reading →]]> I never bothered to watch Alien Resurrection because I didn’t like Alien3 (or Cubed, as I always see it). So now, browsing the new, freshly-in-beta SF Encyclopaedia I find it was written by Joss Whedon (who doesn’t yet have an entry in said volume, but no doubt will have eventually).

Why did nobody tell me this?

It seems a particularly timely piece of information as we’ve been introducing the kids to Buffy recently (in part to get us all over the lack of Doctor Who), and also to Firefly. We are deep in the Whedonverse.

]]> http://devilgate.org/blog/2011/10/11/aliens-among-us/feed/ 0 Mad bampot on a rope http://devilgate.org/blog/2008/09/08/mad-bampot-on-a-rope/ http://devilgate.org/blog/2008/09/08/mad-bampot-on-a-rope/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:45:57 +0000 Martin McCallion http://devilgate.org/blog/?p=205 Continue reading →]]> Went to see Man on Wire last night, the documentary about Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. It’s a great film. I was a bit worried that it would be kind of dull, since we already knew the story. But it’s paced like a thriller, complete with starting near the climax and then flashing back to fill in the back story.

I did have a few moments of gut-wrenching horror (I’m not good with ridiculous heights, even when it’s just images of other people experiencing them), but overall found it absolutely amazing, and touching. Great music, too.

There was a poignant moment when they showed documentary footage of the construction of the twin towers. Seeing pre-formed steel sections being lifted into place; sections that I last saw white-hot and crashing to the ground.

]]> http://devilgate.org/blog/2008/09/08/mad-bampot-on-a-rope/feed/ 0