“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.” Dr. Seuss. The festive lights are being turned on in my town as we speak, a grand ceremony attended by the townsfolk, the great and the good, even Father Christmas is going apparently. But please forgive me if I honestly don’t feel like it’s Christmas…
“The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it’s too easy.” Henry Jenkins. Earlier this year, Sega and Disney released a HD remake of the classic Megadrive game “Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusion.” This was one…
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Douglas Adams. If there is one universal truth about waiting rooms it’s that they are dull boring places, wherein time seems to move slower than treacle trying to get up a flight of stairs. To make matters worse, in hospitals we…
“Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.” The Seventh Doctor. The City on the edge of Forever, quite possibly the best episode in the original…
“What does God need with a Starship?” James. T. Kirk. I have been re-watching Star Trek Voyager of late, and I had begun to reappraise what has previously been a generally poor view of the series. The concept of the show is great and takes Star Trek into new territory. Two crews with very different…
“The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation, and I may say you do not improve with age.” The Master. Peter Capaldi made his brief cameo in one of the many lovely surprises woven into “The Day of the Doctor.” And in the words…
“What’s the point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes?” The Fourth Doctor It was my intention to write a proper review of The Day of the Doctor, but I would imagine the internet is full of them, and to be honest at this point I could in no way remain objective.…
“A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.” Stanley Kubrick As you may have been able to spot by my lovely background, I’m a big fan of the Shining, I first saw the film in the mid nineties and soon afterwords read the book, I creeped my…
“You can’t die with an unfinished book.” Terry Pratchett I have a dirty habit, and it’s time to confess. I have a bookshelf full of books I haven’t finished. I’m sure some of you are thinking this is a cardinal sin, and that I must be some kind of inhuman monster to have not read…
“His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.” Ian Fleming, Moonraker Remember that crack on the wall in Amy Ponds bedroom? The one that follows her and the Doctor around time and space, and eats up massive swathes of reality? Well for the past 20 years it’s…
The Brain Leak 