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His motivation felt completely pointless and tacked on. How can civil rights make him a criminal several thousand years in the future?

While I thought he was a really poor villain, isn't that about the level of thought applied by such people. 'I committed a crime but it must all be someone else's fault, especially someone who doesn't look or act like me'.

Then why didn't go back and kill Moses to keep him from getting the 10 Commandments? None of that pesky 'Thou shalt not kill' business to deal with then.

You're welcome TB.

I forgot to say thanks for that link Cosh. I'm downloading it to my phone right now!

I remember tears welling up in my eyes when the Apollo rocket lifted off when I saw it in the cinema.

Same here,  but then any indirect contact with the relics of Vostok,  Mercury,  Gemini, Voskhod and Apollo leave me in a state.

Think you guys could be the right audience for this, if you're not already aware of it: See You on the Other Side.

If you haven't seen it already you can experience the Apollo 17 mission in real time.

http://apollo17.org/

There were some seriously dramatic moments in this episode. The cop was very menacing and Bradley Walsh's face at the end was a mask of perfect disbelieving horror.

Krisko, or whatever his name was, was terrible. His motivation felt completely pointless and tacked on. How can civil rights make him a criminal several thousand years in the future? It would have made much more sense if one of the companions had made Parks miss the bus at first, and then had to somehow clean up the mess.

[Apollo 13]

Apollo 13. Watched as a sequel to the superb First Man, this holds up really well. Very different in visual style,  and eschewing any sense of the internal lives of the characters, it nonetheless engages you fully in their plight, and the Earthbound hubbub surrounding it.  The zero-G scenes remain spectacular, and the on-board scenes in general are fantastic - unfortunately they sometimes feel like they're not really in the same movie as the external and earthside shots.

I've been a big fan of Paxton since Weird Science, and he was seldom better than his understated Freddo Haise. The Mission Control scenes feel a bit stagey and gung-ho, with lots of swelling music and carved-from-Apple-Pie Ed Harris intensity, but their incredible achievements carry you through that, and at least the determination of Gary Sinise's lucky/unlucky Mattingly is solidly believable.  Hanks and Bacon are Hanks and Bacon,  no more no less,  but that's fine,  and Kathleen Quinlan gives a far more balanced performance than I remembered.

Surprise hit in our house was Ma Howard (Jean Speegle) as Ma Lovell - her brilliant interactions with Armstrong and Aldrin,  and her killer throat-lumpening line "If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it" just about steal the show. Talented family,  those Howards.

This is one of my favourite films. I've seen it umpteen times and I still hold my breath during the radio blackout. The cast is outstanding. I can't think of one wrong choice. I remember tears welling up in my eyes when the Apollo rocket lifted off when I saw it in the cinema.

Magnum?

The TARDIS interior and Paul McGann were pretty much the only good things about the TV Movie. I do still kind of consider the TV Movie interior to be my favourite of them all.

The TV movie was wretched, but I could quite happily live in that TARDIS interior. And with Paul McGann.

Anthea Bell, who translated Asterix for the English market, has died at 82.

I received my first Asterix from an aunt when I was a kid. I had no idea they were translated from French in the beginning. Bell clearly had a gift.

And amazingly No. 20 was great too, despite being a bloody Ant-Man sequel. An Ant-Man sequel fercrissakes, getting just one seemed like a ridiculously fortuitous blip in the space-time continuum, but two?  And two good ones?  Madness.

Ant-Man is still my favourite of the MCU films.

Overall I liked The Ghost Monument. However, I thought the race was kind of pointless. They could have easily been dumped on the planet without the need of a pickup. I'm getting a very Tom Bakery kind of feel from Whittaker, but in a way that is uniquely her own.

I'm not a fan of the new TARDIS interior. It looks like the interior of a cave. Although the biscuit dispenser is a great idea. This needs to be standard on all future TARDIS'.

If Serenity hadn't done that to me already, I'd probably agree with you.

Woah, what?

When Serenity came out my wife was more excited than I was I think. We had planned to spend the day at the cinema. We'd watch it 2 or 3 times that day. Then Whedon had the utter gall to kill Wash the way he did. My wife was in tears at the suddenness of it all. I wasn't far from it to be honest.

I think we've watched Serenity once since that day, although we'll happily watch Firefly.

Only one of these images is deliberately absurd

So we're supposed to be seeing that picture from the stripper's point of view.

Yank mag has taken on an entirely different meaning today.

[Inferno]

Inferno (2016). In a word, boring. I'd have to work blue in order to describe my disappointment in this film.