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Fabberdashery?

You've been 3d printing too much...

The fabberdashery solution turns out to be some Tardis curtains from his son's bedroom. Perfect.

This is on this weekend if anyone fancies popping along.

Max and Zollux was it? I even drew my own comic strip of Han Solo's Revenge.

So it turns out I have had some sort of intestinal infection this last week. So gaviscon and windeze were never going to help. Tthe Doc says will work itself out in another few days. Probably.  But at least I have some drugs that work on the symptoms now.

I agree with that.

The nightclub scene in John Wick was just gobsmacking on the big screen.

So for Star Wars, I have really only been interested in the films. To the extent that I don't even know characters names if they aren't mentioned in the films.  I do hope these new films are made for me rather than people who know about the expanded universe.

* Ok, I will admit to playing some Star Wars games and reading the first Han Solo novels (Brian Daley?) and a couple of Lando novels. And Marvel comics. But I never thought they were 'real' Star Wars.

Ps. "knocked one out" ... that made me laugh

[INTELLIGENCE]

Watched the pilot for a thing called INTELLIGENCE last night on Lovefilm. Josh Holloway stars (and produces I think). It looks like Chuck but without any jokes. Or Castle but without any jokes or any charisma in the leads.  I don't think I shall be watching any mor ethan the 43 minutes of my life it has already taken.  Not actively bad, just 100% box ticking exercise in a buddy TV series with really flat action sequences.

This is on in Glasgow at Braehead arena this weekend (22nd and 23rd August).

Dave Prose will be there (probably) and so will Jeremy Bulloch (probably) and Michael Biehn (probably).

Jim Alexander will also be there.

As will I (definitely) helping my little brother man his Monkeytron Collective stall.

Drop by and see us.

Ps: My review is biased by being in the brilliant Everyman cinema in Leeds where they bring pizza and beer to your seat.

Ciao, grazi.

Man from U.N.C.L.E
I will admit to rememberING nothing about the TV show other than the main characters names and that I had a folding rifle toy. But I right enjoyed this. I think the emphasis is on period detail rather than big action set pieces (they are all undrrplayed) and he has two spectacularly handsome leads in Cavil and Hammer but Ritchie delivers a stylish spy caper. He is a bit too fond of that scene decoding gimmick he uses in Sherlock and does it in a couple of scenes that really don't need it. Tone varies a bit as well. Kuryakin has swelling darkness (oo-er) within him but sometimes it's just used to set up a gag. But enjoyable stuff that doesn't outstay its welcome.

Not sure if the incidental music was brilliantly chosen or intrusive though.

Got an upset stomach. Meant I got very little sleep.

I don't eat anything sentient. How can it disagree with me?

The new warp speed in the Star Trek reboots annoys me in similar fashion. Travelling at many times the speed of light was just not good enough for them so it became almost instantaneous. Eight minutes to Vulcan, my arse!

JAWS at the GFT.
What a fantastic film.
Spielberg on the ascendancy.
Forty years on and it still had me on the edge of my seat and still had the power to make a paled out cinema audience jump (despite the majority of them, like myself, having probably seen it a dozen times).

A genuine joy to be able to take my two boys (well man and teenager) to experience it on the big screen.

Tiny Tips said "Jaws on the telly? Meh. Jaws at the cinema? Traumatic!".

Unusually for me, I'm actually doing something else that Saturday night. Drat!

[THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER]

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
Haven't seen this in an age and my goodness it's still cracking stuff (despite the odd dollop of cheese with one character buying the farm). John McTiernan could do very little wrong in the eighties action stakes and there's a cracking Basil Poledourus score. And it's good to be reminded of Alec Baldwin in his prime.

Tiny Tips said "That would make a cracking Star Trek movie" and I couldn't disagree.

Things I thought were interesting but nobody else will:
A submarine movie, next to a prison movie or a front line war movie is probably in the category "Most Likely to fail the Bechdel test". But, especially with a historical piece, it should be pretty obvious why.  But would it killed them to have made one of the politicians a woman? (Say the Richard Jordan part). As it stands, the lines for females are
1) Daughter talking about a teddy bear
2) Wife (Doctor Crusher!) barking a to do list as she wafts off on some important business
3) An Air Stewardess asking if Alec Baldwin is comfortable
4) Another Stewardess asking someone else if they are comfortable while Baldwin sleeps.

Jack Ryan and wives have been:
Shadow Recruit - Chris Pine - Kiera Knightly
Hunt - Alec Baldwin - Gates McFadden
Patriot - Harrison Ford - Anne Archer?
Clear - Harrison Ford - Anne Archer?
Sum of all fears - Ben Affleck? And who - without resorting to google?

I suppose the number of troops depends on the function.  I was suprised to learn that Carnaerfon Castle (despite how big and impressive looking it all was; oh, and defence in depth at the gates*) only had a garrison of around 28 people for most of its life.

* except for that time they forgot to build the actual proper front wall and gates. So you could overthrow it just by coming to the market with your swords hidden.

** Oh FFS. I've been sucked into a fucking Star Wars thread.  I swore I wouldn't...