
London photo: crowded Platform 9 3/4
If you want to get your picture taken at Platform 9 3/4 at King’s Cross Station, you will have to wait a long time.

If you want to get your picture taken at Platform 9 3/4 at King’s Cross Station, you will have to wait a long time.

Catching up ahead of the Series 9 debut…

Almost five years in London, and this past Saturday I finally made the pilgrimage to American-style shopping mall the Westfield Stratford.

As is all too typical, the men here get to have full lives (such as careers or talents that drive the story) while the women only to get to have those men.

This he-sees-dead-people drama slathers on the moping misery with a trowel, and indulges in a wishy-washy ambiguity that serves no purpose.

This is how you do it: You don’t relegate women to mere sidekicks to men, and you give the women things to do that actually drive the plot. Easy peasy.

There’s nothing groundbreaking in this low-budget sci-fi thriller, but newbie director Mcenery-West makes excellent use of his claustrophobic setting.

This was in the backyard of my house this afternoon.

Woman: she can be a wife and mother, or she can be a sexy genius scientist who enjoys strutting about the lab showing a lot of skin.

Naive, hamfisted, and amateurish indie sci-fi… but as hilarious as the clumsy, clichéd execution is, it still isn’t even worth it for the laughs.