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question of the day: What little-known stories from where you live would make a great movie?

Tue, Jul 19, 2011
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Adventure! Romance! Espionage! Nazis! Can you imagine how cool a movie about Amy Johnson could be? She was Amelia Earhart meets Indiana Jones.

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Surrey Hills photo of the day: sleeping sheep

Mon, Jul 18, 2011
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Sheep asleep under a tree at the height of the day’s warmth on a hot, sunny day.

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dreaming big re this subscription thing

Mon, Jul 18, 2011
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There’s so much to be done here that, were the money there, I could easily be keeping a small staff busy.

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Real Ratings now on Twitter

Mon, Jul 18, 2011
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If you’ve been enjoying the snarky Real Ratings I’ve been applying to films, there’s a new Twitter feed you can follow to keep up with all of them…

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the Doctor’s history on a Tube map

Mon, Jul 18, 2011
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Prepare to spend at least an hour clicking around on this beautiful interactive representation of the Doctor’s history in a Tube map metaphor…

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watch it: Peter Jackson’s second ‘Hobbit’ production diary

Mon, Jul 18, 2011
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So sweet, listening to all these hardworking people talk about what they’re going to do with their bit of time off…

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The Pirates! Band of Misfits (trailer)

Mon, Jul 18, 2011
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Aardman is taking on pirates? I am so there.

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question of the day: Is it time to quit it with all the ‘Star Wars’ references in pop culture?

Mon, Jul 18, 2011
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And what could take its place? What other stories in the mass consciousness have had the same affect on so many people that referring casually to them would have the same effect?

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London photo of the day: rainy bus stop

Sun, Jul 17, 2011
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Near London Bridge, on a weekend that seemed determined to see the city drowned in monsoon-type rains.

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awesome news that you’ve read on a hundred fanboy sites!

Sun, Jul 17, 2011
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It’s true! That thing that’s all over the Web about that movie franchise the cool kids are into? Awesome, right?

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