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Phasmatodea: August 2015
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Sunday, 23 August 2015. Assembly Line: Part Three - Universal Reversal. Universal Pictures were fully behind this installment, giving their blessing and their monster design , but did anyone really want, or need it? Evil of Frankenstein (1964). Colourful mittle-European villagers, a comedy burgomeister, immoral carnival hypnotist, a dogged chief of Police and a monster discovered preserved in ice - surely one of the Universal Frankenstein films? Well, yes and no. Evil of Frankenstein. And he literally we...
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Phasmatodea: November 2014
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Sunday, 30 November 2014. Star Wars fans have felt the disappointing side of the Force many times in recent years, so did the teaser for the latest instalment strike back with the return of a New Hope? Proper, and subtly updated, storm troopers (instead of those prequel pixel-monkeys):. A Swiss/Sith Army lightsabre with extra attachments (can-opener and corkscrew? Be careful how you hold this one:. Welcome back, Star Wars! Thursday, 27 November 2014. Growing up is hard to do. This blog has never been int...
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Phasmatodea: February 2015
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Saturday, 28 February 2015. One to beam up. Leonard Nimoy lived well and prospered. Leonard Nimoy: 1931 - 2015. Created the same year I was, I literally can't recall a time before Star Trek. It was another show we watched as a family and at my earliest age I suppose, like Doctor Who. It was the monsters and aliens which appealed to me. But here's the thing: Star Trek. Had an alien who wasn't just another marauding invader, he was part of the crew. He was one of the good guys. Jog cross a very small planet.
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Phasmatodea: January 2015
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Thursday, 29 January 2015. With Star wars returning to our screens later this year, I thought it might be timely to dust off this fiction piece I wrote a long time ago in a country far, far away; when both the franchises combined in this story were very much in dormancy. A blazing band of stars silhouetted the recent arrival's profile against the viewing port. And look where that had got him! Botched Dalek mission", indeed! But this is definitely the last time", he vowed, remembering to be annoyed. T...
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Phasmatodea: Assembly Line: Part One - Patient Zero
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Saturday, 8 August 2015. Assembly Line: Part One - Patient Zero. No-one would associate Peter Cushing with body building, and yet that is exactly what he did over a space of twenty years in Hammer's other great film series. Last year I finished covering the Hammer Dracula series, a mammoth nine film run which not only chronicled the misadventures of Christopher Lee's Count, but the on-going crusade of various generations of Van Helsings who all looked exactly like Peter Cushing. The Baron and his life-lo...
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P.S.: August 2014
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Researching and writing about Doctor Who. 30 August, 2014. A new Doctor Who. Podcast, may well be the first of its kind in New Zealand. Certainly it is the only locally-produced fan podcast based on the series that I know of. It is the third incarnation of what began eight years ago as Zeus Plug. A printed A5, hand-distributed ‘pub zine’ then migrated online as Zeus Blog. Now the Zeus name has a new lease of life as a lively and upbeat weekly audio podcast, hosted by Jono Park. I was the guest on Zeus Pod.
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Phasmatodea: September 2014
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Tuesday, 23 September 2014. Phasmatodea is now one year old! Thank you to everyone who's looked in on my self-indulgent scribblings over the past 12 months. For this first anniversary I'm going to combine two objectives. The first is to continue my oblique look at this current, and brilliant, series of Doctor Who. To return to Listen. It didn't frighten me. Based heavily upon invoking common nightmares as this episode was, I fall out of the target audience because I just don't have them. Nightmar...And m...
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Phasmatodea: Melee à trois
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Monday, 13 July 2015. A particular few minutes of footage from the current Comic Con has left us Black and Blue. After months and months of very little there is a lot to take in with the recent Comic Con Batman v Superman. Trailer. These are some thoughts on it from a life-long Superman fan: the Phasmatodea of Tomorrow. From the perspective of someone who prefers his cape black - read Bat Simian's synced views here: http:/ jetsimian.blogspot.co.nz/2015/07/cape-expectations.html. Make a liar tell it true.
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The Truth Behind...: June 2015
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Taking a look at life around us and showing what is really going on. Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Investigation of the Citizen Above Suspicion. Ah, now there's a snappy title. This sounded interesting so I was looking forwards to this. There is definitely a point to this movie, and one that still deserves to be made. Posted by Jamas Enright. Monday, 29 June 2015. Yeah, let's knock another Hidden Object game off, this one Enigmatis. The first thing I want to say is "yay for decent screen handling! In this we ar...
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