Here’s a piece from The Observer about an interview with Michael Moore. It about fits my gut instincts regarding him, both the good and the bad…

Here’s a review of one of the better films I saw at the Jeonju International Film Festival, called The Corporation. I think it’s worth seeing.

You can all thank Charlie for this: a website called Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics that goes through and dissects all the physics mistakes in films, with reviews that painstakingly show how and why Hollywood physics is just too unbelievable to bear, in a whole range of movies that include not only SF but also crime, historical drama, and more. It’s worth checking out, for a laugh if nothing else. Compliments, once again, to Charlie Bell.

… let’s just hope everyone has the sense to send them off to a nice, comfy retirement… in other words, let’s hope Hollywood has the sense not to do with the movie what was done with the books! I know that may sound like blasphemy to some, but the incredible and fabulous success of the books also spawned loads and loads of trash literature, fantasy novels simply retreading the paces of Tolkien, but less brilliantly, with less honesty and beauty and intelligence… to the point where, if you wanna publish fantasy and it’s not at least a trilogy, I’ve heard, …