Odeon boycott extended

24 July 2006 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

I was just boycotting the Odeon Greenwich’s Galley, but a couple of things have extended my boycott to the entire establishment.

  1. My brother-in-law actually wrote to complain about what happened to us with the Gallery. He never got a reply.
  2. The next time he went to the Odeon – and let’s not forget what the temperature’s like outside – he ordered some Pepsi. They gave it to him without ice. He pointed that out. The serving guy shrugged his shoulders, as though somehow ice was a luxury to be given out at his discretion, and bro-in-law had offended his Royal Highness in some way.

Odeon, you charge roughly three diamonds plus a pot of gold, frankincense and myrrh for your medium-sized Pepsis: you can afford to give the ice (frozen water!) away as part of that.

It’s all a bit trivial, I know. But they’ve annoyed me now.

Stripping companion?

24 July 2006 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

It’s the Daily Star so this particular little rumour probably has about as much truth to it as something you’d find written on the wall in a pub toilet, but Saturday’s edition (no web link, sorry) claimed:

Doctor Who’s new sidekick Freema Agyeman will strip to sex up doc.

Not sure what “sex up doc” means in this context.

The pleasure of anonymity

24 July 2006 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

There’s something reassuring about the idea that not many people read your stuff. You have greater freedom of expression, you don’t necessarily have to agonise about every single word (only every other one). It’s quite nice really.

So I’m a little bit worried to discover that my review of last year’s series of Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe is not only listed on his Wikipedia entry, it’s also linked to from the BBC4 Screen Wipe page. Should I have been quite so harsh? Should I have accentuated even more positives?

It’s all most upsetting.

Stargate sequel movie being planned

21 July 2006 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

Remember Stargate? I think you do. It starred Kurt Russell and James Spader, way back in 1994, and spawned a slightly successful TV series. And another slightly successful TV series. And a bad cartoon series. That first series has now been running for 10 years.

So it is with much amusement that I read that Dean Devlin, Kurt Russell and James Spader are all interested in making a second and possibly third movie following on from the original movie. Most entertainingly, it’ll be set 12 years after the original and yet somehow, according to Devlin, “We would just continue the mythology of the movie and finish that out. I think the series could still live at the end of the third sequel. So we’re going to try to not tread on their stories.”

Right. Can’t really see how that one’s going to work.

All the same, I’ll probably watch it when it comes out. Sounds like it might be a laugh…