Rome

Band of Brothers

The Pacific

Sorpanos (except the gay mafioso season)

True Blood

Game of Thrones

South Park

Firefly

Buffy

Angel

Burn Notice

Justified

Boardwalk Empire

Deadwood

Oz

I did not list them in order, except for the first 2.

Buffy... really?

Band of Brothers is quality, one of my favourite shows.

I have been looking to buy the walking dead, is it a decent series?

The Walking Dead was very good, but I love anything to do with zombies.

Been watching Game of Thrones which I find very very good but I always blanch at the amount of sex in it. I am not a prude but there is just no need for all of that to move the story.

Rome was fantastic too.

+1 - tremendous stuff (so far - just into series 3).

And, although it's only 7 or 8 episodes long, Generation Kill is outstanding.

I have watched it twice love it.

I called the ending while watching season 4 see if you can figure it out.

Finally got around to watching Citizen Kane. Or should I say attempting to watch Citizen Kane. Now I am a fan of old movies but dear lord what is the hype about!

Technically brilliant for its time - the camera zooming through the window on through to the closeup at the beginning.

Brilliant, multi leveled script. One of the first if not the first, like it.

Wells.

BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA.

Was going to ask about T3. It's getting panned in the press but I guess it's not aimed at middle aged hacks!

Explosions, a hot babe, robots, and a complete lack of a script pretty much sum it up.

Half drunk on Black Grouse when I saw it so it was enjoyable.

Cars was trashed as well by critics however the kids loved it and I reckon this will be just as popular. I think the 33% will slowly rise like it's predecessor over the next couple of months and it will creep into certified fresh.

Perhaps if this movie were not an hour and a half long propaganda exercise from the EPA for indoctrinating kids into the evils of big oil it may have had better ratings.

Just finished "Great Balls of Fire" an biography of Jerry Lee Lewis. It was... interesting. Seeing his ex wife, whom he married when she was 13, justify the marriage and defend the man is quite a read.

Also, "Hell House" by Richard Matheson was rather disturbing and creepy.

Anything by Brad Meltzer should be used to line a birdcage. Endured "Book of Fate" then threw "Book of Lies" across the room.

A bit of a change of direction, but I'd like to recommend "Risk," (The science & politics of fear) by Dan Gardner.

He's a Canadian writer so draws much of his material from North America, but most of what he describes is applicable to western society in general.

He looks at our daily fears and dreads and worries and analysises them from both a "human" nature view point & a statistical bent.

Shark attacks; Madeline McCann; paedophiles lurking on the internet; mad cow disease; cancer; road rage; drugs; terrorists; crime?

The lot of them are blown out of all proportion, either by the media who love a good "out of the ordinary" story, or by various organisations which have their own agendas to push.

Be very, very afraid of your own ignorance & paranoia.

Thanks for the tip I love this type of book.

I do know what you mean, he is a story teller and you get the sense he just doesnt want to stop telling the the story even if a book should have eneded 20 pages before.

That said I liked the endings to IT and The Stand. I agree with you on Dreamcatcher. Thinner had an awsome ending as did Cujo and Misery and the Mist were pretty well done.

The Mist novella ending was good - I liked it leaving it up to us to think what they found in Denver and if they even got there.

But the movies ending was just awsome. King himself said that the ending was superior to his own, something like "I loved it but even I am not ballsy enough to do that"

Which I think is not accurate as in what he did in Cujo. The Stand annoyed me in the way that RF went down in Vegas, and I think its what King suffers with. He spends hundreds of pages building this indestructable force and then thinks "Bugger, I do have to end this book somehow" He then tries desperately to find some unlame way of doing it.

IT's ending disappointed me as it was such a "Ohhh! Lots of people are afraid of this, let's do it!" moment. Again undefeatable force turns into a lame duck.

He always seems to end things well as Bachman as Running Man was a very solid ending too. Copped out in Long Walk though, Rage ending was great too (sadly out of print and he refuses to allow it again due to school shootings)

Harsh, most of his books have great endings, christine, it and the dark half in particular. In under the dome you can see where he stopped 25 years ago and restarted.

I dont think the stand and tommy knockers is right, its too easy, just because of the alien thing. For me its more like a cross between needfull things [ perfect view of small town usa] and the stand.

The end of Christine was well done I will admit.

The Dark Half, kinda. George didn't deserve to go down like that.

IT, The Stand, Tommyknockers, Long Walk, Road Work, Salems Lot, The Shining (oh my God, the ending) THE ENTIRE DARK TOWER SERIES - What a cop out, Dead Zone, Dreamcatcher ( I threw the book across the room) have all crap endings.

Thinner was one of his finer endings.

If course this is my opinion.

First 80% of it was great, the last 20% was crap.

He just can't finish a book to save his life.

Should take some tips from his son, as "Heart Shaped Box" was great.

Just seen they are remaking Total Recall. WHY?

Can Hollywood not come up with anything original anymore?

I lost all hope when they remade "The Stepfather"

Waiting on the reimagining of Critters, produced by Michael Bay.

Biggest film of the summer ? Super 8. You heard it here first

I agree.

This generations ET.

Arthur is beyond torrid.

Avoid unless death results in doing so. I would rather sit through back to back screenings of Grown Ups than be subjected to that abyss of abysmal humor ever again.

Heard he was heading for Libya to be a food taster for Omar.

Do what you are good at they say.

Just the right side, whilst wearing it.

There was differing opinions, hence the inquest.

And you're not going to think about jail someone until you properly establish the circumstances behind his death are you - which was the whole point of the inquest.

I think we are off the rails here.

What I meant is that they have ruled misadventure - leave it now.

If it had been ruled - idiot with bin, let the fool rot in some jail.

Do not ruin things for everyone because of some idiocy.

You're saying that in hindsight.

The tone was very different on here before the inquest. A lot of people were thinking it was thrown at him as an attack for example.

Not everyone.

And even if it had, jail the sod who threw it and be done.

If someone dies under questionable circumstances then investigations are completely necessary. If there was criminal activity that led to someones death, or if future deaths can be prevented then of course we need to find out exactly what happened.

All an investigation will do is add more policies that will infringe on others enjoyment or choices.

Realistically all that could possibly come from this is the bolting down of rubbish bins, curtailing the sale of beer and a fat cheque for mum.

Had a retro horror night t'other night.

The Blob(remake)

Killer Klowns from outerspace

Munchies

Monster Squad

They don't make them like they use to!

Every one a classic.

Did you get the Anniversary Edition of Monster Squad? Well worth it on Bluray.

Haven't seen Munchies in awhile now - remember the rubbish bin part with fond memories.

You have to work Critters in there next time too.

You know that chick at the end of Close Encounters didn't get to keep that camera.

I have to write a review on "Insidious" so I came to see it today. Kinda looking forward to it but.... I am the only one in the cinema.

Is this a bad sign?

Warlock - 80's at it's best.

Loving this retro movie watching experience.

Ghoulies 2 - What a movie!

Watched Freddy vs Jason last night, what a masterpiece!

But seriously it is what it is and does a decent job of being a corny throwback horror.

Still waiting for the sequel " Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash"

One liners and unkillable freaks - quality.