Friday, 14 November 2008

New Starship Enterprise

There's a new Star Trek movie coming out in 2009 and Entertainment Weekly have revealed what the new USS Enterprise is going to look like.



Source: http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/11/star-trek-first.html

So far I like it well enough. My own favourite Enterprise would be the one from the early movies and this looks enough like it for me.

(To be honest I never did like the Enterprise-D from The Next Generation and I was more than happy to see it crash in Star Trek Generations!)

Saturday, 8 November 2008

Olivia Williams at BAFTA L.A. Britannia Awards

Yay! I finally get to do an Olivia Williams update.

Olivia news seems to be thin on the ground but here she is on 6 November 2008 attending the 17th Annual BAFTA L.A. Britannia Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City.



Sources: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/ and http://www.contactmusic.com/

Lately she was in Flashbacks of a Fool with Daniel Craig and I understand that she is Joss Whedon's new on-again-off-again TV series Dollhouse.

Hopefully I'll have more content on Olivia in the future.

Friday, 7 November 2008

Terminator Episode 2.3

Again, beware of spoilers.

Quite a good episode this week.

Charlie and Mrs Charlie are on the road. He's fulling the car with gas in a desert location outside LA. While he is distracted someone else gets in the car and drives off. It's Cromartie! and he's taken Mrs Charlie prisoner. (The actress playing Mrs Charlie still looks like Linda Hamilton this week.)

Charlie contacts Sarah. She and Derek go to help without telling John. They track down Mrs Charlie who it appears has been wired to explode. But its a trick. Cromartie has tapped into a nearby cell tower and is listening to the phone calls. He blows up the cell tower, disables their car and calls John using Sarah's voice and arranges to meet him at the pier.

Sarah and the others have to make their way back on foot. To make matters worse Mrs Charlie is injured.

Meanwhile John is hanging out with his gal and tries to ditch Cameron. Bad move because Cromartie is on his way. John only survives because he jumps off the pier and terminator's can't swim. Cromartie's eyes glow red as he sinks into the dark.

Sarah picks up John in a stolen cell-phone repair van. John notices there is blood in the back. We learn that Mrs Charlie is dead.

Later at the funeral Cromartie scans the crowd looking for John.

In other developments Shirley Mansion offers Ellison a job.

In an amusing subplot the actor Laslo (that Cromartie killed) is seen on TV in an awful Conan-style movie.

Lena Headey gets lots of action and angst in this episode. However there is too little of Summer Glau. Boo! But what little we see of Cameron is good.

Monday, 3 November 2008

Victoria Pendleton

OK, I really couldn't care less about sport, but at the risk of being a typical male I will make an exception for Victoria Pendleton.

Victoria won a cycling gold medal at the Beijing 2012 Olympics. This weekend she's won three more golds at the Track Cycling World Cup in Manchester.

Obligatory photo follows.



Yep, typical male...

And two more Alistair MacLean reissues

Since my last post I've found another two covers for Alistair MacLean reissues. Here are the new covers for The Way to Dusty Death and Caravan to Vaccares.

Sunday, 2 November 2008

Alistair MacLean Reissues

Alistair MacLean produced 28 novels and one short story collection before his death in 1987. In the 1990s the books gradually went out of print but lately many of his thrillers have gradually been reissued in the UK.

I'm glad to see these reissues. Frankly a lot of modern thriller writers could learn a thing or two from the way MacLean wrote and constructed a story.



Here are covers that HarperCollins will be using for four books that will be released in the coming months. The books are River of Death, Athabasca, Bear Island and Circus.


It's also interesting to see how dramatically different the page count of novels has changed since the 1970s. Most of my old MacLean Fontana paperbacks had exactly 222 pages. That made me think they were very short compared with more recent books. Now the new editions have been reset to larger text more common in today's paperbacks and the page count has shot up to about 380 pages.

Saturday, 1 November 2008

Lena Headey "The Broken" poster

I've just discovered this striking poster image for Lena Headey's new suspense movie The Broken.



Source: www.shocktillyoudrop.com