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Face Off (1997) - John Travolta (Sean Archer), Nicholas Cage (Castor Troy) Directed by Hong Kong master, John Woo, this action thriller has Travolta (short-tempered FBI agent) on the trail of long-time foe Cage (sociopathic bad guy), who is not only threatening to blow up Los Angeles with a...

The Departed (2006) - Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson Damon plays Colin Sullivan, a wayward young boy who ends up working for Irish Mafia boss, Frank Costello (Nicholson). Over the intervening years Sullivan he joins the Boston police force in order to be a spy for Costello and to...

I was in my 2nd year at comprehensive school (1976), and was confronted with The Hobbit, in English Lit. I read it, and gnawed my right arm off with the narrative tedium of it all. Hated the book then, and hated the book now! And don't start me off on the film version! Thank the Lord for the...

I would agree with your summation of T1 - it was a nice concept, and Arnie was quite exceptional as the rampant bad "guy". But the only novel twist that I really enjoyed was for Sarah Connor to ultimately kick ass rather than someone like Reece, the token dude! T2, had far more polish and...

For me, the original Terminator just followed the usual premise, which although mildly interesting, did't rank very highly overall, and therefore wasn't quite worthy to be listed in my top SF Faves.

The original "War of the Worlds" The original "The Time Machine" Empire Strikes Back Alien Source Code Close Encounters... District 9 Metropolis Terminator 2 The 5th Element The Matrix Star Trek: First Contact Blade Runner 2049 I used to have a great affinity for the original Blade Runner, but...

I have watched The Fog perhaps 3 or 4 times over the last 40 years, and still cannot find any love for it.

The Sixth Sense (1999) - Bruce Willis (Malcolm Crowe) and Haley Joel Osment (Cole Sear) A young precocious boy has the ability to "see dead people", even to the point of communicating with them. Crowe is the child psychologist asked by the boy's mother to try and help Cole as she is at her...

Whenever I think of future cities my mind drifts towards the world of Bladerunner. But on the flip side I always marvel at the visionary of Asimov and his Foundation series of books. Moreover, I have always been impressed with his idea behind the planet of Trantor, with its city mostly bound in...

"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011) Spy games twixt the USSR and the UK back in the days of the Cold War. I haven't read the book by John Le Carre, but certainly enjoyed the BBC TV version back in the late 70s with Alec Guiness and Michael Jayston. However, this film version seemed rather...

A toss up between Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" and Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House"

After spending the last few months in Berlin, Germany once again, I have to say the cinema experience over there was far more rewarding and satisfying compared to over here (although admittedly I had to visit cinemas that showed "English Language Only" performances, resulting in fairly spartan...

"Bullitt" (1968) A regular favourite of mine, and still holds water despite being over 50 years old. Of course it will be remembered for one of the greatest cinematic car chases of all time, but the film oozes a laid-back feel which suits not only the San Francisco location, but also the sign...

Rolf Harris and his "electric finger" playing his Stylophone back in the early 70s Nice idea, but the sound was extremely tinny - although that was more testament to my poor playing of it than anything

Back in the late 70s early 80s there was always a two-way battle for & hearts and minds of video recorder customers - VHS and Betamax; but there was a third format trying to muscle in on the party- Video 2000! Philips & Grundig were the main players with their sleek and futuristic recorders...

Endorsed fully. I still have a number of XP, Millennium, Vista (ha!) and 7 machines on my VMware infrastructure, and am using trusted 3rd party security apps to make sure they stay secure, as well as disabling all possible updates from MS for precisely the reasons tinkerdan highlighted. In...

Microsoft will not care because as far as they're concerned they have given sufficient notice (some 3 years) for W7 users to make a decision. This can be the same conclusion for other legacy Windows operating systems that have reached EoL (95, 98, XP, Millennium etc) There might be a slim...

The Atari 2600 VCS first saw the light of day in the late 70s, and brought arcade games like Asteroids and Space Invaders into the home. I still have mine, along with one working joystick and about 20 games, including the immortal Pong!

Yeah, that's what I thought; but whoever he is he's a dead ringer for Read

95 was pretty decent, and was certainly a big leap in user friendliness compared to W3.1x. I certainly welcomed the gui