Let's all send Teague some haggis.

I saw Lifeforce in the cinema when it came out, at a time when I was keeping notes and writing little reviews. I wrote in my notes: "the worst film I have *ever* seen." I don't recall feeling that way about a movie since.

1) Citizen Kane
2) American Beauty
3) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4) The Wizard of Oz 
5) Kick-Ass
6) Unforgiven

Pingu's The Thing.

To be fair, they have sometimes been sensible and either put the trailer after the end credits (so you have time to find your remote to change the channel after recovering from the cliff-hanger), or not even run a trailer where literally any frame of the next episode would break the mood. For example, when all the main characters were bumped off and the whole Universe exploded as well, even the 'To Be Continued' was kind of a spoiler.

Not any more. (Is that a spoiler?) They stopped making them at the end of season six -- the 2011 Christmas Special is the first episode not to have one.

They also used to do commentaries as podcasts that were released right after the episode first aired, and sometimes also did a Red Button broadcast where the commentary was the audio track. That's all stopped too; the only commentaries now are on the DVDs.

Having enjoyed Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I would also be interested in DiF's take on it.

I found it surprisingly well-made, but then I was expecting a summery blockbuster, and I was prepared to treat as a Magic Bean the fact that the research company was a sub-division of Evil Cardboard Incorporated.

(At one point, when the Evil English Boss was conspiring with the Slow-Speaking Protagno-Scientist to approve his hitherto-unauthorized shenanigans, I blurted out "And that's how pharmaceutical companies work!" Fortunately, I was at home, so didn't get smacked in the mouth.)

I was disappointed in Patrick Doyle's score, though, which seemed phoned-in from a booth just outside the Media Ventures offices.

O NOES! Is BTTF2 now the Sekrit Punxsutawney Phil of DTF?

Filmography 2011

The History of [American] Television.

I believe the correct term is cockboy. See also: vagindian.

Address is Approximate.

Those accents are all fine, but they're definitely actual Scots Scotting up the place, and being all Scottish about it, a bit like tall people actively making a point of their height, rather than just being ordinarily overbearing.

They're all more authentic than Simon Pegg's Scotty, for example, which was a good effort on his part, but with flaws.