Ryan Lambie

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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DaVinci Resolve

"Your car can be like your spouse. Cold and unreliable! I'm here all week."

Rewatching Skyfall. Christ, I forgot Huw Edwards is in it.

Pivot to robots

You can throw a football through the top storey window of an abandoned farmhouse

FFS.

Quack Quack the Homebrew Duck > Milkshake Duck youtu.be/7jveCKbri-E?...

"Here's Kyle. Kyle is a prick."

The entire first season will set up the motivation for Daisy Ridley's voyage to a top secret location. Is it to the bottom of the sea? The top brass couldn't possibly say

Cultural vandalism.

Oh, the C word was attached to Trump long before he became president.

Elon Musk, the Chaucer of twats

Web Post Of The Damned filmstories.co.uk/news/village...

This is what the 21st century was supposed to look like.

Why am I trending

I think we’ve found the headline of the year.

A literal office drone

Absolutely true. Big shout out to potatoes of every genre

Ridley Scott has said he’s taking back Alien. But could a new film pay off both Alien: Romulus and Alien: Covenant? A look at the options: filmstories.co.uk/news/alien-c...

This, except all the people below should be cheering and throwing even more money at him.

Hey, Richard Branson didn't get rich by overpaying for his yacht varnish

Like jangling keys in front of a baby

Wrote this on the current state of the Alien films - and whether Ridley Scott might be about to tie up some loose ends.

From 1970 onwards, the disaster movie enjoyed a brief yet loud moment of box office glory. We look back at its rise, fall and later return. filmstories.co.uk/news/airport...

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Hello, I've been writing about old disaster movies

A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater?

I wish Bob Mortimer would do a Jeff Bezos comedy sketch.

If advertising worked, Squarespace would be bigger than Nvidia

She can always churn the goods out

It's like a Macguffin, except it vanishes after 11am

Animals is a really weird film, and its making - Affleck taking the script on, seemingly oblivious to its plot's, er, similarities to other films - is even weirder.

In 2021, Sylvester Stallone re-cut his 1985 boxing epic, Rocky IV. But how often do filmmakers improve their own work with these edits? We compare and contrast the two Rockies... filmstories.co.uk/news/rocky-i...

This is the scene in Manhunter where Hannibal Lecter asks Will Graham to give him his home phone number.

In 2021, Sylvester Stallone re-cut his 1985 boxing epic, Rocky IV. But how often do filmmakers improve their own work with these edits? filmstories.co.uk/news/rocky-i...

Hm. Conversations I’ve had with insiders at Netflix are all about how any menu system can’t remotely compete with linear TV - so many disadvantages - and that plenty of programmes and whole genres can only survive on a platform that doesn’t rely on an algorithmic / front page priority system.

Here's an absolutely incredible piece of dialogue from the 1980 Alien knock-off, Contamination: Tony: “You’re the first woman I went after that I never got past first base with.” Stella: “I’m sorry.”