Andrew’s Mental Dribbling

New(ish) series of Doctor Who: watch it, as if the very future of Earth depended upon it!
Doctor, Doctor
Frankly, for millions of Earth people, Tom Baker is The Doctor. Think ‘Doctor Who’, and think ‘wild eyes and long scarf.’
To his credit, Christopher Eccleston is on record as saying that when he approached the rôle [...]

Smashing film.
Very true to the book: including singing Oompa Loompas and a rather callous Willy Wonka… but I really wish they’d produced an English dub of the movie, because all the talk about “candies” and “pants” (for trousers—”you’ve got mud on your pants”—eeeugh) and “vacation” in amongst the English accents (Charlie & family were English, [...]