Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Movie Watch
Bill Preston and Ted Logan are two totally excellent dudes facing one most heinous history exam....
Robin Hood (Disney) (1973)
Movie Watch
An imaginative Disney version of the Robin Hood legend. Fun and romance abound as the swashbuckling...
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
Movie Watch
Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis gives an impassioned performance in this riveting drama that...
Gilliamesque: A Pre-Posthumous Memoir
Book
From his no-frills childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood...
Ted Buxton: My Life in Football
Book
As a professional football coach and football scout, Edward 'Ted' Buxton is well-known in the world...
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2
TV Season
The murder of a Police Chief leads Willows and Brown to Miami ("Cross Jurisdictions"), in the second...
The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
Book
In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches....
Many changes on both sides of the camera mean that Survivors is an inconsistent show, with nearly everyone agreeing the best episodes are all in the first season. This is not to say the first season is perfect or the others are not worth watching (though there are a few dud episodes). The best episodes are ones which mix character-based drama and big ideas - the capital punishment-themed Law and Order, in which the members of the community must decide what to do with one of their number they believe to be a murderer, is a particular highlight. Series anticipates Nation's Blake's 7 in the way a supporting character ends up as the de facto lead, in both cases a ruthless pragmatist becoming a very unconventional hero.
Criticisms that the show is middle class are somewhat justified; members of the working class are either comic relief or shotgun-toting menaces (trade unionists are also depicted as a menace). The low budget of the later episodes (most of which were made on VT rather than film) also shows. The second season can be a bit dull but the others are seldom less than interesting, and occasionally extremely good.
Brett Eldredge by Brett Eldredge
Album
Singing country music with a soulful edge and more than a dash of pop polish, Brett Eldredge was...