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JES BICKHAM

Abracadabra!

blog_jes Not many things work equally well as both book and film, but The Prestige is one

Warning! If you've not seen or read The Prestige, then don't read any further, as here be spoilers. And this is one film and book that you really don't want spoiled. I mean, really. Still reading? OK, then...

MORE Jes Bickham May 02, 2007, 04:30:49

Daleks, We Loved You

blog_jes Despite neat touches, Doctor Who's latest Dalek eps fail to catch fire 

We have to keep reminding ourselves, here on Death Ray, that Doctor Who is a kids' show (well, a family show), and that it should not be judged on the criteria that we'd usually apply to, say, BSG or anything else similarly 'adult'.

MORE Jes Bickham May 02, 2007, 03:39:17

Battlestar Galactica

blog_jesThe (frankly unlikely) case against 

There's been a lot of discussion about current SF TV in the Death Ray offices this week, a lot of it concerning Battlestar Galactica. Guy ploughed through the first series last weekend in an effort to catch up and offered a surprisingly dissenting voice to our (almost) unanimous love of it – he thinks it overreaches itself and is too transparent in offering real-world political analogues.

MORE Jes Bickham May 02, 2007, 03:37:05