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Some Of My Favourite Scenes From Gay Movies

Jeffrey 1995

Patrick Stewart stole the show in this AIDS era comedy with a heart. Full of memorable lines, but this was the best exchange in the whole movie between his character and his nice but dim partner Darius.

Darius: Who's Martha Stewart?  

Sterling: She writes picture books about gracious living. Martha says that nothing else matters if you can do a nice dried floral arrangement. I worship her.  

Darius: And, um, who's Ann Miller?  

Sterling: Leave this house. 

Trick 1999

Coco Peru's monologue in Trick is something to behold (she actually runs her own Youtube channel which is PURE DELIGHT. Watch it. Now). IT BURRRRNNNNNSSSS.



Beautiful Thing 1996

Another movie that has loads of quotable moments. Jim and I often quote endlessly from this movie especially:

Jamie: You know who Claude Monet is?  

Sandra: Jamie, don't make me out to be thick. 

Jamie: Who was he then? 

Sandra: He painted the Sixteenth Chapel.

But, obviously, there's nothing quite like it's closing scene...



The Love of Siam 2007

I mean... this is one of my most beloved movies. The soundtrack is just as awesome as the story itself. Just plain perfection.



Get Real 1998 

A proper coming of age film this one... and from the BEST YEAR EVER. Ahem.




Jongens 2014

Recently gay movies have become... hmm... a little soulless. Jongens is a rare and welcome exception.

Ready Player One

So yesterday I did a quick look at my Second Life. There is a reason I returned to SL and that reason is even geekier than SL itself. Ready Player One.

About two years ago I read Ready Player One and instantly thought of Second Life. But Jim has installed Linux on my laptop and, being an idiot, there was no way I was going to figure out how to install SL on to that laptop. So it was quickly forgotten again. Then back in May I was reading it a second time when I got a nice bonus come through and I bought myself a new (Windows) laptop.

And that is how I got the addiction back. Now, of course, I was aware a movie was coming up but I was sceptical as to how good it'd be. However the trailers have impressed me and now I totally excited for it! It looks fantastic!



The level of detail, in terms of geeky references, totally matches the (at times annoying) level found in the book itself. Can't wait, check out this video which shows some of the awesome 80s stuff coming our way!

Crap Movies And Steven McQueen Being All Attractive

After walking Ayden down to the beach, around to the harbour and up through the town, Jim and I have had a "guilty pleasure" movie day with Jaws II, Jaws III and Piranha 3D.  The number of breasts in Piranha must surely put pornos to shame!

Which reminded me of the cuteness (and now hotness!) of Steven McQueen. So let's take a break from rugby for a minute and enjoy

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Judas Kiss

It's been a while since I've blogged and even longer since I watched a gay themed movie. So two birds and one stone and all that.

 

I watched Judas Kiss last night. The only reason I even knew about this movie was because Sean Lockhart (AKA Brent Corrigan) was in it and you, Dear Constant Reader, know this blog has been obsessing over Brent for a long, long time. However I went into it knowing his acting ability isn't dazzling, but I've heard good things about the story.

Lockhart's acting was actually not as bad as most of the rest of the cast. That's about the only positive thing I can say about this movie, and once you've seen just how bad the others were you'll realise it's not that positive. The story had potential, in a Strange Case of Benjamin Button sort of way, but completely fell apart with no satisfying conclusion. The idea of having an opportunity to meet your teenage self and change the course of your life is fascinating. Imagine how you'd react emotionally on either side of that situation. Well none of what you imagined can possibility relate to what actually happened because none of the characters in this movie ever act like real human beings.

Each situation seemed to descend into an unrealistic farce, and the characters were so unrealistic that I was left unable to empathise with any of them. I really didn't care what they did to each other, even to the point that when the main character's teenage self confronts his abusive father I started drifting off and thinking about the next movie I was going to watch.

Dull, unrealistic, poorly written, poorly acted. Sean Lockhart's enchanting smile was simply not enough to keep me interested. Most disappointing movie of the year so far. Oh that reminds me: Happy New Year!

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Getting Back To Basics

Many moons ago, in a town not so far away, this blog used to do lists. Top Ten's of all sorts of things important to me. Well... as it's my 8th blogaversary month it's time to update them don't you think?

My first "Silly List" was movies and went a little bit like this:

My Favorite Movie's
1. The Living End
2. Dogma
3. American Perfekt
4. The Brady Bunch Movie
5. Jurassic Park
6. Alien
7. Masters Of The Universe
8. The Talented Mr. Ripley
9. The Matrix
10. Coyote Ugly

Other films that didn’t quite make it:- Jeffrey, A Beautiful Thing, Trick, Jaws, Predator (and any other Arnie movie ever), and The Doom Generation.

Quite a mixed bag indeed... so what does it look like now...

1. The Living End
2. Dogma
3. The Love Of Siam
4. Beautiful Thing
5. Let The Right One In
6. Jurassic Park
7. Alien
8. Masters Of The Universe
9. The Talented Mr. Ripley
10. Grizzly Man


Honourable Mentions: Transformers, Iron Ladies, Sommersturm, The Brady Bunch Movie, Jeffrey, Trick, Jaws, American Perfekt, Predator (and any other Arnie movie ever), and The Doom Generation.

The main change is the entrance into my life of the foreign language movie. Once I was blind to anything outside of Hollywood, but now I see that there are a great many awesome movies made that are not in the English language. Of course that doesn't mean such Jason Classic's as The Living End or Jurassic Park were going to ever leave the Top Ten and it was pretty difficult to fit any other movies in there. One things for sure, I've seen a load of amazing movies in the last few years since this little piece of the internet was claimed by me.

Tommorrow... music... eek!

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The Unborn And Other Such Good Stuff

Yesterday Jim and I watched "The Unborn". the critical reviews are pretty awful for this movie, but I have to say... I quite enjoyed it. The plot was a bit fluffy, and the acting more so, but for a late night scary movie it wasn't that bad. Made Jim jump anyway!



I've discovered the plus side to this diet (not that there have actually been any real downsides, it's a liberal diet!); fruit smooties. They are absolutely delicious. Weird combo of strawberries, apples, banana, plus a little natural yoghurt was actually the best one. Double yum.

Not looking forward to work. There's no doubt about it: I'm not a 9-5 person. And before anyone suggests any other helpful suggestions about jobs I'd like that aren't 9-5, I think I'm just not a work person. I find it pointless. Ultimately I think the only way of making money that I would enjoy, that isn't totally silly and lazy, would be working for myself. But the questions are: 1) do I have the skills to work for myself? I'm a tough/rubbish boss after all and 2) what would I do? Last I checked there's not a huge niche for a reality telly loving, zoology obsessed, Fortean nutcase out there. If I could just persuade everyone in the country to give me 10p I think I'd be ok.

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Things To Smile About

1) My first birthday present: The War In The Air by H.G. Wells. Thanks to Mark from Kent who randomly bought this for me!! Firstly I'd like to express my deep embarrassment for never having read H.G. Wells before, and secondly express my absolute LOVE of this book. I must immediately buy all H.G. Wells books and he can replace Stephen King as my author of choice.

2) I saw Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus the other day!!



This is the first true English language kaiju eiga (that's monster movie for you and I). Forget that awful '90s Godzilla, or that post modern Cloverfield. Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus channels the heart and soul of such Japanese epics as Godzilla and Rodan.

Sure the acting goes from very bland, in the case of most of the main actors, to extremely appalling. This movie certainly is a rubbish B movie. But it's my kind of rubbish B movie and the scene when the giant shark takes down a plane (by jumping out of the water TO CLOUD HEIGHT!) is worth every second of terrible extras giving performances that show why their day job is waiting tables.

3) As I write this Rav Wilding is on Celebrity Masterchef.



Mmm.... sexy Kentish men.

4) Hilarity of this girl being stupid. She feel asleep while having her face tattoo'd???

5) I saw James from the Apprentice on the tube yesterday.

6) I've got a four day weekend from Friday :D

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Friday the 13th (2009)

As a fan of slasher movies, I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Friday the 13th. But I'm not so much a fan of remakes or reimaginings in general. I suppose after the success of Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek I should start to be a little more forgiving, but still there is something about them that makes me wary of seeing them.

So I sat down to watch the new Friday The 13th with a mixture of excitement and trepidation, expecting disappointment.



It started off quite well. Gory, but not obscenely so, with some real scares and a pretty good recap of the events of the original Friday the 13th. It quickly became apparent that whilst this movie was using elements from the first few Friday the 13ths, it could very well fit into the current set of movies without too much difficulty. This was a nice, respectful touch considering I was expecting either a straight remake or a total overhaul.

The plot was fairly standard fare involving a group of young people heading out for a night of fun and depravity, falling prey to our favourite serial killer. The acting was good. But after a promising start the awful camera angles became rather annoying and the plot headed further and further down the "we've done this before" route as each new victim was picked off one by one as they did all the usual wrong things. It was at the point that one of the party went off in search of his friend on his own, even though he knew there was a mass murderer lurking around nearby, that I stopped really caring. We've had thirty years of this sort of stuff, which was mocked so successfully in the 1990s by Wes Craven's "Scream" franchise, yet still we have to put up with badly thought out plot devices to get each victim on their own.

So despite the high quality of the acting and the rather wonderful first 30 minutes, I have to say I was utterly disappointed by this movie. I advise you just to get the original 3 movies and enjoy it for what was then it's originality.



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Star Trek

I've been a Star Trek fan since I was very young. I got hooked on TNG from an early age and that turned out to be a gateway drug. It was a slippery slope moving me onto such things as the Star Trek Fact Files, buying too many VHS's and lovingly fondling my first edition copy of the Star Trek Encyclopedia. I've been a Trekker for a long, long time. I even loved (I repeat: loved) Star Trek Voyager. Then Enterprise happened. A prequel. *shudder* Star Trek was about progression, hope for the future and constant striving for improvement and then we were expected to swallow this retrograde, gungho trek through the past which only seemed to contravene all our lovingly held Star Trek lore EVERY EPISODE. No. I didn't like it. I stopped buying Star Trek magazine and moved on.

So the proposition of a movie, set before the Original Series, directed by a man who considered anything after TOS to be rubbish (JJ Abrams even seems to think that after TOS only "fans" watched the rest of the series as it had become "inaccessible". Perhaps it's his age but he must of missed just how popular TNG was!) and with the crew of TOS completely recast, did not inspire me too much. But I didn't whine or moan about it. I sat back and waited. And I'm glad I did otherwise I'd have to eat my hat about now!

Firstly. as a space opera, special effects are pretty important to Star Trek. And never before have we seen them even half as good as the effects shown in this new movie. They were outstanding. The opening scene where the USS Kelvin stands off against Nero's giant ship coming out of a black hole is awesome. Mmmm...

Secondly, the actors mostly seemed to capture the spirit of the characters whilst not becoming parodies. I think Karl Urban may have been channeling DeForest Kelley playing Bones McCoy. Chris Pine was the handsome younger Kirk who captured the arrogance and humour without making fun of Shatner. Zachary Quinto was a great Spock

Thirdly, the story wasn't too heavy but just exciting enough to keep you on your toes.

And fourthly, and most importantly for blowhards like me, it got round the whole messy prequel thing and the problems with keeping with the known stories from the other series by having Nero's trip back in time create a parallel universe. It keeps me happy and means there's now no limit on where Star Trek can go now. It's all new. No TOS, TNG, DS9 or VOY. We are free of the binds and can dream again. This is not a prequel. This is a reboot.

And there was eye candy which I've never experienced in Star Trek before. Chris Pine is hot.



And the guy who played Kirk's father (worryingly he is my age. Kirk's dad is my age. AH!!!!!!!!!!!), Chris Hemsworth, is a total stud.



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Let The Right One In

Or, as we should rightly call it, Låt den rätte komma in.

Sweden... land of meatballs, Ikea and child vampires. And all the better for it.

This movie is a delight. A delight in the dark, backing the murdering bastards sort of way. The central youthful love affair between Oscar and Eli will draw you in, even as the blood and gore with satiate the hardened horror fans among us. Your horror movie hiding pillow will be wet with tears.

The idea of an American remake is, to be perfectly blunt, an insult and an abomination. Perhaps those who are unable to watch movies with subtitles, through no physical impediment, do not deserve to see such gems as this. To remove it from it's context, from it's intrinsic Scandinavian character, would be to remove any joy from it whatsoever.

Once America was the land of movies, but now they just remake their own, and everyone else's, movies. Whatever happened to their writing talent?

Anyway... watch Let The Right One In in Swedish and be a better person.

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Things That Are Good

1) Ajoo from South Korea. Yoinked from Gay Boy Thailand.

2) Currywurst. There is a wonderful German sausage stall in Lewisham town centre and Jim introduced me to this tasty German treat. YUM! Really am liking Germany more and more every day. Maybe this is because I've been reading the Spiegel's International Edition for news recently. I find reading the papers from the continent really interesting as it gives you a different perspective on all the stories of the day.

3) Understanding the irony of a protest in support of Palestine using the Rainbow flag, as seen in Lewisham. I'm all for Palestinian rights but let's remember being a gay Palestinian is a fate none would envy. I understand the Rainbow flag is also the Peace flag but still...

4) Death Note: The Last Name was really very good.

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Movie Weekend!

I've watched a few movies this weekend, in an effort to save money and also to allow Jim some relaxation as he currently has a poorly hand (jokes on a postcard). Some old, some new.

I saw Milk. Given we already have the Oscar Award winning "The Times of Harvey Milk", this movie had to do one of two things for me to like it;

1) give us more insight into some of the personalities involved than given by the aforementioned documentary
2) give us a reflection of our own times through the prism of these past events.

It did neither. The Times of Harvey Milk gave me far more of a feeling for who Harvey Milk and Dan White were as people than this movie did. And rather than being a reflection upon LGBT rights today it seemed to be little more than a nostalgic, rose tinted looked at the heady pre-AIDS LGBT movement of the 70s. And, as a comment on this article suggests, all at the expense of everyone else involved and gives Harvey Milk all the credit (not that he didn't deserve a lot of credit for what he did, but let's not make him out to be a superhero, when he was just a good guy).

Really, what was the point of this movie? It wasn't entertaining, and it was no more educational than a 25 year old documentary. I must have missed the point.

I also saw Death Note which was entertaining and, based on my limited experience of Japanese movies (read Godzilla films and The Ring cash ins), was different to the usual. Liked it, a lot, and not just because Tatsuya Fujiwara is a hottie.



Classic movies watched include the awesome "Crimson Tide" and "King Kong Vs. Godzilla", not so awesome but a lot better than most 60s sci fi movies.

Oh and I want this house. How frigging call would that place be?

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Gran Torino and Patrik 1.5

Seen two awesome movies this week. Gran Torino was really good. I'm not the world's biggest Clint Eastwood fan, but his performance in this was pretty darn perfect. The ending of the movie was inspiring if a little sad. Go see it.

Patrik 1.5 is a Swedish movie about a gay couple who adopt a child. An administrive error makes them think they are adopting a 1 and a half year old boy (1.5) but end up with a 15 year old delinquent. Turmoil, trauma and a happy ending result. This movie has it's faults. The gay couple start off being extremely unlikeable, and whilst Gustaf Skarsgård as Göran Skoogh eventually brings his performance back to acceptable I did not warm to the character of Sven Skoogh at all. Thankfully he's not in it so much. The ending is one which will make even the hardest heart melt. Beautifully shot too.

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Another Gay Sequel - Gays Gone Wild

I know, without my own laptop at home I am totally behind with everything... Sarah Connor Chronicles, podcasts and, of course, movies.

But finally today I managed to watch Another Gay Sequel after months of excited waiting.

Another Gay Movie was hilarious. It had bad acting, and was totally puerile, but it had a way about it that made me love it. Plus the soundtrack was awesome. Personally I think it was one of the few gay movies to break the mold out of the same old, same old rubbish that is usually released by TLA and the rest (although that doesn't stop those movies from gracing Jim and mine own over extended DVD collection).

Anyway... Another Gay Sequel was quite a disappointment when judged against the first movie. The acting was even worse, I know of Perez Hilton but see no reason for him featuring so prominently (acting is not one of his strong points, and given that I've never read whatever it is that makes him famous I don't know what his strong points are...), and the jokes were few. But still I did enjoy the movie. The guys were even hotter this time round, the cookiness was high and it's overall message seemed to be pretty darn good! Plus... Brent Corrigan not only managed to be even cuter than normal (a difficult, near impossible task I thought) as Stan the Merman but he acted his small swim-on-role far better than anyone else acted theirs throughout the rest of the movie.





The opening was a truimph mixing a Wizard the Oz homage with a quick explanation for why 3 of the 4 main roles had new actors (I especially enjoyed Nico's mum breaking the fourth wall to criticise the straight actors choosing not to return this time). But it sort of empathised what was wrong with the movie... Muffler, Nico's mum and Andy's parents were the best parts of the original. If only they had been featured more this time round.



Although I have to say Jimmy Clabots (the new Jarod) has amazing nipples.

Buy them here:

Another Gay Movie(UK Amazon, US Amazon)

Another Gay Sequel (UK Amazon,US Amazon)

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Christmas At The Folks House

So what have I been up to? Not much really. I did do a quiz on the 16th at the pub. I thought the questions were quite easy but alas no one else seemed to agree and the highest scoring team only got just over 30 out of 60. Let's just say: there was heckling, and it wasn't very popular. Oh well...

Plan B is a little better now there's a couple of people there I can talk to but still not the ideal place to be. Perhaps it's only 100 times better than my last job after all :p

For Christmas I got: LOTS! Thanks Zoe and Lee for the book!! Add to that... oh I don't know about 20 more books, and a couple of DVDs and a HAMPER (yes, a HAMPER) of Guylian chocolate and you'd have one very happy Jae. But Jim, as always, has to go and beat everyone else. Not only did he get me the Special Edition of the Love of Siam (including postcards, photos, the soundtrack and a bonus feature of Mario Maurer in the bath...) but he also bought me the wooden Father Christmas toy from the movie!! It was meant to come with the special edition but production problems stopped that happening... so instead Jim went out of his way to find it and very sweet of him too. :D Happy times.

Christmas has been good so far, and I hope yours has been too.

New Years Resolutions??? Hmm... MUST LOSE WEIGHT! Honestly. This time I mean it. You guys simply have to start being meaner with me! Send me hideous amounts of emails calling me fatty or something ;)

And finally after being absent from our televisions for some months I'd forgotten how gorgeous and beautiful a speciman Spartan from Gladiators is so for all us Gladiators fans here we go:



Don't you just want to have his babies?

Two More Monster Movies

Well following on from The Host, I decided to check out two other monster movies I've been hearing about.

The first was Rogue



I'd heard good things and I wasn't disappointed. The basic plot is: a tour of Australia's Northern Territory ends in disaster (giant saltie attacks boat, all Hell breaks loose). But the acting is better than most B movies, and the CGI is pretty good too. I actually wanted the heroes to survive when usually I'm just praying the monster will get it over and done with quickly.

Speaking of which...

I followed up the pleasantly surprising Rogue with Shark in Venice. Now I'm a sucker for anything that has a shark in it, but if I'd researched this movie before watching I'd never have picked it up. The plot is basically a treasure hunt interspersed with random shark attacks in the canals of Venice. Sadly it is made by the same team behind the Shark Attack series and they have one terrible problem... they cannot edit a movie to save their lives. It's bad when you see the same boat go behind the main actor three times in one shot (almost as if they just kept replaying the footage...) but worse is how they handle the shark scenes.

Stock footage should have little place in modern movie making. But sadly Shark in Venice has so much shark stock footage it had me laughing out loud. One minute the actors are diving in a tight cave under the city, then the scene cuts to a shark which is not only quite obviously in deep ocean but is also surrounded by unusual tropical fish unlikely to inhabit the Venetian canals. Then it attacks and basically you get the same thing... leaving any suspense or drama to whither away.

Add to this some terrible acting plus a plot that was obviously written up on the back of dinner menu the night before filming and you have one truly awful movie. I stopped watching after half an hour, just as I did with Shark Attack 2. The B movie genre is crying out for a quality shark flick... we'll just have to keep on dreaming...

The Host

I read about this south Korean movie called The Host ages ago and thought it'd be right up my street. Giant rampaging monsters? Check. That is pretty much my street isn't it... ;)



Well I finally watched it today and was more than pleasantly surprised. The special effects were good, the acting was good. There was comedy and tragedy. There was an obvious use of the monster and the reaction to it as an allegory for democracy and freedom in south Korea, both in it's recent past and it's present.

Personally it's disappointing that we have brilliant movies like this coming out of Asia and we are still totally obsessed by the Hollywood scene. I know this is changing but Hero and the like are not the same as good, modern day Asian movies. And people... the Host is one of the highest grossing south Korean movies of all time! We need to get over our dislike of subtitles and explore the world of foreign cinema. It truly does bring up some gems... Love of Siam anyone? ;)

The X-Files: I Want To Believe

I finally got round to seeing the new X-Files movie the other day. I had read the reviews that stated it was a disappointment and that compared it to one of the many monster of the week episodes of the X-Files. I thought "I LOVED the monster of the week episodes". I hated the conspiracy stuff and really, really loved the good standalone episodes such as the two Tooms episodes and "Home" from Season 4.

So I watched it, bearing myself for a mediocre film that I, as an X-Phile, would still love. Sadly even I, Jae "I liked Crocodile 2" Kay, could find little to enjoy in this movie. It was boring. This wasn't a monster of the week episode, this was just bad!

The love stuff between Mulder and Scully never did anything for me, and this movie shoves their relationship down your throat. The missing FBI agent story had me interested to start off with but went so slowly that by the time her predicament was explained I was not really interested anymore. And then we find out the reason for her kidnap is hardly supernatural and more pseudoscience... boring.

I wanted torchlit hunts through woods, I wanted Mulder to be happy and Scully to be constantly concerned and sceptical, I wanted some completely crazy explanation for the whole movie and I wanted it to end with a carefully worded report from Scully detailing why she was having none of it. I.e. I wanted a monster of the week episode and all I got was this crummy movie.

I desperately wish this wasn't the end for the X-Files but I also don't want the good times to be overshadowed by anymore rubbish and I thus, sadly, pray that they never, ever bring Mulder and Scully back. Thanks for all the fun, but it's time to move on.

Upcoming Events

So what is Jae currently looking forward to in the world of entertainment and "culture" (this is me we're talking about it's hardly going to be high brow!).

Jurassic Park IV

I have not given up hope! Jurassic Park IV has been slated for production forever. I've been looking forward to it for years. Just get it made already! 2009... fingers crossed.

Hopefully they'll give it a new direction other than "Tour/expedition around dinosaur island goes wrong!". Jurassic Park III was entertaining but let's not have more of the same.

Check our JPLegacy for the in and outs of the last few years

Jeepers Creepers III: The Cathedral

Victor Salva, writer and director of the first two movies, has confirmed a third one is due for release next year. Set 23 years in the future (as per the timescales set out in the Creeper mythos) with an opening sequence set in the Wild West during another one of the Creepers feeding frenzies, this movie will see Gina Philips reprise her role from the first movie trying to stop her son suffering the same fate as her brother.

Basically Jeepers Creepers has always been good for cute guys, fun characters and quality scares and I'm looking forward to the next installment.

Stephen King's The Stand (comics!)

There is no way I can express in words how much I love Stephen King, let alone The Stand. The Stand is the book I would class as being closest to "my perfect story". This is the story I spent years learning to read for. And now it's being adapted as a comic. I'm not going to second guess that decision, and just hope it provides a unique take on the story. I for one WILL BE BUYING THIS. Yes. I know... a Stephen King comic book... if it had a centrefold of Charles Dera naked it would complete my existence and I'd probably just disappear in a puff of smoke, perhaps leaving a slowly fading smile ala the Cheshire Cat.

Television

Only two series are on my "Must Not Miss" list: the second series of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the third series of Dexter both look... mmm... awesome.

On my radar...

Terminator Salvation - Terminator = Good (in my mind...)
X - Men Origins: Wolverine - I HATE Wolverine and feel that X - Men should be rebooted by Marvel and done properly after the X-Men: Last Stand atrocity. But if you think I'm not going to go watch it, then you're very much mistaken...
Plus of course... Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen...