scifi Archives - Paul Mackenzie Ross

Ready Player One: The References

September 2, 2019March 31, 2018 by Paul Mackenzie Ross

SPOILER ALERT I hadn’t heard about Steven Spielberg’s new film Ready Player One until this week. It cropped up somewhere as a reference in itself and that was it, as far as I was concerned. No trailer, no previews, no idea. But then the wife said she was taking the children to see it and … Read more

Go See Blade Runner 2049

October 16, 2017October 15, 2017 by Paul Mackenzie Ross

Blade Runner is one of my favourite films. It’s sci-fi, it’s got a great cast, it’s cult, seminal and influential, and the Iron Maiden album cover Somewhere in Time owes a lot to it.

This New Doctor Who

April 20, 2015December 11, 2014 by Paul Mackenzie Ross

As a boy, my first ever Doctor Who was John Pertwee, the third Doctor, after William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton. He wasn’t on my TV set for too long before he regenerated as Tom Baker and he, as far as I am concerned, is the quintessential Doctor Who of my generation (X).

Then we had Peter Davidson, husband of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s Trillion (Sandra Dickinson), followed swiftly by Colin Baker and Silvester McCoy, by which time, as a late teen, I’d already started to lose interest in the show. The BBC did enlist the charms of Nichola Bryant to lure me back to the screen, but I was more preoccupied with real world girls by then.

Accelerando

April 29, 2016October 10, 2009 by Paul Mackenzie Ross

28th day of August, 2009: For more than a year I’d been involved in a hefty Joomla! project, migrating a large 1.0.x website to the 1.5 version of the CMS. Having been far more involved in the SEO and editorial arts of the web in recent years, I’d lost touch with my artistic side, the … Read more