Bilal was born a slave in Makkah, at a time when idolatry was the chief religion in the Arabian Peninsula. Bilal: A New Breed of Hero is hardly historically accurate – and even its opening deviates from the actual history of Bilal ibn Rahman, by showing him being taken as a slave child...
I first saw Let It Be on VHS in the mid-1980s – we rented it and subsequently pirated our own copy in a nod to the tradition of Let It Be/Get Back bootleging.Of courseI bought into the idea that Let It Be showed their breakup – I was an impressionable fan, didn’t dig indep...
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To make it interesting, the wings are served with increasingly hot chilli sauces. The questions become deeper and more personal as the Scoville hotness score of the sauces is ramped up and the guest becomes hot and bothered. The Scoville score on Donald’s last sauce, “Straight out of Hades...
The Diamond Mercenaries, Val Guest (1976, Ireland). This is one of those films that seems to have been made strictly as a cash investment, and if it returned anything more than a small a profit I’d be very surprised. A handful of big names can’t disguise the cheapness of the film...
From the opening whistle of “Nightrain” to the breathless outro solo to “Paradise City,” Guns N’ Roses’ explosive Feb. 22, 1992, show at the Tokyo Dome was one for the history books — and for the movie shelves. The band released the epic concert on VHS and DVD as a two-part...
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like AVP's situation (except with Blade Runner in place of Predator). The Alien series is unique in that way, it is so versatile that it can augment just about any fiction in a science-fiction setting (look at the countless crossovers in Comic-dom featuring Aliens/Xenos as guest stars)....
If this year'sEastercon in Chesterfelt like a two-day convention stretched out over three days, then Novacon felt as though it were exactly the right length. I chatted with various people on the first night - including Guest of HonourCharles Stross ...