Famous at last – kinda
CBS 60 Minutes made this Avatar interview available with James Cameron as an embed. I can’t embed it here since it’s a hosted WordPress blog, but I’ve linked to it below over at CBS. I was shocked to find that at around the 59 second mark you can totally see the back of me! I was privileged to spend a day as an extra, and watching James Cameron and

R. Pats has a lot to answer for
Just watched The Haunted Airman. We needed a DVD that we could agree on, and this seemed to fit the bill. It’s an adaptation of a book called The Haunting of Toby Jugg by Dennis Wheatley, which I read when I was younger. It freaked the crap outta me then, and I’ve been waiting a long time to see an adaptation on the screen. My wife suggested it because it contained a healthy dose of one Robert Pattinson. Turns out it was a made-for-TV BBC production packaged up on DVD to cash in on R. Pats’ new-found fame with the tween set. And it was awful. See, when you’re adapting something, it usually pays to do more than just take the central premise a