Dan Liebke’s Astonishing Tales

It is an established scientific fact that Titanic is the most wretched piece of unicorn snot ever to win eleven Academy Awards. Everybody knows this. But nobody ever does anything about it!
There are many faults with the movie (at last count, over 900,000!), but an obvious one is that the film is just too long. One hundred and ninety-four minutes?!? Madness. What [...]

Table of Contents

#1 - Them
#2 - The Day The Earth Stood Still
#3 - War of the Worlds
#4 - Invaders from Mars

Issue One - Them
We open with the previous incarnation of the Justice League preparing to be replaced by the big seven (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and Captain Fish-Head). Before the [...]

I’m willing to suspend an enormous amount of disbelief for 24. I’m happy to just lift that incredulity up and attach some kind of rope (or perhaps a series of hooks and velcro) to it and have it just hang there. Go with the flow, that’s my rhyming mantra. ‘Mosey with a posey’ is another [...]

I see now that as part of the inevitable publicity campaign for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Nestle are offering golden tickets* in their Willie Wonka chocolate bars that will entitle the lucky recipient to replicate the film and tour the UK Nestle chocolate factory.
Now, I’ve been to this factory, so I say ‘kudos, Nestle’ for your stance on [...]

I watched an episode of Numb3rs precisely 3.2 weeks ago (rounded to one decimal place). And it got me wondering once again (this is the 83rd time I’ve wondered this now) why it is that Hollywood and its televisual brethren seem so determined to paint those proficient in maths (or ‘math’ if you prefer, Americanos) as being obsessed by it [...]

If we can believe the grandiloquent promises of soup mogul Andrew Warhol, we are all due our fifteen minutes of Fame. Personally, I’m hoping I get the quarter-hour containing that ugly guy talking up the music industry-transforming potential of the analogue synthesizer. That stuff never gets old.