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Steve Rogerson's web pageSome stuff about me I live in Nottingham and I'm a freelance journalist in the trade and technology press. In case you hadn't guessed, I'm
a science fiction fan. I support Shrewsbury
Town football club, and I'm a season ticket holder. In May 2004 Shrewsbury
won the Nationwide
Conference Play-Off Final to get back into the league. But May 2007 saw Shrewsbury's last game at the Gay Meadow, which earned them a place in the play-offs, and they made it all the way to the Playoff Final at the new Wembley stadium. They repeated this again two years later reaching the 2009 Playoff Final. In June 2007, there was an auction of the fixtures and fittings and that month I also visited the new ground. Pictures from both are here. December 2005-January 2006, Malaysia January 2007, USA (inc Disneyland) August-September 2007, Yokohama September 2007, Donington Park October 2007, Shanghai and Taipei February and September 2008, Barcelona and Nuremberg March 2009, Stapeley Water Gardens January 2012, Cocoa Beach, Florida May 2013, Marston's Brewery, Burton-on-Trent June-July 2013, Langkawi, Malaysia January 2014, Phuket, Thailand
On TV, Blake's 7 is my favourite show, but Buffy is a close second. I enjoy tons of other stuff from Star Trek to Xena, from The Prisoner to Babylon 5 and from Dr Who to Firefly. Oh, and don't forget Andromeda, Angel, X Files, Carnivale, Cleopatra 2525, Crusade, Charmed, Dead Zone, Farscape, Hex, Jeremiah, Lost, The Survivors, Smallville, Star Cops, Lexx, Red Dwarf, Regenesis, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, The 4400, Torchwood, Ultraviolet, Wonderfalls and so on. Some of my articles about films. My favourite films by year: Films 2007 I didn't see as many films in 2007 as previous years for various reason, but I did still find some gems. Two blockbusters that didn't make my top three were Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (the best of the Potter films so far) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (good for purely escapism reasons). In third place I put Night of the Sunflowers, an engrossing case of mistaken identity in small-town Spain. In second place, and it nearly won, was the delightful Stardust. But the winner was Danny Boyle's Sunshine. Excellent movie. Films 2006 This was a tough one to decide as I saw so many good films in 2006. The three that were close but didn't make it were Wilderness (a gritty UK made horror film), The Dark (strange goings on in the Welsh countryside) and Underworld Evolution (the sequel to the Underworld battle between werewolves and vampires). In second place was Children of Men, set in a future where women are no longer fertile and the effects that has had on soicety. And in first place, Pan's Labyrinth, a combined fantasy and political drama set in Spain in 1944. Films 2005 What a year. This really was a good year for films, and I saw a lot. It was tough to decide which was best but I ended up choosing The Descent, very claustrophobic, very tense. In second place was Serenity - Joss Whedon does it again as Firefly comes to the big screen. In third place, I picked the best non-genre film of the year - The Rage in Placid Lake. I reviewed all the films I saw this year at the cinema on my LiveJournal (the link is at the bottom of the page). Films 2004 Another year with a lot of OK films but nothing that was a great film. Top has to be Shaun of the Dead, just so funny and original. Spiderman II showed that sequels can be better than the originals, and so deserved a mention. And Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was cool. This was the year Hollywood did a remake of the Japanese horror film The Grudge, which prompted me to watch the original as well, which was a far better film and makes me wonder why Hollywood doesn't save itself the expense of remaking these films by just distributing the originals. Films 2003 The outstanding film of the year had to be the vampire versus werewolf movie Underworld. This was so dark and gothic, and a different interpretation on an old theme. Very original. Second, also because of its originality, was Dogville, which didn't go on general release in 2003 but I saw it at the London Film Festival. Return of the King, as expected, was amazing, but nothing really new here, and I felt a little disappointed that the scouring of the Shire wasn't included, so it is not in the hunt. Films 2002 I was hoping again to avoid the blockbusters in selecting my movie of the year, and that looked like it was going to be the case with Dog Soldiers top and 28 Days Later... second. And then I watched the Two Towers, and it was awesome, and an easy winner. Films 2001 It was a bit tough to pick the best film of 2001 with such crackers at the end as the first Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter movies. But my vote goes to Ginger Snaps as the best werewolf movie since American Werewolf in London. The worst film of the year by far was AI. Films 2000 There were no outstanding films in 2000 but a lot of good ones. Just pipping the rest, I thought, was The Cell, though it was run close by Sleepy Hollow, Galaxy Quest and Scream 3 (am I the only person who actually liked that film?). Films 1999 My favourite film from 1999 was The Matrix, closely followed by The Sixth Sense (sorry Star Wars, I did enjoy The Phantom Menace, it just wasn't as good as some of the other stuff around). Films 1998 In 1998, my favourite films were Dark City and The Cube. I'd also like to give a plug for Smilla's Feeling for Snow, an excellent genre film almost totally ignored by the SF press. Finally, I've got a Yahoo profile if you want to know more about me. And I have a LiveJournal. |