Then you can't be much of a sci-fi fan. The John Carter series is regarded as one of the key stages in the development of pulp SF and inspired countless major SF writers such as Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov. Books such as "A Princess of Mars" were - in their day - as popular as any SF novel you care to mention over the past fifty years.

Have you seen the French film '5x2' (on C4 tonight) Mc? It's quite interesting although a little heavy at times....It's a film about a couples relationship in reverse. Starts with them getting divorced and works back, through several scenes, ending with their first meeting. I found it rather intriguing.

At last. My first blog post with the new PC. Apologies for delays in updates, I'm slowly catching up with lost data etc.

rlJesus' Story on Film

Haven't even heard of it I'm afraid. Was it intriguing enough to seek out?

I wouldn't give it seekability status but worth a gander if you ever bump into it....Watched John Woo's 'Red Cliff' last night. Not usually my bag and still trying to work out whether I enjoyed it or not.

Just been to see The Cabin in the Woods.

Do yourself a favour, avoid all reviews and spoilers, it's excellent and very very clever!

Going to see it tomorrow night. Not normally my sort of thing but the tv trailer looked interesting and I'm a fan of Joss Whedon's stuff.

Ok, so I've not heard of a few books from the 60s.

As it happens, my first sci-fi author was Isaac Asimov (still the benchmark), followed by Arthur C Clarke. Ray Bradbury only a little - never got into him. And remember this was in a time when I couldn't just click Wikipedia and discover who their influences were, this was when I was a kid and abused my library card to read them and whatever I could get my hands on. I've read several ER Burroughs but still never came across the John Carter series that I recall.

I'm also big into Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, Douglas Adams, Ursula LeGuin (her fantasy stuff is also extremely good), Frank Herbert, Frederick Pohl, and more recently Iain 'M' Banks' feckin fantastic Culture series (highly recommended).

So while I may not be up to your mighty and omniscient level, I'm fairly well read cheers even if I'm not a devoted sci-fi geek.

The John Carter film was still a rather major f*ck-up. Partly cos no-one had ever heard of it.

Dumb & Dumber 2 has been confirmed with original cast and director