James Bond 007 Scalextric in action
The James Bond 007 Scalextric set joins a long tradition of slot car racing involving Ian Fleming's other famous creation. While some of us might still be holding out for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the wait is ably filled by the character's close association with Aston Martin. This set has two of them, a DB5 as seen in Goldfinger and a later V8 as seen in The Living Daylights.
Read, set, go! Photo: Andrew Robertson
They have working head and rear lights, and the more modern car has a green light under the front wheels to replicate a laser. That itself is an homage to the tyre-shredding spikes on the older car, concealed in the hubs of the wire wheels. At least on film, anyway, some things are hard to replicate at scale.
The details on the cars are impressive, including a tuxedoed Bond in each.
The James Bond 007 Scalextric set joins a long tradition of slot car racing involving Ian Fleming's other famous creation. While some of us might still be holding out for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the wait is ably filled by the character's close association with Aston Martin. This set has two of them, a DB5 as seen in Goldfinger and a later V8 as seen in The Living Daylights.
Read, set, go! Photo: Andrew Robertson
They have working head and rear lights, and the more modern car has a green light under the front wheels to replicate a laser. That itself is an homage to the tyre-shredding spikes on the older car, concealed in the hubs of the wire wheels. At least on film, anyway, some things are hard to replicate at scale.
The details on the cars are impressive, including a tuxedoed Bond in each.
- 11/30/2023
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Winners' speeches at the Glasgow Short Film Festival awards Photo: Andrew Robertson
Glasgow's eleventh short film festival, the 2018 installment, closed with a celebratory screening of award winners, in new festival venue Civic House. Hosted (and later DJ'd) by Ronan Leonard of Indie Cork, it was a well-attended, well-lubricated, and well-enjoyed event. Ronan was given the gig as host "around lunch-time" according to festival director Matt Lloyd, a role previously filled by much-missed festival apparatchik Morven Cunningham. Suffice to say she's a hard act to follow, but while she engages in artistic endeavours in a Leith direction her legacy as a quirkily confrontational compere was aptly filled.
The evening included the usual effusive thanks to supporters, festival director Matt Lloyd making special mention of Merchant City Brewing as a producer of imbibables, he said they were the first beer sponsor he "felt passionately about". He described "working through [their output] for the last...
Glasgow's eleventh short film festival, the 2018 installment, closed with a celebratory screening of award winners, in new festival venue Civic House. Hosted (and later DJ'd) by Ronan Leonard of Indie Cork, it was a well-attended, well-lubricated, and well-enjoyed event. Ronan was given the gig as host "around lunch-time" according to festival director Matt Lloyd, a role previously filled by much-missed festival apparatchik Morven Cunningham. Suffice to say she's a hard act to follow, but while she engages in artistic endeavours in a Leith direction her legacy as a quirkily confrontational compere was aptly filled.
The evening included the usual effusive thanks to supporters, festival director Matt Lloyd making special mention of Merchant City Brewing as a producer of imbibables, he said they were the first beer sponsor he "felt passionately about". He described "working through [their output] for the last...
- 3/19/2018
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Introducing the Glasgow Short Film Festival Photo: Andrew Robertson
Glasgow's Short Film Festival opened its eleventh outing with a well-attended screening at the city's historic Film Theatre. The programme featured a wide variety of films drawn from the 2018 schedule, and those in the audience who particularly enjoyed the works will have the opportunity to catch them "peppered across" the rest of the weekend's events.
Festival Director Matt Lloyd welcomed everyone to Glasgow's second film festival in the space of a fortnight, and expressed a hope that filmgoers wouldn't have to battle any Beasts from the East or Pests from the West. Talking about the global reach of this year's festival, with attendees from Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, New York and Austria, Matt talked about struggles not with the weather but with the UK Border Agency - visa woes from what were explicitly characterised as "racist policies" weren't the only issues -...
Glasgow's Short Film Festival opened its eleventh outing with a well-attended screening at the city's historic Film Theatre. The programme featured a wide variety of films drawn from the 2018 schedule, and those in the audience who particularly enjoyed the works will have the opportunity to catch them "peppered across" the rest of the weekend's events.
Festival Director Matt Lloyd welcomed everyone to Glasgow's second film festival in the space of a fortnight, and expressed a hope that filmgoers wouldn't have to battle any Beasts from the East or Pests from the West. Talking about the global reach of this year's festival, with attendees from Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, New York and Austria, Matt talked about struggles not with the weather but with the UK Border Agency - visa woes from what were explicitly characterised as "racist policies" weren't the only issues -...
- 3/15/2018
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Pirate Planet marks the debut of one of Britain’s most celebrated sci-fi authors Douglas Adams (he used to be a good friend of Lalla Ward’s, y’know). In keeping with his off-the-wall humour and vivid imagination, The Pirate Planet is an appropriately bonkers entry in the Key To Time season.
As if the concepts of half-robotic shouty pirates, killer robot parrots, planet-eating planets and shuffling telepathic goons aren’t crazy enough, we get a whole range of tongue-twisting technobabble. Polyphase Avitron. Macromac Field Integrator. Time Dams. The whole story is overloaded with dozens of complex scientific concepts (some of which are more plausible than others) and imaginative scenarios and characters – to the point where you need to see it more than once.
Another notable trait of The Pirate Planet is the fact that nothing is as it seems. The Mentiads are bigged up as a dangerous threat,...
As if the concepts of half-robotic shouty pirates, killer robot parrots, planet-eating planets and shuffling telepathic goons aren’t crazy enough, we get a whole range of tongue-twisting technobabble. Polyphase Avitron. Macromac Field Integrator. Time Dams. The whole story is overloaded with dozens of complex scientific concepts (some of which are more plausible than others) and imaginative scenarios and characters – to the point where you need to see it more than once.
Another notable trait of The Pirate Planet is the fact that nothing is as it seems. The Mentiads are bigged up as a dangerous threat,...
- 11/5/2010
- Shadowlocked
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