NOVEMBER
Once again I try to give you My Favourite Things from around the web in the last month.
1) Loki
Tom Hiddleston is in danger of becoming a regular feature in this column. He has appeared far too often at this point with his exploits. He is clearly having far too much fun.
Recently he featured in some short clips on Comedy Central to promote Thor: The Dark World. Watch with glee as he tries to get the upper-hand over a bunch of small kids.
2) Batkid
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is wonderful and provides real service to millions of young children who are fighting for their lives against server and often terminal illnesses. This particular wish got a lot of attention online last month and for good reasons.
Young Miles is only 5 years old and has been battling leukaemia since he was 20 months old. When he asked if he could be Batman for a day, the response was strong and heartwarming.
You know, sometimes, just sometimes, the world can be alright.
3) Alan Moore: The Lo-Budget Biopic
On November 18th, noted comic book writer and all-round mad bloke Alan Moore celebrated his 60th birthday. Singer/songwriter and cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis decided to pay homage to Moore with this illustrated song. It’s rather sweet and pretty cool.
4) Aningaaq
I genuinely believe Gravity will be looked back on as being similarly cinematically influential as 2001: A Space Odyssey. I got to see it in November and was really blown away.
Do you remember when Sandra Bullock is trying to communicate with Earth but only gets a strange man, his dog, and a baby? Well, there is a short film of his end of the conversation. It’s made by Gravity director Alfonso Cuaron’s son Jonas.
5) The Five(ish) Doctors
We here at FRED love both Doctor Who and Sylvester McCoy with all out hearts. Just to prove a point, here is me with Mr. McCoy from a couple years ago:
Any excuse to show people that…
Anyway, with the big 50th anniversary this past month, Mr McCoy and some of his fellow Doctor cohorts decided to do their own big reunion show. It’s written/directed by Peter Davison himself and features pretty much everyone you can think of from the Doctor Who universe.
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And that’s it! My favourite things of the last month.
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Things kicked off proper with To Kill A Mockingbird, and Universal keeps the excitement of their 100th anniversary going with a fully restored, absolutely beautiful high definition presentation of their WWI epic 
You don’t have to be lonely or irresponsible to want an 
The now-companionless 11th Doctor puts his own spin Narnia with World War II and plenty of trees thrown in for good measure in the latest Christmas adventure 
The Doctor & Peri land on barren Androzani Minor in the middle of violent human/android keruffles & find celery useless against stickyballs in the final Peter Davison adventure 
The TARDIS materializes inside a ship full of fraidy-cats paralyzed by flat-footed psychic aliens fond of onesies but not humans in the William Hartnell story 
Watch as the History Channel continues to fritter away its reputation with another volume of the lamentable 
The less than dynamic duo return to snigger and snark for a new generation with the release of 
It’s not the tightest of flicks, but when it comes to the sordid history of films adapted from sketches on Saturday Night Live, 
If you’ve been looking for the perfect headwear to not only keep your noggin warm, but also show that you are a loyal officer serving the Empire, you’ll want to pick up your very own 
Got a Blu-Ray player? Like science fiction? Well, Warners has gotten a weekend filler for you, as they’ve unloaded quite an impressive stash of high-def catalogue releases appealing to those of the geek persuasion – titles like 
After a declining 4th season, 
While the US awaits the DVD release of Matt Smith’s first season of the Doctor, fans can fill the void with a trio of classic releases featuring a pair of Peter Davison adventures – 
Just as scathing and satirical as it was upon its release, Robert Altman’s comeback film 
Superman in everything that name, the creators behind 
If you’ve yet to pick up the 7 series comprising Helen Mirren’s tour de force as flawed Detective Jane Tennison, you can get the whole lot via 
Originally released years ago, 
For some reason it’s not a high definition release, but Oliver Stone’s original 
The main reason that I occasionally dip into 
The 3rd season of 
The adventures of the slightly older Ben continue in 
Put Deadwood & Big Love into a blender, throw the contents onto some Harleys, and you’ve pretty much got 
Dip into the heady days of 60’s counter-culture and the burgeoning 70’s easy-rock scene with 
Hey! Remember the Jonas Brothers? Those teen dreams that were banished to limbo upon the arrival of the one called Bieber? Well, they returned alongside costar Demi Lovato for the Disney Channel sequel 
The great war against Satan becomes a lot more complicated in the 5th season of 
If you’re needing a chick flick marathon in a box, look no further than the 
Try as I might, I couldn’t get into Steve Coogan’s latest sitcom foray, 
All good things must end, even if that ending came over 30 years ago. Such is the case with the release of the sixth and final season of 
Alan Davies is back as sleuthing magician 
Simon Schama turns his historical eye towards examining American History and explaining how the past informs the nation’s present in his excellent documentary 
Paramount rolls out another pair of much0requested catalogue titles onto Blu-Ray with Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon in Alexander Payne’s 
The latest star to get the Warners box set spotlight treatment arrives in the form of the 
I’m sorry, but I can’t watch Mark Wahlberg without two things coming to mind now – his abysmal performance in The Happening and Andy Samberg’s scathing impersonation on SNL. With those both in mind, watching Wahlberg in 
The Douglas family are back with the second volume of their first season, and I challenge you to get the theme song to 
Though I still think of him as the 5th Doctor, Peter Davison also starred as Detective Constable “Dangerous” Davies in 
It’s not nearly as groundbreaking or funny as his previous landmark specials, but Chris Rock’s 
John Frankenheimer’s still compelling portrait of 
Anyone interested in cinema history would do well to pick up a copy of the mega documentary 
Crytozoology nuts probably eat up the sensationalist style of 
The spooks of 
The film is still an overwrought tearjearker, but 
Sound the alarms and rouse the kids, as the 5th season of 
The Cold Case Unit is back on the case (yes, I wrote that) in the 3rd season of the UK’s excellent answer to CSI, 
Another blink and you missed it series comes to DVD with 
It holds no sway for me, but I have known my nephew’s eyes to be glued to Nick’s Back To The Barnyard, so I’m sure he’ll delight in the 5-episode collection 
It’s time for this week’s classics corner, as the BBC release another of their literary adaptations sets – 
Oh, National Lampoon. Your brand means absolutely nothing now. Nothing at all. My proof?