Pun based title, when I think of one

I like this particular poster for The End of Oak Street . At a glance, it's just a typical drone shot of a suburban street. Then you notice some damaged roofs, scarred lawns, and a footprint...  Film makers have always wanted to contrive ways to bring dinosaurs and humans together on screen . Especially if the odds can be evened out a bit; after all, dinosaurs are going to lose in the end if we humans have any access to modern weaponry . In the early days, when not every last bit of the earth had been explored, the standard approach was to find dinosaurs surviving in remote spots, ' lost worlds ' etc. Moving on - and taking inspiration I think from a famous Ray Bradbury short story - Hollywood (and other science fiction writers) would often employ time travel as a way to meet dinosaurs, usually by going back in time, but sometimes by bringing them into ours. Science moves on, and as genetic science and awareness of DNA came into prominence, Michael Crichton did the inevi...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey , seen in Manchester a day or so after it opened in the UK. And then again, a week later, because a friend wanted to go and see it. I loved it . Might as well be open about that, since it's been so weirdly divisive among commenters online.  I'm mainly referring to YouTube, now flooded with an exceptional number of highly opinionated posts. Even before most people had actually seen the film. Apparently it's been very successful . Perhaps it makes a difference that, unlike the earlier critics who might not have seen the film but were familiar with the story and had scanned the cast list etc., most of the audience were at best hazy about the particulars of the story. Though a fair portion would have reckoned themselves to have some knowledge of its background, having seen the recent similarly star-packed film Troy, not that long ago. The Odyssey is indeed a sequel to the story of the Trojan War, told originally by the same semi-mythical...

You'll find Hyperion by Dan Simmons on most YouTube Top Ten lists of the Greatest Ever science fiction books. I must admit that this was the main reason for my buying this book. I agree, it's not the best of reasons; the internet is full of lists, in fact it's the medium's predominant writing form (allow me some slight exaggeration). However, amongst all the various YouTube science fiction channels there are a decent number of intelligent critics and commentators, and these persuaded me to investigate. I suppose I'm hinting at a little reluctance. This is because I was aware of the basics of the book's structure, from previously reading synopses; and because I did myself study English Literature at university. If the title, Hyperion , means anything to a reader, it might be from Greek Myth or astronomy; but for myself it straight away alluded to Hyperion , an unfinished epic poem by John Keats , the English Romantic poet (capital 'R' there, because th...