Okay, do you want to watch something good ? Something really good?

Then go out and buy the DVD box set of Joss Whedon's TV series "Firefly", cruelly cancelled after only 11 episodes, despite its awesomeness. Then, just head to the cinema because now, the characters of "Firefly" have found new life in theatres in the film Serenity (it's the name of central spaceship in the story, a Firefly-class transport vessel).

As those of you who read my interview in the back of Area 7 , I'm a huge fan of Joss Whedon-in that interview, I put him in the same bracket as Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg (he created Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel , and wrote the screenplays for Speed, Toy Story and Alien Resurrection ). He's that good.

Both "Firefly" and Serenity (in the entertainment biz, they put TV shows in "Quotation Marks" while feature films are written in Italics ) have many elements similar to my own work: themes of loyalty and friendship, cool action, and nice characters get killed off in horrible ways! My action is bigger, but he's a lot wittier than I am, his dialogue is genuinely laugh-out-loud funny.

A warning though: Serenity isn't as big in scale as, say, Armageddon , since it was made on a modest budget-so don't go expecting the full epic scale of Star Wars . On that note, I took exception to Variety 's review of Serenity , in which the reviewer (using all the tragic try-hard jargon of Variety : e.g. words like "bow" instead of "debut"; God.enough already) questioned its big-screen credentials, saying it was still a bit too "TV" in its style. Rubbish. If you want a story that is interesting, dialogue that is funny and characters that you actually care about after leaving the cinema, go and see Serenity . Watch and enjoy.

Nice work, Mr Whedon. (Reviewed October 2005)