Archive for the 'acting' Category
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A miscellaneous post, with three separate topics.
I’m enjoying Life, on ITV3, starring Damian Lewis as Charlie Crews, a cop released from jail after a miscarriage of justice. In spite of his huge compensation payout, he chooses to return to his job. He has survived his ordeal by adopting the precepts of Zen/Confucianism, and he infuriates [...]
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Tags: fuel prices, winter, woodburner
Whoops Apocalypse: Survivors
Survivors was one of my favourite TV things when it was broadcast lo those many years ago. I liked Abby, the woman who was looking for her son, and felt the life went out of the series when she left it. I believe the actress was fired for being an alcoholic or something, at which [...]
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Three Sacred Cows
1. There’s an interview with Phil Spector on TV tonight, being trailed as his first for three centuries. Ironically, one of the last he gave – for Tony Palmer’s All You Need is Love series – was on a couple of weeks ago. So not that long really.
Radio Times describes Phil as the greatest record [...]
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Waitress
Waitress was written and directed by Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered in the apartment she used as an office in New York City shortly after the film was accepted at the Sundance Film Festival. It didn’t cost much to make, and was eventually bought by Fox Searchlight for around $4 or $5 million, taking over [...]
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Tags: adrienne shelly, DVD, keri russell, review, waitress
Whoctor Do
Well, the plot was straight out of The Sarah Jane Chronicles (which is about RTD’s level, I think), but I haven’t laughed so much at anything on TV since I was watching my Seinfeld boxed set DVDs.
The scene where Catherine Tate and David Tenant mime and mug at each other through two sets of windows [...]
Filed under: 1960s, Arrested Development, BBC, Entertainment, SF, TV, Television, acting, sci-fi, science fiction | 5 Comments
Tags: Doctor Who
Contrary TV
The current crop of TV drama is a little dire. There’s too much stuff on obscure channels that I feel has been watched for me by the time it reaches Freeview. And then there are tons of programmes that come on and I just can’t be bothered to invest time in them. This is partly [...]
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Juno vs. Wade
Went to see Juno last night, one of three films released this week given five-star reviews by such outlets as the Guardian. Even Kermode was mostly positive about it.
I enjoyed the film. Ellen Page is a star, and the one-liners in the script were funny. Interesting question in my mind as to audience, given the [...]
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Woody Allen’s Match Pointless
I’ve been watching this 2005 BBC co-production directed by Woody Allen. It’s not very good. The most shocking thing about this film are some of the gushing reviews on it on the IMDB, and the fact that it got a “Fresh” rating on Rottentomatoes.
Does anybody really talk like Jonathan Rhys Meyers does in this film? [...]
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Born to be Bob
Television situation comedies are the topic for the 2008 GCSE Media Studies exam, which means I’ve been trawling through the archives looking for good, bad and indifferent examples to discuss in class.
It’s fair to say that the sitcom is in crisis, and has been for a number of years. If the likes of My Family [...]
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The Queen and Di
I watched that “film” called The Queen with Dame Sir Lord Helen of Mirren in it. It’s been on my PVR for a couple of weeks. I agree wholeheartedly with Kermode that it is not a film – not even close. It was a not-especially lavish and somewhat slow-paced TV drama. Unless getting Sir Henry [...]
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