Thursday 14 May 2009

TV

The Mentalist
1x08 The Thin Red Line
[Watch it (again) on Demand Five.]

The Wire
2x06 All Prologue
Halfway through the season now, but -- a couple of the subplots aside -- so little has happened that it feels like it's barely begun. I'm beginning to see why some were surprised and disappointed when this first aired, and why many still regard it as one of the poorer seasons.

Films

Angels & Demons (2009)
[#25 in 100 Films in a Year 2009]

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
[2nd watch]
This is 11 years old now! Time flies.

Articles

Star Trek In-Jokes
(from Empire)
"All the Trekker references in JJ Abrams' franchise reboot." Though they seem to have missed a couple.

Star Trek: warp factor sex by Sady Doyle
(from guardian.co.uk)
It feels like flogging a dead horse to still be mentioning Star Trek -- and after only a week on release too -- but this article/review is both accurate and brilliant, and therefore deserves your attention (whatever you thought of the film).

“You stinky!” - Hong Kong’s funniest subtitles
and
“Damn you, Fatty!” - More funny subtitles from Hong Kong movies by Cal
(from Heroes of the East)
Unendingly hilarious. To quote any here would be to spoil the fun.