Metropolis 2010 reissue trailer
Eureka's rather lovely trailer for their forthcoming release of the (almost-)complete Metropolis. It's in cinemas from September 10th, and on DVD & Blu-ray before the end of the year.
Pale Rider (1985)
[#67 in 100 Films in a Year 2010]
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
fix
Seems the TV post on July 1st was completely mucking up the page. This has now been fixed, so you can see the quite interesting Roger Ebert article properly now.
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
TV
Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne
Part 1 (of 3)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
How I Met Your Mother
5x06 Bagpipes
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]
Part 1 (of 3)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
How I Met Your Mother
5x06 Bagpipes
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]
Articles
Back To The Future 'hoax' - we confess! by Dan Goodswen
(from Total Film)
International Number Ones: Because every country is best at something by David McCandless
(from Information is Beautiful)
And we're best for... CCTV. Typical.
(It falls down slightly because not every country has a label.)
Review of Inception by Nev Pierce
(from Empire)
If you didn't think the excitement/anticipation levels for Inception could be ratcheted any higher... well, Empire's review may surprise you. (In a good way.)
Some overused Doctor Who plot devices we'd like a moratorium on by Charlie Jane Anders
(from io9)
Some of these are stretching things a bit -- they've only been used twice, for example, and it's only because they're so good that we've even noticed -- but Anders also has a point about many of them.
(from Total Film)
Total Film 'Future Day' shenanigans cause Twitter chaosHa!
International Number Ones: Because every country is best at something by David McCandless
(from Information is Beautiful)
And we're best for... CCTV. Typical.
(It falls down slightly because not every country has a label.)
Review of Inception by Nev Pierce
(from Empire)
If you didn't think the excitement/anticipation levels for Inception could be ratcheted any higher... well, Empire's review may surprise you. (In a good way.)
Some overused Doctor Who plot devices we'd like a moratorium on by Charlie Jane Anders
(from io9)
Some of these are stretching things a bit -- they've only been used twice, for example, and it's only because they're so good that we've even noticed -- but Anders also has a point about many of them.
Monday, 5 July 2010
TV
Murderland
Part 1 Carrie's Story
I've had this miniseries sat waiting to be watched for almost nine months(!) It is, as you may guess from the title, about a murder; but each episode is told from the perspective on a different character -- in part one, it's the teenage daughter of the victim. It's a very good performance from young Bel Powley as the titular Carrie, and it's quite amazing just how much like The Past the mid-'90s now look, but the mystery is thus far only mildly intriguing. Perhaps things will click together in the next two episodes.
Mock the Week
9x03 (1/7/10 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Part 1 Carrie's Story
I've had this miniseries sat waiting to be watched for almost nine months(!) It is, as you may guess from the title, about a murder; but each episode is told from the perspective on a different character -- in part one, it's the teenage daughter of the victim. It's a very good performance from young Bel Powley as the titular Carrie, and it's quite amazing just how much like The Past the mid-'90s now look, but the mystery is thus far only mildly intriguing. Perhaps things will click together in the next two episodes.
Mock the Week
9x03 (1/7/10 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Films
1945-1998 (2003)
[#66a in 100 Films in a Year 2010]
I suppose this falls somewhere between the stools of "short film", "Art" and "Internet video", but, still, it's long enough and focused enough that I'm going to count it -- and, of course, review it. At some point.
You can watch it (for free) here.
[#66a in 100 Films in a Year 2010]
I suppose this falls somewhere between the stools of "short film", "Art" and "Internet video", but, still, it's long enough and focused enough that I'm going to count it -- and, of course, review it. At some point.
You can watch it (for free) here.
Articles
Have you seen this movie?
(from Today at BBC News)
Inception is bleeding into the real world!
(from Live for Films)
That's a damn cool advert.
Click to enlarge.
UKATV Manga Interview
(from UK Anime Network)
An interview (obviously) "with Jerome Mazandarani at Manga Entertainment about the latest announcements from the May London Expo and how these announcements could shape the future of company."
It's a particularly interesting insight into how the UK DVD business works, with emphasis on the anime side of things (obviously), but I think the possibly-supririsngly-low sales numbers are a good indicator of just how little small companies actually sell, and why they have to be very careful about what they choose to release (I'm thinking mainly of the likes of Masters of Cinema and the BFI in this regard). It also indicates why some are beginning to move more towards Blu-ray -- some of Manga's biggest releases are selling 50/50 on DVD/Blu-ray, with their biggest recent title even managing 60% on Blu-ray.
(Note, while page one of the interview (linked above) is a video, there's a transcript over the next three pages. I prefer a transcript, me.)
Your favourite Who episodes revealed by Neil Wilkes
(from Digital Spy)
Series 1/5/31/fnarg Who eps, ranked and rated by Digital Spy readers. My initial thought was that many episodes were ranked too low, but then better ones kept turning up. That said, I'd move up Amy's Choice and The Eleventh Hour, and sacrifice both parts of the finale (a little) to make some room at the top. Also, the places look less bad if you do the sensible thing and combine the two-parters into single stories.
(That said, since the RTD re-launch each half of a two-parter has often had a slightly different tone or feel -- none more so than this year's finale, in fact. And that said, they're still more often than not blatantly two halves of a whole.)
(from Today at BBC News)
The British Film Institute has launched a search for 75 films which have disappeared from view.Here's a gallery of some of the Most Wanted.
Inception is bleeding into the real world!
(from Live for Films)
That's a damn cool advert.
Click to enlarge.
UKATV Manga Interview
(from UK Anime Network)
An interview (obviously) "with Jerome Mazandarani at Manga Entertainment about the latest announcements from the May London Expo and how these announcements could shape the future of company."
It's a particularly interesting insight into how the UK DVD business works, with emphasis on the anime side of things (obviously), but I think the possibly-supririsngly-low sales numbers are a good indicator of just how little small companies actually sell, and why they have to be very careful about what they choose to release (I'm thinking mainly of the likes of Masters of Cinema and the BFI in this regard). It also indicates why some are beginning to move more towards Blu-ray -- some of Manga's biggest releases are selling 50/50 on DVD/Blu-ray, with their biggest recent title even managing 60% on Blu-ray.
(Note, while page one of the interview (linked above) is a video, there's a transcript over the next three pages. I prefer a transcript, me.)
Your favourite Who episodes revealed by Neil Wilkes
(from Digital Spy)
Series 1/5/31/fnarg Who eps, ranked and rated by Digital Spy readers. My initial thought was that many episodes were ranked too low, but then better ones kept turning up. That said, I'd move up Amy's Choice and The Eleventh Hour, and sacrifice both parts of the finale (a little) to make some room at the top. Also, the places look less bad if you do the sensible thing and combine the two-parters into single stories.
(That said, since the RTD re-launch each half of a two-parter has often had a slightly different tone or feel -- none more so than this year's finale, in fact. And that said, they're still more often than not blatantly two halves of a whole.)
Sunday, 4 July 2010
TV
Have I Got News For You
39x02 (8/4/10 edition; extended repeat)
Bizarrely belated repeat (it's from the start of April... as if the date above didn't tell you that) for this particularly good edition of HIGNFY, now with even more laughs.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Wimbledon 2010
[Watch the Men's Singles final, as well as other matches, on iPlayer.]
39x02 (8/4/10 edition; extended repeat)
Bizarrely belated repeat (it's from the start of April... as if the date above didn't tell you that) for this particularly good edition of HIGNFY, now with even more laughs.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Wimbledon 2010
[Watch the Men's Singles final, as well as other matches, on iPlayer.]
Films
Guess Who (2005)
[#66 in 100 Films in a Year 2010]
An inverted semi-remake of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Not as good, of course.
[#66 in 100 Films in a Year 2010]
An inverted semi-remake of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Not as good, of course.
this week on 100 Films
2 new reviews were posted to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...
Clue (1985)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Also this week, as we've moved into July it's time for the monthly look at my progress.
More next Sunday.
Clue (1985)
it’s the kind of film that’s unremittingly daft, but it knows it is, and if one gets on board with that then it’s a very enjoyable experience... a mix of hilarious farce and fast-paced screwball comedy. It’s Agatha Christie meets Fawlty Towers.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
It could easily have been a simplistic message movie — these people are liberal, these people are racist, etc — but instead there’s complexity at every turn... these characters could just become ciphers for the arguments and debates; but they’re not, they’re characters, having believable reactions, and from this comes the debate.
Also this week, as we've moved into July it's time for the monthly look at my progress.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 3 July 2010
TV
The Mentalist
2x19 Blood Money
[Watch it (again) on Demand Five.]
Wimbledon 2010
[Watch the Ladies' Singles final, parts one and two, as well as other matches, on iPlayer.]
2x19 Blood Money
[Watch it (again) on Demand Five.]
Wimbledon 2010
[Watch the Ladies' Singles final, parts one and two, as well as other matches, on iPlayer.]
Music
Renegades [EP 1] by Renegades
Renegades [EP 2] by Renegades
Feeder's new album, Renegades, turned up today, at which point I realised I still hadn't listened to these two EPs -- by Feeder labelling themselves as Renegades (don't ask me why, no one really seems to know). So, I thought I ought to get round to it before spinning the album, especially as 5 of the songs are duplicated on there.
Renegades [EP 2] by Renegades
Feeder's new album, Renegades, turned up today, at which point I realised I still hadn't listened to these two EPs -- by Feeder labelling themselves as Renegades (don't ask me why, no one really seems to know). So, I thought I ought to get round to it before spinning the album, especially as 5 of the songs are duplicated on there.
Friday, 2 July 2010
TV
Battlestar Galactica [2004]
2x13 Epiphanies
2x14 Black Market
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross
18x22 (25/6/10 edition)
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
Wimbledon 2010
Men's semi-final day. Cheerio British hope then.
[Watch Murray v Nadal and Berdych v Djokovic (again) on iPlayer.]
2x13 Epiphanies
2x14 Black Market
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross
18x22 (25/6/10 edition)
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
Wimbledon 2010
Men's semi-final day. Cheerio British hope then.
[Watch Murray v Nadal and Berdych v Djokovic (again) on iPlayer.]
Articles
FlashForward is 'most missed' axed show by Morgan Jeffery
(from Digital Spy)
On the one hand, you think, "really? Really?" On the other, look at its competition in that poll. On another, with the likes of Law & Order and Scrubs there it's a bit bizarre how much it won by. On a fourth hand, several L&O franchises remain and Scrubs was apparently past its best.
Is Aaron Johnson too perfect for Spider-Man? by Ben Child
(from Film Blog at guardian.co.uk)
This article posted just hours before it turned out that, yes, he probably was. And quite right too -- Kick-Ass rather undermines Spider-Man.
(from Digital Spy)
On the one hand, you think, "really? Really?" On the other, look at its competition in that poll. On another, with the likes of Law & Order and Scrubs there it's a bit bizarre how much it won by. On a fourth hand, several L&O franchises remain and Scrubs was apparently past its best.
Is Aaron Johnson too perfect for Spider-Man? by Ben Child
(from Film Blog at guardian.co.uk)
This article posted just hours before it turned out that, yes, he probably was. And quite right too -- Kick-Ass rather undermines Spider-Man.
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
No updates to the regular numbers this week, but at least there's the running time update to make up for it.
Number of titles in collection: 1,185 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,095 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 90 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 2,920 [no change]
Number of films in collection: 1,247 [no change]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 4,111 [no change]
Statistic of the week:
Total running time of collection (approx.):
205 days, 4 hours, and 32 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 19 hours, and 14 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
No updates to the regular numbers this week, but at least there's the running time update to make up for it.
Number of titles in collection: 1,185 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,095 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 90 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 2,920 [no change]
Number of films in collection: 1,247 [no change]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 4,111 [no change]
Statistic of the week:
Total running time of collection (approx.):
205 days, 4 hours, and 32 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 19 hours, and 14 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Thursday, 1 July 2010
TV
Rev.
1x01 Episode 1
BBC Two's new Church-based sitcom is very good. Recommended, for what that's worth.
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
Stand Up for the Week
1x01 (25/6/10 edition)
Well, now, that was at least as rude as was implied, eh. Some of it was quite funny though, so that's OK. Though I'm slightly concerned: this is the third thing I've seen with Jack Whitehall in a row where I thought he was one of the best bits -- do I actually like him?!
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]
1x01 Episode 1
BBC Two's new Church-based sitcom is very good. Recommended, for what that's worth.
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
Stand Up for the Week
1x01 (25/6/10 edition)
Well, now, that was at least as rude as was implied, eh. Some of it was quite funny though, so that's OK. Though I'm slightly concerned: this is the third thing I've seen with Jack Whitehall in a row where I thought he was one of the best bits -- do I actually like him?!
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]
Articles
The Great Box-Office Scam by Roger Ebert
(from rogerebert.com)
An article from 1985 (mentioned today on twitter) which feels as relevant 25 years later as it surely was then. And it's funny reading about "recent hits" like Rambo and "movies about to come out" like Pale Rider, Silverado and Back to the Future -- and, mentioned in more or less the same tone, movies that are now forgotten.
(from rogerebert.com)
An article from 1985 (mentioned today on twitter) which feels as relevant 25 years later as it surely was then. And it's funny reading about "recent hits" like Rambo and "movies about to come out" like Pale Rider, Silverado and Back to the Future -- and, mentioned in more or less the same tone, movies that are now forgotten.
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Music
Night Work by Scissor Sisters
Finally got round to putting this on. Liked a lot of it quite a bit, but not as much as Ta-Dah. Likely to grow; not certain it's catchy enough to usurp their previous album in my affections.
Finally got round to putting this on. Liked a lot of it quite a bit, but not as much as Ta-Dah. Likely to grow; not certain it's catchy enough to usurp their previous album in my affections.
Articles
Review of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse by Roger Ebert
(from rogerebert.com)
Ebert gives the latest Twilight claptrap a thorough slating and two thumbs down. Quite right, I'm certain.
(from rogerebert.com)
Ebert gives the latest Twilight claptrap a thorough slating and two thumbs down. Quite right, I'm certain.
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