Luke Cage
2x13 They Reminisce Over You [season finale]
Friday, 29 June 2018
Films
Amadeus: Director's Cut (1984/2002)
[#142 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2018 #6
If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death (1968)
[#143 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
[#142 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2018 #6
If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death (1968)
[#143 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
Non-Fiction
Space Helmet for a Cow: The Mad, True Story of Doctor Who - Volume 2: 1990-2013 by Paul Kirkley
Introduction
Previously on Space Helmet for a Cow...
Chapter 8 (pages 7-21)
Picking up where volume one left off (including the chapter numbering), I wondered how Space Helmet was going to continue its "warts and all" behind-the-scenes narrative into New Who, which is still so recent that one suspects the full behind-the-scenes truth has yet to come out (aside from a few titbits, anyway). Well, the introduction addresses this head on: it notes that it's too soon for people involved to have come clean about everything, and expressly mentions the rumours and hearsay that have been reported by the likes of Private Eye, saying it won't cover them unless they've been verified. Which is fair enough, but surely means Vol.2 can't be to New Who what Vol.1 was to the classic era. I guess we'll have to wait another couple of decades for that book.
Introduction
Previously on Space Helmet for a Cow...
Chapter 8 (pages 7-21)
Picking up where volume one left off (including the chapter numbering), I wondered how Space Helmet was going to continue its "warts and all" behind-the-scenes narrative into New Who, which is still so recent that one suspects the full behind-the-scenes truth has yet to come out (aside from a few titbits, anyway). Well, the introduction addresses this head on: it notes that it's too soon for people involved to have come clean about everything, and expressly mentions the rumours and hearsay that have been reported by the likes of Private Eye, saying it won't cover them unless they've been verified. Which is fair enough, but surely means Vol.2 can't be to New Who what Vol.1 was to the classic era. I guess we'll have to wait another couple of decades for that book.
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Non-Fiction
Space Helmet for a Cow: The Mad, True Story of Doctor Who - Volume 1: 1963-1989 by Paul Kirkley
Chapter 7 (pages 249-267) [the end]
That was a really good read -- a fun, comprehensive history of the delightfully barmy history of Doctor Who's production, accompanied by reviews of every single TV story for good measure. I liked it so much, I've already bought volume two so I can just go straight on.
Chapter 7 (pages 249-267) [the end]
That was a really good read -- a fun, comprehensive history of the delightfully barmy history of Doctor Who's production, accompanied by reviews of every single TV story for good measure. I liked it so much, I've already bought volume two so I can just go straight on.
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Non-Fiction
Space Helmet for a Cow: The Mad, True Story of Doctor Who - Volume 1: 1963-1989 by Paul Kirkley
Chapter 7 (pages 245-248)
Chapter 7 (pages 245-248)
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Films
Sanjuro (1962)
[#139 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
The sequel to Yojimbo, released just nine months later -- and how long ago did I watch Yojimbo for the first time? Nine months! (Genuinely, that's a coincidence.)
[#139 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
The sequel to Yojimbo, released just nine months later -- and how long ago did I watch Yojimbo for the first time? Nine months! (Genuinely, that's a coincidence.)
Non-Fiction
Space Helmet for a Cow: The Mad, True Story of Doctor Who - Volume 1: 1963-1989 by Paul Kirkley
Chapter 7 (pages 230-244)
Chapter 7 (pages 230-244)
Monday, 25 June 2018
Non-Fiction
Space Helmet for a Cow: The Mad, True Story of Doctor Who - Volume 1: 1963-1989 by Paul Kirkley
Chapter 6 (pages 218-229)
Chapter 6 (pages 218-229)
Sunday, 24 June 2018
Non-Fiction
Space Helmet for a Cow: The Mad, True Story of Doctor Who - Volume 1: 1963-1989 by Paul Kirkley
Chapter 6 (pages 204-217)
Chapter 6 (pages 204-217)
this week on 100 Films
7 brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...
The Death of Stalin (2017)
Rocky II (1979)
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
Yojimbo (1961)
Review Roundup
More next Sunday.
The Death of Stalin (2017)
I’m sure some viewers must find the irreverence with which the film treats serious matters to be a turn-off. Personally, I think its perspective is more profound: these are silly men playing silly power games, but the end results are often unthinkable and horrific. You only have to look at the recent news headlines to see similar situations playing out to this day.Read more here.
Rocky II (1979)
this is as much an underdog fairytale as the first movie was, and so events transpire to finally give Rocky his motivation, culminating in a triumphant revisit to the first film’s famous running-up-the-steps bit. The finale is, naturally, the big boxing rematch, where Stallone really shows off his directing chops: it’s a tense, drag-out duel that easily exceeds the first film’s for visceral impact.Read more here.
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
I read someone else assess that it’s not as good as its individual parts, and I think that’s fair. Most of the scenes, moments, and performances are strong — there are notably funny bits, dramatic bits, emotional bits; even unexpected complications in how it handles some of the characters — but when it’s all put together, it doesn’t quite coalesce.Read more here.
Yojimbo (1961)
Alexander Sesonske argues that Kurosawa is actually combining “two typically American genres”. So we have “a classic Western setting, with dust and leaves blowing across the wide, empty street that runs the length of a village, a lone stranger passes as frightened faces peer from behind shutters”, mixed with the morals (or lack thereof) of a gangster movie, with everyone a crook hoping to merely outgun the others. That all comes wrapped in the milieu of a samurai movie, meaning instead of pistol duels or scattershot machine-gun fire we get flashing blades.Read more here.
Review Roundup
Quick reviews of:Read more here.
'71
That's Entertainment!
and Russia's answer to The Avengers, Guardians.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 23 June 2018
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