Sunday 9 October 2011

TV

Downton Abbey
2x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]

The Great British Bake Off
2x08 Episode 8
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Pointless
5x29 (6/10/11 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Spooks
10x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Brothers Bloom (2008)
[#84 in 100 Films in a Year 2011]

Articles

Life on Mars Russian remake will move '70s action from Manchester to Moscow by Ben Dowell & Shiv Malik
(from guardian.co.uk)
This sounds as interesting as the Spanish version did, but as that never made it over here I doubt this will either.

this week on 100 Films

2 new reviews were posted to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...

Browncoats: Redemption (2010)
It's quite understandable if you haven't heard of Browncoats: Redemption. In short, it's an officially-okayed Firefly/Serenity fan film for the benefit of charity. There's no doubting the enthusiasm and heart of the cast & crew of Redemption — on those factors they score a perfect 5 — but as a film in its own right... well...

A Study in Terror (1965)
it’s a decent Holmes movie, with an atmospheric rendering of Victorian London and a passably intriguing plot. However, the relatively light basis in the true story of Jack the Ripper may grate with some who approach it from that angle: there’s a Holmesian plot grafted onto a smattering of Ripper facts

More next Sunday.