Month: November 2010

Wednesday’s “Henry5” news

3 November 2010 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Film

  • Brad Pitt to play mob enforcer in Cogan’s Trade
  • Al Pacino, Eva Green and Susan Sarandon to star in Arbitrage
  • New trailer for Gulliver’s Travels
  • Michael Caine, Ray Winstone, Vinnie Jones, Gerard Depardieu and Derek Jacobi to star in sci-fi version of Henry V
  • Tron: Legacy clips: clip 1 and clip 2
  • Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje to star with Maxine Peake and David O’Hare in Best Laid Plans

British TV

Canadian TV

US TV

UK TV

Review: The Trip 1×1

2 November 2010 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

The Trip

In the UK: Mondays, 10pm, BBC2. Available on the iPlayer

One of the funniest parts of the the Tristam Shandy adaptation, A Cock and Bull Story, that Michael Winterbottom directed in 2006 was the strange partnership between the stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Or should I say ‘Steve Coogan’ and ‘Rob Brydon’, because in the movie the two actors played rivalrous versions of themselves, complete with fake partners, backgrounds, etc, that are close but don’t really match up to the real things:

Strangely, four years on, BBC2 has decided to get Winterbottom, Coogan and Brydon together again for a six-part comedy series that sees ‘Brydon’ and ‘Coogan’ visiting restaurants around the country to review them for The Observer food magazine, while recreating the same chemistry they had during A Cock and Bull Story. It’s a near-the-knuckle, moderately funny, occasionally hilarious piece that’s as much drama as comedy.

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US TV

More reasons why the 80s were awesome: Sylvester Levay and Morgan Fairchild in Time Bomb

2 November 2010 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Time Bomb

There are lots of reasons why the 80s were awesome, of course. One of the biggest was American TV of the time, a view of mine that is in no way coloured by nostalgia. Oh no.

But the 1984 TV movie Time Bomb (another reason the 80s was so awesome – US TV used to do movies all the time) is a huge pile of 80s awesome. As if the idea of having Billy Dee Williams driving around in an armoured HGV full of nuclear material (with a very young Lou Diamond Phillips here in an uncredited role) weren’t enough awesome:

  1. It has the music of Sylvester Levay and
  2. It’s from a time when an international terrorist wasn’t automatically a muslim but could, in fact, be French and played by Morgan Fairchild

Now Sylvester Levay isn’t a name you hear much these days. But the Hungarian electrosynth genius was responsible for the theme for Airwolf:

That automatically qualifies him for extreme awesomeness.

But having Morgan Fairchild playing the terrorist. You’d never get that these days, which is why Time Bomb is so very, very awesome.

Sitting Tennant

Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant (week 40, 2010)

2 November 2010 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

This week, Sister Chastity has come up with trumps with another of her topical Sitting Tennants – this one from Ask Rhod Gilbert. Who knows what’s going on…

  1. Erin C: 300
  2. Sister Chastity: 280
  3. Rullsenberg: 260
  4. Toby: 185
  5. Rachel: 90
  6. Sabine: 65
  7. Karen: 35
  8. dreamer-easy: 30
  9. Dawn: 10
  10. kellyann06: 5

Back in the captionland, in an extraordinary turn of affairs, everyone managed to submit at least one caption that amused me, so everyone who took part got 10 points. Well done to you all and good luck this week!

  1. Marie: 230
  2. Rullsenberg: 220
  3. Toby: 195
  4. Electric Dragon: 160
  5. Dani: 105
  6. SK: 90
  7. Jane Henry: 70
  8. ecg: 50
  9. Rachel: 45
  10. Sabine: 25
  11. whogal: 20
  12. Virpi: 5
  13. kellyann06, Sister Chastity, Alex, Paul Ebbs, Joe B: 10
  14. George: 5

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.

The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.