Starring: Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith and Taraji P. Henson
Writers: Christopher Murphey (screenplay), Robert Mark Kamen (story)
Director: Harald Zwart
Price: £24.99 (Amazon price: £15.93)
Released: November 15th 2010
It’s competition time on the blog, as it’s your chance to win the remake of The Karate Kid starring Jackie Chan on Blu-Ray and DVD.
Review and competition details after the trailer.
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Just in case you missed the trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol, which aired during Children in Need last night, you can watch it below. Ain’t that kind of me?
Incidentally, it’ll also be airing on BBC America on Christmas Day at 9/8c so no one need worry about being spoiled by UK viewers, this time around.
Back again to its regular Friday slot, it’s “What have you been watching this week?”, your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched this week.
Thanks for helping out last week and stepping into the breach, everyone, as time stopped me from both watching TV and writing about it. But I’ve nearly caught up now. Sure, I’ve still got a backlog: BBC4’s marvellous ‘Glory of Greece’ season, The Trip, Boardwalk Empire and a few eps from this week such as Cougar Town, but I’m still ready to talk TV. So, after the jump, The Apprentice, Being Erica, Boardwalk Empire, Chuck, Community, Dexter, Hellcats, House, In Treatment, Life Unexpected, Misfits, Modern Family, No Ordinary Family, Smallville, Stargate Universe, The Walking Dead and 30 Rock.
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So Robin of Sherwood isn’t lost – it’s coming out on Blu-Ray very soon, has been available on DVD for ages, has been repeated on ITV3 ad infinitum and you can watch big chunks of it on YouTube. Neither has it a weird title sequence – it’s just Robin Hood running through the woods to the immortal sounds of Clannad.
But I don’t care. I loved Robin of Sherwood as a kid and I still do, so I’ve spent all of 10 seconds thinking really hard to come up with the new “Old Gems” category for shows that I can’t even come up with a thinly veiled excuse for covering beyond the fact that I liked them.
Now, Robin Hood is one of those stories – like Sherlock Holmes – that gets remade every few years with a new spin. We’ve just had Russell Crowe’s thinly veiled Iraq war version, and the BBC recently had a three-series, low budget, slightly rubbish version starring – among others – our very own Richard Armitage. Go back to the 50s and one of the most popular shows on TV was ITC’s The Adventures of Robin Hood, which I just about remember seeing bits of at primary school, bizarrely enough (no, I’m not that old).
But back in the 80s was the version that for many people is still the definitive version – Robin of Sherwood. This took the old stories familiar to anyone who knew the legends of Robin Hood – Alan-a-Dale, the silver arrow, Maid Marion, the return of King Richard, Little John and the fight at the river, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, Much the Miller’s Son, et al – and added a couple of new sensibilities: a desire for authenticity married, paradoxically, with swords and sorcery.
But it also added a lot more: a Saracen called Nasir who integrated in so well, the makers of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves included one of their own in the movie as a result. And it also managed to include both versions of the Robin Hood myth: the Robin/Robert of Loxley myth and the Robert of Huntingdon myth, in which Robin is either a peasant who gets uppity or he’s a nobleman who decides to fight for the poor. How did it do that? Simple – it killed Robin Hood.
Cue the perfectly normal title sequence and a nice big clip of John Rhys Davies as King Richard as the “Chevalier déguisé”.
It turns out that not only does David Tennant really enjoy sitting down, but that once he’s sitting down, everyone wants to sit down next to him.
Don’t forget Tuesday’s caption competition!
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 Monday 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 Monday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.
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