Year: 2010

Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 31, 2010)

3 September 2010 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

dreamer-easy's Sitting Tennant

Erin C's Sitting Tennant

Rullsenberg's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Toby's Sitting Tennant

He’s been on holiday but he’s back – he’s David Tennant and he’s sitting down! This week’s delights have been provided by dreamereasy, Erin C, Rullsenberg, Sister Chastity and Toby, so they get five lovely points each.

  1. Erin C, Rullsenberg, Sister Chastity: 210
  2. Toby: 145
  3. Rachel: 90
  4. Sabine: 65
  5. Karen: 35
  6. dreamer-easy: 30
  7. Dawn: 10
  8. kellyann06: 5

Don’t forget August’s caption competition, the results of which will be announced on Tuesday – that gives you three more days to summon inspiration if you haven’t found it already.

BTW, as an added bonus for your hardiness in surviving August without Sitting Tennant, here’s a picture from me. He’s not sitting down, but I’m sure you’ll survive – it’s from his forthcoming movie Fright Night.

Fright Night David Tennant

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.

US TV

Review: Rubicon 1×1-1×6

2 September 2010 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

In the US: Sundays, 9pm/8c, AMC
In the UK: Acquired by BBC4

It used to be that you could rely on AMC for one thing: movies. That’s what AMC used to stand for – American Movie Classics. But after it changed its name to AMC in 2003, before you knew it, it could be relied on for another thing: re-runs of The Sopranos.

Mad Men changed all that. Suddenly, AMC was in the business of making TV drama. Excellent TV drama. Slow, excellent TV drama that takes a long time to develop and in which not much happens for a long time.

Then came Breaking Bad, a slow, excellent TV drama that took a long time to develop and in which not much happened for a long time, and The Prisoner, a slow bad TV drama that took a long time to develop and in which not much happened for a long time.

Rubicon, AMC’s latest TV drama, is a conspiracy theory show set in the world of American spies that echoes movies like Three Days of the Condor, Parallax View and The Conversation. It stars James Badge Dale (24, The Pacific) as an analyst who begins to see crossword clues take on greater significance – and Miranda Richardson, whose husband commits suicide after he receives a four-leafed clover.

Anyone want to guess what it’s like? I’ll give you a clue – you’ll have to wait until episode five before you’re even going to get a hint at what’s going on… and it gets good.

Here’s a trailer.

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Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: flying to Japan while saving kittens in the rain

2 September 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The poster for Lemon Drop with Ali Larter

In case you’re wondering where “Random Acts” was over August, well Ali Larter wasn’t acting randomly. She just wasn’t. What? You thought this was merely a thinly veiled excuse to publish pictures of Ali Larter every week and I was just on holiday? Wow. How wrong were you?

I mean if that’s what it was all about, right about now, I’d have a picture of her running in the rain for no good reason, now wouldn’t I?

Ali in the rain

Oh.

All the same, now it’s September, she’s being all random again.

For starters, she’s got two actual movies out this month, one online, one in cinemas in 3D – yes, 3D. Did I mention it’s in 3D? The first is Lemon Drop in which she randomly saves kittens. That’s out on Tuesday. But she’s also got Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D, which is out next Friday.

Resident Evil Afterlife

Here’s a featurette with her talking all about it being in 3D and kicking a really tall guy in 3D.

But now she’s randomly gone to Japan for the Resident Evil: Afterlife premiere. She’s there right now. She is. Look – here’s a live stream.

And she’s having her picture taken with random people.

Ali Larter with a random fan

Good to see the randomness back, Ali.

Have you seen Ali Larter acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in “Random Acts of Ali Larter“

BFI events

(More) September and October 2010 at the BFI

1 September 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Time for our regular look at what TV the BFI is showing on the South Bank in London in October. But first, a little late addition to September’s BFI programme. On the 8th of this month (that’s next Wednesday), the BFI (and HBO) are presenting a preview of The Special Relationship, which stars Michael Sheen as Tony Blair and Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton. There are still a few seats available, so get in there quickly if you can.

Now for October. It’s mostly going to be the Film Festival this month, but there’s also Michael Parkinson in conversation, a preview of thorne: sleepyhead that includes a Q&A with David Morrissey, as well as a season of plays directed by James Cellan Jones.

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