Just don’t. I’m watching it tomorrow.
Film
Month: April 2019
News
Ultraviolet renewed; Deadwood movie trailer; + more
Every weekday, TMINE brings you the latest TV news from around the world
Internet TV
- Trailer for season 4 of Netflix’s Lucifer
French TV
- Trailer for France 2’s Double je (Double Me)
- Marilou Berry joins TF1’s Munch
International TV
- AXN renews: Ultraviolet
- Viu (Hong Kong) green lights: eight new shows
US TV
- Trailer for HBO’s Deadwood movie
- New trailer for season 4 of TNT’s Animal Kingdom
US TV show casting
- Meg Steedle to recur on Audience’s Mr Mercedes
- Amber Midthunder promoted to regular on The CW’s Roswell: New Mexico
- Bechir Sylvain to recur on TNT’s Claws
New US TV shows
- Trailer for CBS’s The Red Line
US TV
Review: Ramy 1×1 (US: Hulu)
In the US: Available on Hulu
In the UK: Not yet acquired
When was the last time you saw a US TV programme with a Muslim lead in a show that explored what it was like to be a Muslim in modern America? Off the top of my head – and discounting shows with supporting characters who happened to be a bit Muslim but never really ever brought it up except to point out that they weren’t all terrorists, you know? – I’d say the last one was the much missed Aliens in America.
A mere 11 years later, we now have Ramy, written by and starring Egyptian-American Muslim stand-up Ramy Youssef. It, too, is a comedy, which suggests that there are certain things in the US that can still only be broached through comedy.
In it, Ramy plays a thinly veiled version of himself, Ramy Hassan, who still lives at home with parents and still hasn’t found the right woman – right for either them or him. He’s initially dating a Jewish woman, but since he’s moderately religious, he’s been covering up most of his less party-friendly restrictions to himself – something that doesn’t please her when she finds out (“You said the other day that you couldn’t drink any more because you were up to your limit!” “Well, I was. It’s just my limit is zero.”)
Suffice it to say, he’s soon spurred on by his friends, family and people he meets at the mosque into dating a Muslim girl for the first time. Except he soon discovers that comes with its own set of issues (“Do you want her to be covered or uncovered?” his mother asks, when he suggests she set him up with a date).
News
Warrior, All American, The 100, Roswell, In The Dark renewed; + more
Every weekday, TMINE brings you the latest TV news from around the world
Internet TV
- Amazon developing: adaptation of Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women
- Netflix developing: Brazilian adaptation of E4’s Dead Set as Reality Z
French TV
- M6 green lights: juror with doubts mini-series L’homme qui j’ai condamné (The man I condemned), with Ophélia Kolb, Stanley Weber, Lucile Marquis et al
International TV
- Stephen Dillane, Vicky McClure, Andrew Buchan et al to star in Sony International’s Alex Rider
UK TV
- Katherine Kelly, Howard Charles and Amy Nuttall join ITV’s Liar
US TV
- Cinemax renews: Warrior
- The CW renews: All American, In The Dark, Roswell and The 100
US TV show casting
- Sisa Grey to recur on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
New US TV shows
- Trailer for DC Universe’s Swamp Thing
- Teaser trailer for Epix’s Pennyworth
- Trailer for Hulu’s Catch-22
- HBO red lights: one Game of Thrones prequel
New US TV show casting
- Ebony Obsidian to recur on Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga
- Christian Cooke and James Bloor to star in National Geographic’s Barkskins
- Marisé Alvarez, Greg Grunberg, Pepi Sonuga et al join Showtime’s Hombre
- Isaiah Washington to recur on Starz’s P-Valley
Australian and New Zealand TV
Orange Wednesday: Mystery Road (2013), Goldstone (2016) and The Name of the Rose (1986)
It’s been noticeable over the past few weeks that basically the only movies TMINE has been watching of late have been superhero movies. This is somewhat lamentable for someone who used to edit film magazines, including the magazine of the Cambridge Film Festival.
This cannot hold. However, since I’ve just downsized my Cinema Paradiso subscription, I’ve had a few pennies spare. And one of the advantages of running TMINE is that you learn about things like Amazon Prime Channels and the BFI.
BFI woe
Now those of you who’ve tried the BFI’s iOS app will know it is literally the worst. It’s just awful. It’s got a rating of 1.3 out 5 on the App Store. It’s barely even worth calling it an app. I mean look – this is what you get when you launch it.
Which is why I never bothered to use it.
A better choice
But if you read TMINE frequently – like I do – you’ll know that if you have an Amazon Prime subscription, you can also subscribe to the BFI Player channel within Amazon Prime for a mere £4.99/month and use the Amazon Prime app (also available on Roku et al) to watch all the movies, including downloading them for a commute.
Lovely. Plus it seems to have a better catalogue and to be cheaper than Mubi.
Anyway, when I’m not lowering my IQ watching non-stop superhero movies, I’ll be endeavouring to plough my way through a big chunk of classic movies on the BFI Player for Orange Wednesday – probably starting with everything Kurosawa, but you never know, I might diversify.
This week’s Orange Wednesday
But since this is ostensibly a TV blog, I thought I’d start with a double bill related to a TV show: Mystery Road (2013) and its sequel Goldstone (2016), which led to one of last year’s top TMINE TV shows, Mystery Road.
However, since I only reviewed one movie last week, I probably owe you all an extra review. And since I’ve been watching Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose) of late, I decided to delve into my archive of movies and rewatch the 1986 movie version.
All three of those TV-related films after the jump.
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