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Steven Seagal to appear in the next Orange ad

4 July 2006 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Mr DresdenOrange are a rubbish phone company. I speak from experience. The one thing they do well, however, is make good commercials. There are all those lovely TV ads, for starters. And then there are those cracking ads in the cinemas, featuring Patrick Swayze, Alan Cumming and co. They can usually be more entertaining than the films themselves.

But for the last few months it’s been Sean Astin and I’ve got bored, despite the great voiceover. I think we all have. I want to hear the likes of “Make me bleed!” again.

Thankfully, there’s a new ad on the way. And fantastically enough, it has the legendary Steven Seagal in it. The full story is at the Media Guardian, but here’s the basic plot:

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More Ultraviolet

4 July 2006 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

I’ve had a request. The sheer excellence of Idris Elba, one of the stars of the UK version and the unaired US version of Ultraviolet, has brought people flocking in and now they’d like to see a scene of him in the aforementioned Best Vampire Show ever.

Region 2 UK DVD releaseIf you’ve never seen Idris in anything, get hold of a copy of Ultraviolet if you can (Amazon links: Region 1 US DVD release; this is for the Region 2 UK DVD release) or just as good, any of the three seasons of The Wire, which is probably the best, most realistic cop show you’ll ever see. Idris, despite being a Hackney native, does a great Baltimore accent. You can also catch The Wire on FX in the UK.

Anyway, here’s the clip. It’s from Terra Incognita again and is actually the scene preceding the last clip. It’s my favourite scene from the whole show and would have been my first choice to demonstrate Ultraviolet‘s fine qualities if it hadn’t been a bit of a spoiler. Plus it runs at six minutes.

If you have any questions, leave a comment!

Another movie channel

3 July 2006 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Hot on the heels of Film24 – okay before Film24, in fact – comes another movie channel: Movies 24. Just in case you hadn’t realised it was from the House of Hallmark, it’s showing only made-for-TV movies.

Meanwhile, Channel 4 has unveiled details of the new-look FilmFour which will re-launch as a free channel at 9pm on Sunday 23 July, starting with the free-to-air premiere of Lost in Translation.

It’s all go in TV movies land.