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What prize would you like to win in my competition?

2 July 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

I may be running a competition to win a prize on this ‘ere blog very soon.

Wow, that was vague, wasn’t it?

See, I haven’t decided on the prize. There’s a range of options, all of them DVDs or Blu-Ray disks, most of them Film4/Channel 4 content, but I’m not sure what y’all would like best. So I’m going to give you the options, you say which one you’d like to win best, and I’ll see if I can swing it with TPTB (no guarantees).

Right, here they are:

  • Stephen Tompkinson’s African Balloon Adventure
  • Close My Eyes
  • Gerry
  • Very Annie Mary
  • My Brother Tom
  • Gregory’s Two Girls
  • Late Night Shopping
  • Miranda
  • The Emperor’s New Clothes
  • Hear My Song
  • Gangster No.1
  • Star Stories Series 3 & Box Set 1-3
  • Motorcycle diaries – Blu-Ray
  • East is East – Blu-Ray
  • Sexy Beast – Blu-Ray
  • Touching the void – Blu-Ray
  • In the shadow of the moon – Blu-Ray
  • Supernatural 4.1
  • Shallow Grave – Blu-Ray
  • Trainspotting – Blu-Ray
US TV

Season finale: New Amsterdam

15 April 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Some shows know when it’s their time to die and head off to the other side gracefully. New Amsterdam, which ironically told the story of an immortal Dutchman who was waiting for the one woman who could kill him, not only knew it was going to die, it knew it was doomed even before it aired, with only eight episodes ever shot.

Again, ironically for a show whose main message was that the candle that burns the dullest lasts the longest and that death has its place, it never really hit levels of greatness. Bar its intriguing central character, played by equally intriguing Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, none of the other characters were that interesting. The plots, while a cut above the standard crime fare, never really inspired and were usually solved by some bizarre skill (grifting, knot-tying) that our hero picked up during his 400 years.

All the same, it had a certain something. It was never quite what you expected – as the season finale showed.

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UK TV

Review: Torchwood 2×7 – Dead Man Walking

28 February 2008 Rob Buckley 20 Comments

Firstly, a quick word about the Torchwood reviews. Obviously, it’s all getting a bit tricky now that BBC3 is airing the next episode directly after the current BBC2 episode, and BBC America is a couple of weeks behind BBC2. So my general reviewing policy will be to review on Thursdays the episode of Torchwood that aired on BBC2 on Wednesday night. I’ll also keep the spoilers until after the turn.

I figure that people who can only watch the BBC2 episode will then be able to read the review the next day without having to hunt for it with the search engine; people who watched the BBC3 episode will be able to read the review on the front page as well, but the following week; and Americans, well, it’s probably search engine for you guys, but I’ll hopefully not be spoiling you. That’s probably the most equitable arrangement and it does mean I won’t have to stay up late to watch the BBC3 episode, but can watch it at my leisure.

Dead Man Walking then. I believe last week we left the official verdict at: 

Ahahahahah. I’ve seen next week’s. Ahahahahahahaha.

[Pause]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

And that’s still a pretty robust verdict. All the same, far from the worst episode of Torchwood there’s ever been.

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Review: Doctor Who – Absolution

27 November 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who - Absolution

And so the chopping begins. C’rizz, all round irritant and obstacle to proper character development, is no more. He is an ex-companion. Woo hoo!

A holdover from the weirdy “Divergent Universe” era of eighth Doctor stories, it’s slightly fitting that his final story should be another weirdy alternate universe piece that explains at last the slightly uninteresting secret he’s been carrying with him ever since his exodus.

Trouble is it’s also a fittingly uninvolving story, full of interesting ideas that somehow fail to lift off thanks to the usual infusion of gobbledygook, poorly explained concepts and a resolution that’s somewhat incomprehensible.

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