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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Tales of Television Centre (BBC4)
Normally when Twitter erupts with adoring tweets about a BBC4 programme, it’s at 9pm on a Saturday night and the subject is the latest instalment of a Scandinavian crime noir serial. But for once last week, there was an exception … Continue reading
Britain Beware! (ITV)
It’s taken me rather a long while to get around to watching Britain Beware!, a documentary about the government-produced public information films that have pervaded our screens and consciousness for decades. It was shown at the May Day Bank Holiday … Continue reading
Posted in Television
Tagged Adrian Edmondson, Central Office of Information, COI, documentary, public information films
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [Blu-ray]
Here’s the story so far: as a long-time Sherlock Holmes fan, I put off watching the first Robert Downey Jr. film for a long time, before finally seeing it a year later and surprising myself by finding it perfectly enjoyable. … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Blu-ray, Game of Shadows, Guy Ritchie, Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Fry
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol [Blu-ray]
Once upon a time, wet bank holiday weekends were reserved for afternoons with James Bond. But these days there are plenty of pretenders to 007′s throne, and Mission: Impossible with its roots in the 1960s TV series is one of … Continue reading
Homeland S1 E12
Contains spoilers – big ones – only read once you’ve seen all of season 1. I reviewed the first three episodes of Homeland two months ago, and came to the conclusion that I was missing something: that I simply didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Television
Tagged Claire Danes, conspiracy, Damian Lewis, David Harewood, drama, Homeland, Mandy Patinkin, Morena Baccarin, thriller
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Maestro at the Opera E1 (BBC2)
Back in the summer of 2008, BBC2 aired a show called Maestro in which eight celebrity contestants tried to learn the art of conducting a classical orchestra in time to perform during that year’s BBC Proms season. Comedian Sue Perkins … Continue reading
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Tagged Craig Revel Horwood, Goldie, Josie Lawrence, Maestro, Marcus Du Sautoy, Opera, Sue Perkins, Trevor Nelson
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Thriller (1973-76): Screamer, Killer With Two Faces, A Killer In Every Corner, Where The Action Is, If It’s A Man – Hang Up, The Double Kill, Won’t Write Home Mom – I’m Dead, The Crazy Kill
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed a strangely under-active April in terms of new reviews. Partly that was because most of the things that I was watching tended to be the tail end of series that I’ve already … Continue reading
Picasso and Modern British Art (Tate)
The Tate in London certainly seems to be playing some big name cards in 2012, with the first major Damien Hirst UK exhibition on at the Tate Modern, and a Picasso-centric exhibition on at the Tate Britain. The latter has … Continue reading
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Tagged Cubism, David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland, Picasso, tate, Wyndham Lewis
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The Thing (2011) [Blu-ray]
Does contain some implied spoilers. In one of the extras accompanying the Blu-Ray/DVD release of this film, one of the stars of this prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic sci-fi horror opines that there’s no point doing this film unless … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Christian Olsen, Joel Edgerton, John Carpenter, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, prequel, The Thing
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