Last year, we took a gamble and tried out the first season of Forbrydelsen, a Danish police procedural. It’s twenty eps long and some licence is taken with the genre but hey, y’know, it’s European and there’s quite a bit of slack I cut for product from that part of the world. It was a [...]
Comics A nice mix of mainstream, European and indy this year. Asterios Polyp – David Mazzuchelli Britten & Brulightly – Hannah Berry Chance in Hell – Gilbert Hernandez Doing Time – Hanawa Kazuichi Fun Home – Alison Bechdel Hellcity: The Whole Damned Thing – Macon Blair and Joe Flood [...]
These are straight from the viewing diary. Those that I remember with a smile get some link-love. Features 13 Assassins Animal Kingdom Another Year Born into Brothels Buck Chugyeogja Contagion Frozen River Get Low Leaves of Grass Please Give El secreto de sus [...]
The latest Mission: Impossible instalment is around the corner and I’m kinda interested, kinda excited, though not because I’m a fan of either the franchise or Tom Cruise hisself – it’s for the directors who’ve gamely signed on (and the first one doesn’t count because Nobody knew)*: – M:I-2 by a post-Killer, pre-Paycheck John [...]
This is so cool. (Fedora-tip: Lew by way of Dim-Post.)
One of my wonderful Imaginary Readers wondered how on earth I could get hooked into a show when they kill off a cool character – was/am I a sick perv for getting hooked so? Back in the day, I was an occasional watcher of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Thanks to Wiki, I know that I [...]
The first sex scene does not begin until twenty minutes into the episode. Its a lesbian scene, and it only lasts one minute and ten seconds. The next sex scene happens some minutes later. Its a boy/girl scene and it lasts two minutes. Both sex scenes are shot and edited like an action scene from [...]
With winter tapping politely on the windows and sliding leaves under the doors, it’s that time of year when the Fortress Mamea’s viewing statistics increase dramatically. We’ve a terrible backlog of films and shows, but we’ve begun scraping away at that mountain. – In Plain Sight Season One is interesting in that it doesn’t really [...]
The latest abridged script‘s opening made me laugh out loud: EXT. LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES is getting ASS-FUCKED by ALIENS. VARIOUS MARINES IN HELICOPTERS (shouting) OO-RAH! LET’S GO GET THOSE ALIENS! AUDIENCE Yay, they’re getting directly into the action! Maybe this will do that good-movie thing of jumping right in and cleverly filling us in [...]
Sitting down to watch homegrown drama is fraught with the negative reinforcement of many earlier disappointments and – let’s be honest – more than a smidgen still of cultural cringe, all of this tempered by the hope that a) the show’s maybe even half as good as our favourite, and b) we can enjoy it [...]
