The other day I was going through the EPG on the TV and saw that Arthur Penn’s classic Bonnie & Clyde was being shown in the small hours on one of the ITV channels so I set the box up to record it. Tonight I decided to watch it. I hadn’t seen it since I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'TV'
Blandings
January 21st, 2013 · No Comments · Life
I watched the first episode of the new adaptation of Blandings the other day. The predictable response from Wodehouse fans is to hate it because it is not as good as the books. I’m fortunate in having never got round to reading the Blandings books so I found it all very entertaining without having the [...]
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Dali
January 17th, 2013 · No Comments · Life
The other night I watched a programme about Salvador Dali. Sort of. I mean, it was about him; his name was in the title and was what would have drawn an audience, but it was also about Jack Bond who made a film about Dali in 1965. The programme was presented, written and directed by [...]
Death in Paradise
January 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Life
A new series of Death in Paradise started on TV tonight and just like last time I spent a whole hour wondering why I liked it so much when it contains everything I normally dislike about detective shows. Each episode follows a formula, which is the same formula used in so many shows. It starts [...]
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Praise for Sky
October 9th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
As a card-carrying leftie I don’t want to like anything connected to Rupert Murdoch, but sometimesI can’t help it. Obviously there is the Times crossword, but that was around long before he bought it up, and the Bugle podcast which News International kept funding for ages, but somethign has been happening with Sky over the [...]
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The Torchwood credibility gap
September 16th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Life
I recently watched the first two series of Torchwood on DVD. For the purposes of entertainment I am quite capable of willingly suspending disbelief, just like I was taught to at school, but only up to a point. I’ll go along with there being a rift in space and time at Cardiff, I’ll accept that [...]
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House party
September 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Life, Music
A couple of weeks ago Channel 4 had a programme called House Party, which was quite remarkable for several reasons, not least because hardly anybody I know has remarked on it at all. What they did was, they had a DJ booth in a studio and 6 DJs played one-hour sets, one after the other [...]
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Brothers gonna sort it out
September 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Music
The Chemical Brothers’ concert film Don’t Think has been on my Amazon wish list for a while because all the reviews of it in magazines and newspapers said that it was awesome and the closest you will get to actually being at a show without actually being at a show. Tonight it was shown on [...]
Nazis at the centre of the Earth
August 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · Life
When I saw a film called Nazis at the Centre of the Earth listed on the EPG I couldn’t resist it. The EPG promised subterranean robot zombies and the film delivered that, even if it couldn’t deliver decent acting, writing or special effects. Of course it could only be The Asylum that is responsible for [...]
Olympics serendipity #2
July 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
During the week I have been working my was through the box set of season 2 of Doctor Who, the first David Tennant season. I think that any nerds reading will know where this is going! Today I watched the episode which was set in 2012 (Fear Her), where the Doctor and Rose arrive in [...]
