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Justified – Season 3 Episode 2 – “Cut Ties”
The names of the episodes continue to be interesting double entendres, and we see more of the scheming and planning in this episode that will set up the big conflicts of this season. Boyd’s scheme to get the Benett’s money, Raylan’s plan to buy a house with Winona, Bad guys planning and scheming all over the place, and a couple of new players with their plans of their own. Read the rest of this entry
2011 Oscar Nominations – First Thoughts
The full list of oscar nominations, and some very quick reaction, can be found after the jump.
Guest Review: The Descendants
Brad Williams is an inveterate film buff who also writes for WhatCulture.com
Matt King (George Clooney) is a man with a lot on his plate. Sole custodian of the proverbial family gold mine, all eyes are on Matt as the deadline approaches to sell off a massive plot of Hawaiian land. To make matters worse, one month ago his wife was in a boating accident, leaving her in a coma ever since. Life before the accident was rocky and unfulfilling, but now Matt has to become the father he never knew how to be, the husband he always should have been, and the man his father always intended. Read the rest of this entry
Justified – Season 3 Episode 1 – The Gunfighter
Last season we saw the end of the Bennet clan as Mags committed suicide and all her sons were dead except Dickie, who was in custody for doing all kinds of bad stuff. Meanwhile, Boyd Crowder was going back into the family business by taking over the drug trade in Harlan. Raylan got shot in the process of bringing the Bennetts down, so when this season opens, we see Winona getting pulled over and informed of Raylan’s injuries. He’s in the hospital and Art tells her he’s going to be ok: he was shot straight through with no major damage. Lucky. Read the rest of this entry
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Movie Review: PARIAH
Perhaps I’m just getting old. Or maybe I’m just much more of a Victorian moralist than I thought. Either way, here I am writing a second review in a week in which I praise a film, but temper said praise with prudish caveats. Read the rest of this entry
The Shows: Early January Edition
So I’m probably not the best for this column anymore since I got rid of my Dish. Which means I know only watch shows that I bit torrent or else show up on Netflix years later. Still there is a bit of news. Feel free to chime in yourself.
First up if you haven’t been watching the BBC’s Sherlock shame on you. For those of you who didn’t watch it last year this is the famous detective living in contemporary London. The season this year (also short) is even better than last year. They’ve been updating some of Doyle’s most famous stories in very creative ways. Sunday had the Hounds of the Baskerville (still available for play at BBC). Before that we had a very interesting take on Irene Adler. This Sunday we have a take on the story where Doyle actually killed Holmes (only to be forced to bring him back). It’s his confrontation with Moriarty: The Reichenbach Fall. Seriously you need to watch these. Great acting. Very creative direction. They are far better than the recent films (although I liked those too)
More Danish
Having already blogged about Denmark’s excellent Forbrydelsen, it’s time to introduce you to more Danish televisual excellence, this time in the form of a political drama called Borgen. Now that Sarah Lund has entered the British Zeitgeist (this AbFab skit is brilliant), it seems that BBC4 is keen to continue to scour Scandinavia for cool stuff.
The series tells the story of Birgitte Nyborg, a female politician who navigates around Macchiavelli to become prime minister of Denmark. There’s not much more to say than that, only that it deftly portrays the machinations of European coalition politics and makes its characters believably human, i.e. they do human and not TV-human things. I physically applauded at the end of the second episode, which is an RJH sign that something is good. Fans of The Killing II will be delighted to see the return of the actor who played Strange, Lund’s sidekick. Man crush alert.
Borgen shows on LinkTV. Alas, a US remake is apparently on the cards.
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Remastered to be crap
For Christmas, my wife got the remastered edition of the original Battlestar Galactica score (we’re talking 1970s, Stu Phillips – with a bonus disco version of the theme song!)
It should have been great. I already have it on CD, but that CD sounds like someone stuck a microphone next to the speakers on a LP player and put that on the CD, so I had high hopes for a remastered version. It was crap. Yes, it’s cleaner, crisper – and completely lacking in the bottom end.
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