Stephen Fry may not be a common household name in the United States, but he’s become a much-beloved figure in British popular culture. Something of a popular intellectual and polymath, he’s well-known there as an actor, comedian, author, and director. He had a long comedy partnership with Hugh Laurie (famous here for his title role [...]
Read More DVD, Last Chance to See, Mark Carwardine, Stephen Fry, TV, willNBC’s serialized fantasy about ordinary people developing superhuman abilities is a fun, comic book epic of a series that succeeds, I think, because it emphasizes character over special effects. How would you really feel if all of a sudden you could, say, turn invisible? Each season is a “volume” and each episode is a chapter [...]
Read MoreI had been looking forward to the second season of Dexter, and it doesn’t fail to live up to the first season’s excellent content and mystery. Things go in new directions for Dexter, his mission and for the other fine characters in this great show. Dexter and his sister, Deborah are still trying to live [...]
Read MoreThis is a great addition to the franchise and has good stories too. Lena Headey‘s Sarah Connor is better than the original for me, she has a broken-yet-determined quality that fits better. Thomas Dekker playing John is alright, but that still doesn’t give him much to do physically for the character’s potential. The great addition [...]
Read MoreDid you miss a few episodes of your favorite show last year? Or can’t remember what happened before the long and painful writer’s strike? Now’s your chance to refresh your memory. Over the next two months, TV networks will be rolling out last year’s episodes on DVD in an effort to catch us up just [...]
Read MoreIf you watch Avatar, you know that this is the last episodes of the TV show. This show is fun and one of the few that actually uses kung fu styles as the forms the characters use. It is refreshing to see this, as most shows just have people slicing with swords or hitting with [...]
Read MoreThis is the second direct-to-DVD movie based on the popular Stargate:SG-1 TV series after March’s release of The Ark of Truth. Compared with its predecessor, Continuum depends somewhat less on the audience’s familiarity with the mythology of the show, focusing on a stripped-down adventure more akin to the original 1994 film that started this whole [...]
Read MoreFans of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz like myself might be gratified to learn (if they didn’t already know) that the team behind those films — namely, actors/comedians Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, along with director Edgar Wright — once made a BBC sitcom called “Spaced.” It’s surprising it’s taken this long for [...]
Read MoreOne of the best TV shows to emerge in 2006 was this fun and offbeat sci-fi comedy, essentially Twin Peaks meets Scientific American. Only not nearly as weird as the former. And it spotlighted a true comic talent in Canadian actor Colin Ferguson. That first season set up the clever conceit that sometime in the [...]
Read MoreAMC’s new hour-long drama depicts the cutthroat world of 1960′s advertising, seen through the eyes of our ‘hero’ Don Draper. There’s no one famous in it, there is rarely a heartwarming moral, and 95% of the characters are philandering chauvinists who smoke cigarettes like they’re still recommended by 4 out of 5 doctors. Mad Men [...]
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