Sir Tony Robinson’s ‘history with a twist podcast’ Cunningcast is releasing an episode dedicated to Dr Who ahead of the brand-new BBC series. Fresh off the back of celebrating 60 years of Dr Who last year, and looking ahead to welcoming Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor to the show, Tony is joined by Sophie Aldred, Dr Who’s first ever assistant Ace, and the journalist and Dr Who superfan, Matthew Sweet.
- 5/1/2024
- by PodcastingToday
- Podcastingtoday
Mark Gatiss will co-write and star in Bookish, a crime drama for Alibi, and here are the details of the new show.
It’s been several years since the last project by The League Of Gentlemen, and there is as of yet so sign of any further adventures for Sherlock. However, in the intervening years, Mark Gatiss has kept himself busy with a number of projects, from his annual Mr James Ghost Story For Christmas films, collaborating with Steven Moffat again on Dracula and directing Moffat’s debut play The Unfriend.
His next television project will be Bookish, a crime drama for Alibi he wrote with Matthew Sweet.
The synopsis reads as follows:
London, 1946 is the dynamic, dangerous and chaotic setting for this stylish new detective drama, with the eccentric Gabriel Book (Gatiss) at the very heart of the story: a self-appointed consultant detective to the local police. The thousands...
It’s been several years since the last project by The League Of Gentlemen, and there is as of yet so sign of any further adventures for Sherlock. However, in the intervening years, Mark Gatiss has kept himself busy with a number of projects, from his annual Mr James Ghost Story For Christmas films, collaborating with Steven Moffat again on Dracula and directing Moffat’s debut play The Unfriend.
His next television project will be Bookish, a crime drama for Alibi he wrote with Matthew Sweet.
The synopsis reads as follows:
London, 1946 is the dynamic, dangerous and chaotic setting for this stylish new detective drama, with the eccentric Gabriel Book (Gatiss) at the very heart of the story: a self-appointed consultant detective to the local police. The thousands...
- 4/11/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Exclusive: Sherlock star Mark Gatiss is writing and starring in a British TV drama about a bookshop owner who helps police solve crimes.
Bookish will be a six-part series for UKTV crime drama network Alibi set in post-war London in 1946. Gatiss, the co-creator of BBC shows such as Sherlock and The League of Gentlemen and Netflix/BBC’s Dracula and actor in films including Operation Mincemeat and Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning, is the creator.
The series will follow Gabriel Book (Gatiss), an “erudite and unconventional” sleuth who cracks mysterious cases from his antiquated bookshop, using the thousands of books that line his shelves to provide him with the knowledge that he needs. Around him are a gathering of “loveable, damaged misfits who he informally protects, cajoles and mentors.”
Starring alongside Gatiss is Polly Walker (Bridgerton, Line of Duty), who plays Book’s colourful wife Trottie. She is charismatic and adventurous,...
Bookish will be a six-part series for UKTV crime drama network Alibi set in post-war London in 1946. Gatiss, the co-creator of BBC shows such as Sherlock and The League of Gentlemen and Netflix/BBC’s Dracula and actor in films including Operation Mincemeat and Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning, is the creator.
The series will follow Gabriel Book (Gatiss), an “erudite and unconventional” sleuth who cracks mysterious cases from his antiquated bookshop, using the thousands of books that line his shelves to provide him with the knowledge that he needs. Around him are a gathering of “loveable, damaged misfits who he informally protects, cajoles and mentors.”
Starring alongside Gatiss is Polly Walker (Bridgerton, Line of Duty), who plays Book’s colourful wife Trottie. She is charismatic and adventurous,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Doctor Who season 15 comes to Blu-ray, with Horror Of Fang Rock leading the six-story collection. More here.
Never mind the fact that the entirety of Doctor Who – well, save for an episode or two – is available to watch on the BBC’s iPlayer service. There’s also the not-so-small matter of Doctor Who physical media releases, which continue thanks to the genuinely brilliant line of Blu-ray sets.
Next in line? Some Tom Baker magic, thanks to series 15 of Doctor Who becoming the subject of the latest set. This one runs to seven discs, dating all the way back to 1977, and includes the following stories…
Horror Of Fang Rock
The Invisible Enemy
Image Of The Fendahl
The Sun Makers
Underworld
The Invasion Of Time
Tom Baker is accompanied by Louise Jameson’s Leela in these tales, and we also get the introduction of K9 in there too. Plus, of course, Horror...
Never mind the fact that the entirety of Doctor Who – well, save for an episode or two – is available to watch on the BBC’s iPlayer service. There’s also the not-so-small matter of Doctor Who physical media releases, which continue thanks to the genuinely brilliant line of Blu-ray sets.
Next in line? Some Tom Baker magic, thanks to series 15 of Doctor Who becoming the subject of the latest set. This one runs to seven discs, dating all the way back to 1977, and includes the following stories…
Horror Of Fang Rock
The Invisible Enemy
Image Of The Fendahl
The Sun Makers
Underworld
The Invasion Of Time
Tom Baker is accompanied by Louise Jameson’s Leela in these tales, and we also get the introduction of K9 in there too. Plus, of course, Horror...
- 1/11/2024
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
Shortly before Christmas, the eminent British critic and broadcaster Matthew Sweet embarked on a sponsored, round-the-clock watch of a new DVD set of “Crossroads,” the dogged ITV soap that first ran between 1964 and 1988. The prevailing idea was that negotiating the boxset’s 700 episodes might be as arduous — perhaps even as deadly — as any cross-Channel swim or Himalayan hike; that impression was soon confirmed by Sweet’s running Twitter commentary, which vacillated between the amused, the bemused and the increasingly discombobulated.
A clumsily aspirational, shot-as-live serial set around a motel in the British Midlands — some distance removed from the working-class, Northern grit of ITV’s better known, Bob Dylan-approved “Coronation Street” — “Crossroads” became notorious for its combination of wobbly sets, inexplicable plot shanks and stretches of dead air deployed to trick out the U.K.’s yawning schedules. One argument goes it could only have been a ratings success in...
A clumsily aspirational, shot-as-live serial set around a motel in the British Midlands — some distance removed from the working-class, Northern grit of ITV’s better known, Bob Dylan-approved “Coronation Street” — “Crossroads” became notorious for its combination of wobbly sets, inexplicable plot shanks and stretches of dead air deployed to trick out the U.K.’s yawning schedules. One argument goes it could only have been a ratings success in...
- 2/3/2023
- by Mike McCahill
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Julia Ducournau at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale / Getty Images)Cannes has come to a close with the Palme d'Or win of Titane, making Julia Ducournau only the second woman to win the prize in the festival's history. Check out the rest of this year's winners here. Following Cannes, we're looking ahead to fall festival season: San Sebastian's lineup includes the latest by Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Terence Davies; and Locarno has added films by Charlotte Colbert and Russian Gleb Panfilov to its now-complete roster. The Museum of the Moving Image's First Look Fest has also announced its full program, which will showcase films by Claire Simon, Lina Rodriguez, James Benning, and more, as well as the world premiere of Ken Jacob's 3D film, Double Wow. The much-anticipated lineup for this...
- 7/21/2021
- MUBI
The 30A Songwriters Festival will return to the panhandle of Florida January 17th, 2020, with an all-star group of artists set to perform. Among them are formidable tunesmiths who represent a range of genres, including John Prine, Brian Wilson, Indigo Girls, and Tanya Tucker.
With 200-plus artists on tap to perform during the four-day festival, the 30A Songwriters Festival will be spread across 30 venues bordering the Gulf of Mexico before it wraps on January 20th. Wilson will bring his nine-piece band to perform some of his Beach Boys classics, and Prine...
With 200-plus artists on tap to perform during the four-day festival, the 30A Songwriters Festival will be spread across 30 venues bordering the Gulf of Mexico before it wraps on January 20th. Wilson will bring his nine-piece band to perform some of his Beach Boys classics, and Prine...
- 8/27/2019
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
In the new movie Her Smell, which comes out in select cities today, Cara Delevingne plays the drummer in the up-and-coming Nineties alt-rock group the Akergirls, which also features characters played by Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars). While they were filming the movie, they also made a music video for their bouncy song “Can’t Wait,” which sounds a bit like something Matthew Sweet would have recorded during the time the film takes place even though Katie Ellen frontwoman Anika Pyle wrote and produced it for the movie.
- 4/12/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The Bangles’ Susana Hoffs celebrated the Zombies finally getting their due while inducting the British Invasion group in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Despite being eligible for induction since 1989, the Zombies didn’t land on the ballot until 2014 and it took three tries before they were inducted this year.
Hoffa has committed her love to the Zombies to record on multiple occasions. She notably covered the band’s 1967 track, “Care of Cell 44,” on her album with Matthew Sweet, Under the Covers, Vol. 1, and then recorded a version...
Hoffa has committed her love to the Zombies to record on multiple occasions. She notably covered the band’s 1967 track, “Care of Cell 44,” on her album with Matthew Sweet, Under the Covers, Vol. 1, and then recorded a version...
- 3/30/2019
- by Jon Blistein and Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
Fred Armisen will revive some of his favorite Saturday Night Live musical characters on an upcoming North American comedy tour. The 19-date trek, dubbed “Comedy For Musicians But Everyone is Welcome,” launches February 4th in Oxford, Mississippi and concludes March 2nd in Chicago, Illinois, followed by a show at the Boston Calling Festival in Boston, Massachusetts on May 24th.
Armisen’s stage personas, premiered during his tenure on SNL from 2002 to 2013, lovingly blur the line between parody and tribute. The eclectic catalog includes Seventies yacht-rock (the Blue Jean Committee), artful...
Armisen’s stage personas, premiered during his tenure on SNL from 2002 to 2013, lovingly blur the line between parody and tribute. The eclectic catalog includes Seventies yacht-rock (the Blue Jean Committee), artful...
- 1/30/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
For a very long time, Tom Baker was the iconic Doctor. With his striking scarf, twinkling eyes and anti-authoritarian demeanor, the Fourth Doctor has gone on to influence the character more than almost any other. The Doctor Who revival series can’t seem to resist referencing him, either, whether it be folks donning his iconic scarf, references to Jelly Babies or simply having him pop up as the mysterious Curator in the 50th anniversary special.
Despite this love, fans have been waiting a pretty damn long time to see Tom Baker’s final season – season 18 – hit Blu-ray. Broadcast from August 30th, 1980 to March 21st, 1981, it’s an especially interesting season because it marks a transition period for the series as it switched showrunners from Graham Williams to John Nathan-Turner, thus setting the tone of the show from then until its cancellation in the late 80s.
The BBC Are Finally Releasing...
Despite this love, fans have been waiting a pretty damn long time to see Tom Baker’s final season – season 18 – hit Blu-ray. Broadcast from August 30th, 1980 to March 21st, 1981, it’s an especially interesting season because it marks a transition period for the series as it switched showrunners from Graham Williams to John Nathan-Turner, thus setting the tone of the show from then until its cancellation in the late 80s.
The BBC Are Finally Releasing...
- 11/28/2018
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Fans of Stranger Things have had fun picking through all of the Netflix hit's retro references, from the copious E.T. homages to that John Carpenter-esque synth score. But the best nod to the past isn't the hairstyles, the marathon Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, or even the soundtrack full of New Order and Echo & The Bunnymen songs. No, the real stroke of nostalgic genius is the casting of Winona Ryder as distraught single mom Joyce Byers. From the moment the actress appears, the pulse of every 1980s kid starts to quicken.
- 8/10/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Constance Cummings: Stage and film actress ca. early 1940s. Constance Cummings on stage: From Sacha Guitry to Clifford Odets (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Flawless 'Blithe Spirit,' Supporter of Political Refugees.”) In the post-World War II years, Constance Cummings' stage reputation continued to grow on the English stage, in plays as diverse as: Stephen Powys (pseudonym for P.G. Wodehouse) and Guy Bolton's English-language adaptation of Sacha Guitry's Don't Listen, Ladies! (1948), with Cummings as one of shop clerk Denholm Elliott's mistresses (the other one was Betty Marsden). “Miss Cummings and Miss Marsden act as fetchingly as they look,” commented The Spectator. Rodney Ackland's Before the Party (1949), delivering “a superb performance of controlled hysteria” according to theater director and Michael Redgrave biographer Alan Strachan, writing for The Independent at the time of Cummings' death. Clifford Odets' Winter Journey / The Country Girl (1952), as...
- 11/10/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Constance Cummings in 'Night After Night.' Constance Cummings: Working with Frank Capra and Mae West (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Actress Went from Harold Lloyd to Eugene O'Neill.”) Back at Columbia, Harry Cohn didn't do a very good job at making Constance Cummings feel important. By the end of 1932, Columbia and its sweet ingenue found themselves in court, fighting bitterly over stipulations in her contract. According to the actress and lawyer's daughter, Columbia had failed to notify her that they were picking up her option. Therefore, she was a free agent, able to offer her services wherever she pleased. Harry Cohn felt otherwise, claiming that his contract player had waived such a notice. The battle would spill over into 1933. On the positive side, in addition to Movie Crazy 1932 provided Cummings with three other notable Hollywood movies: Washington Merry-Go-Round, American Madness, and Night After Night. 'Washington Merry-Go-Round...
- 11/5/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
It's another week of Strictly Come Dancing, this episode seeing plenty of strong performances (as well as a few terrible ones), with added chests and swingometers.
Digital Spy had its eyes peeled on Twitter throughout the evening, and rounded up the best reactions.
Gleb's chest got many a chest pumping:
The shirt came off and the internet's very happy!
Thank you @Gleb_Savchenko
pic.twitter.com/bwp0rWJRMl #strictly
— Skint London (@SkintLondon) October 17, 2015
Me when Gleb pulled his shirt off on @bbcstrictly #Strictly #Scd pic.twitter.com/cpdbr9V5DV
— Jón Filipsson (@gaes_elskhugi) October 17, 2015
Gleb is one ab away from looking like Peter Andre in the Mysterious Girl video. #Strictly
— Carolyn Osborne (@caropickles) October 17, 2015
Shirtless Gleb got me like #Strictly pic.twitter.com/x7jPlnAKQ7
— R-pooz (@Yeloop) October 17, 2015
Wish Gleb would put his shirt back on. Said even less than no one, ever #strictly
— Amanda (@deeleya) October 17, 2015
Daughter: Mummmmmmm!
Digital Spy had its eyes peeled on Twitter throughout the evening, and rounded up the best reactions.
Gleb's chest got many a chest pumping:
The shirt came off and the internet's very happy!
Thank you @Gleb_Savchenko
pic.twitter.com/bwp0rWJRMl #strictly
— Skint London (@SkintLondon) October 17, 2015
Me when Gleb pulled his shirt off on @bbcstrictly #Strictly #Scd pic.twitter.com/cpdbr9V5DV
— Jón Filipsson (@gaes_elskhugi) October 17, 2015
Gleb is one ab away from looking like Peter Andre in the Mysterious Girl video. #Strictly
— Carolyn Osborne (@caropickles) October 17, 2015
Shirtless Gleb got me like #Strictly pic.twitter.com/x7jPlnAKQ7
— R-pooz (@Yeloop) October 17, 2015
Wish Gleb would put his shirt back on. Said even less than no one, ever #strictly
— Amanda (@deeleya) October 17, 2015
Daughter: Mummmmmmm!
- 10/17/2015
- Digital Spy
It's another week of Strictly Come Dancing, this episode seeing plenty of strong performances (as well as a few terrible ones), with added chests and swingometers.
Digital Spy had its eyes peeled on Twitter throughout the evening, and rounded up the best reactions.
Gleb's chest got many a chest pumping:
The shirt came off and the internet's very happy!
Thank you @Gleb_Savchenko
pic.twitter.com/bwp0rWJRMl #strictly
— Skint London (@SkintLondon) October 17, 2015
Me when Gleb pulled his shirt off on @bbcstrictly #Strictly #Scd pic.twitter.com/cpdbr9V5DV
— Jón Filipsson (@gaes_elskhugi) October 17, 2015
Gleb is one ab away from looking like Peter Andre in the Mysterious Girl video. #Strictly
— Carolyn Osborne (@caropickles) October 17, 2015
Shirtless Gleb got me like #Strictly pic.twitter.com/x7jPlnAKQ7
— R-pooz (@Yeloop) October 17, 2015
Wish Gleb would put his shirt back on. Said even less than no one, ever #strictly
— Amanda (@deeleya) October 17, 2015
Daughter: Mummmmmmm!
Digital Spy had its eyes peeled on Twitter throughout the evening, and rounded up the best reactions.
Gleb's chest got many a chest pumping:
The shirt came off and the internet's very happy!
Thank you @Gleb_Savchenko
pic.twitter.com/bwp0rWJRMl #strictly
— Skint London (@SkintLondon) October 17, 2015
Me when Gleb pulled his shirt off on @bbcstrictly #Strictly #Scd pic.twitter.com/cpdbr9V5DV
— Jón Filipsson (@gaes_elskhugi) October 17, 2015
Gleb is one ab away from looking like Peter Andre in the Mysterious Girl video. #Strictly
— Carolyn Osborne (@caropickles) October 17, 2015
Shirtless Gleb got me like #Strictly pic.twitter.com/x7jPlnAKQ7
— R-pooz (@Yeloop) October 17, 2015
Wish Gleb would put his shirt back on. Said even less than no one, ever #strictly
— Amanda (@deeleya) October 17, 2015
Daughter: Mummmmmmm!
- 10/17/2015
- Digital Spy
“Girlfriend,” a new two-man musical playing through August 9 at L.A.’s Kirk Douglas Theatre, is not your father’s jukebox musical. Unless, of course your father happens to be a fan of veteran alternative rocker Matthew Sweet. In which case, Dad may well be surprised to see how Sweet’s classic 1991 album has become the basis for a bittersweet and winsome love story between two Midwestern boys who’ve just graduated from high school. The witty and well-observed book, by Todd Almond, depicts with heartfelt poignancy the tentative, shuffle-step nature of gay teen romance circa-1990. Will (Ryder Bach) is the obvious outcast of.
- 7/20/2015
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Christopher Lee, an actor who brought dramatic gravitas and aristocratic bearing to screen villains from Dracula to James Bond enemy Scaramanga, has died at age 93.
Lee appeared in more than 250 movies, including memorable roles as the wicked wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the evil Count Dooku in two of George Lucas' Star Wars prequels. But for many he will forever be known as the vampire Count Dracula in a slew of "Hammer Horror" movies - the gory, gothic thrillers churned out by the British studio in the 1950s and 1960s that became hugely popular.
He railed against the typecasting, however, and ultimately the sheer number and range of his roles - from Sherlock Holmes to the founder of Pakistan - secured his place in film history.
"I didn't have dreams of being a romantic leading man," Lee told The Associated Press in 2002. "But I...
Lee appeared in more than 250 movies, including memorable roles as the wicked wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the evil Count Dooku in two of George Lucas' Star Wars prequels. But for many he will forever be known as the vampire Count Dracula in a slew of "Hammer Horror" movies - the gory, gothic thrillers churned out by the British studio in the 1950s and 1960s that became hugely popular.
He railed against the typecasting, however, and ultimately the sheer number and range of his roles - from Sherlock Holmes to the founder of Pakistan - secured his place in film history.
"I didn't have dreams of being a romantic leading man," Lee told The Associated Press in 2002. "But I...
- 6/11/2015
- by Cineplex.com and contributors
- Cineplex
When Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski came across the bizarre story of Walter and Margaret Keane, they thought they’d found a seamless vehicle on which to make their directorial debut. It was cheap, and had all the requisite characteristics of their best known scripts, Ed Wood, Man On The Moon and People Vs. Larry Flynt; charming oddball characters that never rose above the zeitgeist B-list. Tim Burton, who directed Ed Wood and Big Eyes, puts it best: “It’s what they excel at, their strongest work is finding weird real stories, torn from headlines you never read.” So why should their 11-year struggle to get Big Eyes made be anything but quirky and colorful?
Deadline: Where did you find this delightfully nutty tale of a man who stole credit for massively popular paintings art critics loved to slam, with his wife allowing herself to be shuttered in a studio,...
Deadline: Where did you find this delightfully nutty tale of a man who stole credit for massively popular paintings art critics loved to slam, with his wife allowing herself to be shuttered in a studio,...
- 1/6/2015
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
Oscar voting opened Monday, and like clockwork, the haters have come calling. As Deadline’s Pete Hammond wrote on Monday, ’tis the season for controversy over fact-based awards contenders: Now, Bennett Miller’s real-life Olympian tragedy Foxcatcher and Tim Burton’s art exposé Big Eyes have joined Mlk Jr. drama Selma, the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken in ducking for cover over accuracy issues in mixing fact-based stories with narrative structure.
Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, who’s played by Channing Tatum in Foxcatcher, publicly supported the film through its November theatrical release. That changed drastically in a series of angry online rants this week as Schultz turned on the Golden Globe-nominated pic, which won Miller the Best Director prize at Cannes. He blasted Miller and the film on Facebook after he read reviews dwelling on the suggestion of a sexual relationship between him and...
Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, who’s played by Channing Tatum in Foxcatcher, publicly supported the film through its November theatrical release. That changed drastically in a series of angry online rants this week as Schultz turned on the Golden Globe-nominated pic, which won Miller the Best Director prize at Cannes. He blasted Miller and the film on Facebook after he read reviews dwelling on the suggestion of a sexual relationship between him and...
- 1/1/2015
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Tim Burton's "Big Eyes" is about a lot of things. It's about Margaret (Amy Adams) and Walter (Christoph Waltz), artists who popularized mass-market prints (Walter claimed he had created the artwork when Margaret was actually doing the painting). It's about the commercialization of art. And it's about the public perception of said art -- critics hated Margaret's paintings but consumers ate it up. And one of those arbiters of taste, in the film, is a snooty gallery owner played by Jason Schwartzman.
We sat down with Schwartzman recently to discuss what his favorite Tim Burton movie is, what he responded to in the script, whether or not he would hang a Keane painting in his house, and the response to a couple of his more recent films -- "Saving Mr. Banks" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel."
Moviefone: Let's start off by talking about what your favorite Tim Burton movie is.
We sat down with Schwartzman recently to discuss what his favorite Tim Burton movie is, what he responded to in the script, whether or not he would hang a Keane painting in his house, and the response to a couple of his more recent films -- "Saving Mr. Banks" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel."
Moviefone: Let's start off by talking about what your favorite Tim Burton movie is.
- 12/24/2014
- by Drew Taylor
- Moviefone
The original Star Wars trilogy leads the December lineup for Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder at London's BFI Southbank.
Throughout the whole of December, there will be screenings of sci-fi classics, Q&A sessions, special guests, music events and exhibitions from the BFI National Archive.
On Star Wars Day (Saturday, December 13), the original trilogy will be shown in full, featuring the special editions of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983).
There will be a costume competition where the winners will receive prizes, and at the end of the day Benugo Bar & Kitchen will be transformed into the Mos Eisley Cantina, where you can have space-inspired cocktails and listen to a themed DJ set.
On Tuesday, December 16 there will be a preview of upcoming film Ex Machina followed by a Q&A...
Throughout the whole of December, there will be screenings of sci-fi classics, Q&A sessions, special guests, music events and exhibitions from the BFI National Archive.
On Star Wars Day (Saturday, December 13), the original trilogy will be shown in full, featuring the special editions of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983).
There will be a costume competition where the winners will receive prizes, and at the end of the day Benugo Bar & Kitchen will be transformed into the Mos Eisley Cantina, where you can have space-inspired cocktails and listen to a themed DJ set.
On Tuesday, December 16 there will be a preview of upcoming film Ex Machina followed by a Q&A...
- 10/31/2014
- Digital Spy
2001: A Space Odyssey has been given its first new officially-sanctioned trailer in four decades.
A brand new teaser for director Stanley Kubrick's classic movie has been commissioned by Warner Bros in commemoration of the BFI's Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder season.
Ignition Creative London have made the sentient artificial intelligence Hal 9000 (Douglas Rain) the focus of their promo clip.
Kubrick's pioneering film chronicled David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and his team of scientists' exploration of space.
2001: A Space Odyssey won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and came in as the 15th greatest film of all time on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list.
Have your say: What are the greatest sci-fi movies ever made?
The BFI's Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder season will include a panel discussion of the movie featuring stars Dullea and Gary Lockwood, writer Sir Christopher Frayling and physicist Professor Brian Cox.
Critic...
A brand new teaser for director Stanley Kubrick's classic movie has been commissioned by Warner Bros in commemoration of the BFI's Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder season.
Ignition Creative London have made the sentient artificial intelligence Hal 9000 (Douglas Rain) the focus of their promo clip.
Kubrick's pioneering film chronicled David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and his team of scientists' exploration of space.
2001: A Space Odyssey won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and came in as the 15th greatest film of all time on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list.
Have your say: What are the greatest sci-fi movies ever made?
The BFI's Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder season will include a panel discussion of the movie featuring stars Dullea and Gary Lockwood, writer Sir Christopher Frayling and physicist Professor Brian Cox.
Critic...
- 10/21/2014
- Digital Spy
I haven’t watched a full season of The Simpsons for quite a few years now, but my I’ll dip my toe in every now and then to see if it’s worth taking the plunge and keeping up with the show again. Unfortunately, I just haven't felt the magic of seasons past when I tune in to watch new episodes. The show has piqued my interest recently, though, with the 5-minutes of footage Fox released for their upcoming Family Guy crossover. And there is yet another crossover coming this season that is too irresistible to pass up.
The Wrap reports that this November The Simpsons will have a Futurama crossover that will feature voice actors Billy West, John Dimaggio, Katey Sagal, Maurice Lamarche, Phil Lamarr, Lauren Tom, and Tress MacNeille. There’s no word on how their characters will cross paths with the Simpson clan, but we’re...
The Wrap reports that this November The Simpsons will have a Futurama crossover that will feature voice actors Billy West, John Dimaggio, Katey Sagal, Maurice Lamarche, Phil Lamarr, Lauren Tom, and Tress MacNeille. There’s no word on how their characters will cross paths with the Simpson clan, but we’re...
- 8/2/2014
- by Eli Reyes
- GeekTyrant
It's been a long day in Ballroom 20. I live-blogged "24." I live-blogged "Under the Dome" by accident. I live-blogged "Community." And I watched thousands of young women squeal over Dylan O'Brien. Now it's time to cap off Comic-Con Thursday with Showtime's "Penny Dreadful." While Eva Green is absent -- Too busy to kick off her 2015 Emmy campaign here? -- we have many of the "Penny Dreadful" men, including creator John Logan, Reeve "Dorian Gray" Carney, Harry "Frankenstein" Treadaway and Josh "Werewolf Guy" Harnett. Aisha Tyler is moderating. Click through and follow along... 5:58 p.m. "Penny Dreadful" has to follow after the terrific "Hannibal" panel, which was also missing a number of featured stars... Sepinwall live-blogged that one. Oh and we don't really have the "Penny Dreadful" men, because Timothy Dalton isn't here. 6:04 p.m. Great Season 1 sizzle reel. Few people on TV can equal Eva Green when it comes...
- 7/25/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Eva Green is getting most of the attention, but another "Penny Dreadful" actor is hitting it out of the park also: Billie Piper as Brona Croft. Sadly, Ms. Croft isn't well, and in this new video author/historian Matthew Sweet explores the history and effects of consumption.
A profoundly unsettling new saga, "Penny Dreadful" completely reinvents literature’s most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, who are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London.
Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Josh Hartnett, Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, and Eva Green star.
This weekend the season finale, Episode 1.08, "Grand Guignol," airs, but don't despair. As we learned earlier this month, Showtime has already renewed the series for a second season consisting of 10 episodes.
Related Story: Visit our "Penny Dreadful" Archive!
"Penny Dreadful" Episode 1.08 - "Grand Guignol" (airs 6/29/14)
Season 1 ends with Vanessa (Green) and...
A profoundly unsettling new saga, "Penny Dreadful" completely reinvents literature’s most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, who are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London.
Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Josh Hartnett, Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, and Eva Green star.
This weekend the season finale, Episode 1.08, "Grand Guignol," airs, but don't despair. As we learned earlier this month, Showtime has already renewed the series for a second season consisting of 10 episodes.
Related Story: Visit our "Penny Dreadful" Archive!
"Penny Dreadful" Episode 1.08 - "Grand Guignol" (airs 6/29/14)
Season 1 ends with Vanessa (Green) and...
- 6/25/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Mark checks out a new mashup of Doctor Who with Shakespeare...
Over its 50 years, Doctor Who has made some pretty wild pseudo-historical leaps in its representation of artists. The Fourth Doctor wrote “This Is A Fake” on the Mona Lisa in Uv pen. Donna Noble came up with the name of Miss Marple. Stevie Wonder sang under London Bridge in 1814.
The new BBC Books tie-in The Shakespeare Notebooks follows in much the same tradition of warping history around the Doctor, with its whole audacious premise being that most of the Bard’s works were Doctor Who fan fiction.
It’s a fun place to start, with an introduction that contextualises the book as a collection of notes and scraps, comprising early drafts and notes written by Will himself. These notes happen to have been transcribed by seasoned Who authors James Goss, Jonathan Morris, Julian Richards, Justin Richards and Matthew Sweet.
Over its 50 years, Doctor Who has made some pretty wild pseudo-historical leaps in its representation of artists. The Fourth Doctor wrote “This Is A Fake” on the Mona Lisa in Uv pen. Donna Noble came up with the name of Miss Marple. Stevie Wonder sang under London Bridge in 1814.
The new BBC Books tie-in The Shakespeare Notebooks follows in much the same tradition of warping history around the Doctor, with its whole audacious premise being that most of the Bard’s works were Doctor Who fan fiction.
It’s a fun place to start, with an introduction that contextualises the book as a collection of notes and scraps, comprising early drafts and notes written by Will himself. These notes happen to have been transcribed by seasoned Who authors James Goss, Jonathan Morris, Julian Richards, Justin Richards and Matthew Sweet.
- 6/24/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Will Forte is set to star in Fox’s midseason comedy Last Man on Earth, but he’ll crack wise on another one of the network’s comedies even sooner: The SNL alum will voice a character on a fall episode of The Simpsons.
What role will Forte play? Let’s just say that he’ll be king for a day.
Not enough? Okay, we’ll say a little more. He’ll voice King Toot, the owner of King Toot’s Music Store, which is located next to Moe’s Tavern and has been Lisa’s No. 1 saxophone supplier, but...
What role will Forte play? Let’s just say that he’ll be king for a day.
Not enough? Okay, we’ll say a little more. He’ll voice King Toot, the owner of King Toot’s Music Store, which is located next to Moe’s Tavern and has been Lisa’s No. 1 saxophone supplier, but...
- 6/22/2014
- by Dan Snierson
- EW - Inside TV
Film noir tropes have long been explored by film historians who are fascinated with the genre's stylish cinematography, multilayered characters and pessimistic tone. A 2009 BBC documentary on the genre is now online, exploring the world of the American thrillers and teaching us the rules of noir. Host Matthew Sweet explores the grammar of noir, starting with the rule: "Choose a dame with a past and a hero with no future." Films Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice demonstrate how "the blonder and brighter" a woman is on the outside, the more evil she is on the inside. Gotta love a femme fatale. Guests Paul Schrader and Roger Deakins help examine aspects of each film — of which there are many overall. Other rules up for discussion...
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- 6/11/2014
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Sky Atlantic has debuted a new Penny Dreadful promo exclusively on Digital Spy.
The animated short sees writer and historian Matthew Sweet paint a picture of Dorian Gray - the immoral immortal who first appeared in Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel.
Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of several literary classics to have inspired the new TV series, along with Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Penny Dreadful stars Josh Hartnett, Eva Green and Timothy Dalton as mismatched adventurers who combat dark forces in Victorian London.
Reeve Carney plays Gray in the series, which airs on Tuesdays at 9pm on Sky Atlantic.
Penny Dreadful: Sex, blood, violence and good-looking people
Watch the stars of Penny Dreadful speak to Digital Spy below:...
The animated short sees writer and historian Matthew Sweet paint a picture of Dorian Gray - the immoral immortal who first appeared in Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel.
Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of several literary classics to have inspired the new TV series, along with Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Penny Dreadful stars Josh Hartnett, Eva Green and Timothy Dalton as mismatched adventurers who combat dark forces in Victorian London.
Reeve Carney plays Gray in the series, which airs on Tuesdays at 9pm on Sky Atlantic.
Penny Dreadful: Sex, blood, violence and good-looking people
Watch the stars of Penny Dreadful speak to Digital Spy below:...
- 5/29/2014
- Digital Spy
Sky Atlantic has debuted a new Penny Dreadful promo exclusively on Digital Spy.
The animated short sees writer and historian Matthew Sweet sink his teeth into Bram Stoker's Dracula - one of the literary classics to have inspired the new TV series.
Penny Dreadful stars Josh Hartnett, Eva Green and Timothy Dalton as mismatched adventurers who combat dark forces in Victorian London.
Dalton's character Sir Malcolm Murray is inspired by the Dracula mythos, while Harry Treadaway and Reeve Carney star in the series as Victor Frankenstein and Dorian Gray, respectively.
Penny Dreadful begins on Tuesday, May 20 at 9pm on Sky Atlantic.
Penny Dreadful: Sex, blood, violence and good-looking people
Watch the stars of Penny Dreadful speak to Digital Spy below:...
The animated short sees writer and historian Matthew Sweet sink his teeth into Bram Stoker's Dracula - one of the literary classics to have inspired the new TV series.
Penny Dreadful stars Josh Hartnett, Eva Green and Timothy Dalton as mismatched adventurers who combat dark forces in Victorian London.
Dalton's character Sir Malcolm Murray is inspired by the Dracula mythos, while Harry Treadaway and Reeve Carney star in the series as Victor Frankenstein and Dorian Gray, respectively.
Penny Dreadful begins on Tuesday, May 20 at 9pm on Sky Atlantic.
Penny Dreadful: Sex, blood, violence and good-looking people
Watch the stars of Penny Dreadful speak to Digital Spy below:...
- 5/16/2014
- Digital Spy
So, did you take advantage of the early look at Episode 1.01 of "Penny Dreadful," entitled "Night Work," we provided a few days ago, or are you waiting for the premiere this weekend? Either way, here's a new video blog examining "The Science of Medicine."
In the below video author/historian Matthew Sweet meets with technical curator Carla Valentine at the Barts Pathology Museum in London to explore the science and medicine behind "Penny Dreadful."
The series premieres on Showtime on Sunday, May 11th, at 10Pm Et/Pt. Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Josh Hartnett, Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, and Eva Green star. Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible) directed the first two episodes.
A profoundly unsettling new saga, "Penny Dreadful" completely reinvents literature’s most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, who are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London.
In the below video author/historian Matthew Sweet meets with technical curator Carla Valentine at the Barts Pathology Museum in London to explore the science and medicine behind "Penny Dreadful."
The series premieres on Showtime on Sunday, May 11th, at 10Pm Et/Pt. Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Josh Hartnett, Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, and Eva Green star. Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible) directed the first two episodes.
A profoundly unsettling new saga, "Penny Dreadful" completely reinvents literature’s most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, who are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London.
- 5/8/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
With just three weeks to wait until the premiere of "Penny Dreadful" on Showtime, the network has released another production blog (this one focusing on British exploration and the search for the Nile) plus another promo!
First up is Production Blog #8, in which author/historian Matthew Sweet discusses the impact of British exploration on Victorian life and how it relates to "Penny Dreadful." That's followed up by a new promo teaser titled "Just Like You."
"Penny Dreadful" is set to premiere on Showtime on Sunday, May 11th, at 10Pm Et/Pt.
"Penny Dreadful" is created, written, and executive produced by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator) and executive produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Neal Street's Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, "Call the Midwife").
Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Josh Hartnett, Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, and Eva Green star. Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage,...
First up is Production Blog #8, in which author/historian Matthew Sweet discusses the impact of British exploration on Victorian life and how it relates to "Penny Dreadful." That's followed up by a new promo teaser titled "Just Like You."
"Penny Dreadful" is set to premiere on Showtime on Sunday, May 11th, at 10Pm Et/Pt.
"Penny Dreadful" is created, written, and executive produced by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator) and executive produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Neal Street's Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, "Call the Midwife").
Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Josh Hartnett, Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, and Eva Green star. Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage,...
- 4/21/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
We have a few more weeks to wait until "Penny Dreadful" debuts on Showtime, and a new production blog has arrived to help fill the time! Author/historian Matthew Sweet takes Reeve Carney (Dorian Gray) on a tour of London to learn about the role of prostitution and sex in the Victorian age.
"Penny Dreadful" is set to premiere on Showtime on Sunday, May 11th, at 10Pm Et/Pt.
Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Josh Hartnett, Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, and Eva Green star.
"Penny Dreadful" is created, written, and executive produced by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator) and executive produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Neal Street's Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, "Call the Midwife"). Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible) directs the first two episodes.
Synopsis
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula,...
"Penny Dreadful" is set to premiere on Showtime on Sunday, May 11th, at 10Pm Et/Pt.
Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Josh Hartnett, Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, and Eva Green star.
"Penny Dreadful" is created, written, and executive produced by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator) and executive produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Neal Street's Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, "Call the Midwife"). Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible) directs the first two episodes.
Synopsis
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula,...
- 4/1/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Showtime's upcoming “Penny Dreadful” shows us the strangest parts of Victorian London, but some things never change. In a new video from the production, star Reeve Carney shows us where Londoners cruised, picked up prostitutes, and bought their porn. It's eye-opening. Carney, who is escorted (not that kind of escorted) by historian and author Matthew Sweet (not this Matthew Sweet) learns that Victorians sometimes commissioned their own private porn. That strikes Carney's interest, because he plays Dorian Gray, a character who knows a little something about portraits. Also read: ‘Penny Dreadful’ Trailer: Josh Hartnett and Eva Green in a World of.
- 3/31/2014
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Feature Seb Patrick 21 Nov 2013 - 22:30
Here's what writer Mark Gatiss said about An Adventure In Space And Time at the BFI screening. Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen it...
Warning: contains spoilers for An Adventure In Space And Time. Our spoiler-free review is here.
As part of a Q&A session with members of the cast and crew at the premiere screening of An Adventure in Space and Time at the BFI, writer Mark Gatiss had plenty to say about the making of the ninety-minute BBC2 film. Now that the special has been broadcast – and with the proviso that it contains spoilers if you haven’t yet watched it! - here’s a selection of what he had to say about bringing William Hartnell, Verity Lambert, Sydney Newman and the rest of the early days of Doctor Who to life…
To begin with, Gatiss talked about the origins of the story,...
Here's what writer Mark Gatiss said about An Adventure In Space And Time at the BFI screening. Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen it...
Warning: contains spoilers for An Adventure In Space And Time. Our spoiler-free review is here.
As part of a Q&A session with members of the cast and crew at the premiere screening of An Adventure in Space and Time at the BFI, writer Mark Gatiss had plenty to say about the making of the ninety-minute BBC2 film. Now that the special has been broadcast – and with the proviso that it contains spoilers if you haven’t yet watched it! - here’s a selection of what he had to say about bringing William Hartnell, Verity Lambert, Sydney Newman and the rest of the early days of Doctor Who to life…
To begin with, Gatiss talked about the origins of the story,...
- 11/21/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
London, Sep 13: BBC has launched a poll to find the greatest movie soundtrack of all time.
The poll, which is a part of 'Sound of Cinema' season of the network, has invited listeners to vote from a shortlist of 20 films.
The shortlisted film scores include, Star Wars, The Sound of Music, The Third Man and West Side Story.
The winning track, receiving the highest votes, will be revealed on Radio 3 and played live by the BBC Concert Orchestra.
The list has been compiled by film fans and experts from across the BBC, including Radio 2's Simon Mayo, Radio 3's Matthew Sweet and Tommy Sandhu from Asian Network.
Other.
The poll, which is a part of 'Sound of Cinema' season of the network, has invited listeners to vote from a shortlist of 20 films.
The shortlisted film scores include, Star Wars, The Sound of Music, The Third Man and West Side Story.
The winning track, receiving the highest votes, will be revealed on Radio 3 and played live by the BBC Concert Orchestra.
The list has been compiled by film fans and experts from across the BBC, including Radio 2's Simon Mayo, Radio 3's Matthew Sweet and Tommy Sandhu from Asian Network.
Other.
- 9/13/2013
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
The BBC has launched a poll across its TV and radio stations to find the greatest ever movie soundtrack.
BBC Radio 1's Rhianna Dillon, BBC Radio 2's Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 3's Matthew Sweet, Francine Stock from BBC Radio 4, Mary Anne Hobbs from BBC Radio 6music, Tommy Sandhu from Asian Network and film music conductor Robert Ziegler have joined forces to choose the 20-strong shortlist.
Voting is open now on the BBC website and closes at midnight on Friday, September 20.
The results will be announced and played live by the BBC Concert Orchestra on Friday, September 27 at 2pm and will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
The poll is part of the BBC's Sound of Cinema season, which starts today with the broadcast of the first of a three-part BBC Four series Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies.
It is presented by Neil Brand and airs at 9pm.
BBC Radio 1's Rhianna Dillon, BBC Radio 2's Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 3's Matthew Sweet, Francine Stock from BBC Radio 4, Mary Anne Hobbs from BBC Radio 6music, Tommy Sandhu from Asian Network and film music conductor Robert Ziegler have joined forces to choose the 20-strong shortlist.
Voting is open now on the BBC website and closes at midnight on Friday, September 20.
The results will be announced and played live by the BBC Concert Orchestra on Friday, September 27 at 2pm and will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
The poll is part of the BBC's Sound of Cinema season, which starts today with the broadcast of the first of a three-part BBC Four series Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies.
It is presented by Neil Brand and airs at 9pm.
- 9/12/2013
- Digital Spy
Review Andrew Blair 17 Jul 2013 - 07:08
Andrew checks out the creepy lullabies and ominous chords of Mark Ayres' score for Seventh Doctor story, Ghost Light...
The music of Doctor Who is worthy of a documentary in itself. While Matthew Sweet's interval interviews during the recent Doctor Who at the Prom broadcast on Radio 3 hit the spot, you get the feeling that there's several hours of indulgent geekery in there for a show to chew over. Inevitably contributing would be Ghost Light's composer, Mark Ayres.
You may have seen him in the Prom Clips, conspiring with Peter Howell from behind banks of synths to perform the score from The Sea Devils to a disbelieving yet delighted audience. Ayres and Howell are of the Eighties, the decade where the composer was largely left to their own devices with only some synthesisers and a long-sleeved-shirt for company. No Library Music or four-piece woodwind scores for them.
Andrew checks out the creepy lullabies and ominous chords of Mark Ayres' score for Seventh Doctor story, Ghost Light...
The music of Doctor Who is worthy of a documentary in itself. While Matthew Sweet's interval interviews during the recent Doctor Who at the Prom broadcast on Radio 3 hit the spot, you get the feeling that there's several hours of indulgent geekery in there for a show to chew over. Inevitably contributing would be Ghost Light's composer, Mark Ayres.
You may have seen him in the Prom Clips, conspiring with Peter Howell from behind banks of synths to perform the score from The Sea Devils to a disbelieving yet delighted audience. Ayres and Howell are of the Eighties, the decade where the composer was largely left to their own devices with only some synthesisers and a long-sleeved-shirt for company. No Library Music or four-piece woodwind scores for them.
- 7/17/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
These past few months, I've grown weary trying to find albums that engage me from start to finish. In fact, I've yet to find one album in the past few months I can listen to top to bottom. I truly believe that we are back in the land of "singles." Not saying that a Blood on the Tracks, Dark Side of the Moon, Ok Computer, or (What's The Story) Morning Glory? isn't lurking in the shadows, but.... I'm old enough to have bought 45s back in the '60s when I was a young pup; my first was The Beatles' "Rain"/"Paperback Writer." In the land of digital, I'm happy to download one song from some new noteworthy act and let it fall into my enormous random shuffle playlist (over 8,700 songs and counting). And that "single" is not always the band or label's choice; in the age of iTunes, we...
- 7/3/2013
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
So many movie-buff discoveries, links, DVD releases and publications cross my desk that it’s not possible to keep up with them all, but I’d like to try catching up a bit. Let’s start with a Charlie Chaplin radio documentary. I don’t know how it escaped my notice for almost two years, but BBC radio in England produced a two-part documentary about the Charlie Chaplin archives. To quote the program listing, “Writer, broadcaster and film buff Matthew Sweet travels to Vevey in Switzerland where he meets Chaplin's son, Michael, to explore the house and get unprecedented access to some of the amazing revelations of the archive. We hear recordings of Chaplin...
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- 12/3/2012
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
If you're gonna do it, then do it right. That seems to be the driving force behind the decisions on the soundtrack for the upcoming surfing drama "Chasing Mavericks." Telling the true story of surfer Jay Moriarity who rode the waves and climbed to fame during the '90s, the tunes for the film are appropriately pulled from college radio, providing a pretty fierce flashback of sorts for anyone who came of age in the era of grunge and flannel. For those of you who like it a bit loud, the film will feature songs by Dinosaur Jr., Matthew Sweet, Sponge (we totally forgot about those guys) and eternal oddballs Butthole Surfers. For something a bit sweet, Cornershop's earworm "Brimful Of Asha" slides onto the playlist along with The Lemonheads' "Into Your Arms," while Mazzy Star seduces you with two tracks all her own. And the set is rounded out...
- 10/16/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
1. Pj Harvey: Let England Shake (Vagrant/Island)
A great concept album, a statement about England's proclivity for war and how it has costs both (more or less) countable -- lives, injuries -- and unquantifiable: shattered psyches and tainted national morality. That Harvey is able to do this not in essays but in songs, including some of the best in her long and distinguished career, is an achievement that has eluded many. I wrote about this album at greater length in a review early this year.
2. Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams (SubPop)
There are a lot of bands doing the updated '60s girl sound thing, but none more compellingly than this one. Because without good songs, a sound is merely a signifier of taste, an empty vessel. Leader Kristen Gundred Aka Dee Dee writes excellent songs, then plays them with a sonically riveting style.
3. Mimi Goese & Ben Neill:...
A great concept album, a statement about England's proclivity for war and how it has costs both (more or less) countable -- lives, injuries -- and unquantifiable: shattered psyches and tainted national morality. That Harvey is able to do this not in essays but in songs, including some of the best in her long and distinguished career, is an achievement that has eluded many. I wrote about this album at greater length in a review early this year.
2. Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams (SubPop)
There are a lot of bands doing the updated '60s girl sound thing, but none more compellingly than this one. Because without good songs, a sound is merely a signifier of taste, an empty vessel. Leader Kristen Gundred Aka Dee Dee writes excellent songs, then plays them with a sonically riveting style.
3. Mimi Goese & Ben Neill:...
- 12/28/2011
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
I was toying with the idea of calling this list "Ephemeral Pleasures," but if there's anything I've learned in my decades of music fandom, it's that the silliest stuff can show surprising durability thanks to the tenaciousness of nostalgia. And "silly" certain describes three of these songs.
As will quickly become clear, I find Asian pop music more alluring than most of the cliched bombast on American radio. There were many catchy songs I omitted because they were also supremely annoying. I suppose to some people even some of my picks here are annoying, but that's the thing about catchy songs: there's a fine line between pleasure and -- after sufficient repetition -- pain.
Note that though I tried to avoid overlap between this list and my best albums list that will soon follow, I had to include the #1 song.
1. "She Walks the Night" by Matthew Sweet
There doesn't seem...
As will quickly become clear, I find Asian pop music more alluring than most of the cliched bombast on American radio. There were many catchy songs I omitted because they were also supremely annoying. I suppose to some people even some of my picks here are annoying, but that's the thing about catchy songs: there's a fine line between pleasure and -- after sufficient repetition -- pain.
Note that though I tried to avoid overlap between this list and my best albums list that will soon follow, I had to include the #1 song.
1. "She Walks the Night" by Matthew Sweet
There doesn't seem...
- 12/27/2011
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
The Bangles will Walk Like An Egyptian over to Kimmel's show on November 1! While on a short break from their headlining national tour, Bangles' guitarist/singer Susanna Hoffs, guitarist/singer Vicki Peterson and drummer/singer Debbi Peterson--will perform Tuesday, November 1 on ABC-tv.s .Jimmy Kimmel Live!. (12/11c) They.ll play .I.ll Never Be Through With You,. the first single from Sweetheart Of The Sun (Model Music Group, released September 27), the band.s first full-length album in nearly eight years. The album was recorded by Matthew Sweet (Susanna.s frequent collaborator) at his home studio in the Hollywood Hills, with much of the overdubbing done at the home studios of Vicki and Susanna, and mixed by Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Wilco). Entertainment Weekly hailed...
- 10/28/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
All the leaves are nearly brown, skies sometimes gray, there's a slight chill in the air, and my ears and eyes have been quite busy. A touch of melancholia and a satchel full of dreams yet to be realized. Winter is just around the corner. A hint of summer still lingers in the late afternoon sun. Walks in the park with the dog, shared playlists on Spotify providing the soundtrack. I remain an ever faithful servant to smart culture's demands.
"Cicadas and Gulls" Feist Metals (Cherrytree) - Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist displays her chops in full maturity on her third CD. So much to enjoy, yet I'm continually drawn to this evocative, simple double-tracked voice and acoustic guitar folk song. I suspect it fully captures my current mood.
"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" The Smiths Complete Box Set (Rhino) - Rarely do I purchase music, one...
"Cicadas and Gulls" Feist Metals (Cherrytree) - Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist displays her chops in full maturity on her third CD. So much to enjoy, yet I'm continually drawn to this evocative, simple double-tracked voice and acoustic guitar folk song. I suspect it fully captures my current mood.
"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" The Smiths Complete Box Set (Rhino) - Rarely do I purchase music, one...
- 10/28/2011
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
Wilco: The Whole Love (dBpm)
The last two extra tracks on the deluxe version are "Speak into the Rose," a wonderfully propulsive Krautrock rip, and a less-plush alternate take of "Black Moon," a gently jangling ballad that delicately wafts the deluxe album to a beautiful, tender conclusion. Think about the contrast there, then imagine them combined in one song. You've basically imagined the whiplash-inducing opening track on the main album. I've had my problems with Wilco in the past: S/T was kinda boring, Sky formulaically pretty, the Jim O'Rourke-induced artiness of Ghost too stiffly self-conscious. Here, the beauty and the experimentation have been more organically merged, suggesting that Nels Cline has finally gelled as a member.
Later tracks find their '70s rock fixation leading to some mildly psychedelic touches, some gritty garage-rock moves (even Mysterians-esque organ on "I Might"), a light-hearted update of The Band's sound...
The last two extra tracks on the deluxe version are "Speak into the Rose," a wonderfully propulsive Krautrock rip, and a less-plush alternate take of "Black Moon," a gently jangling ballad that delicately wafts the deluxe album to a beautiful, tender conclusion. Think about the contrast there, then imagine them combined in one song. You've basically imagined the whiplash-inducing opening track on the main album. I've had my problems with Wilco in the past: S/T was kinda boring, Sky formulaically pretty, the Jim O'Rourke-induced artiness of Ghost too stiffly self-conscious. Here, the beauty and the experimentation have been more organically merged, suggesting that Nels Cline has finally gelled as a member.
Later tracks find their '70s rock fixation leading to some mildly psychedelic touches, some gritty garage-rock moves (even Mysterians-esque organ on "I Might"), a light-hearted update of The Band's sound...
- 9/29/2011
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
The best of your comments on the latest film and music
Three cheers for Britain! Matthew Sweet led the boosting last week, with his article challenging the received wisdom that postwar British cinema – exemplified by the work of Ealing Studios – was cosy and parochial. No, he said: in the Us, British films were valued because they were so daring. (A point echoed by badcat: "As an American, I'm very envious of those witty, sly, dry Ealing comedies. The post-wwii Hollywood products are cloying and smug in contrast. Try the emetic Father of the Bride or the obsessively perky MGM musicals, or those awful westerns, all regarded as classics. No wonder our Us baby boomers grew up thinking that they were the centre of the world and its first real generation.")
"I blame Truffaut and his anti-English/British bias," said caroassassino. "Powell and Pressburger's films are superior to anything that he ever directed.
Three cheers for Britain! Matthew Sweet led the boosting last week, with his article challenging the received wisdom that postwar British cinema – exemplified by the work of Ealing Studios – was cosy and parochial. No, he said: in the Us, British films were valued because they were so daring. (A point echoed by badcat: "As an American, I'm very envious of those witty, sly, dry Ealing comedies. The post-wwii Hollywood products are cloying and smug in contrast. Try the emetic Father of the Bride or the obsessively perky MGM musicals, or those awful westerns, all regarded as classics. No wonder our Us baby boomers grew up thinking that they were the centre of the world and its first real generation.")
"I blame Truffaut and his anti-English/British bias," said caroassassino. "Powell and Pressburger's films are superior to anything that he ever directed.
- 7/28/2011
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
Decades of rainy-Sunday screenings have blinded us to the true nature of postwar British cinema – freedom, naughtiness and a very black humour indeed
It begins with a parrot and a gaucho band. We're in South America – or a tiny patch of it, conjured some 60 years ago on a sound stage in London. The customers wear fur wraps and hair cream. The Atlantic stands, suspiciously immobile, beyond the window. And here is Alec Guinness, a British robber in rich retirement, sitting at a table, grinning a complacent grin and declaring his attachment to the Latin high life in that thin, high, gurgling voice. He is a prototypical Ronnie Biggs – and he's prepared to put his money where his mouth is.
When a conspicuously privileged middle-aged woman stops to talk, Guinness presses a roll of banknotes into her outstretched hands – a donation for the "victims of the revolution". A waiter receives a similarly thick wad of beneficence.
It begins with a parrot and a gaucho band. We're in South America – or a tiny patch of it, conjured some 60 years ago on a sound stage in London. The customers wear fur wraps and hair cream. The Atlantic stands, suspiciously immobile, beyond the window. And here is Alec Guinness, a British robber in rich retirement, sitting at a table, grinning a complacent grin and declaring his attachment to the Latin high life in that thin, high, gurgling voice. He is a prototypical Ronnie Biggs – and he's prepared to put his money where his mouth is.
When a conspicuously privileged middle-aged woman stops to talk, Guinness presses a roll of banknotes into her outstretched hands – a donation for the "victims of the revolution". A waiter receives a similarly thick wad of beneficence.
- 7/21/2011
- by Matthew Sweet
- The Guardian - Film News
Statue of the late star posing over a drafty subway vent causes outrage in Chicago
The big story
It's the big Marilyn. And the big fuss a 26ft-statue of the Hollywood icon has caused in Chicago, where a monolithic Monroe - stuck with her skirt blown up in the famous pose from The Seven Year Itch - towers over the city's Pioneer Court, allowing leerers and jeerers alike to cop a giant's eyeful.
Labelled Forever Marilyn by 80-year-old New Jersey sculptor Steward Johnson, the statue has been described as "sexist" and "creepy" by critics, among them film writer Richard Roeper: "Men (and women) licking Marilyn's leg, gawking up her skirt, pointing at her giant panties as they leer and laugh," huffed the Chicago Sun-Times columnist, which sorta cooled the ankles of those who had been merrily papping the blonde bombshell's giant errrrr ... smalls.
Still, you suspect this Marilyn would...
The big story
It's the big Marilyn. And the big fuss a 26ft-statue of the Hollywood icon has caused in Chicago, where a monolithic Monroe - stuck with her skirt blown up in the famous pose from The Seven Year Itch - towers over the city's Pioneer Court, allowing leerers and jeerers alike to cop a giant's eyeful.
Labelled Forever Marilyn by 80-year-old New Jersey sculptor Steward Johnson, the statue has been described as "sexist" and "creepy" by critics, among them film writer Richard Roeper: "Men (and women) licking Marilyn's leg, gawking up her skirt, pointing at her giant panties as they leer and laugh," huffed the Chicago Sun-Times columnist, which sorta cooled the ankles of those who had been merrily papping the blonde bombshell's giant errrrr ... smalls.
Still, you suspect this Marilyn would...
- 7/21/2011
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
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