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| 01.21.04 (1:27 pm) [edit] |
Or not. Still the show/blog must go on despite the low ratings and lack of viewer/reader feedback. If I was on the FOX network they would have scheduled me for Friday night and cancelled my ass after 1 episode. Fortunately on tblog, quality is not a pre-requisite for blog existence. It's the equivalent of public access television. Any idiot craving attention (like yours truly) can have a blog.
How often have you seen a public access show get picked up by a network? Must have happened once or twice, I just can't think of any off the top of my head. Anyway, I've decided to post reviews for DVDs I've watched and TV shows occasionally. I'm sure this will not boost ratings as anybody could write this boring drivel (well, being boring is not a unique skill).
Snootchie Bootchie Cootchie!
TV on DVD
Coupling (BBC Version) - Seasons 1 & 2 available for purchaase or rent
Smallville Beginnings - Catch the first season of this show (now in its 3rd season) about Clark Kent's teen years (WB Sundays at 7pm ET). Now available to rent on DVD.
Monty Python's Flying Circus - complete set of this groundbreaking seeries.
Taken - 20 hour Spielberg mini-series about the government conspiracy to hide alien abductions.
Video/DVD Reviews
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ☻☻☻
Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Drew Barrymore and Julia Roberts star in this bio-pic about game show pioneer, Chuck Barris (and I use the term pioneer loosely). The movie is dark and funny and Sam Rockwell portrays a sometimes unlikable character credibly but not convincingly. There's always something under the surface and things are never quite as they seem. It's not clear whether we are witnessing real events or when we have fallen into the depths of Barris' paranoid dementia. Clooney's directorial debut will certainly lean to more work should he choose to pursue them. Definitely worth a look.
Dreamcatcher ☻☻
This film adapted from the Stephen King novel of the same name starts out so beautifully. There's the friendship of four men who grew up together, the psychic bond that links them together and to a fifth childhood friend, there's the threat of an alien virus, there's the covert military operation to contain the virus all set in winter wonderland of snow and pine trees. Never has so much potential been wasted. Halfway through the film becomes rushed and uneven and towards the end it plunges into Lake Ridiculous. It's too bad. The film stars Damian Lewis, Thomas Jane, Morgan Freeman, Tom Sizemore, Jason Lee, Timothy Olyphant and Donnie Wahlberg. The best part of this movie is Jason Lee's vocabulary - hysterical.
The Hours ☻☻☻
Imagine singing "I cried all night" to the tune of Celine Dion's "I drove all night". That's exactly what I did after watching this depressing, suicide-inducing drama. They even managed to make sex-on-legs Ed Harris look disgusting. One must be true to who you are and one "cannot find peace by avoiding life. Nicole Kidman's Oscar-winning turn as the depressed writer Virginia Woolf is bold and powerful, even with the prosthetic nose-piece. Julianne Moore is again cast as the trapped 50's house-wife (see Far From Heaven). She is brilliant in her own right and at times I just wanted to shake and tell her to snap out of it, as ignorant people often do when they do not understand another's condition. Meryl Streep plays the third lead (and do not mean that she is third in importance - all three actresses deserve top billing), an openly gay women living with her partner (Allyson Janney) whose life seems to be unraveling in one day. The message of the film is about understanding yourself and making painful choices to be free. The movie is at times preachy and slow but the emotions are palpable. I never plan to watch this movie again.
Hollywood Homicide☻☻ 787;
Who would have thought of pairing Harrison Ford with Josh Hartnett? A genius that's who. Here's a film you and your mother can go to see and both be satisfied. Bring your boyfriend or your Daddy too as there's enough shooting and stuff blowing up to keep everybody entertained. The film is mostly light-hearted and doesn't take itself too seriously. Everybody has two jobs, even the LAPD. Harrison and Hartnett make full use of the generation gap jokes, down to their cell phone ring tones. Worth a look.
More reviews to follow. I even do requests. Seriously.
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posted by: Joolie (reply)
post date: 01.21.04 (10:38 am)
What about all those shows us poor Brits have to wait so long to see, ie the new CSI, 24 etc etc - make sure that you mention the velvet purr of Kiefer at least once! Oh and, spoiler free is the way to be (unless I can't resist peeking!) Joolie xxx
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