Talking pictures
A gracious open letter from creator Josh Friedman on the sad cancellation of Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles. When it was bad it was slightly meandering, but when it was good it was excellent. I'm pleased it got two series; I'd have been far more gutted had it died after its first year, whereas this way it had a chance to tell a more rounded story.
A trailer for Guy Ritchie's new Sherlock Holmes film featuring a Holmes who is much more like Robert Downey Jr. than we'd previously imagined. The movie looks like a lot of fun on its own terms, but it bears so little resemblance to Sherlock Holmes that I'll just have to pretend it's something else. (Downloadable trailers in better quality here.)
Two clips of the surely superfluous new 'V' miniseries starring Morena Baccarin. It's not like the original 'V' was any great shakes. The very first miniseries was a lot better than the second (The Final Battle), with its infamous rubber alien baby, and the second miniseries was itself like Shakespeare compared to the short-lived weekly series that ended up as Dynasty with Lizards. I'm willing to give the remake a shot since any remake brings with it the potential to improve on the source material, but how exactly will they make a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing alien invasion feel fresh and relevant these days? Oddly the clips remind me more of Earth: Final Conflict than 'V'.
And finally, rejoice world for the superlatively quirky The Middleman is arriving on (region 1) DVD. It's not the greatest thing ever, but it's possibly the funnest thing ever.
A trailer for Guy Ritchie's new Sherlock Holmes film featuring a Holmes who is much more like Robert Downey Jr. than we'd previously imagined. The movie looks like a lot of fun on its own terms, but it bears so little resemblance to Sherlock Holmes that I'll just have to pretend it's something else. (Downloadable trailers in better quality here.)
Two clips of the surely superfluous new 'V' miniseries starring Morena Baccarin. It's not like the original 'V' was any great shakes. The very first miniseries was a lot better than the second (The Final Battle), with its infamous rubber alien baby, and the second miniseries was itself like Shakespeare compared to the short-lived weekly series that ended up as Dynasty with Lizards. I'm willing to give the remake a shot since any remake brings with it the potential to improve on the source material, but how exactly will they make a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing alien invasion feel fresh and relevant these days? Oddly the clips remind me more of Earth: Final Conflict than 'V'.
And finally, rejoice world for the superlatively quirky The Middleman is arriving on (region 1) DVD. It's not the greatest thing ever, but it's possibly the funnest thing ever.