One of the advantages of not being on the road but in one's place of residence: Munich offers one of those cinemas where they occasionally show live broadcasts of British theatre. Such as, last night, The National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebration, which was rather splendid, and great fun to watch on the big screen. As awesome as all the ( Read more... )

Darth Real Life is battling me, which is why I'm still behind with the replies etc, but have two links:

Angel:

Why We Fight: An Essay on Truth and Purpose: meta on the season 5 episode Why We Fight in the broader context of the show. Why We Fight is unpopular in the fandom when last I looked, but I always liked it - it does some genuinenly ( Read more... )

So Dexter's sixth season has ended, and for me, the show.

( A few spoilery observations )

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Firstly, Judi Dench and Daniel Craig doing a spot about equality. As M and Bond. Sometimes it's hard not to conclude British actors are just cooler. (Must be something in the tea, and all that.)

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Secondly, re: Being Human, meta on the whole Annie and Nina versus Mitchell matter which does not make me want to scream in frustration but points ( Read more... )

A quote I didn't include among my collection of contradictory John Lennon quotes, mostly because it's more of a JohnandYoko contradictory issue, not a statement, but it's a little gem nonetheless: on page 224 of her memoirs, May Pang, who, remember, worked for both Yoko and John for two years at the start of the 70s before becoming John's ( Read more... )

Damn, Undercovers got cancelled. I know I didn't review the last two episodes, but that wasn't because I didn't enjoy them; because I didn't have much more to say than "that was fun". Which might be the problem with some viewers - it's that paradox, an almost entirely angst free spy show, the anti Nikita, so to speak - and so far case of the week ( Read more... )

Treasures you find at YouTube, #14533: the original promo for Something. Which is... something. Apparantly whoever shot it - the busy Michael Lindsay-Hogg, or was he too busy being traumatized by the rough cut of Let it Be at that point? - had the bright idea that since this is a love song, the four Beatles should pose with their respective ( Read more... )

I became curious about The Runaways because of this review; the music and the group itself, I have to admit, was unknown to me. (I mean, obviously I know who Joan Jett is, I know several of her solo songs, and I saw her on screen in Light of Day with Michael J. Fox, not to mention that appearance in Highlander, but the Runaways as a group I hadn't ( Read more... )

The first part of the weekly SJA two parter was greeted with much squee by me and made me very happy, but you won't get a review until I've seen both parts, i.e. tomorrow. In the meantime, reading in various papers various people's reactions to the Keith Richards memoirs makes for an odd demonstration of how relaxing it can be not to be in a fandom ( Read more... )