Another Mother’s Son movie review: punching Nazis, mom style
Not alt-history but a true story from a Nazi-occupied English-speaking place, a hugely relevant reminder that resistance to injustice is an absolute imperative.
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Casablanca sequel? it’s a thing… (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Doctor Who thing of the day: Dalek impersonator Martyn Crofts
From ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent…
question of the day: Do you think it’s weird when a character has the same name as the actor playing the role?
I always think, What the hell is this? He can’t remember to respond to a different name?
Facebook smears Google; Disney trademarks “Seal Team 6”; men made ‘Bridesmaids’ suck; more: leftover links
Plus: Johnny Depp can’t see his own 3D POTC movie; Woody Allen sorta down on his own movies; why did Mel Gibson’s The Beaver flop?
to give or to keep: ‘The World at War’ on blu-ray
Students of history and World War II buffs will love this new blu-ray edition of the classic 1970s ITV documentary that looked back at the war in obsessive detail…
Prime Suspect: The Complete Collection (review)
If you’re not sure why it’s so awesome to see Helen Mirren unapologetically kicking ass in Red — and to see her doing so without getting grief for it from the guys — then perhaps you’ve never seen Prime Suspect, the British cop series she starred in through most of the past two decades.
question of the day: What is the longstanding appeal of British costume dramas, like the new ‘Downton Abbey’?
For me, it’s the bottling up of emotion required by the (stereotypical) British stiff upper lip, until it just won’t stay bottled up anymore, which results in exquisitely drawn out encounters full of subtext and seething with feeling, and eventually explosive outbursts. You?
trailer break: ‘Law & Order: UK’
Take a break from work: watch a TV trailer… I’ve been hearing about the expansion of the Law & Order franchise to London for a while now, and when I was there last week, I kept seeing this ad on ITV for the show. Somehow I had managed to not hear that both Jamie Bamber … more…
Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Season One (review)
I imagine Piper headed straight from *Doctor Who* to a series like this to wash away that nice-girl taint before she got typecast so early in her career. And whoo, there’s no beating around the bush here. (Oo, did I just say that?)
