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19 items from 2012
Why A Doctor Who Film Reboot Isn’t Happening & Never Will
20 May 2012 9:30 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
“The very brilliant David Yates was talking off the cuff and a little prematurely: there simply are no developed plans for a Doctor Who movie at the moment. But it’s an incredibly exciting idea to get that magic blue box flying across our cinema screens, so stand by for further developments.
However, if and when the movie happens, it will need to star television’s Doctor Who – and there’s only every one of those at a time. And it would need to come out of the same production operation that makes the series. Doctor Who is a vitally important BBC brand with a huge international audience and not even Hollywood can start this one from scratch.
So sorry if there’s been any confusion, but on the plus side it has reminded us all what an exciting prospect this could be. Whatever happens, the BBC and BBC Worldwide »
- Rupert David Bath
The James Clayton Column: May the fourth be with you
3 May 2012 3:40 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Since today is officially Star Wars day, James takes a moment to salute George Lucas’ rich universe, which still deserves our love in spite of its flaws…
Happy Star Wars Day! “May the Fourth be with you.” See what they did there? If you say “May the Force be with you” with a lisp you get today’s date and, thus, today is decreed to be Star Wars Day. Speech impediments are brilliant.
So May 4th is Star Wars Day, and why not? The saga deserves an annual celebration. We live in a society that marks nonsense holidays that mean very little and are only really about lauding spurious saints, selling products or encouraging people to drink excessively.
Pancake Day is over-rated. April Fools’ Day is irritating. Bonfire Night is dubious and full of hazards and Valentine’s Day is a tacky guilt-trip masterminded by greeting card and condom companies. »
Six to watch: TV's best businesses
30 March 2012 6:17 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
From Sterling Cooper to Wernham Hogg – we run down the best companies on the small screen. Would you work for them?
Forget Peggy, Joan, and even Don – the real star of Mad Men is Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, the fictional ad agency which houses the show's cast of characters. Non-existent Hr policies and a laissez-faire attitude to office-based alcoholism might jar with today's sensibilities, but with a swanky setting, stylish fittings and inexhaustible supplies of scotch the office still has a certain allure. Not all television workplaces have quite the same allure – an ambition to work for Wernham Hogg, for instance, is not one widely shared – but it remains one of TV's most memorable businesses.
So join us as we cast an eye over the best companies to ever grace the small screen. Have we shortlisted the best cathode ray corporations or has your favourite fictional workplace been left off of our small screen CV? »
- Daniel Bettridge
Let's cast 'Catching Fire'! Who should play Beetee, Wiress, Enobaria, and everyone else in the 'Hunger Games' sequel?
29 March 2012 2:30 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
The executives and filmmakers behind the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games are currently busy devouring bucketfuls of beluga caviar, wiping their mouths with $100 bills, and exercising by swimming through bins filled with all the currency that flowed in from movie theaters last weekend. One would imagine that — between swims — they’re also in the midst of a heated debate regarding the Hunger Games sequels. “Should Catching Fire be split into a trilogy?” asks producer Nina Jacobson. “I got a better idea,” replies director Gary Ross. “Why don’t we do a trilogy, but then make it a five-part trilogy, »
- Darren Franich
TV Review: Dirk Gently Series 1.3
20 March 2012 5:32 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
The final investigation in the first series sees Dirk in hot water, somebody is killing his former clients and our intrepid hero is the only thing that connects them all.
Despite all this murder and Dirk’s plans to flea the country, the duo still manage to get a new client. A recently divorced woman has some trouble with a stalker, which turns out to be Dirk. He doesn’t see it as stalking, he sees himself as a “covert experimenter’. Based on her handwriting Dirk wanted to observe her to see if she was worth dating.
Dirk Gently is cheap, that’s not a slur against this fine TV show’s limited budget but a simple fact about the world’s leading holistic detective. From an unpaid receptionist to unpaid plummers, there’s literally nobody that Dirk has failed to pay. MacDuff says it best »
- Chris Suffield
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists review
18 March 2012 12:36 PM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Aardman’s latest stop-motion feature is huge fun, stuffed with great gags, lovely design, and a wonderfully Pythonesque sense of humour. Read our review here…
Aardman Animations’ latest arrives with a brilliantly silly title, a brilliantly nerdy sense of humour and more gags per square inch than you’d think permissible by EU standards. Adapted by Gideon Defoe from the first in his series of comedy novels (great family reading, every one of them), and directed by Aardman’s very own captain, Peter Lord, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists oozes playful fun.
The story sees the luxuriantly-bearded Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) determined to up his status in the piratic world by winning the Pirate of the Year award. The problem? Despite his bouncing, full-bodied facial hair and loyal crew, he’s considered something of a laughing stock amongst the popular pirate clique (Salma Hayek, Lenny Henry, »
David Gilmour sings 'Wish You Were Here' for Douglas Adams 60th: video
12 March 2012 2:16 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Procol Harum's Gary Brooker were among the members of an all-star band who performed in celebration of Douglas Adams's birthday last night (March 11) in London. The musicians, who were long-standing friends of Adams's, headlined the "virtual 60th birthday" of the late Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author at the Hammersmith Apollo. Other members of the band, who were introduced by Richard Curtis, included guitarist Robbie McIntosh, percussionist Jodi Linscott, synth player Paul 'Wix' Wickens, singer Margo Buchanan, bassist Dave Bronze and Paul Beavis on drums. McIntosh opened the set before being joined by the rest of the band in stages. Gilmour joined the band and sung Pink Floyd hit 'Wish You Were Here'. He also played lead guitar (more) »
- By Mayer Nissim
David Gilmour, Gary Brooker all-star band celebrate Douglas Adams 60th
12 March 2012 2:16 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Procol Harum's Gary Brooker were among the members of an all-star band who performed in celebration of Douglas Adams's birthday last night (March 11) in London. The musicians, who were long-standing friends of Adams's, headlined the "virtual 60th birthday" of the late Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author at the Hammersmith Apollo. Other members of the band, who were introduced by Richard Curtis, included guitarist Robbie McIntosh, percussionist Jodi Linscott, synth player Paul 'Wix' Wickens, singer Margo Buchanan, bassist Dave Bronze and Paul Beavis on drums. McIntosh opened the set before being joined by the rest of the band in stages. Gilmour joined the band and sung Pink Floyd hit 'Wish You Were Here'. He also played lead guitar (more) »
- By Mayer Nissim
TV Review: Dirk Gently Series 1.1
6 March 2012 1:57 PM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Douglas Adam’s created The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, one of most beloved sci-fi series of books ever created. A TV series was made back in the 80′s and a big budget movie (which missed the mark) finally saw the light of day in 2006. The TV series aside, no adaptation of Adam’s work has been greeted with praise from the fan boys.
You see, the fans of his work are very protective of the late author’s creations and finding the ‘Adams’ tone is often a near impossible task.
One of Adams’ other creations, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is certainly less mainstream and, like much of his work, has been deemed un-filmable. Harry Enfield voiced Dirk in a couple of fantastic BBC radio adventures, but a TV or film adaptation seemed unlikely. Sadly only two books were published, Douglas Adams died »
- Chris Suffield
TV review: Dirk Gently; Empire
5 March 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The more you think about it, the less sense Dirk Gently's chaos theory makes
'I think my husband's having an affair," said Dirk Gently's first client of the day. "Boring," the private detective replied. How refreshing, when everyone else is yielding to economic imperatives, that one man is taking a stand for the intrinsic interest of their work over its earning potential.
Seconds later, Gently took the case. Principles don't pay the rent. In episode one, he was living on a diet of extra-strong mints he'd stolen from a corpse and driving an Austin Princess, the go-to motor to suggest your hero is broke, effete and zanier than Zooey Deschanel, if less utterly irritating. He hadn't paid secretary Janice for ages. "Show him in," he said when the next client arrived. "You show him in!" Janice snarled from the front office. Why she shows up for work at »
- Stuart Jeffries
TV highlights 05/03/2012
4 March 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Riots And Revolutions: My Arab Journey | Whitechapel | Dirk Gently | Storyville: Knuckle – Bare Fist Fighting | Out On A Limo | Keith Allen Meets Nick Griffin
Riots And Revolutions: My Arab Journey
9pm, BBC3
Postwar China premier Zhou Enlai's – possibly apocryphal – assessment of the effects of the French revolution ("It's too soon to say") seems exponentially more applicable to the upheavals that began roughly this time last year in the Middle East. Nevertheless, Nel Hedayat has a go. In the first of a two-part survey of the Arab spring, she visits Bahrain and Egypt. In the former, she meets the people maintaining their struggle for democracy, and in the latter, young women celebrating the overthrow of the tyranny that oppressed them and, er, advocating the imposition of Sharia law. Andrew Mueller
Whitechapel
9pm, ITV1
The final episode sees Chandler and Miles at loggerheads over an investigation of the serial murder of victims »
- Andrew Mueller, David Stubbs, Jonathan Wright, Ben Arnold, Martin Skegg, Julia Raeside
Misfits creator Howard Overman: Dirk Gently is another 'comic take on genre'
2 March 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
There's a fourth series of Misfits coming, and a Us pilot created with Josh Schwartz. But first comes an adaptation of Douglas Adams's 'holistic detective' tales
"Gee, Howard – this bit where it says, 'He pisses on her tits' – can we smooth that?" "Oh sure, how about if he says, 'I'm going to eat jelly off her tits'? They fucking loved it!"
It's not until Howard Overman starts laughing about toning down some of the "coarser, rougher edges" of Misfits for the Us version that it's possible to reconcile the wild and often filthy streams of consciousness he's written for his asbo superheroes with the polite chap sitting in a Hove pub drinking grapefruit and soda.
Over three series of Misfits, he's hit on a rich seam of youth culture: putting characters who are "going out, getting laid, doing what people in their 20s do" into outlandish situations – but then »
- Richard Vine
This week's cultural highlights: Simple Minds and Bingo
20 February 2012 1:53 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
Bingo
Patrick Stewart stars as the ageing Shakespeare in Edward Bond's play in which the playwright, now a rich landowner, is facing pressure from local Stratford people. Young Vic, London SE1 (020-7922 2922), until March 31.
An Appointment with the Wicker Man
National Theatre Scotland take on the cult 1970s movie with a play within a play about an amateur dramatic society on a remote Scottish island who are putting the play on stage. But when one of their actors falls ill, a replacement is called in from the mainland. His Majesties, Aberdeen (01224 641122), Tuesday to Saturday, then touring until 24 March.
Film
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (dir. Stephen Daldry)
Oscar-nominated drama, based on the Jonathan Safran Foer novel. »
5 Doctor Who Stories That Make You Lol!
18 February 2012 11:38 PM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Don’t be fooled by the fans. Doctor Who is not a sacred text. There is nothing wrong with watching our favourite Timelord with a healthy sense of fun, frivolity and irony. Tease, mock and make with the funny!
Even myself as a seasoned fan since the Pertwee era have had more fun exploring the show this way. I have also had a much better conversion rate for finding new fans jump on board the property this way. It’s a balancing act. You need something visually appealing (we eat with our eyes) and provide plenty of fun poking opportunities. Repeated phrases, quirky characters, outrageous costumes and more camp accents than an Are you Being Served Christmas special.
With this in mind, relax. Gather a group of witty folks, pour some wine or other dis-inhibiting substance of your choice and enjoy my Top 5 list of Who stories to watch for the LOLs. »
- James Caldwell
Win Holy Flying Circus on DVD
3 February 2012 3:47 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
In 1979, Monty Python’s Life Of Brian became one of the most controversial films ever to be released in British cinemas, causing outrage amongst religious groups, members of the public and politicians, most of whom hadn’t even seen the film. Accusing it of being blasphemous, many called for the film to be banned. Now, the brand-new, critically acclaimed comedy-drama Holy Flying Circus revisits that period and delivers a witty, entertaining and affectionate homage to the Pythons and the film that, today, has become accepted as one of the greatest comedy movies of all time.
Holy Flying Circus will be released on DVD by FremantleMedia Enterprises on 6th February 2012 and to celebrate, we have two copies to give away to our readers. Check out the synopsis, and read on for details of how to enter this competition...
Written by Oscar and BAFTA Award nominee Tony Roche (The Thick of It »
- flickeringmyth
Notes and queries: What is the best last line of a novel?
1 February 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Plus: Different ways of looking at the second world war; Sherlock and Doctor Who reach stalemate
What is the best last line of a novel?
"'Ok baby, hold tight,' said Zaphod, 'we'll take a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.'" – Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy; or "One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, 'Poo-tee-weet?'" – Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-5.
merriman
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which" – George Orwell, Animal Farm.
Jo Baker, Birmingham
The best last line of a novel does not have to be the one that brings some great classic work of fiction to a satisfactory close, but perhaps one that remains forever in the mind simply because the words seem impossible of improvement. I offer three »
Monty Python Members to Voice Aliens in Sci-Fi Comedy ‘Absolutely Anything’
26 January 2012 9:00 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
The surviving members of the Monty Python troupe -- John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin -- have very rarely appeared as Monty Python since the death of Graham Chapman in 1989. But the five actors have shown up together in various configurations in a few projects over the years. Now a new one is brewing: Absolutely Anything, a hybrid live-action/CG sci-fi farce that is planning to feature the living Pythons as "a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do "absolutely anything" to see what a mess he'll make of things." Variety reports that the film will be directed by Terry Jones, who last made The Wind in the Willows in 1996, itself a sort of minor Python reunion. (Jones also co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and directed Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.) He told the trade, »
- Russ Fischer
Traditional TV has survived the net threat, but for how much longer? | John naughton
14 January 2012 4:08 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Between internet-enabled televisions and Google's plans for YouTube, broadcasting's days may be numbered
Connoisseurs of the 1967 film, The Graduate, in which Dustin Hoffman starred as Benjamin Braddock, a bewildered 21-year-old, treasure the moment when a ponderous family friend comes up to the young man intent on imparting some advice. "I just want to say one word to you," he intones, "just one word – 'plastics'."
For the last two decades, the computing and media industries have been intoning their own version of "plastics". They call it "convergence". It's all based on the realisation that, since the 1990s, most media – print, audio, video, graphics – have been reduced to the lowest common denominator: bits, the ones and zeroes of binary arithmetic. If you examine the contents of your computer's hard drive – or your iPod's flash memory – all you will see are bits and there's no immediate way of knowing whether a particular bitstream »
- John Naughton
Burning Questions: How Does One Rank An Almost Masterpiece?
2 January 2012 12:41 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Michael C. here with a question I can't stop turning over in my mind.
After finalizing my list of the best movies of 2011 I experienced a powerful surge of cinephile guilt when I realized Joe Cornish’s fantastically goofy Attack the Block enjoyed a healthy place on the list while Malick’s The Tree of Life was nowhere to be seen. Certainly this was an unforgivable lapse of taste, if not a dereliction of my duties as a film writer. Tree of Life is about nothing less than - to borrow a phrase from Douglas Adams - life, the universe and everything. Even if I had gripes with Tree and thought it only reached its potential in fits and starts, shouldn’t laying a fingertip on such greatness guarantee it a spot? If Olympic athletes can be graded according to degree of difficulty, why not films?
The question, simply put, »
- Michael C.
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