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Post by MS on Nov 20, 2010 17:36:07 GMT -5
Finished the fourth season of Burn Notice mere hours before I finished the fourth season of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Last night Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movie on ABC2, Dressed to Kill has something in common with the recently screened in the UK Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith as they both had corresponding letters to the alphabet (ie A,B,C and so on = 1, 2, 3 and so on) being a vital plot point to the story,
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Post by MS on Nov 21, 2010 18:51:02 GMT -5
In Nick Dent's review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 featuring Bill Nighy in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph he gave it three and a half stars with the verdict of "One of Harry's most spellbinding adventures" and says that it sets the scene for the concluding film's catastrophic climax in grand style.
From DoctorWhoNews.com: Karen Gillan has found another way to time travel as she has been cast as a time travelling Juliet in a new comedy version of the Romeo and Juliet story.
She will play Brittney in the upcoming new film Romeo and Brittney about a high school teenager from New Jersey who finds herself travelling back in time to 13th century Verona. Interestingly cast as in the dual role as Brittney’s mother and Nurse is fellow redhead and someone who has not appear in Doctor Who, X-Files star Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully being Amy Pond’s mother is a sight to take in). Romeo will be played by Robert Sheehan.
Shooting for Romeo and Juliet begins in May 2011.
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Post by MS on Nov 23, 2010 19:01:46 GMT -5
In the Out of the Unknown episode The Little Black Bag John Woodnutt played a physician who looked at an x-ray that revealed a medical impossibilty. This Out of the Unknown episode was originally broadcast on February 25 1969 . Almost a year later in January 1970 John Woodnutt made his first appearance in Doctor Who in Jon Pertwee's debut story Spearhead from Space and that too had at least one x-ray that revealed a medical impossibility since it was an x-ray of the Doctor. However John Woodnutt did not play a physician in Spearhead from Space which therefore meant he did not see the x-ray in the Doctor Who serial like he did in the Out of the Unknown episode.
On 7TWO saw Red Dragon in which Hannibal Lecter served to his guests without their knowledge human organs. People eating people is something that is featured in Revelation of the Daleks which I am currently seeing on DVD.
Parenthood: I'm Cooler Than You Think, third episode of the second season of the new series featured briefly a poster of Richard Curtis' Love Actually.
Edge of Darkness: In the Shadows the second episode, John Woodvine and Charles Kay are joined in this episode by two Macs, Tim McInnerny and Ian McNeice.
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Post by MS on Nov 25, 2010 19:14:10 GMT -5
On Go!, saw the penultimate episode of Human Target season1, Victoria and it guest starred as the episode title character former Hex lead actor and one time Doctor Who guest star Christina Cole. Human Target is not exactly a place that one would expect to find anyone at all who had appeared in Doctor Who. In contrast the first season of Human Target had guest starred some familiar faces of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica and in this episode some familiar faces from Stargate. Human Target is a James Bond like series and Christina had a small role in the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006). So while Human Target is not James Bond in itself it did finally provide Christina a chance to have a substantial role in a James Bond like adventure as the Bond type girl. , Victoria, the character that Christina plays is the fictional Princess of Wales, the heir to the British throne. Even though she was not portrayed by her, Christina’s Doctor Who episode The Shakespeare Code did feature a brief portrayal of a real life royal that of Elizabeth I. Another thing is that The Shakespeare Code was the second episode of Doctor Who season 33 in 2007 and the episode for this exact same spot for the previous season was Tooth and Claw which not only had another royal but one called Victoria, Queen Victoria that is.
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Post by MS on Nov 25, 2010 19:34:33 GMT -5
In Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970) Geoffrey Palmer had appeared as civil servant Masters. He would again played a civil servant some thirteen later in 1983 in The Professionals episode The Ojuka Situation.
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Post by MS on Nov 27, 2010 1:35:56 GMT -5
In FILMINK 8.43 Benedict Cumberbatch was interviewed about Sherlock. He said that playing Sherlock Holmes was not a long term ambition. However he completely felt in love with the script for Sherlock as he thought it was work of genius. He says that it was "so funny and fast, and it makes so much sense in terms of how they're reinvigorated it and put it in a modern context." Interviewer Mark Pilkington says to forget about Guy Ritchie/Robert Downey Jr version of Sherlock Holmes as Cumberbatch will be the new face of Sherlock Holmes.
Also in this issue of Filmink are reviews of the following movies: Cemetry Junction co-written by Ricky Gervais and starring Christian Cooke. 3 and a half stars.
Glorious 39 with Bill Nighy and Julie Christie. 2 and a half stars.
Pinochet in Suburbia starring Derek Jacobi as former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, Michael Maloney as British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Peter Capaldi. 3 stars.
Poppy Shakespeare with Anna Maxwell Martin. 3 stars.
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Post by MS on Nov 28, 2010 5:45:58 GMT -5
Lucy Clark in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph reviewed Dawmn French's new novel A Tiny Bit Marvelous. Calrk says that French with this new novel emphasises the important everyday things about family life, makes some salient and sentimental observations and raises some excellent laughs along the way."
Finished on FOX8 the short lived (so far) series Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire featuring Matt Lucas. The series is quite terrible but despite the bad reception that this series has got the BBC retracted claims that it has been cancelled.
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Post by MS on Nov 29, 2010 20:15:08 GMT -5
The Knight Rider episode Knight In Retreat featured a villain with a hand held device which produces electricity sparks pretty much like Davros doing the same thing but from his finger as first seen in Revelation of the Daleks (which I am currently seeing on DVD from the Davros Collection). In fact the Knight Rider episode was originally shown on March 29 1985 a day before Davros’ electricity ability was revealed in the concluding episode of Revelation of the Daleks on March 30. The hand held device in the Knight Rider episode looks like a sonic screwdriver and this was a time when the Doctor had to make do without one between The Visitation (1982) and the 1996 TV movie.
Watchmen: Motion Comic makes its Australian TV debut on Go!, on Sunday December 5 11pm. This is the animated series adaptation of the graphic novel illustrated by Dave Gibbons.
Warehouse 13 season 2 makes its Australian TV debut on Sci Fi on Friday January 7 8:30pm.
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Post by MS on Nov 30, 2010 14:37:23 GMT -5
Edge of Darkness: Burden of Proof featured Ian McNeice, Charles Kay, Hugh Fraser, John Woodvine and Zoe Wanamaker and Tim McInnerny.
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Post by MS on Dec 3, 2010 21:01:39 GMT -5
Identity: Somewhere They Can't Find Me, the penultimate episode guest starred Sally Faulkner.
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Post by MS on Dec 3, 2010 21:27:52 GMT -5
A couple of days ago saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 which featured Harry Melling, Helen McCrory, Michael Gambon and Bill Nighy.
Got to see Michael Gambon in this movie ahead of a certain new version of A Christmas Carol.
Very very good as a chase movie and provides an excellent momentum for the concluding film.
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Post by MS on Dec 7, 2010 23:03:31 GMT -5
Primeval season 4 will make its world debut in the UK on New Year's Day 2011.
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Post by MS on Dec 9, 2010 21:16:09 GMT -5
Glorious 39 with Bill Nighy and Julie Christie. 2 and a half stars. Found out that David Tennant is also in Glorious 39. In his review of Voyage of the Dawn Treader (similar in name to the 2007 Doctor Who Christmas Special) featuring the voice of Simon Pegg, the Sydney Sunday Telegraph's Nick Dent gave it three stars with the verdict of "A fantasy island cruise for the whole family." For Watchmen: The Motion Comic is not only credited as illustrator of the graphic novel but also consultant for the animated series. Lennon Naked: Chris Eccleston is very convincing as John Lennon even channelling his voice and Naoko Mori was quite good as Yoko Ono. Chris and Naoko had worked together before in the Doctor Who episode Aliens of London but that only made up a tiny part of that episode. With Lennon Naked as they both have a lot of scenes together it shows how well they worked with each other. Playing Brian Epstein was Rory Kinnear. He has appeared in Doctor Who for the Big Finish audio Industrial Evolution but has worked with Chris Eccleston before outside of Doctor Who in 2003 in the drama The Second Coming by future Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies. The casting of a Doctor actor in Chris Eccleston as one of the Beatles John Lennon is sort of full circle to the fact that the real Beatles had made a cameo (albeit in a film clip) in Doctor Who in the 1965 Dalek story The Chase. Australian broadcasting coincidence - During the last half hour of Lennon Naked on ABC1, Nine was showing the new TV series Chase which is almost the same name of the aforementioned Doctor Who Dalek story.
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Post by MS on Dec 10, 2010 23:03:08 GMT -5
The cast for The Edge of Darkness: Breakthrough Who-wise is basically the same from the previous episode but minus Tim McInnerny.
Saw the final episode of Identity and it has been quite an interesting series. Coincidentally finished listened to part 1 of the Big Finish Sixth Doctor story the similarly named I.D.
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Post by MS on Dec 11, 2010 19:41:32 GMT -5
Recently saw The Monocled Mutineer, a four part BBC 1986 serial starring Paul McGann as the title character Percy Toplis.
Also in The Monocled Mutineer were Ron Donachie, Timothy West, Penelope Wilton, Phillip McGough and Noel Coleman.
Timothy West was later reunited with Paul McGann in Doctor Who for the Big Finish audio episode Phobos.
Penelope Wilton actually does not have any scenes with Paul McGann but since she would later appear in Doctor Who alongside Chris Eccleston and David Tennant means she has been in the same production that also featured at least three Doctor actors.
Noel Coleman plays a senior figure of the establishment that was on the pursuit to bring Percy Toplis (McGann) to justice. In Doctor Who itself Coleman got to prosecute the Doctor when he played General Smythe in the Patrick Troughton swansong The War Games.
Paul McGann’s lover in The Monocled Mutineer was played Cheri Lunghi. Although she has not yet appeared in Doctor Who she has however played Billie Piper’s boss in Secret Diary of a Call Girl and I only just finished the third season of that show quite recently on GEM.
Incidentally the second episode of The Monocled Mutineer included a quote from Macbeth of "sound and fury signifying nothing". This quote from Macbeth was also used in one of Paul McGann's Doctor Who stories from Big Finish, the penultimate story of season 28 The Time of the Daleks.
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