Following on from the success of last year's live-action Hogfather mini-series, Sky One are now making a new mini-series called The Colour Of Magic, although the production is apparently based on both The Colour Of Magic and The Light Fantastic. The website is viewable here. (Note that...
I have just received the January Criterion Collection newsletter, and at the end, they include cartoon pointing to the next release. The picture shows 12 monkeys sitting around, with one monkey saying "Marker your calenders ... the sun's finally coming out!" The inclusion of 12 monkeys...
An interesting article in the NY Times says that Disney are getting back into making shorts to air with Disney's new theatrical films - and one is a new Goofy short, "How To Install Your Home Theater". For Disney, Something Old (and Short) Is New Again A few extracts:
Sounds exciting.
The Wellington-based newspaper The Dominion Post yesterday had a cover article reporting that work is progressing at Weta on the new Tintin movie, and that some filming will take place in Wellington next year. The article starts out by talking about it solely as a Weta project, not a...
Positive review from Time, which calls it the first great movie of the summer - as well as a bit of discussion about Lasseter and his new role at Disney.
I have just learned of a major problem with the r4 release of the fifth season of B5. The pre-credits sequence on the episode "The Fall Of Centauri Prime" has been omitted from the disc. I understand the episode had a "Previously on B5" introduction, which was cut from the disc. However, in...
Excellent movie. I saw it at the New Zealand Film Festival. First few minutes I really disliked the film. The digital camera was not good at all (it seemed almost as thought it was shot on consumer grade digital video) and initially it seemed like the director was going for strange arty...
Quick question for fams of the show Jeremiah... I just watched the fifth episode in season two, where we learn what happened to Jeremiah's mother. Problem is, I seem to have some memory of an episode in season one where we saw video tape of Jeremiah's parents outside Thunder Mountain...
I was talking to someone last night, and they were telling me about a movie they once saw on TV, late. It sounds like an awful movie, and much as I don't understand the appeal of watching bad movies, I'm curious about this one. Bear in mind, I never saw this film, so this information is all I...
Quick question about the packaging of the Alien Quadrilogy in region 2. In reion 4, our Quad box has the flip-book disc holders, but they are held together by what is basically a large piece of Sellotape, and as a result the disc holders are reportedly coming free very easily. Are the disc...
The AFI has announced its next 100 Years list, and it will be 100 Years, 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music In The Movies. According to this press release, ballot papers containing 400 songs have been distributed to AFI members for voting. Songs that are mentioned include * Somewhere...
For those of you who are fans of the classic British show about the Time Lord who travels through time and space in a police phone box that's bigger on the inside than the outside... With the exception of the 1996 TV movie starring Paul McGann, it has been 14 years since the Doctor was on our...
Talking about the recent event of the pizza worker who robbed a bank wearing a bomb collar, a friend mentioned he once saw a film where three people had bomb collars put on them. The bomber was targeting the bomb squad, and blew the victims up when they arrived. One of the bombs was a...
I know it wasn't a huge hit in its first season, but personally, I quite liked the new Dragnet series with Ed O'Neill. I'm several decades too young to have watched the original Dragnet shows, but I was familiar enough with the show and its format - the opening announcement ("The story you are...
I am starting to watch Babylon 5 - I have recently watched the first season, and have just acquired the second season (which was released on DVD in NZ last month). Anyway, I need some help about the Babylon 5 TV movies. I understand there were five TV movies made: The Gathering In the...
I have a question for those of you in r2 with the Babylon 5 season one discs. The episode And The Sky Full of Stars, in both r2 and r4, has a problem in that any effects shots or shots involving CG were shown at the 1.33 ratio squashed into a 1.78 ratio - so the image looked short and fat...
I was discussing with a friend the parallels between mornings and afternoon in this season of 24. In other words, something that happens in the morning parallels something that happpens 12 hours later. For example; At 9.35am Mason leaves CTU to try and escape.
At 9.35pm Mason leaves CTU for...