October 2012

Doctor Who Series 7 P.S.

/ / TV News 
  • Title: Doctor Who – The Angels Take Manhattan
  • tv.com: link

A final scene was storyboarded for Doctor Who‘s mid-season finale “The Angels Take Manhattan” in which Rory (Arthur Darvill) offered a final goodbye to his father (Mark Williams). Although the scene was never shot, Darvill did record the narration and the good folks at the BBC have put it together with the storyboards to give us a look at what the final scene would have looked like.

Doctor Who Series 7 P.S. Read More »

Searching for Sugar Man

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: Searching for Sugar Man
  • IMDB: link

searching-for-sugar-man-posterOdds are you’ve never heard of Rodriguez, a Detroit folk singer who failed to register a single blip on the American music scene. After releasing two low-selling albums in the early 1970’s the musician disappeared into obscurity by the end of the decade. But that’s only the beginning of the story.

As Rodriguez returned home to work construction and raise a family in Detroit, on the other side of the world his music was making an impact a decade later. In South Africa, Rodriguez’s songs struck a chord with a nation revolting against decades of Apartheid. As he worked minimum wage jobs at home, Rodriguez was becoming a superstar half a world away.

Searching for Sugar Man documents the search begun by two South African fans that led to the kind of heartwarming tale you usually can only find in the movies. Searching for more information about a singer more beloved in their country than Elvis Presley, Stephen “Sugar” Segerman and Craig Strydom began to track down the truth of the musician’s fate among several different rumors of his death.

…

Searching for Sugar ManRead More »

Searching for Sugar Man Read More »

Argo

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: Argo
  • IMDb: link

argo-movie-posterSome stories are so unbelievable they must be true. This was the case with Charlie Wilson’s War, one of my favorite films of 2007, which examined the absurd series of events that led a relatively unknown Congressman from Texas to lead the charge to bring down the Soviet Union.

Argo, the latest from director Ben Affleck who also stars in the adaptation of CIA Agent Tony Mendez‘s account of what became known as the “Canadian Caper” involving the extraction of six American diplomats from Iran during the Iran Hostage Crisis, is a similarly astonishing, and certainly well told, tale that’s so crazy it must be true.

Affleck stars as Mendez, a CIA extraction expert who comes up with a plan to safely smuggle out six Americans who escaped the seizure of the American Embassy in Iran on November 4, 1979. His idea is to pose as a film producer scouting locations for a new sci-fi movie in Iran and to pass off the six diplomats (Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Christopher Denham, Scoot McNairy, Kerry Bishé, Joe Stafford) as other members of the movie project.

…

ArgoRead More »

Argo Read More »

Miniatures. Bond Miniatures.

/ / Toys & Collectibles

$60 is a high price tag for basically eight Hot Wheels, but you’ve got to admit this James Bond 007 Miniature Vehicles Set is pretty damn cool. The set, which comes in a film can, includes the Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger, the BMW Z3 from GoldenEye, the Aston Martin DBS from Casino Royale, the Little Nellie from You Only Live Twice, the Jaguar XKR from Die Another Day, the Rolls Royce III from Goldfinger, the Space Shuttle from Moonraker, and the (supremely awesome) Lotus Esprit Underwater from The Spy Who Loved Me.

[via Likecool]

Miniatures. Bond Miniatures. Read More »

Arrow – Pilot

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Green Arrow – Pilot
  • tv.com: link

Arrow

Green Arrow gets Smallville‘d. The new hour-long drama for the CW casts as Stephen Amell as billionaire Oliver Queen who, as the “Pilot” episode opens, is rescued from a deserted island in the North China Sea after five years in isolation. Queen returns to his mother (Susanna Thompson) and sister (Willa Holland) in Starling City but finds himself haunted by the past and the boating accident which took the lives of his father (Jamey Sheridan), his latest conquest (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and five crew members.

…

Arrow – PilotRead More »

Arrow – Pilot Read More »