Archive for November, 2009
Top 5: Hollywood’s New Breed – Episode 41
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009A look at the top 5 rising stars in Hollywood and some of their new projects in 2010. Featuring the Transformers team Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox and their upcoming movies Wall Street 2 and Jonah Hex. Also in the line-up the Twilight duo Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, and Zooey Deschanel from 500 Days of Summer.
Girls and Guns: Female Action Stars – Episode 39
Saturday, November 14th, 2009A slightly unconventional episode. But it seemed a fun idea at the time. In the 50s there wasn’t a whole lot of Female Action Stars, now there’s a whole bunch. Big change.
Let us know what you think, or if we’ve missed a stitch…
Featuring Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) from Alien, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) from Terminator, Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) from Tomb Raider, Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) from the Matrix, Alice (Milla Jovovich) from Resident Evil, Selene (Kate Beckinsale) from Underworld, also a glimpse on the new action thriller SALT.
Armchair Traveller: Africa – Episode 37
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Ten minutes of escapism with a look at some great movies set in Africa. Including Out Of Africa, Hotel Rwanda, The Last King Of Scotland, Blood Diamond, No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, and the upcoming (apparently excellent) Endgame, featuring William Hurt.
(With Hotel Rwanda, we have preferred to focus, for this episode, on the story of Paul Rusesabag rather than the genocide in Rwanda, as that is the human (and inspiring) personal story that begins, and is a central thread, of this film. It is a brilliant film and strongly recommended.)
Comment: On Tyler Brule – What happened to the old video shop? – Episode 40
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Quick one here folks. But a big question: What happened to the old video shop? Or how the hell do you get films these days?
There’s a whole bunch of ways. Downloads (free or otherwise), Subscription ( You know – getting that scratched up DVD in the post), or fronting up with real cash for a piece of plastic that you’ll watch once and then it ends up taking space on a shelf until your through with it, and then where does it go then? Landfill?
Is the romance gone? What inspires you? Is there a place (online or off) that’s still got it?
Best video rentals in your neighbourhood? Video rental vs Downloads? Itunes?
Jump in. Get involved. Big up what’s great. Your Country Needs You.
Little shop of horrors and joys by Tyler Brûlé
- In a media landscape that offers limitless downloads, Tyler Brûlé remembers bundling up for a late-night walk to the neighbourhood video rental shop -
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