Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Other Peoples Stuff’ Category

Sharpe's Peril
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008There are few things that lure me to watch ITV and few things that lure me to costume drama. I missed the original Sharpe’s and only discovered them as a bright spot on day time television when I was sick a few years ago. So I’m very pleased that the latest episode Sharpe’s Peril was […]

Quantum of Solace
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008Just back from watching the new Bond film Quantum of Solace at the new Odeon in Liverpool 1. I’ll talk about the cinema tomorrow for tonight I’ll foist my opinion of the film on the rest of the world. The pre credit sequence opens up fast and hard in media res and is very effective […]

Tropic Thunder
Sunday, September 21st, 2008Went to see Tropic Thunder yesterday at FACT. Enjoyed it. I’d read a couple of reviews that said it was packed with too many in jokes but I didn’t think that was a problem. Stand out performances were Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise. Jack Black’s role didn’t seem to work too well, partly because […]

Get Smart
Monday, September 8th, 2008Its funny, its got quality slap stick and its definitly Get Smart. You want more detail? OK. Far too many TV remakes have become cynical, star vehicle exercises. Shows which wern’t comedies reduced to a series of punch lines, some "funny" period references (drugs, flared trousers, sexism, bad haircuts or whatever) and a manufactured gag […]

Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Sunday, September 7th, 2008My trip into the city centre earlier was to catch Hellboy 2. So here’s the short review – not a bad film. The action was good. The special effects were good. The acting was (you guessed it) good. It had nice character moments and it proved again that Ron Perlman should get more leading roles […]

The Dark Knight
Monday, September 1st, 2008Went to see The Dark Knight last Saturday – got back too late to want to go online and write this (very short) review. Enjoyed it. It was a bit long but I couldn’t see anywhere particularly to cut it without making it a poorer film. It also takes a brave script writer to keep […]

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Wow. How can you take a franchise as good as the resurected Mummy and pretty much destroy it in 112 minutes? Could it be the completely miss cast replacements? Maria Bello was no Rachel Weisz. Luke Ford just wasn’t interesting. Perhaps thats part of it too. I know Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Michelle Yeoh, Jet Li […]

Sleepers on BBC4
Saturday, August 9th, 2008BBC4 are repeating the brilliantly funny end of cold war satire Sleepers later today (8PM) for only the second time since it was first shown in 1991. Hopefully they’ll bring it out on DVD soon too.

Burn Up
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008So based on part I of Burn Up I think we can take it Bradley Whitford felt it was time to show he can play an American capitalist pig. Does he know something about Morgan Freeman’s availability because I thought he had those movie roles sown up… And as a fan of David Calder’s work […]

Dark Knight Trailer
Friday, July 18th, 2008For no good reason other than it being Friday but which one is the joker in the pack?