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I just watched Danny Boyle’s Sunshine.
The Sun is being destroyed from inside out by a type of highly stable form of matter that renders nuclear fusion impossible, by turning common matter on its own kind. The only hope is to send a team of astronauts to detonate a massive, highly energetic bomb, able to destroy this strange matter and restore Sun’s natural state.
I was particularly impressed with the performance of Chipo Chung – who was the voice of the computer Icarus
‘In space no one can hear you scream’.
I’m not surprised they make these films so bloody loud you can’t hear yourself think.
re Abigails Party – didn’t watch that dinner party one the other week, what I saw of it didn’t impress, maybe shouldn’t have used Alison Steadman and encourage comparisons. My partner provided a hostess trolly for Christmas the other year, and I must say it was brilliant but I kept saying to him that it was so Abigails Party and insisted that he took it back to his house immediately after Christmas [he didn’t know what I was ranting on about!!] also on the beach last week kept meeting this couple also dog walking and kept saying to partner omigod, it’s Nuts in May [he didn’t understand that either] maybe they were saying the same thing about us??? scarry…..mo
Nuts in May? Terrific film! "Chew thirty times, Candice-Marie!", etc.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
not keen on the X files marb, but here’s one I saw earlier tonight for the first time, on BBC1 of all places, and finally I have found a comedy that appeals to me.
‘Not Going Out’, a half hour sit com. Has anyone else watched it before? It stars someone called Lee Mack [not to be confused with our own Lee Mac..lol]. I’ve never heard of him, I think he co-writes it too. Adult humour but quite tame – lots of sexual innuendo. One for the notebook
yes, I started watching ‘Not Going Out’ last night, and wasn’t sure what I thought of it – I did laugh out loud quite a few times [only watched it when I saw that actress from the excellent ‘Hyperdrive’ was in it]. I sort of felt that it was ‘trying’ too hard to be funny and comedy should appear to be effortless [unless it’s pantomime type humour like Allo Allo]. However I think I’ll try to catch next weeks [last] episode.Started watching Skins on Channel 4 a few weeks ago and think I’ll get it on dvd; I know it’s all about teenage angst etc and, as such I’m far too old to be watching it; reminded me a bit of Teachers, which I loved and the first series of Green Wing.
‘Skins’ doesn’t appeal to me greatly, a little too grim I think, but maybe I’ll watch again. Teenage angst is not usually my thing. You just want to be young again don’t you?…
‘Not Going Out’, a half hour sit com. Has anyone else watched it before? It stars someone called Lee Mack [not to be confused with our own Lee Mac..lol]. I’ve never heard of him, I think he co-writes it too. Adult humour but quite tame – lots of sexual innuendo. One for the notebook
I’m pretty sure Lee Mack has some sort of “golden handcuffs” deal with Auntie Beeb at present, much like Graham Norton and Peter Serafinowicz. “Not Going Out” is essentially a vehicle to give him something to do (both in terms of writing and performing), after They Think It’s All Over got cancelled under his stewardship.
I don’t care for it much, but there’s far worse out there.
It’s just a shame that it’s as much mainstream telly as Tim Vine can get at present. As the modern-day Tommy Cooper, a few half-hour specials based on his pun-heavy live shows would be terrific – at least, if, like me, you’d enjoy a whole show of stuff along the lines of…
“I met my local vicar today. He told me never to eat probiotic yoghurt. Well, his actual words were, ‘don’t dabble in the Yakkult'”.
etc.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
on the subject of comedy and vicars I’ve just remembered the episode of Jam and Jerusalem with Dawn French and the potatoes…..
I am enjoying "The Tudors" at present. Sod the hystorical accuracy. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is extremely fanciable
.Also loved "Meet the Natives". I loved the bit where they were visiting "a traditional English tailors. It is called Asda"
. It warms my heart to see that there are still people who are pure in heart and spirit.“I met my local vicar today. He told me never to eat probiotic yoghurt. Well, his actual words were, ‘don’t dabble in the Yakkult'”.
etc.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)…very good
…thanks for the information about some of those involved. As they are all fresh faces to me, not being familiar with their previous work, I’m enjoying it at the moment. It helps that Mr Mack has a way about him that might appeal to some of us in other ways, notwithstanding his pot belly reetpetite,
I’ve missed all of ‘The Tudors’ apart from the beginning. It all looked as though Hollywood had got involved in it somewhere and it put me off. Is it on again this week? maybe I’ll try and catch up. Which wife is he on?I see tonight on C4 very late is ‘Stereophonics – Word Got Around’. I’ll have to tape this as Kelly Jones’s croaky voice sends me ecstatic. I don’t suppose they will but I hope they do “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, the old Roberta Flack number, as this is my favourite of theirs.
p.s. any other ladies on here who are Richard Armitage fans?? that’s RA from the BBC’s ‘North and South’ series that was on a few years ago. I watch the DVD frequently for obvious
reasons I don’t like his Robin Hood role The Princess Bride ~ one of the grates; in fact I’d go so far as to say it’s a mantlepiece.
reetpetite,
I’ve missed all of ‘The Tudors’ apart from the beginning. It all looked as though Hollywood had got involved in it somewhere and it put me off. Is it on again this week? maybe I’ll try and catch up. Which wife is he on?Yes, it’s on for 10 weeks I think. He’s still with Catherine of Aragon but currently moving in on Mary Boleyn. Ann is lurking in the background, ready to take over. Bessie Blount has had his baby and there have been other dalliances
.Just a point of interest, or not, I read somewhere that James Blunt is directly descended from Bessie Blount. His real surname is Blount.
Just a point of interest, or not, I read somewhere that James Blunt is directly descended from Bessie Blount. His real surname is Blount.
Presumably she must have copulated with the Devil himself.
watched the Tudors last night. I’m getting into it a little more.
One thing that puzzles me is that all the young men are quite attractive, despite looking as though they’ve just emerged from the barbers having had a no.1, but the young women…well…not so would you say? obviously aimed at the female audience this.I like all the scheming going on behind the scenes. Skullduggery. Must suit a racing audience I would think.
Tonight I watched ‘Armstrong and Miller’. I’ve not seen them before but this was comedy at it’s best. Oh that Gordon Ramsay gag…lol!!!!!! and the airmen
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