Entries Tagged as 'TV'
A Stanley Kubrick season starts this month on UK TV channel More4, with a series of his films screening between the 15th and 25th of July.
Channel 4 Creative Services have created this excellent TV spot to promote the season, which is a one shot recreation of The Shining set, shot from Kubrick’s point of view:
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Tags: Interesting · TV
A new interview series hosted by Elvis Mitchell is about to start airing on TCM in the US.
It is called Under the Influence and features Mitchell speaking to various luminaries from the film world about how classic film has influenced their lives.
Most notably it features the last interview Sydney Pollack gave before his untimely death [...]
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Tags: Interesting · News · TV
Hancock is the new film starring Will Smith as a depressed, drunken superhero who is loathed by a public that finds him a dangerous nuisance.
Jason Bateman plays a Ray Embrey, a PR man who decides to help Hancock rehabilitate his image after he is saved by him whilst Charlize Theron plays Ray’s sceptical wife, Mary.
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Tags: Cinema · Interviews · TV
Live TV can be very funny, especially when someone does something they shouldn’t.
Joan Rivers was recently on Loose Women (for US readers, it is essentially the UK version of The View) and she clearly didn’t realise it was a live show when she gave her thoughts on Russell Crowe:
ITV bosses issued the predictably stern press [...]
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Tags: Amusing · TV · Viral Video
Have you ever laughed or sighed when a film on TV has a ridiculous piece of editing to replace ‘offensive’ language?
This Basic Instinct video that compares the original film with the badly dubbed version altered for sensitive TV audiences.
Check out the differences between Scarface and the US TV cut (”this town is like one big [...]
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