'Curb your Enthusiasm's' new series will start in two weeks and from the previews I've seen it looks like it's going to be another quality season, especially when Michael J Fox and Parkinsons jokes are on the menu. Breaking Bad is quite possibly the most anticipated returning show, especially after the amazing cliffhanger it ended on in season three, I'm absolutely drooling in anticipation to see this show again, I'm even attempting to schedule how I'm going to watch the show: do I watch it before bed, or do I save all the episodes up to gorge like a fat person on cake? Too many choices. In the mean time, enjoy this weeks batch of soup.
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| A fat person eats cake |
The Stranger
(Ugh, just ugh. Loud noises!!!) The movie adaptation of 'The Stranger' was always going to pale in comparison to the mighty book by Camus, but one can be a little hopeful with likes of Marcello Mastroianni playing Meursault and Luchino Visconti directing, that perhaps the production will at least be a worthwhile experience. What follows is a very true adaptation of the book that fails to fire in many ways. A couple of saving graces of the movie is Mastroianni's performance and Visconti's direction making the heat another almost tactile character in the movie, but overall the movie ends up being a rather dull, paint by numbers affair that leaves one asking the great philosophical questions of why, in a rather superficial way, like why did they bother? D- (The book however gets an A++)
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| Marcello Mastroianni as Meursault |
Tucker and Dale Vs Evil
A hilarious slapstick slash horror film which turns the horror genre on its head, subverts, satirises and lambastes the horror stereotypes with incredible accuracy and precision. Think 'Shaun of The Dead' with hillbillies, then add a pinch of 'Cabin Fever' and some schlock gore and you have the makings of a classic comedy. A-
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| Tucker and Dale vs Evil |
Falling Skies
Pointless, mediocre, haphazard, sentimental, un-realistic, boring, and trite are just a few words I would use to describe this convoluted power-wank piece of sci-fi faggery - it's a word, at least it is now. The plot line for this new TV series is, aliens have taken over the world and the survivors struggle to fight back: expect melodramatic, cheesy, sentimental father son conversations - and expect to lose the will to live if you manage to sit through a whole episode. F
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| Noah Wyle plays a father in Falling Skies (Quite possibly the worst show I've ever seen) |
The Pink Panther
Peter Sellers is still a comedic god and it's hard to find anyone that gets anywhere near close to matching his slapstick, character acting. The amazing thing about this series is the fact you're completely aware something funny is going to happen, but you can never imagine just how inventive it will be, nor just how big the laughs will be. A- (I'm taking a point off because of Claudia Cardinale's weak drunk acting.)
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| Peter Sellers as Inspector Closeau |
The Mouse That Roared
I could double down on Sellers praise but I'd rather say, that only Dr Strangelove beats this movie at being the best satire ever made. A
That's all for now, next week expect more Visconti, maybe some more Sellers, and maybe even some De Palma.
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