I know I posted just five seconds ago, but I have some news for any Terry Pratchett fans out there. Going Postal is being made into a miniseries. I enjoyed both Hogfather and Color of Magic series and now I'm excited for the Going Postal film.
This may, aired in the UK, Going postal will be a 4 four mini series. If you haven't read the book, I suggest you do so, it is one of my favorites.
A con artist, Moist Von Lipwig is forced to become the new Post Master of a Post office system that doesn't work. He is tasked with opening up the Post Office again as another means of shipment than the expensive Clacks system.
Trailer:
I was a little disappointed for the fact that it looks like he isn't going to have a golden suit for the persona of the Post Master, but he does have a gold vest. The actor planing Moist Von Lipwig is played by Richard Coyle (Coupling).
Friday, April 23, 2010
Don't Blink!
I can't recap Bones, Fringe, or Supernatural because I haven't seen it yet. This week has been crazy. Anyway, here is some news.
Castle:
Last Monday's Castle dealt with a robbery in a bank. Only a safe deposit box was opened and then one of the thiefs turns up dead. That's why Homicide is working with Detective Tom Demming who works on thefts. The murder investigation leads to a dead cop who was thought to have been a dirty cop. He was also Esposito's old partner. Esposito's old partner was framed by another dirty cop on a mob boss' books. The ledger was supposed to be in the safe deposit box, but wasn't. A full-in-depth recap is available here. What I really wanted to discuss was that there was definately some chemistry between Beckett and Demming. Demming even asks Castle if was anything between Castle and Beckett. Castle says no, but after seeing Beckett and Demming together, he realizes that he actually does like Beckett. We'll see how this progresses, but not next week. Next Monday's episode is a repeat.
Doctor Who:
The angels from "Blink" are back in episodes 4&5 (yes it's a two part episode). It looks like its going to be scary. The Doctor also gets some lessons on how to properly fly the TARDIS:
The Phantom:
Syfy has created a tv show about the Phantom. It's a complete reboot and modernization of the story. I believe it was originally a comic that was turned into a really cheezy art deco movie (with Billy Zane and Catherine Zeta-Jones). Now it will be a tv series. The four hour premier starts Sunday, June 20th at 7pm. Here is the trailer:
My favorite part is when he rejects the old, skin-tight costume. Thank goodness they updated the costume as well.
Green Lantern:
There are some new pics up online here.
Star Trek:
"Zoe Saldana — who, it must be stressed, still knows just as much as the rest of us about what happens in the sequel — says she thinks that the destruction of Vulcan will complicate things for Uhura's romance with Spock. Can Spock mate with a human, when he only goes into pon farr every seven years? Should he be trying to mate with pure Vulcans instead, to perpetuate the species? (Spock, obviously, being half-human already.) These are questions that'll have to be considered." [io9 spoiler][MTV] I just hope that it comes out soon. I really liked the first movie and usually they jump on the sequel right away.
Castle:
Last Monday's Castle dealt with a robbery in a bank. Only a safe deposit box was opened and then one of the thiefs turns up dead. That's why Homicide is working with Detective Tom Demming who works on thefts. The murder investigation leads to a dead cop who was thought to have been a dirty cop. He was also Esposito's old partner. Esposito's old partner was framed by another dirty cop on a mob boss' books. The ledger was supposed to be in the safe deposit box, but wasn't. A full-in-depth recap is available here. What I really wanted to discuss was that there was definately some chemistry between Beckett and Demming. Demming even asks Castle if was anything between Castle and Beckett. Castle says no, but after seeing Beckett and Demming together, he realizes that he actually does like Beckett. We'll see how this progresses, but not next week. Next Monday's episode is a repeat.
Doctor Who:
The angels from "Blink" are back in episodes 4&5 (yes it's a two part episode). It looks like its going to be scary. The Doctor also gets some lessons on how to properly fly the TARDIS:
The Phantom:
Syfy has created a tv show about the Phantom. It's a complete reboot and modernization of the story. I believe it was originally a comic that was turned into a really cheezy art deco movie (with Billy Zane and Catherine Zeta-Jones). Now it will be a tv series. The four hour premier starts Sunday, June 20th at 7pm. Here is the trailer:
My favorite part is when he rejects the old, skin-tight costume. Thank goodness they updated the costume as well.
Green Lantern:
There are some new pics up online here.
Star Trek:
"Zoe Saldana — who, it must be stressed, still knows just as much as the rest of us about what happens in the sequel — says she thinks that the destruction of Vulcan will complicate things for Uhura's romance with Spock. Can Spock mate with a human, when he only goes into pon farr every seven years? Should he be trying to mate with pure Vulcans instead, to perpetuate the species? (Spock, obviously, being half-human already.) These are questions that'll have to be considered." [io9 spoiler][MTV] I just hope that it comes out soon. I really liked the first movie and usually they jump on the sequel right away.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Doctor!!
Bones:
I meant to talk about it on Friday, but I never got around to it. It's been a crazy weekend. Anyway, last week's episode, Wendell finds out about the pregnancy scare. And Angela realizes that, yes, Wendell would "do the right thing" but it would be more of a duty, where as Hoddgins was "her guy". He would volunteer, even if it wasn't his kid. Angela's relationships are really wacky. She breaks up with people for some of the silliest reasons, but in this case I'm all for it. It looks like Hoddgins and Angela might get back together... I hope so. At least there would would be one constant inter-work relationship. Especially since Booth is "moving on." I gotta admit, sometimes Brennan does piss me off. Booth and the rest of the "squints" smooth her out, so if the writers don't want to mess with the Booth-Brennan relationship, great.
Doctor Who:
Episode three of the show aired Saturday in the UK (or here). And episode one aired on BBCAmerica on Saturday. I don't want to ruin it for people who haven't seen it yet, but just to note: less death, and the Daleks are making a comeback so there will be a splash of dark again. But hopefully not too much dark. Those hopes were dashed a bit when I found out this afternoon that Russel T. Davis will be writing a few episodes. I'm a bit worried about that, I don't like all the death and despair that series 4 had.
Season Review: Human Target
Well, apparently, last week's episode was the season finally. NO Like! I'm worried it's not going to get picked up for a second season. It was a good show, but it was cheezy. It was definitely lacking something. It's like it was filmed a couple years ago. Even the stunts seemed to show their age. The motorcycle stunt scene in the episode where he infiltrates an embassy, was totally fake. There was also another scene where the CGI was completely obvious. Yeah, my comments thus far haven't been that favorable, but even though it was predictable and a little too easy to follow, it was still a good show. It was a simple action show. We haven't had one in a while (and no, I'm not counting 24 in this category). Speaking of which, 24 got the axe, that doesn't bode well for Human Target... and I want to know what happened with Winston. Who knows, though, I could be wrong. Sanctuary got a second season.
Riverworld:
Sunday night Syfy aired a four hour movie, Riverworld. I still don't know if I like it. It's explanation for why everyone speaks English is dumb. It would have been easier if they just said, everyone can understand everyone, not everyone's brains are hard-wired for English. Also, the good guy, the story's hero, didn't actually accomplish anything. And he admitted it. The observers were just useless, using people as pawns. Oh, and even better, the movie ended on a cliff hanger. The ending was left wide open. I don't think It'll get picked up for a tv show. We'll see.
I meant to talk about it on Friday, but I never got around to it. It's been a crazy weekend. Anyway, last week's episode, Wendell finds out about the pregnancy scare. And Angela realizes that, yes, Wendell would "do the right thing" but it would be more of a duty, where as Hoddgins was "her guy". He would volunteer, even if it wasn't his kid. Angela's relationships are really wacky. She breaks up with people for some of the silliest reasons, but in this case I'm all for it. It looks like Hoddgins and Angela might get back together... I hope so. At least there would would be one constant inter-work relationship. Especially since Booth is "moving on." I gotta admit, sometimes Brennan does piss me off. Booth and the rest of the "squints" smooth her out, so if the writers don't want to mess with the Booth-Brennan relationship, great.
Doctor Who:
Episode three of the show aired Saturday in the UK (or here). And episode one aired on BBCAmerica on Saturday. I don't want to ruin it for people who haven't seen it yet, but just to note: less death, and the Daleks are making a comeback so there will be a splash of dark again. But hopefully not too much dark. Those hopes were dashed a bit when I found out this afternoon that Russel T. Davis will be writing a few episodes. I'm a bit worried about that, I don't like all the death and despair that series 4 had.
Season Review: Human Target
Well, apparently, last week's episode was the season finally. NO Like! I'm worried it's not going to get picked up for a second season. It was a good show, but it was cheezy. It was definitely lacking something. It's like it was filmed a couple years ago. Even the stunts seemed to show their age. The motorcycle stunt scene in the episode where he infiltrates an embassy, was totally fake. There was also another scene where the CGI was completely obvious. Yeah, my comments thus far haven't been that favorable, but even though it was predictable and a little too easy to follow, it was still a good show. It was a simple action show. We haven't had one in a while (and no, I'm not counting 24 in this category). Speaking of which, 24 got the axe, that doesn't bode well for Human Target... and I want to know what happened with Winston. Who knows, though, I could be wrong. Sanctuary got a second season.
Riverworld:
Sunday night Syfy aired a four hour movie, Riverworld. I still don't know if I like it. It's explanation for why everyone speaks English is dumb. It would have been easier if they just said, everyone can understand everyone, not everyone's brains are hard-wired for English. Also, the good guy, the story's hero, didn't actually accomplish anything. And he admitted it. The observers were just useless, using people as pawns. Oh, and even better, the movie ended on a cliff hanger. The ending was left wide open. I don't think It'll get picked up for a tv show. We'll see.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Human Target This!
Resident Evil Afterlife:
So, there IS a trailer. Silly me. It looks quite good. We get a glimpse at twice the Alice action (she does have a crap ton of clones) and Clair has some really cool fight sequences too.
Looks like the movie will be in 3D. Don't really care about that, but the movie looks cool.
Avengers:
Joss Whedon will be directing the movie. Kinda excited. I loved the Firefly series and of course Dr. Horrible's Sing along Blog, but I wasn't a fan of Dollhouse or Buffy. To be fair, I don't know how much he actually got to direct. Yes, he created all these great series, but how much did he direct? Having his flair may be a good thing to the comic book to movie world. There is much debate about that, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Iron Man 2:
Oliva Munn (Attack of the Show) has a cameo in Iron Man 2. She had to go back in for reshoots as an entirely different character. Rumor is she will play Janet Van Dyne aka the Wasp. We'll find out May 7th.
Human Target Recap:
We finally are getting the hole picture... well almost. The whole season they have been blatantly hinting that he wasn't always the good guy and that he changed his life over a girl. Well we saw that in last nights episode. We see his former boss, we see the girl, Catherine, we also see Lassie... jk. The actor who plays the bad guy plays Carlton Lassiter in Psych. I'm forever going to think of him as Lassie just like I think the guy who plays Neal Caffery in White Collar is Brice Larkin (Chuck). Although in fairness he is starting to become Neal to me now.
Anyway, last night we saw Catherin and we also see the boat she was on explode. I'm not convinced she's dead though. I smell a return. Winston hid the book, he may have hid the girl away. I guess we'll find out next week when they try to get Winston back. Oh and last, but not least, we also find out the origin of Christopher Chance. Yeup, Can't wait for next week's episode.
Spider-man:
So this movie has made lots of news. Spiderman 4 has been cancelled and now they are thinking of doing a reboot of the first movie. Really? Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The lightning Thief) was rumored to play Peter Parker. That has been proven false. Now Josh Hutcherson (Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant) is in the running. We'll see.
BioShock Movie:
I heard rumors a while ago, before the second game came out, that there was a movie in the works. The movie has been cancelled. I'm kinda glad. I think the movie would be a bad idea, especially since Hollywood doesn't seem to like the idea of using the game's script or using the original game's writing staff. If the video game companies started to produce their own movies, I bet movies based of video games would be good. I don't think I've seen a single movie based on a video game that was actually good. The reverse is the same of course. Why is that?
I guess that's it for now. I'll recap Bones tomorrow a bit. I want to discuss some work-relationship stuff, but I don't want to ruin it for people who haven't seen it yet. I may also discuss Supernatural. Peace!
So, there IS a trailer. Silly me. It looks quite good. We get a glimpse at twice the Alice action (she does have a crap ton of clones) and Clair has some really cool fight sequences too.
Looks like the movie will be in 3D. Don't really care about that, but the movie looks cool.
Avengers:
Joss Whedon will be directing the movie. Kinda excited. I loved the Firefly series and of course Dr. Horrible's Sing along Blog, but I wasn't a fan of Dollhouse or Buffy. To be fair, I don't know how much he actually got to direct. Yes, he created all these great series, but how much did he direct? Having his flair may be a good thing to the comic book to movie world. There is much debate about that, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Iron Man 2:
Oliva Munn (Attack of the Show) has a cameo in Iron Man 2. She had to go back in for reshoots as an entirely different character. Rumor is she will play Janet Van Dyne aka the Wasp. We'll find out May 7th.
Human Target Recap:
We finally are getting the hole picture... well almost. The whole season they have been blatantly hinting that he wasn't always the good guy and that he changed his life over a girl. Well we saw that in last nights episode. We see his former boss, we see the girl, Catherine, we also see Lassie... jk. The actor who plays the bad guy plays Carlton Lassiter in Psych. I'm forever going to think of him as Lassie just like I think the guy who plays Neal Caffery in White Collar is Brice Larkin (Chuck). Although in fairness he is starting to become Neal to me now.
Anyway, last night we saw Catherin and we also see the boat she was on explode. I'm not convinced she's dead though. I smell a return. Winston hid the book, he may have hid the girl away. I guess we'll find out next week when they try to get Winston back. Oh and last, but not least, we also find out the origin of Christopher Chance. Yeup, Can't wait for next week's episode.
Spider-man:
So this movie has made lots of news. Spiderman 4 has been cancelled and now they are thinking of doing a reboot of the first movie. Really? Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The lightning Thief) was rumored to play Peter Parker. That has been proven false. Now Josh Hutcherson (Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant) is in the running. We'll see.
BioShock Movie:
I heard rumors a while ago, before the second game came out, that there was a movie in the works. The movie has been cancelled. I'm kinda glad. I think the movie would be a bad idea, especially since Hollywood doesn't seem to like the idea of using the game's script or using the original game's writing staff. If the video game companies started to produce their own movies, I bet movies based of video games would be good. I don't think I've seen a single movie based on a video game that was actually good. The reverse is the same of course. Why is that?
I guess that's it for now. I'll recap Bones tomorrow a bit. I want to discuss some work-relationship stuff, but I don't want to ruin it for people who haven't seen it yet. I may also discuss Supernatural. Peace!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Catch Up
Yeah, so I've been really busy and I have a bit of rumors and news to dish out.
Doctor Who:
So Doctor who has been airing in the UK. It's set to air this Saturday on BBC America. But like a lot of people I don't care to wait the two weeks and I don't have BBC America. So I've been watching it online. The first two episodes have been pretty good. A surprising lack of death, but that's good. No one has died in the last two episodes and it's a relief. There was so much death in the last season. The tenth doctor was really angst-y and he had a right to be. People kept dying around him. I'm liking this new Doctor.
Supernatural:
Supernatural's 100th episode is this Thursday. It looks like Dean is wavering really close to saying yes. Castiel gets pissed at him:
I really liked this show season 1 and 2, but it started to get really depressing so I stopped watching at season 3. I got back into the show because a lot of my friends are. I'm hoping the apocalypse will end soon. And I keep thinking of this video when I think of the apocalypse:
What? It's the Apocalypse!
Green Lantern:
It sounds like the Green Lantern's costume will be CGI-ed. That's why there aren't any pictures. So here's the concept photo. It'll have to do for now.
Fringe:
Rumors are that there is going to be a musical episode. WTF!! This isn't Buffy or Scrubs, this is a for serious show. Having a musical episode makes NO sense.
Captain America:
I don't really know the story much. I never really got into comics myself. Never like much of the illustrations, women always have gigantic boobs and actually look ugly and men are all overly muscular. That doesn't mean I won't go see the movie though. Anyhow, the movie will be showing a severely underweight Steve Rodgers before he gets transformed into Captain America and both will be played by Chris Evans. How he'll be playing a really underweight guy, I don't know. I smell CGI. Anyway, that's it on the Captain America news...for now.
Review: Date Night
So I saw Date Night this past weekend. It was really good. Tina Fey And Steve Carell were a great team. This movie would have sucked without the two of them together. For those of you who don't know the plot, the movie is about a married couple with children. They go to a friends house and find that their friends are getting a divorce. Afraid that their marriage is getting too boaring, they decide to go out to the city one night to a really nice restaurant. Only, they can't get a table at the restaurant and decide to take someone's reservation when they fail to show up. So basically it's North by Northwest but with a corrupt DA and cops instead of spooks. It was a great movie.
Doctor Who:
So Doctor who has been airing in the UK. It's set to air this Saturday on BBC America. But like a lot of people I don't care to wait the two weeks and I don't have BBC America. So I've been watching it online. The first two episodes have been pretty good. A surprising lack of death, but that's good. No one has died in the last two episodes and it's a relief. There was so much death in the last season. The tenth doctor was really angst-y and he had a right to be. People kept dying around him. I'm liking this new Doctor.
Supernatural:
Supernatural's 100th episode is this Thursday. It looks like Dean is wavering really close to saying yes. Castiel gets pissed at him:
I really liked this show season 1 and 2, but it started to get really depressing so I stopped watching at season 3. I got back into the show because a lot of my friends are. I'm hoping the apocalypse will end soon. And I keep thinking of this video when I think of the apocalypse:
What? It's the Apocalypse!
Green Lantern:
It sounds like the Green Lantern's costume will be CGI-ed. That's why there aren't any pictures. So here's the concept photo. It'll have to do for now.
Fringe:
Rumors are that there is going to be a musical episode. WTF!! This isn't Buffy or Scrubs, this is a for serious show. Having a musical episode makes NO sense.
Captain America:
I don't really know the story much. I never really got into comics myself. Never like much of the illustrations, women always have gigantic boobs and actually look ugly and men are all overly muscular. That doesn't mean I won't go see the movie though. Anyhow, the movie will be showing a severely underweight Steve Rodgers before he gets transformed into Captain America and both will be played by Chris Evans. How he'll be playing a really underweight guy, I don't know. I smell CGI. Anyway, that's it on the Captain America news...for now.
Review: Date Night
So I saw Date Night this past weekend. It was really good. Tina Fey And Steve Carell were a great team. This movie would have sucked without the two of them together. For those of you who don't know the plot, the movie is about a married couple with children. They go to a friends house and find that their friends are getting a divorce. Afraid that their marriage is getting too boaring, they decide to go out to the city one night to a really nice restaurant. Only, they can't get a table at the restaurant and decide to take someone's reservation when they fail to show up. So basically it's North by Northwest but with a corrupt DA and cops instead of spooks. It was a great movie.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Spring Fling
First Look: Resident Evil Afterlife
So there will be a fourth installment to the zombie-horror series. I wonder why, the third one was kinda bad, but whatever. This new RE takes place after the third movie. Alice heads to a decimated LA in search of more survivors. I'm not really sure where all the Alice clones come in, but we'll see. Here is a screen shot of Alice and her actually cool looking outfit.
BioShock
BioShock 2 has been out for a while, I know. I unfortunately haven't played it yet. I haven't covered much on video games because... well, I've been too busy. But ThinkGeek is selling the Big Daddy doll that the little sisters carry around. So you can get one for yourself! Cool huh?
Coming Soon: Salt
I saw the new trailer for salt today, it looks really good.
I really like how everything rewinds after the first scene in the trailer. I wonder how much money the people who make the trailer make.
Coming Soon: The A-Team
Saw the new trailer for the A-team too. It looks really good. Action-packed! Coming out June 11th.
Rumors Galore:
-Megan Fox has turned down the roll of Lara Croft in the next Tomb Raider movie... thank god. She would be a bad Lara Croft. She could pull off the look, but I doubt she could pull the accent. The movie is supposed to be an origin story on how Lara Croft becomes a tomb raider.
-The final movie in the Twilight saga: Breaking Dawn will be rated R. Eclipse might be too because the director did film 30 days of night. We'll see. But that blows my mind. Whoa. I might want to go see both now for sure. There are going to be a lot of angry twitards who can't go and a lot who will be sneaking in anyway. Keep in mind though that they don't know who is directing the 4th movie. M. Night Shaymalan might direct.
So there will be a fourth installment to the zombie-horror series. I wonder why, the third one was kinda bad, but whatever. This new RE takes place after the third movie. Alice heads to a decimated LA in search of more survivors. I'm not really sure where all the Alice clones come in, but we'll see. Here is a screen shot of Alice and her actually cool looking outfit.
BioShock
BioShock 2 has been out for a while, I know. I unfortunately haven't played it yet. I haven't covered much on video games because... well, I've been too busy. But ThinkGeek is selling the Big Daddy doll that the little sisters carry around. So you can get one for yourself! Cool huh?
Coming Soon: Salt
I saw the new trailer for salt today, it looks really good.
I really like how everything rewinds after the first scene in the trailer. I wonder how much money the people who make the trailer make.
Coming Soon: The A-Team
Saw the new trailer for the A-team too. It looks really good. Action-packed! Coming out June 11th.
Rumors Galore:
-Megan Fox has turned down the roll of Lara Croft in the next Tomb Raider movie... thank god. She would be a bad Lara Croft. She could pull off the look, but I doubt she could pull the accent. The movie is supposed to be an origin story on how Lara Croft becomes a tomb raider.
-The final movie in the Twilight saga: Breaking Dawn will be rated R. Eclipse might be too because the director did film 30 days of night. We'll see. But that blows my mind. Whoa. I might want to go see both now for sure. There are going to be a lot of angry twitards who can't go and a lot who will be sneaking in anyway. Keep in mind though that they don't know who is directing the 4th movie. M. Night Shaymalan might direct.
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