I wish I could unsee things. I was rummaging around Amazon.co.uk, to see if Straw Dogs had finally been released on Blu-ray after being delayed constantly, and me losing interest. Sure enough it had, and as much as I'd like to take an Amazon reviewer's (in the same class as IMDB.com user comments - "This film was totally gay!!!!") word for it, I preferred to find a more reliable review source to see what the disc was actually like. Hammered away at Google to see what would turn up, and was thrilled to see a remake lined up for production in 2011. Oh good.
There are a few reasons for cautious optimism, Alexander Skarsgard and James Wood appear in the cast list, while the director Rod Lurie has a reasonably good looking pedigree, and doesn't have any films with the words 'Alien vs' or 'Predator' in his work history. Unsurprisingly the synopsis has the movie being relocated to the deep south, which is where my interest wains and pessimism starts to mount again. Oh well, we shall see. Worryingly the 'Long Good Friday' remake has reappeared on schedules for 2011 too.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Blimey. I've been kinda busy, and so for a while nothing has been going on here. Expect that to change over the next few weeks, and today has already been a hive of activity with the uploading of all my latest Doctor Who art. I'm really going to try and get my teeth into Dadmancult.com and start filling up the reviews sections in the coming weeks and months.
The week has already got off to a good start with the weekend announcement (who announces things on a Saturday?) by 2Entertain that we can expect 'Day of the Daleks' sometime in 2011 with new CGI effects and revoiced Daleks. Bit of a shame, I kinda liked the drunk / stoned / asthmatic Daleks in the original, but I'm sure it'll be an optional extra and we can enjoy the serial as it was first broadcast...3 battered wobbly Daleks struggling to traverse a lawn in order to destroy a peace conference...after they get past the lawn, obviously.
Out on Blu-ray October 12th in the US is 'Magic', a rather forgotten and underrated Anthony Hopkins starring chiller from 1978. Helmed by Richard Attenborough it's an effective and creepy tale about a ventriloquist / magician losing his marbles in a Dead of Night kinda way. I've always retained a soft spot for it, and even if you find the film somewhat heavy going, Jerry Goldsmith provides a neat score. Not much else of note hitting the shelves that week, unless you're looking to add to your 'Lost Boys' movie collection. There are some rubbery Japanese shenanigans available in the form of Gamera, or was Gamera Korean? I'm not very well up on my Asian atomic mutation creature flicks.
The week has already got off to a good start with the weekend announcement (who announces things on a Saturday?) by 2Entertain that we can expect 'Day of the Daleks' sometime in 2011 with new CGI effects and revoiced Daleks. Bit of a shame, I kinda liked the drunk / stoned / asthmatic Daleks in the original, but I'm sure it'll be an optional extra and we can enjoy the serial as it was first broadcast...3 battered wobbly Daleks struggling to traverse a lawn in order to destroy a peace conference...after they get past the lawn, obviously.
Out on Blu-ray October 12th in the US is 'Magic', a rather forgotten and underrated Anthony Hopkins starring chiller from 1978. Helmed by Richard Attenborough it's an effective and creepy tale about a ventriloquist / magician losing his marbles in a Dead of Night kinda way. I've always retained a soft spot for it, and even if you find the film somewhat heavy going, Jerry Goldsmith provides a neat score. Not much else of note hitting the shelves that week, unless you're looking to add to your 'Lost Boys' movie collection. There are some rubbery Japanese shenanigans available in the form of Gamera, or was Gamera Korean? I'm not very well up on my Asian atomic mutation creature flicks.
Time Flies
Blimey. I've been kinda busy, and so for a while nothing has been going on here. Expect that to change over the next few weeks, and today has already been a hive of activity with the uploading of all my latest Doctor Who art. I'm really going to try and get my teeth into Dadmancult.com and start filling up the reviews sections in the coming weeks and months.
The week has already got off to a good start with the weekend announcement (who announces things on a Saturday?) by 2Entertain that we can expect 'Day of the Daleks' sometime in 2011 with new CGI effects and revoiced Daleks. Bit of a shame, I kinda liked the drunk / stoned / asthmatic Daleks in the original, but I'm sure it'll be an optional extra and we can enjoy the serial as it was first broadcast...3 battered wobbly Daleks struggling to traverse a lawn in order to destroy a peace conference...after they get past the lawn, obviously.
Out on Blu-ray October 12th in the US is 'Magic', a rather forgotten and underrated Anthony Hopkins starring chiller from 1978. Helmed by Richard Attenborough it's an effective and creepy tale about a ventriloquist / magician losing his marbles in a Dead of Night kinda way. I've always retained a soft spot for it, and even if you find the film somewhat heavy going, Jerry Goldsmith provides a neat score. Not much else of note hitting the shelves that week, unless you're looking to add to your 'Lost Boys' movie collection. There are some rubbery Japanese shenanigans available in the form of Gamera, or was Gamera Korean? I'm not very well up on my Asian atomic mutation creature flicks.
The week has already got off to a good start with the weekend announcement (who announces things on a Saturday?) by 2Entertain that we can expect 'Day of the Daleks' sometime in 2011 with new CGI effects and revoiced Daleks. Bit of a shame, I kinda liked the drunk / stoned / asthmatic Daleks in the original, but I'm sure it'll be an optional extra and we can enjoy the serial as it was first broadcast...3 battered wobbly Daleks struggling to traverse a lawn in order to destroy a peace conference...after they get past the lawn, obviously.
Out on Blu-ray October 12th in the US is 'Magic', a rather forgotten and underrated Anthony Hopkins starring chiller from 1978. Helmed by Richard Attenborough it's an effective and creepy tale about a ventriloquist / magician losing his marbles in a Dead of Night kinda way. I've always retained a soft spot for it, and even if you find the film somewhat heavy going, Jerry Goldsmith provides a neat score. Not much else of note hitting the shelves that week, unless you're looking to add to your 'Lost Boys' movie collection. There are some rubbery Japanese shenanigans available in the form of Gamera, or was Gamera Korean? I'm not very well up on my Asian atomic mutation creature flicks.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
2Entertain Marginally Less Hateful
At long last, some comforting news regarding Doctor Who DVD releases comes via the Twitterings of 2Entertain. Nope, it's not continuing the trend of God awful stories, so those hoping for 'The Krotons' or 'Death to the Daleks' I'm sorry to have to break the news to you that we can expect a Boxset of 'Kinda' and 'Snakedance' in 2011. Apparently Martin Clunes' lipstick will be newly CGI'd.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Intercepting Angels
The really rather fabulous denofgeek.com have got pics from the second part of Moffat's Weeping Angel scare-a-thon up. I point you in their direction because they've been kind enough, unlike the BBC, to omit two that contain potential spoilers. Find the pics here: http://tiny.cc/creg7
Jason and the Argonauts
My inner 6 year old just wet himself. Talos will be grinding and creaking his way across your screens on July 6th, as Sony Home Pictures Entertainment unleash the Don Chaffey 1963 live action/Harryhausen stop-motion epic on Blu-ray. Extras don't look terribly exciting, listed as 'The Harryhausen Legacy' and 'Ray Harryhausen interviewd by John Landis'. I can't find word on whether the extras will be in HD. Doubt it though.
ITV Fail
Behold, Adam Crozier, new head of ITV has spoken. After leading the Royal Mail from shambolic occasional post and parcel delivery service to shambolic occasional post and parcel delivery service, he now has set out his stall (TM Terry Venables) outlining his hopes for the channel. Naturally he highlights the quality programming the channel currently produces, naming 'Britain's Got Talent' and the US remake of 'The Prisoner' as prime examples of that 'quality'.
Ummm, right. Over here in the US I wasn't even aware of ABC's 'The Prisoner' being on, I knew it was in the pipeline, then all of a sudden the 6 episodes had come and gone with zero publicity or fanfare. I know 2 people who watched it. Both said it was crap. I have no reason to doubt that being an accurate overview of the series. I have yet to see it, and would resent paying money for the DVD to discover it's as pants as everyone (well, 2 people) says. IMDB with its largely unintelligible comments section goes some way to cementing the shows reputation as being rubbish. The trailer makes it look like it would at least be 'interesting', but I'm sure somewhere somebody also uttered those words about the Ralph Fiennes 'Avengers' fiasco.
Oh wait...that was me...
Anyway, with shout outs like that, Adam Crozier certainly makes me think he can take ITV from a channel that shows mostly imported crap, homemade crap based on imported crap, gameshows, reality gameshows, and reality shows that might have gameshows in them, into a channel that ONLY shows mostly imported crap, homemade c...well, you can guess the rest...
Ummm, right. Over here in the US I wasn't even aware of ABC's 'The Prisoner' being on, I knew it was in the pipeline, then all of a sudden the 6 episodes had come and gone with zero publicity or fanfare. I know 2 people who watched it. Both said it was crap. I have no reason to doubt that being an accurate overview of the series. I have yet to see it, and would resent paying money for the DVD to discover it's as pants as everyone (well, 2 people) says. IMDB with its largely unintelligible comments section goes some way to cementing the shows reputation as being rubbish. The trailer makes it look like it would at least be 'interesting', but I'm sure somewhere somebody also uttered those words about the Ralph Fiennes 'Avengers' fiasco.
Oh wait...that was me...
Anyway, with shout outs like that, Adam Crozier certainly makes me think he can take ITV from a channel that shows mostly imported crap, homemade crap based on imported crap, gameshows, reality gameshows, and reality shows that might have gameshows in them, into a channel that ONLY shows mostly imported crap, homemade c...well, you can guess the rest...
Friday, April 23, 2010
Cybermuck
Blimey, if there was a nagging feeling that BBC Enterprises was taking the p*ss this year, then this weeks news of upcoming 'Doctor Who' releases has gone some way to confirming that suspicion. 2010 has so far foisted the yawn-worthy 'Monster of Peladon' on us, and no, getting 'Curse of...' lumped in with it doesn't make it less of a bitter pill to swallow. We've also had the triple whammy of the 'Myths and Legends' boxset, with 'Creature from the Pit' arriving next month and 'Time and the Rani' to follow on in September. Woot. Lest we forget 'The Kings Demons' will be along shortly, albeit accompanied by the actually quite bearable 'Planet of Fire'.
This week then, there was much rejoicing that added to that spectacularly crummy schedule are the two Cybermen stories that make 'Attack of...' seem like a work of utter genius, 'Revenge of the Cybermen' and 'Silver Nemesis'. While I was still trying to digest that news, proving that good things come in threes, was the announcement that 'The Dominators' was having supplementary material passed by the BBFC.
2011 had better be a vintage year for Who releases.
Dadmancult is Green for Go!
Actually, Dadmancult.com is green in all sorts of ways. Cosmetically it's that way inclined, and in terms of being new, well, then it's most definitely on the green side. There's not much in the way of written content just yet as the real world has intruded, dropping lots of lovely work in my lap, but there is plenty of my 'Doctor Who' artwork kicking around the place, and that counts as content, right?. Look out for updates in that section too, I've been busy.
Ideally I'd have liked the site to have been up and running to coincide with the new series of 'Doctor Who' and 'Ashes to Ashes', while here Stateside a lot of shows have returned after 4-8 week absences. It wasn't to be though, so I'll be playing catch up and pitching in with reviews when and where I can. If you'd like to contribute then you're more than welcome, just contact me and let me know what sort of stuff you'd like to cover as there are gaping great holes in my film and TV watching habits, likewise soundtracks, and I'm always eager to hear any news that could be shared on here, my only requests being that it's relatively on-topic. Tenuous is okay.
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