The Week in Entertainment
Film: Is Anybody There? - wow. What a tour de force by Michael Caine. What an wonderful movie. It's not perfect - it tries a bit too hard in places - but Caine makes it worth every bit of your time and money.
TV: House: Wow. Despite the last few season enders I was not expecting a quarter of last week and a large part of this week to be ... a psychotic episode. In the literal sense. Wow. It does make a lot of last week make more sense, including the overnight detox - and Kutner... He is important. Wow (again). Numb3rs' season finale was fast-paced and hectic, with a few things that you hardly noticed (is Don really losing the faith he just found a couple of years ago?) in the rush. A good ending, not a cliff-hanger (those get tiring!) and a nice focus on Amita. (If we find out she said "No" next fall -!!) The Mentalist - Jane's ghost story was great, and we finally learned something kind of significant about Cho! He doesn't go to zoos, he reads novels on stakeouts, and he was in juvie! Primeval - season three starts with a bang - giant crocodile in the Egyptian wing of the British Museum! And sending the Sun Cage to Pyongyang - ROFL.
Read: Finished The Club Dumas. It doesn't end like The Ninth Gate, and has a lot of extra stuff going on in it. Very good, very stylish and well-written. The Year of Speaking Dangerously by Geoff Nunberg - a collection of NPR essays from the last five years.
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At 12:08 PM, May 18, 2009
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 8:44 AM, May 20, 2009
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At 6:03 PM, May 20, 2009
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I saw "Is Anybody There?" last week, too, and also loved it. Several people didn't, though: a couple of (independent) couples walked out in the middle. Maybe they were looking for more "action" than an old guy accidentally getting his finger chopped.
My favourite line came when Edward complained about his bedroom, and said that he used to have a nice bedroom with Paddington Bear wallpaper. Michael Caine replied, "And I used to have a beautiful wife and all my own teeth. Things change in life, Edward. And not always for the better."
On Australian television, House and The Mentalist are screened at the same time, on different channels, and I'm not one to bother with recording. I like both shows, but The Mentalist wins. I often watch bits of House, though: in advertisements, slow bits, etc.
This evening, because of the House episode being a final, I tried to watch equal portions of both shows. I am left feeling more than a little unsatisfied, because the ending of House makes absolutely no sense if you haven't been following the preceding few episodes. I don't know what's real and what isn't, and I'm now trying to figure out, by reading online reviews of the episode, what on earth just happened there!
House and the Mentalist on at the same time??? EVIL.
I must admit, The Mentalist would win for me, too.
That's one of the reasons (different shows, though) that I finally got DVR.
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