Quick Cuts: TMNT enter development hell, Lone Ranger gets a bigger budget and more
Michael Bay’s fan-maligned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake has been shot down by Paramount, at least for the time being. It’s been pushed back until Summer 2014, due to issues with the script. Apparently, no one thought a reboot in which the TURTLES are aliens was an issue, but are learning that now. (Source: Vulture) […]
In: Movies, News, Trailers · Tagged with: Christopher Nolan, Gary Oldman, Gore Verbinski, Hugh Laurie, Johnny Depp, Jose Padilha, Michael Bay, Robocop, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Dark Knight Rises, The Lone Ranger
Blightyvision: And now for something completely different …
As I said elsewhere, I’m prepping for a jaunt outside the country — to the UK, specifically — during which I’ll leave you with (hopefully) quality reading. But I’m also prepping for the finales of two excellent shows — “Mad Dogs” and “Marchlands” — both of which air tonight, and both of which I am […]
In: Columns, Television: British and Canadian, Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: american tv, Eddie Izzard, Englishmen abroad, gina bellman, House, Hugh Laurie, leverage, something completely different, the riches
Blightyvision: “Fry and Laurie Reunited”
Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions Also featuring Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Ben Miller, Jo Brand, and a bunch of others If you’re reading this column on any sort of a regular basis, you likely know enough about British comedy to know that Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie had an extensive career together before they went […]
In: Columns, Television: British and Canadian · Tagged with: documentary, emma thompson, Hugh Laurie, retrospective, Stephen Fry, Tony Slattery
House vs. Black Jack … Heaven or Hell … FIGHT!
In the grand tradition of epic Japanese TV crossovers, Geneon Universal is pitting two of the world’s most brilliant doctors against each other in an upcoming ad campaign. For the first time ever, one of anime legend Osamu Tezuka’s anime creations will be facing off against an overseas live-action character … and forget my “awesome […]
In: News · Tagged with: black jack, commercials, House, Hugh Laurie, osamu tezuka, this will either be awesome or awful
Blightyvision: “Blackadder”
Created by Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis, and Ben Elton Starring Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson It really seems a little unfair to allow myself to review my gateway drug. In fact, I came to the point where I decided everyone must have seen it, and thus doing any sort of write-up would be superfluous. But […]
In: Columns, Television: British and Canadian · Tagged with: available on dvd, blackadder, historical comedy, Hugh Laurie, oh my god they look so young, rowan atkinson, Stephen Fry, tony robinson
Blightyvision: “Jeeves & Wooster”
Based on the works of P.G. Wodehouse Adapted by Clive Exton Starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie The story goes that when Fry and Laurie were offered the roles of Jeeves and Wooster in a 23-episode ITV series back in 1990, they turned down the roles for fear that the public would never accept them […]
In: Columns, Television: British and Canadian · Tagged with: available on dvd, based on a novel, Hugh Laurie, oh my god they look so young, P.G. Wodehouse, Stephen Fry
Kara’s Video of the Day: Stop Boring Hugh Laurie
Did you know “House” star Hugh Laurie is actually British? … yeah, me too. But apparently the talk show hosts of the United States figure no one does. Thank God we’ve got late-night TV to fill us in on those burning questions … over and over and over again. Sheesh. Really? Next you’ll be telling […]
In: Television: British and Canadian, Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: Craig Ferguson, David Letterman, House, Hugh Laurie, Jay Leno, motorcycles, video, we knew that already