DVD First Look: Jackboots on Whitehall
Jackboots on Whitehall Written and directed by Edward McHenry and Rory McHenry Starring Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Timothy Spall, Alan Cumming, and Dominic West Available at Amazon.com: (Region 1) and Digital Download Okay. Look at the poster. Look at the tag line. Look at the Digital Spy review up there. What’s your first impression? Go […]
In: Eyes and Ears, Movies, Reviews, Reviews · Tagged with: Alan Cumming, Dominic West, Ewan McGregor, historical comedy, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Richard O'Brien, Rosamund Pike, starring everyone, Timothy Spall, World War II
Blightyvision: Christopher and His Kind
Starring Matt Smith, Imogen Poots, and Douglas Booth Written by Kevin Elyot, based on the book by Christopher Isherwood Directed by Geoffrey Sax I am going to make a horrible confession, and one that an Anglophile probably shouldn’t make publicly: I have not seen any of Matt Smith’s work prior to “Doctor Who.” My “give […]
In: Columns, Television: British and Canadian · Tagged with: based on a novel, based on a true story, between the wars, matt smith, who's not who, World War II
Blightyvision: “Island at War”
Directed by Peter Lydon and Thaddeus O’Sullivan Written by Stephen Mallatratt Starring Saskia Reeves, Philip Glenister, and Owen Teale I will admit to holding off as long as possible on reviewing this, simply because there are so many -World War II-related series out there and I’m doing my best not to bunch them together. This […]
In: Columns, Television: British and Canadian · Tagged with: historical drama, Philip Glenister, saskia reeves, World War II
Blightyvision: “Foyle’s War”
Created by Anthony Horowitz Starring Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, and Anthony Howell I didn’t learn a hell of a lot in college, to be honest. I was an English major, and that pretty much meant (at least at my alma mater) reading books and telling the professors what they wanted me to think they were […]
In: Columns, Television: British and Canadian · Tagged with: anthony howell, detective series, foyle's war, historical drama, honeysuckle weeks, michael kitchen, mystery, World War II