Obviously I like it. Michael Palin takes the place of Oliver Postgate, but Smallfilms are still involved. They gone full media on it with a magazine and a really nice web site:
Just when you think the licence fee isn't worth paying.
Friday 10 June 2016
Clangers!
While you weren't looking, the BBC have been showing a new series of that 70's kids show The Clangers. It's all been updated (there are fewer Clangers, but they've all got names), with a nice, but unobstrusive, combination of CGI and stop motion. The stories are also engaging:
Obviously I like it. Michael Palin takes the place of Oliver Postgate, but Smallfilms are still involved. They gone full media on it with a magazine and a really nice web site:
Just when you think the licence fee isn't worth paying.
Obviously I like it. Michael Palin takes the place of Oliver Postgate, but Smallfilms are still involved. They gone full media on it with a magazine and a really nice web site:
Just when you think the licence fee isn't worth paying.
Saturday 4 June 2016
Movie Update - Ant-man and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
I seem to be going through movies at a fair clip recently. First, the fifth MI movie. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the IMF team, on the verge of being shut down (again), try to expose baddies de jour The Syndicate, lead by Solomon Lane (Sean Harris):
Essentially a series of stunts and CGI held together by a relatively weak plot, the cast try their best make it interesting, but it's a case of diminishing returns by now. Not a bad pizza movie, just not a good one.
The second film is one of Marvel's more peculiar super-heroes. Thief Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), vainly attempting to go straight, gets involved with scientist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) in his attempt to prevent his shrinking technology from falling into the hands of vilain Darren Cross (Corey Stoll):
Although not brilliant, it does have a unique style of it's own, mainly thanks to Michael Peña as Lang's pal and Ant-mans general charm. Rudd makes the best of the role, with Douglas as the mentor and Stoll chewing the scenary (something that was missing from MI:V). One thing, though. The technology effectively changes the volume ("the distance between atoms", as Pym puts it), but doesn't affect the mass, so Ant-man couldn't ride ants as he'd just crush them under his weight... oh, ok, it is a comic book.
Essentially a series of stunts and CGI held together by a relatively weak plot, the cast try their best make it interesting, but it's a case of diminishing returns by now. Not a bad pizza movie, just not a good one.
The second film is one of Marvel's more peculiar super-heroes. Thief Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), vainly attempting to go straight, gets involved with scientist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) in his attempt to prevent his shrinking technology from falling into the hands of vilain Darren Cross (Corey Stoll):
Although not brilliant, it does have a unique style of it's own, mainly thanks to Michael Peña as Lang's pal and Ant-mans general charm. Rudd makes the best of the role, with Douglas as the mentor and Stoll chewing the scenary (something that was missing from MI:V). One thing, though. The technology effectively changes the volume ("the distance between atoms", as Pym puts it), but doesn't affect the mass, so Ant-man couldn't ride ants as he'd just crush them under his weight... oh, ok, it is a comic book.
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