Month: July 2014
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Watch This: Trailer for A Second Chance
The Danish film A Second Chance (En Chance Til) will premier at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival. It’s a film from Academy Award winning director Suzanne Bier. Based on the trailer, the film looks powerful and gut-wrenching. The film stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Maria Bonnevie. A police officer steals a…
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Watch This: Our Leader the Mockingjay
A new trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 released. Looks like Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss is getting herself an ragtag army and a rebellion whether she wants one or not. The suggested hashtag from the trailer is #OurLeaderTheMockingjay. I caught a glimpse of Julianne Moore in this trailer. She’s a nice addition to…
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Watch This: Trailer for Fort Bliss
Men go off to war and women support them and their country by staying at home, taking care of the kids, taking care of the house, and being there with love when the soldier returns. That’s what women do. But when the soldier is a woman, a man may not do the same for family…
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Recap: Last Tango in Halifax S2, E5
Episode 5 of Last Tango in Halifax begins in Harrogate where the Elliots are packing a car with William’s (Edward Ashley) things as he sets off for Oxford. A for sale sign is outside the driveway. John (Tony Gardner) and Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) take a moment to share a rancorous discussion about their divorce papers…
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Feel like reading Orphan Black?
Orphan Black will be a comic book. IDW announced the new series recently. Here’s the first cover image by artist Nick Runge. The release will begin in early 2015. And you thought Buffy comics were the only reason to visit the comic book store.
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Give us more charming and lovely men on TV
It’s been fun watching Derek Jacobi on Sunday night’s on PBS. First in Last Tango in Halifax where he is a sweetheart of a man. Then in Vicious where he is a parody of a parody as half of a gay couple (with Ian McKellen). I wrote this in last week’s recap of Last Tango…
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Watch This: Trailer for You, Me & Her
You, Me & Her is a short film (20 minutes) from writer and director Sarah Doyle. The film recently screened at Etheria Film Night. I’m not sure if it has a release date, distribution, or if it will be posted to some streaming service soon. It’s definitely worth watching for. I hope to get a…
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Happy Birthday to Me
Old Ain’t Dead is now a little over a year old. The accompanying twitter account @OldAintDead is also a year old. It doesn’t feel like a year has passed, but you know how time seems to fly when you get older. In that year, I’ve published 260+ posts. If you’ve read any of them, if…
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Recap: Last Tango in Halifax, S2 E4
This episode of Last Tango in Halifax begins in the cafe where Celia (Anne Reid) and Alan (Derek Jacobi) continue to talk about the death of Eddie. Alan says he is an accessory after the fact. Celia says he probably did the best thing under the circumstances. He tells her that Robbie and the police…
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Forest Man
This short documentary tells the inspiring story of an Indian man named Jadav Payeng who has single-handedly planted a forest on a formerly barren island in India’s Brahmaputra River. Payeng is called Forest Man.