Archiv vom July 2013

TV-News: Cosmos Trailer

Two years ago there was the astonishing announcement that Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, one of the most amazing science television series, is going to be remade with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson as the new host. Yesterday, the first trailer surfaced at ComicCon and while it doesn’t provide any dialogueyet , the visuals are breathtaking and look like the original series reborn with current technology. So, in lieu of a new article, which I have to postpone because of the hot weather, here’s just this amazing trailer this week.

Note: the trailer originally posted yesterday was taken down for unknown reasons, the above is a copy from another source. There’s another trailer on the Fox Youtube channel, but it’s shorter and edited differently.

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DVD-Review: Shaun the Sheep – Series 1

As a huge fan of all things clay from Bristol, I have written about nearly everything coming from Aardman Animation – with one exception: somehow I never got around to write about a certain flock of animals. This is going to change now, because today’s review, the first completely fresh one in months, is the first series of Shaun the Sheep! The spin-off from Wallace & Gromit has only been around since six years, but Shaun has already become almost almost as popular as every other Aardman star and in spite of its target audience, the series is not just interesting for children. Because it’s a bit difficult to watch the series on television, there’s only one option: getting the DVDs, which, at least in the case of the british releases, are highly recommended and not expensive at all.

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DVD-Review: Space Cowboys

After reviewing The Dish recently, I actually wanted to start a series of space-themed reviews, but this got a bit derailed because I should have posted the predecessor The Castle first. But today, the series literally gets of the ground with Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys, one of the most enjoyable and unusual spaceflight movies ever made. Far from being just a simple geriatrics in space comedy, it’s actually a surprisingly good homage to the now long-gone era of the Space Shuttle with an amazing cast, a well-written script and breathtaking special-effects. Most of all, the movie is just plain fun, but far from dumb popcorn entertainment. Warner’s DVD is now over a decade old, but still nearly perfect – I reviewed this in German before, but as usual this English translation is a partly rewritten and expanded version.

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DVD-Review: The Castle

After recently posting the newly renovated and translated article about The Dish, there is only one possible follow-up: Working Dog’s previous movie and cinema debut The Castle. This jewel of a film about the fight of an ordinary Australian family for their home was a huge hit in its home country, but it is relatively unknown in the rest of the world. With its likable cast of characters and a well-written script, the ultra-low budget does not matter at all, making The Castle a perfect little movie of its very own genre – it’s neither a complete comedy or a full drama, but very funny and thoughtful nevertheless. While I have only the older Region 1 DVD with the slightly modified American version in my archives, today’s post is more an article about the film itself than about the DVD. This review is again based on an older German version, but it’s a substantially expanded rewrite and not only a straight translation.

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