Archiv vom August 2013

TV-News: QI returns with Series K

The autumn season on british television is starting earlier and earlier each year and I almost had not noticed that Stephen Fry’s and John Lloyd’s brilliant quiz show QI is starting again next week on BBC2 with the new Series K. The weekly broadcasts start next Friday on 22:00 GMT / 23:00 CET, with the extended 45-minute XL version now following on Sunday at the same time – but watch the schedule, the BBC often likes to stir up the program at the last minute. That’s why nobody had noticed that the “lost” episode of Series J (you know, the one with Jeremy Clarkson) was broadcast on Tuesday, but the XL repeat is shown tonight at 22:15 GMT / 23:15 CET.

You can read more about QI on the official website, which was totally overhauled and greatly improved last year and there’s also the Facebook-Page and the Twitter-Stream. Fingers on buzzers! :-)

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DVD-Review: From the Earth to the Moon

The Space Exploration Series continues today with From the Earth to the Moon, which even fifteen years after its premiere is one of the most amazing American television productions of all time. After the success of Apollo 13, Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer had joined forces again to tell the story of the moon race in twelve hour-long movies, which felt more like cinema and less than just television. Treading confidently in the footsteps of Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff, the series brilliantly covers almost everything about the Moon race, bringing wonderful actors, great scripts and a first-class production with real enthusiasm together. Today’s post is a translated and heavily expanded review of my original German article from a couple of years ago about the American DVD re-release from 2005.

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DVD-Review: The Right Stuff

Today DVDLog is coming back from the summer break with a continuation of the Spaceflight Series, which I had started a few weeks back with The Dish and Space Cowboys. While these were more of a fictional kind, for today I have translated and extensively rewritten my earlier review of Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff, the seminal movie about the early days of American spaceflight. In spite of its title, the film is actually not a painfully patriotic story, but a surprisingly realistic, exciting and sometimes even funny depiction of the early space race from an American perspective. Today, the movie is already thirty years old and the DVD I reviewed in this extensive article ten years, but they are both highly recommended.

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DVDLog on Summer Hiatus

Since the weather is absolutely not cooperating and the heat makes coherent writing really difficult, I’m putting DVDLog on a summer hiatus. I have occasionally done this before and this doesn’t mean I am going to abandon the website, just that I won’t be writing any major long reviews at the moment. The occasional shorter post may appear, but for now I will keep my activities very limited here. But you can always follow me on Google+ or Facebook and see what I’m up to on all my websites, although I’m only really active over on my photography blog at the moment. Here on DVDLog I’ll be fully back when I have re-acquired my writing groove after the warm weather.

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