TV and DVDs
23 Nov 2008 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karohemdEinstein and Eddington was rather good last night, if maybe a touch too long. I really liked Andy Serkis as Einstein and Tennant managed to make Eddington not like the Doctor (which could easily have happened during his experiments and discoveries). What the film managed to bring across really well was the frustration of the two scientists being restricted in their work and prevented from communicating because of the politics in their respective countries.
Feast was a silly, low budget monster/slasher film with remarkably high production values in the physical gore effects department (no CGI). Good fun because it didn't take itself seriously and it had Henry Rollins in it. ;o)
Wall-E was a little sad and thought-provoking but still funny. Pixar have pulled a few more stops in the tech department and things like textures and lighting are even more real than before so it's often hard to tell that it's CGI, it could well be real life/mechanical, especially the title character and the scenes on Earth befor the shiny robots and ships arrive.
Spearhead from Space was another foray into classic Dr Who, this time the first story with Pertwee. This one didn't grip me as much as others, though, can't say exactly why.
Despite all the revelations (or maybe because of them?), Heroes still leaves me rather cold but Apparitions (a new drama about an exorcist on BBC One, Thursdays) is rather good. I'd missed the first episode but the second was worth it, too. What I really liked in that episode was that it was an intelligent demon, not just a slavering, mindless beast and that it had no problems entering a church. OK, it's nothing new, it's classic, religion-based horror (like the Omen and The Exorcist or the Seventh Sign) but it's well done and gripping.
Feast was a silly, low budget monster/slasher film with remarkably high production values in the physical gore effects department (no CGI). Good fun because it didn't take itself seriously and it had Henry Rollins in it. ;o)
Wall-E was a little sad and thought-provoking but still funny. Pixar have pulled a few more stops in the tech department and things like textures and lighting are even more real than before so it's often hard to tell that it's CGI, it could well be real life/mechanical, especially the title character and the scenes on Earth befor the shiny robots and ships arrive.
Spearhead from Space was another foray into classic Dr Who, this time the first story with Pertwee. This one didn't grip me as much as others, though, can't say exactly why.
Despite all the revelations (or maybe because of them?), Heroes still leaves me rather cold but Apparitions (a new drama about an exorcist on BBC One, Thursdays) is rather good. I'd missed the first episode but the second was worth it, too. What I really liked in that episode was that it was an intelligent demon, not just a slavering, mindless beast and that it had no problems entering a church. OK, it's nothing new, it's classic, religion-based horror (like the Omen and The Exorcist or the Seventh Sign) but it's well done and gripping.
