6 articles from 2009
Tsr Blog – Christmas Miracle Wishlist …
22 December 2009 8:23 PM, PST
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By Nick Allen
In Die Hard, a lone cop from New York killed a group of terrorists and saved the lives of hundreds. In Jingle All The Way, a regular dad (Schwarzenegger) learned to fly, and at the same time became a true hero to his son, (who was played by Jake Lloyd!)
Christmastime is the peak season for the miracle business. Here’s some events I’d like to see happen this Friday. If they don’t happen, well, either way I should have enough money to buy that Weezer snuggie I’ve always wanted.
- Reserve Deputy Sheriff Steven Seagal (and On Deadly Ground actor and auteur) arrests FBI’s most wanted, James “Whitey” Bulger, when Seagal’s “police instinct” leads him to a Krispy Kreme. Seagal tazes him first, and then the Michigan native yells in a Bayou tone, “You’re goin’ to tha slamma for a lawwnng time,
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Steven Seagal: an update
8 December 2009 9:59 AM, PST
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Marina Hyde's campaign to bring Lawman to UK TV screens bears fruit in just four days
Insanely thrilling news. Landmark reality series Steven Seagal: Lawman Will be coming to UK TV screens - and as early as 5 January. It will be screened on madly recherche channel The Crime and Investigation Network, and there will be repeats on the Biography channel.
In all sooth, Lost in Showbiz cannot claim this as a literal victory for the campaign it launched on Friday, what with things having apparently been in the pipeline a while now. But it is very much a conceptual victory for us all, and I need hardly tell you that I have requested some face time should the On Deadly Ground auteur travel over here on some kind of publicity trip.
Admittedly, the aforementioned recherche nature of the channels carrying the show suggests they might not have sufficient
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- Marina Hyde
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Steven Seagal's Lawman: a reality TV star is born
4 December 2009 9:13 AM, PST
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The campaign to bring Steven Seagal: Lawman to British TV screens starts today, says Marina Hyde
How completely delicious - and highly uncommon - to end the week on a piece of good news. Steven Seagal: Lawman premiered to record numbers for America's A&E channel, with its debut episode the most watched in the network's history.
You might recall that Lost in Showbiz worships Seagal, and has been on tenterhooks about the reception of his reality series, which follows the Above the Law legend as he goes about his duties as a fully commisioned Louisiana cop - a position he's secretly held for 20 years!
As always with Seagal, we needn't have worried. Here's what the critics are saying about episode one, "The Way of the Gun".
"The highlight of the episode may also be the most believable part of the episode," writes Bob Patterson at Blogcritics.
Apparently Steven Seagal
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- Marina Hyde
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Review: Ong Bak 2
23 October 2009 5:15 PM, PDT
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By Todd Gilchrist (reprinted from 9/23/09)
Cinematically speaking, there may be nothing worse than when an action star or purveyor of thrills starts taking himself too seriously. Such a transformation almost invariably begets a personal crusade, which often takes the form of a vanity project, and usually turns out about as well as The Quest did for Jean-Claude Van Damme, or On Deadly Ground did for Steven Seagal. Thai martial artist Tony Jaa launched his career with the original Ong Bak, and after that film and its superior follow-up, The Protector, made him an international sensation, he apparently started believing his own hype: Jaa not only co-directed Ong Bak 2, his latest film, but conceived it as the ultimate Thai adventure, reinforcing his own legend with a self-aggrandizing historical epic that somehow proves that you can actually make a movie without a plot - which unfortunately but perhaps predictably isn't a compliment.
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Review: Ong Bak 2
23 September 2009 5:02 PM, PDT
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Cinematically speaking, there may be nothing worse than when an action star or purveyor of thrills starts taking himself too seriously. Such a transformation almost invariably begets a personal crusade, which often takes the form of a vanity project, and usually turns out about as well as The Quest did for Jean-Claude Van Damme, or On Deadly Ground did for Steven Seagal. Thai martial artist Tony Jaa launched his career with the original Ong Bak, and after that film and its superior follow-up, The Protector, made him an international sensation, he apparently started believing his own hype: Jaa not only co-directed Ong Bak 2, his latest film, but conceived it as the ultimate Thai adventure, reinforcing his own legend with a self-aggrandizing historical epic that somehow proves that you can actually make a movie without a plot - which unfortunately but perhaps predictably isn't a compliment.
Ostensibly a prequel to the original film,
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The full program for Imagine festival is on-line.
26 March 2009 8:25 AM, PDT
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For its 25th iteration the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival (Afff for short) changed its name into “Imagine”, the reason being that the organisation behind the festival felt that too many people had wrong expectations concerning the line-up.
It’s not the first time the festival changed names for this reason. Twentyfive years ago it used to be called “The Weekend of Terror” but that got a bit silly once:
A: the festival started to last almost a week, and
B: it featured many non-horror films.
This year’s line-up indeed has more to do with the films being imaginative: titles like “The Good, The Bad and The Weird” fit awkwardly into either Sf, horror or fantasy. The rest of the program contains other impressive titles including “Let The Right One In”, “Martyrs”, “Acolytes”, “Mum & Dad”, “Sauna”, “Tokyo Gore Police”, “I Sell the Dead”, “From Inside”, “Seventh Moon” and many more.
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- Ard Vijn
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