During Trey Parker and Matt Stone‘s guest commentary on one of the episodes of Look Around You, they are pretty clear that the show is either something you find hilarious, and something you can’t understand watching at all. It’s hard to argue with that assessment. The show is so deadpan, and so various with its humor, that it’s difficult to describe a great deal of what makes it funny. It’s hard even to describe the theory.
From creators Robert Popper (Peep Show, Hot Fuzz), and Peter Serafinowicz (Couples Retreat, Shaun of the Dead), Look Around You explores the nonsensical wonders of science as presenters Jack Morgan (Popper) and Peter Packard (Serafinowicz) guide viewers through a series of Pythonesque spoofs of educational films of the 70’s and 80’s.
The show comes to you in ten-minute segments (in this season) that are designed to simulate the look...
From creators Robert Popper (Peep Show, Hot Fuzz), and Peter Serafinowicz (Couples Retreat, Shaun of the Dead), Look Around You explores the nonsensical wonders of science as presenters Jack Morgan (Popper) and Peter Packard (Serafinowicz) guide viewers through a series of Pythonesque spoofs of educational films of the 70’s and 80’s.
The show comes to you in ten-minute segments (in this season) that are designed to simulate the look...
- 7/22/2010
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
By Christopher Stipp
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Inception - Review
A summer film that distills the best of what a blockbuster should be, Inception is the thinking man’s action film that marries drama, wicked fast pacing, and the designation as the best big budget movie so far this year.
In literature, Marcel Proust’s “The Remembrance Of Things” is thought of a classic because of its exploration of memory and the acute moments that are triggered by the nature of living. It’s a familiar smell, it’s a taste that triggers flashes from a time that has forgotten. It’s a wonderful distillation of the nature of the mind and how it is able to start lines of thought merely started by a bite of Madeline cookies,...
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Check out my other column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
Inception - Review
A summer film that distills the best of what a blockbuster should be, Inception is the thinking man’s action film that marries drama, wicked fast pacing, and the designation as the best big budget movie so far this year.
In literature, Marcel Proust’s “The Remembrance Of Things” is thought of a classic because of its exploration of memory and the acute moments that are triggered by the nature of living. It’s a familiar smell, it’s a taste that triggers flashes from a time that has forgotten. It’s a wonderful distillation of the nature of the mind and how it is able to start lines of thought merely started by a bite of Madeline cookies,...
- 7/16/2010
- by Christopher Stipp
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