More money, more problems. That seems to be the motto of Netflix’s brand new competition series, in which one contestant is saddled with a $1 million prize as the other 11 players fight to hunt them down and claim it for themselves.
The series, with the working title “Million Dollar Secret,” will be hosted by Peter Serafinowicz, the British comedian and actor whose credits include “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Shaun of the Dead,” “John Wick: Chapter 2” and “Spy.”
Here’s how the competition works, in Netflix’s own words: “The million-dollar prize is won by one of 12 players right at the start of the first episode. Now, the others will hunt them down – eliminate the millionaire and the money moves to someone new. When should they strike? Too soon and they become the target; too late and they may never get the money. Meanwhile, the millionaire can try to...
The series, with the working title “Million Dollar Secret,” will be hosted by Peter Serafinowicz, the British comedian and actor whose credits include “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Shaun of the Dead,” “John Wick: Chapter 2” and “Spy.”
Here’s how the competition works, in Netflix’s own words: “The million-dollar prize is won by one of 12 players right at the start of the first episode. Now, the others will hunt them down – eliminate the millionaire and the money moves to someone new. When should they strike? Too soon and they become the target; too late and they may never get the money. Meanwhile, the millionaire can try to...
- 5/29/2024
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
It’s a tiny point on the Venn diagram where “based on a true story” and “Jackass” intersect, but Johnny Knoxville manages to find that sweet spot with “Action Point,” a movie that’s clearly inspired by the infamously perilous New Jersey attraction Action Park, whose deadly rides remain the stuff of legend decades after its gates were bolted shut.
Before Disney and Six Flags and other conglomerates put them out of business, there were seedy, shabby and no doubt unsafe amusement parks dotting the nation from coast to coast. “Action Point” would argue, albeit not always successfully, that what we gained in standards of security and safety, we lost in regional flavor and eccentricity as the United States grew more and more corporatized.
As post-“Jackass” movies go, “Action Point” makes more of an effort to sandwich some plot between the literally painful slapstick comedy, but if you love...
Before Disney and Six Flags and other conglomerates put them out of business, there were seedy, shabby and no doubt unsafe amusement parks dotting the nation from coast to coast. “Action Point” would argue, albeit not always successfully, that what we gained in standards of security and safety, we lost in regional flavor and eccentricity as the United States grew more and more corporatized.
As post-“Jackass” movies go, “Action Point” makes more of an effort to sandwich some plot between the literally painful slapstick comedy, but if you love...
- 6/1/2018
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Make a high rise in the industry (or on your own) with this advice.Ben Wheatley directing ‘High-Rise’
One of the most exciting filmmaking careers to watch right now is that of Ben Wheatley. He directed his first feature, 2009's Down Terrace, relatively late in life but has made up for it ever since. His latest, Free Fire, is his sixth movie in about eight years, and in that time he’s also directed music videos, episodes of Doctor Who, and shorts, including a bit for the anthology horror film The ABCs of Death.
His movies don’t lack in quality for being so many in quantity, either. Some are better than others, yet none of them has really been negatively reviewed, and he maintains a fanbase among the film geek crowd that almost gets to celebrate him annually at Fantastic Fest given his consistent output. Want to know how he does it? Below...
One of the most exciting filmmaking careers to watch right now is that of Ben Wheatley. He directed his first feature, 2009's Down Terrace, relatively late in life but has made up for it ever since. His latest, Free Fire, is his sixth movie in about eight years, and in that time he’s also directed music videos, episodes of Doctor Who, and shorts, including a bit for the anthology horror film The ABCs of Death.
His movies don’t lack in quality for being so many in quantity, either. Some are better than others, yet none of them has really been negatively reviewed, and he maintains a fanbase among the film geek crowd that almost gets to celebrate him annually at Fantastic Fest given his consistent output. Want to know how he does it? Below...
- 4/19/2017
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Paramount has announced that it’s giving a whole (fake) theme park to perpetual pain magnet Johnny Knoxville. According to Deadline, the studio has green-lit Action Park, a movie that asks, “What if a full-on-Jackass-mode Johnny Knoxville had his very own amusement park?”
The film is being directed by Veep and Look Around You director Tim Kirkby, from a script by Knoxville and Silicon Valley’s John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. That’s a pretty top-loaded team for a movie that sounds like an excuse to film a hundred takes of dudes getting smacked in the nuts by a Tilt-a-Whirl, but Knoxville has earned a little leeway from Paramount; their last collaboration, 2013’s Bad Grandpa, managed to bring in $152 million on a $15 million budget.
The film is being directed by Veep and Look Around You director Tim Kirkby, from a script by Knoxville and Silicon Valley’s John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. That’s a pretty top-loaded team for a movie that sounds like an excuse to film a hundred takes of dudes getting smacked in the nuts by a Tilt-a-Whirl, but Knoxville has earned a little leeway from Paramount; their last collaboration, 2013’s Bad Grandpa, managed to bring in $152 million on a $15 million budget.
- 1/31/2017
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
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Chicago – With the 51st Chicago International Film Festival now history, photographer Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com has collected his portrait highlights. Opening Night – October 15th, 2015 – was a Red-Carpet Extravaganza, with many notable personalities of the Festival making their way through the gauntlet of press and photographers. HollywoodChicago.com was also there, to collect some voices behind the images.
Filmmaker AGNÉS Varda
Agnés Varda is a living legend, an influencer on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s (“Cléo from 5 to 7”) and a social and feminist commentator through her film, photography and art installation.
HollywoodChicago.com: Where does the origin of film as an art form reside in your mind and perspective?
Agnés Varda: Look around you, it is a feast of cinema here. [Pointing to the Chicago International Film Festival logo] I would like to go back there and meet again the eyes of Theda Bara,...
Chicago – With the 51st Chicago International Film Festival now history, photographer Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com has collected his portrait highlights. Opening Night – October 15th, 2015 – was a Red-Carpet Extravaganza, with many notable personalities of the Festival making their way through the gauntlet of press and photographers. HollywoodChicago.com was also there, to collect some voices behind the images.
Filmmaker AGNÉS Varda
Agnés Varda is a living legend, an influencer on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s (“Cléo from 5 to 7”) and a social and feminist commentator through her film, photography and art installation.
HollywoodChicago.com: Where does the origin of film as an art form reside in your mind and perspective?
Agnés Varda: Look around you, it is a feast of cinema here. [Pointing to the Chicago International Film Festival logo] I would like to go back there and meet again the eyes of Theda Bara,...
- 11/1/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
#Gladiators, I don't know what's going on this season, but Scandal is completely stepping it up after the messy and uninspired season four, which, while not an all-out disaster, like my middle-school look of bangs and colorful stretchy polyester fabrics, or, as its known in the streets, "going full Blossom," it was certainly making its legion of faithful viewers wonder what was happening to our beloved show. All the sexy intrigue had gone out the window. The Olitz will-they/won't-they was getting repetitive. Once-moving characters like Huck and Cy were reduced to one-dimensional caricatures of their former selves. And catchphrases that once meant something quickly wore out their welcome. I mean, how many times did we have to hear Jake and Olivia talk about metaphorically standing in the sun while they were literally, physically standing in the goddamn sun? I wanted to be like, "Hi, ya goofy heauxs! Look around you.
- 10/23/2015
- by Phoebe Robinson
- Vulture
"Look around you, James... everything you ever stood for... a ruin!" Sony Pictures has unveiled two kick ass, action-packed new TV spots for the next Bond movie Spectre, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig as Agent 007. The most recent spot just debuted this weekend, and will likely be showing on TV in primetime spots starting this week. This looks so amazing and I really can't wait to see it, Bond at his best with lots of characters and twisted plots and a formidable villain. I'm still very curious to see whether Christoph Waltz is who we all think he is, and why Léa Seydoux is so important she's always with Bond, or if there is someone else hiding in the shadows running Spectre. Only a few weeks left until we find out. Here's the latest TV spots for Sam Mendes' Bond movie Spectre, direct from Sony Pictures'...
- 10/19/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Read More: 7 Best Screenwriting Apps to Make Life Easier Following the debut of Ozo, its new virtual reality camera, earlier this week, Nokia has partnered up with Tongal, the creative content platform, to launch "Look Around You," a groundbreaking new virtual reality filmmaking competition. Nokia and Tongal are accepting 500-character concept submissions for an original virtual reality film. The top two concepts from the pool of submissions will be rewarded $1,000 each and will advance to the second round, which begins August 26. For the second round, Nokia and Tongal will invite filmmakers to submit production proposals and compete for the chance to not only win the opportunity to shoot their proposal, but also receive $20,000 in funding and access to an Ozo camera for the shoot. The grand prize winner will receive their own Ozo camera. To submit your pitch, click here. Read More: Attention, Filmmakers: Submit Your Script for The Black List Fall.
- 7/30/2015
- by Shipra Harbola Gupta
- Indiewire
The mysteries of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar deepen today with a massive update to the film's official site. Visitors are now greeted with messages like "Look Around You" and "The Answer Lies Above Us" as they're granted the power to rotate a 360 degree image of one of the film's key locations. What's particularly intriguing, however, is that the site seems to be based on vistors' own local time and geography, offering very different skies depending on where and when the site is accessed.
- 7/29/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Director: Gillies MacKinnon; Screenwriter: Ian Kershaw; Starring: Eddie Izzard, Karl Davies, Laura Fraser, Julian Rhind-Tutt, David Hayman, Celyn Jones; Running time: 89 mins; Certificate: Tbc
Look around you. Notice the distinct lack of swastikas lining every street? The world would have been a very different place had it not been for heroes like Robert Watson Watt, the subject of Gillies MacKinnon's absorbing film. Boasting a majestic leading performance from Eddie Izzard, Castles in the Sky conveys the triumph of innovation and tenacity against opponents fighting for the same side during World War II.
It's remarkable that the Battle of Britain wasn't a victory for Adolf Hitler, with his Luftwaffe outnumbering Raf planes by a shocking 3:1. This result was determined by Robert Watson Watt (Izzard), a likeable ball of eccentricity who conjured up an idea on how to detect approaching enemy aircraft from afar. Not that the government bureaucrats were impressed,...
Look around you. Notice the distinct lack of swastikas lining every street? The world would have been a very different place had it not been for heroes like Robert Watson Watt, the subject of Gillies MacKinnon's absorbing film. Boasting a majestic leading performance from Eddie Izzard, Castles in the Sky conveys the triumph of innovation and tenacity against opponents fighting for the same side during World War II.
It's remarkable that the Battle of Britain wasn't a victory for Adolf Hitler, with his Luftwaffe outnumbering Raf planes by a shocking 3:1. This result was determined by Robert Watson Watt (Izzard), a likeable ball of eccentricity who conjured up an idea on how to detect approaching enemy aircraft from afar. Not that the government bureaucrats were impressed,...
- 6/24/2014
- Digital Spy
BBC Two is 50 - the British Broadcasting Corporation's second eldest child hits the half-century mark today - Sunday, April 20.
Picking out the greatest shows from five decades of broadcasting seems like a near-impossible task, but never say that Digital Spy is easily cowed. These are - in our humble opinion - the channel's finest ever offerings.
BBC Two is 50: The Hour, Bottom and more shows to bring back
The rules are as follows: shows like Red Dwarf that originated on BBC Two are eligible, but shows better associated with another channel are not - say Top of the Pops, which aired on BBC One for the majority of its run but shifted to the sister channel for its final episodes.
Oh, and we're talking only original commissions - so no Us imports either. But even that barely narrows it down, so if you think there are any glaring omissions,...
Picking out the greatest shows from five decades of broadcasting seems like a near-impossible task, but never say that Digital Spy is easily cowed. These are - in our humble opinion - the channel's finest ever offerings.
BBC Two is 50: The Hour, Bottom and more shows to bring back
The rules are as follows: shows like Red Dwarf that originated on BBC Two are eligible, but shows better associated with another channel are not - say Top of the Pops, which aired on BBC One for the majority of its run but shifted to the sister channel for its final episodes.
Oh, and we're talking only original commissions - so no Us imports either. But even that barely narrows it down, so if you think there are any glaring omissions,...
- 4/20/2014
- Digital Spy
Scandal star Josh Malina’s picks for his favorite criminally underrated TV shows range from eerie French drama Les Revenants to British comedy Look Around You. See what else he thinks deserves more love below:
Slings and Arrows
This Canadian series created by Mark McKinney, Susan Coyne, and Bob Martin, focuses on the backstage antics at the fictitious New Burbage Theatre Festival. Each of its three seasons focuses on a production of a different Shakespeare play. The sharp writing makes for a show that is biting and funny and suprisingly complex.
Les Revenants
People long dead begin returning to a...
Slings and Arrows
This Canadian series created by Mark McKinney, Susan Coyne, and Bob Martin, focuses on the backstage antics at the fictitious New Burbage Theatre Festival. Each of its three seasons focuses on a production of a different Shakespeare play. The sharp writing makes for a show that is biting and funny and suprisingly complex.
Les Revenants
People long dead begin returning to a...
- 3/20/2014
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside TV
The Following Episode 209
“Unmasked”
Written By: Vincent Angell
Directed By: : Nicole Kassell
Original Airdate: 17 March 2014
In This Episode…
Micah wants to make a “big splash,” like Lily did. Joe places a call to Jana for her help, though I’m not really sure what help that is. Anyway, Micah dons a hood and elaborate mask and sits to make a video, with Joe at the controls. Micah is not a natural and soon is distracted when Emma and Robert come in. He greets them with hugs, his “first messengers,” then tells him he is adding a third to the mix, Lance. Lance has experience with killing, but he has been in the dungeon for a while, after cutting off a girl’s ear because he didn’t like the way she looked. “But don’t worry - he is very devoted to me,” Micah promises. He takes Robert to go get the weapons,...
“Unmasked”
Written By: Vincent Angell
Directed By: : Nicole Kassell
Original Airdate: 17 March 2014
In This Episode…
Micah wants to make a “big splash,” like Lily did. Joe places a call to Jana for her help, though I’m not really sure what help that is. Anyway, Micah dons a hood and elaborate mask and sits to make a video, with Joe at the controls. Micah is not a natural and soon is distracted when Emma and Robert come in. He greets them with hugs, his “first messengers,” then tells him he is adding a third to the mix, Lance. Lance has experience with killing, but he has been in the dungeon for a while, after cutting off a girl’s ear because he didn’t like the way she looked. “But don’t worry - he is very devoted to me,” Micah promises. He takes Robert to go get the weapons,...
- 3/18/2014
- by Alyse Wax
- FEARnet
Feature James Clayton 14 Feb 2014 - 05:49
With Her out on Valentines Day, James considers the topic of romance in the movies, and love in the techno-savvy 21st century...
Happy Valentine's Day! Hip hip hooray for the over-commercial super-sappy celebration of romance and close personal relationships! I hope that this column finds you all swept up in sweet emotions and lovely feelings. I hope that you're now breathless and gasping for air having been submerged beneath a sea of affectionate greeting cards, chocolate boxes and sexual propositions from attractive strangers.
If not, use your imagination - it's so much better than reality, especially if reality is disappointing you on Valentine's Day. Today you should be feeling the love and experiencing things that are 'romantic'. Romantic action might be quite rare for many and that probably makes this novel - albeit, suspect - cultural event all the more worthwhile. Love needs to...
With Her out on Valentines Day, James considers the topic of romance in the movies, and love in the techno-savvy 21st century...
Happy Valentine's Day! Hip hip hooray for the over-commercial super-sappy celebration of romance and close personal relationships! I hope that this column finds you all swept up in sweet emotions and lovely feelings. I hope that you're now breathless and gasping for air having been submerged beneath a sea of affectionate greeting cards, chocolate boxes and sexual propositions from attractive strangers.
If not, use your imagination - it's so much better than reality, especially if reality is disappointing you on Valentine's Day. Today you should be feeling the love and experiencing things that are 'romantic'. Romantic action might be quite rare for many and that probably makes this novel - albeit, suspect - cultural event all the more worthwhile. Love needs to...
- 2/13/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
2013 is drawing to a close, so the Digital Spy team has picked the TV heroes and villains that made us laugh, cheer and jeer this year - from cops to convicts, from politicians to gangsters, from meth dealers to reality TV stars... here are our picks for the standout TV characters from the past 12 months.
Steven Toast, Toast of London - Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
Matt Berry will be familiar to comedy fans thanks to his role as Douglas Reynholm in The It Crowd, but its cult gems like Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Snuff Box that really got the most out of him. He found his best role yet this year in Toast of London, a sitcom focused around his London luvvie Steven Toast. A vain and egotistical actor with a moustache that'd make Burt Reynolds envious, Toast, like great British sitcom characters Partridge and Brent before him, is a...
Steven Toast, Toast of London - Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
Matt Berry will be familiar to comedy fans thanks to his role as Douglas Reynholm in The It Crowd, but its cult gems like Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Snuff Box that really got the most out of him. He found his best role yet this year in Toast of London, a sitcom focused around his London luvvie Steven Toast. A vain and egotistical actor with a moustache that'd make Burt Reynolds envious, Toast, like great British sitcom characters Partridge and Brent before him, is a...
- 12/22/2013
- Digital Spy
The writer-director on silly sitcom Toast of London, Stuart Maconie's pop history and the force of Gravity
Writer and director Edgar Wright first joined forces with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes and Nira Park to create C4's cult sitcom Spaced in 1999. Continuing the collaboration, he co-wrote and directed the Cornetto film trilogy – Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007) and The World's End (2013). In 2010, Wright made the action comedy Scott Pilgrim vs the World, before teaming up with Steven Moffat and Joe Cornish to write The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. The World's End is out now as a download or on DVD and Blu-ray.
Music: Reflektor by Arcade Fire
I've always been a fan of Arcade Fire, but this album I find even more hypnotic. It's interesting because it got a slightly mixed reaction: either rave reviews or people not liking it at all,...
Writer and director Edgar Wright first joined forces with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes and Nira Park to create C4's cult sitcom Spaced in 1999. Continuing the collaboration, he co-wrote and directed the Cornetto film trilogy – Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007) and The World's End (2013). In 2010, Wright made the action comedy Scott Pilgrim vs the World, before teaming up with Steven Moffat and Joe Cornish to write The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. The World's End is out now as a download or on DVD and Blu-ray.
Music: Reflektor by Arcade Fire
I've always been a fan of Arcade Fire, but this album I find even more hypnotic. It's interesting because it got a slightly mixed reaction: either rave reviews or people not liking it at all,...
- 12/8/2013
- by Leah Harper
- The Guardian - Film News
Domhnall Gleeson, Hollywood's newest leading man would like to stress two things: His new movie is super weird, and he's really hungry. Gleeson, 30, leads Richard Curtis' ("Love Actually") quirky new time travel movie, "About Time." Not quirky in that the protagonists wear glasses and have bangs (well, Gleeson's co-star Rachel McAdams has bangs, but she calls it "fringe," so she gets a pass), but that the movie is anything but a typical rom-com.
"It's a bizarre film," Gleeson told NextMovie during a September conversation in New York City. "There's time travel, there's craziness and all the rest, but it's romantic comedy and there's big bits and big comedy and all the rest of it."
Best known for playing Bill Weasley in later installments of the "Harry Potter" series, Gleeson steps up to the plate as Tim in the unconventional new movie, which opens wide on November 8. The year he...
"It's a bizarre film," Gleeson told NextMovie during a September conversation in New York City. "There's time travel, there's craziness and all the rest, but it's romantic comedy and there's big bits and big comedy and all the rest of it."
Best known for playing Bill Weasley in later installments of the "Harry Potter" series, Gleeson steps up to the plate as Tim in the unconventional new movie, which opens wide on November 8. The year he...
- 11/5/2013
- by Kase Wickman
- NextMovie
You know him from the likes of Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead. Or science goof Look Around You, or his many hilarious impressions. Or even as the comic gold mine that is Brian Butterfield. But Peter Serafinowicz has also been building a reputation as a director, working on music videos for bands such as Hot Chip. He’s now branching out on to the big screen with his film-directing debut, I See What You Did There.Twitch brings word that Serafinowicz has co-written the script with Yes Man’s Danny Wallace, and it’s apparently a dark comedy. I See What You Did There finds a comedian going ballistic and killing a particularly annoying heckler, only to discover that his biggest fan has witnessed the crime. Definite shades of The King Of Comedy, Misery, and even I Know What You Did Last Summer.With the writing team now hard...
- 7/16/2013
- EmpireOnline
A long time favorite in these parts since catching our eye in shows such as How Do You Want Me and his drily hilarious Look Around You - to say nothing of his stint as the voice of Darth Maul, his appearances in Spaced and Shaun of the Dead, and his show stealing turn as Fa'ad on Running Wilde - Peter Serafinowicz is about to make a major splash in the feature world. And, no, I'm not talking about his rumored addition to the cast of James Gunn's Guardians Of The Galaxy. Or the new Muppets movie, either. No, the thing that will soon make fans of the comedian very happy indeed - while hopefully generating a whole lot more fans - is Serafinowicz's debut...
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- 7/15/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Whether you know her as Division mainstay Alex or Russian socialite Alexandra Udinov, one thing is certain: Life dealt a difficult hand to Lyndsy Fonseca‘s Nikita alter ego. And to hear the actress tell it, things aren’t going to get any easier — at least not during the first half of the CW saga’s current third season.
Here, Fonseca chats with TVLine about this week’s installment, which showcases the calm before Alex’s impending storm. She also reveals the twist ahead that drives the once drug-addled agent to relapse, the truth about what’s really going on between ‘Salex’ and more.
Here, Fonseca chats with TVLine about this week’s installment, which showcases the calm before Alex’s impending storm. She also reveals the twist ahead that drives the once drug-addled agent to relapse, the truth about what’s really going on between ‘Salex’ and more.
- 10/25/2012
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
Danger 5
Directed by Dario Russo
Created by Dario Russo and David Ashby
2012, Australia
In Danger 5 an elite force of international specialist stop at nothing to thwart Hitler’s insidious schemes in this bizarro alternate reality comedy series created by Dario Russo and David Ashby. As with their bogus obscure 60′s euro-spiderman ripoff Italian Spiderman, Russo and Ashby go to great lengths to recreate the look and feel of pulp TV for Danger 5, but where the former played it so straight one might think you were watching the real deal – Danger 5 clearly aims for the absurd. The show which is produced for Australian TV bears more than a passing resemblance to another great action adventure series Thunderbirds (as well as subsequent parodies The Golords and Team America). My hunch is that the homage is intended.
Each episode of D5 more or less begins with a briefing by Chestbridge,...
Directed by Dario Russo
Created by Dario Russo and David Ashby
2012, Australia
In Danger 5 an elite force of international specialist stop at nothing to thwart Hitler’s insidious schemes in this bizarro alternate reality comedy series created by Dario Russo and David Ashby. As with their bogus obscure 60′s euro-spiderman ripoff Italian Spiderman, Russo and Ashby go to great lengths to recreate the look and feel of pulp TV for Danger 5, but where the former played it so straight one might think you were watching the real deal – Danger 5 clearly aims for the absurd. The show which is produced for Australian TV bears more than a passing resemblance to another great action adventure series Thunderbirds (as well as subsequent parodies The Golords and Team America). My hunch is that the homage is intended.
Each episode of D5 more or less begins with a briefing by Chestbridge,...
- 9/26/2012
- by Scott Colquitt
- SoundOnSight
Airtight Games takes the new Interdimensional Shift Device (Ids) out for a spin.
Looking a lot like a missing scene from the UK series Look Around You, this video from "Quadwrangle Productions" invites you to "say goodbye to the laws of physics." Besides the brief, goofy examination of time, we get some in-game footage at the end, showing off the physics-bending functions of the Ids.
Here's the synopsis for the summer downloadable release:
In Quantum Conundrum, players take on the role of a kid dropped off on his uncle's doorstep for the weekend; his uncle just happens to the be the brilliant, eccentric inventor Professor Fitz Quadwrangle. Upon entering the Professor's vast manor home retrofitted with crazy technology to test his hypotheses, players quickly realize their uncle has gone missing. Fortunately, players gain access to Professor Quadwrangle's latest invention, the Inter-Dimensional Shift Device which at the press of a button...
Looking a lot like a missing scene from the UK series Look Around You, this video from "Quadwrangle Productions" invites you to "say goodbye to the laws of physics." Besides the brief, goofy examination of time, we get some in-game footage at the end, showing off the physics-bending functions of the Ids.
Here's the synopsis for the summer downloadable release:
In Quantum Conundrum, players take on the role of a kid dropped off on his uncle's doorstep for the weekend; his uncle just happens to the be the brilliant, eccentric inventor Professor Fitz Quadwrangle. Upon entering the Professor's vast manor home retrofitted with crazy technology to test his hypotheses, players quickly realize their uncle has gone missing. Fortunately, players gain access to Professor Quadwrangle's latest invention, the Inter-Dimensional Shift Device which at the press of a button...
- 5/18/2012
- by Charles Webb
- MTV Multiplayer
When I recently met author, strategist and coach Tony Robbins backstage at a taping of Oprah Winfrey's ground-breaking series Lifeclass, the first thing I was struck by was his sheer size. He is a somewhat startling six-feet-seven, yet he comes across like a loving, gentle giant, and when he talks to you he gives you his full magnetic attention. He is known for being an exuberantly charming, inspiring, energetic and articulate speaker and is also a huggably nice, caring person and a generous humanitarian. The New York Times calls Tony Robbins "the high priest of human potential." In the course of his impressive career, he has advised a diversity of luminaries including Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa and three U.S. presidents, and CEOs, Olympic athletes and individuals all over the world regularly consult with him for his guidance. Countless more people have been transformed by his extensive selection of books,...
- 4/29/2012
- by Marianne Schnall
- Aol TV.
Don Draper, according to his spurned ex Faye, "only likes the beginnings of things." Is the show's audience in the same camp?
Well, not quite. Devotees of the show tend to be in raving-fan mode during the last third of each season, but "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner has detected a pattern in how seasons of his show are received. Audiences usually like the season premiere -- and they're even more primed to enjoy the Season 5 premiere, given how long they had to wait for it. But in his experience of past seasons, they start carping around the time of the second episode.
"They get irritated and ornery and talk about how crappy it is," he told HuffPost TV with a laugh.
There's something to Weiner's theory, though I think it's around the third or fourth episode that the "where is this going" grumbling tends to crest. But there's certainly...
Well, not quite. Devotees of the show tend to be in raving-fan mode during the last third of each season, but "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner has detected a pattern in how seasons of his show are received. Audiences usually like the season premiere -- and they're even more primed to enjoy the Season 5 premiere, given how long they had to wait for it. But in his experience of past seasons, they start carping around the time of the second episode.
"They get irritated and ornery and talk about how crappy it is," he told HuffPost TV with a laugh.
There's something to Weiner's theory, though I think it's around the third or fourth episode that the "where is this going" grumbling tends to crest. But there's certainly...
- 3/21/2012
- by Maureen Ryan
- Huffington Post
Don Draper, according to his spurned ex Faye, "only likes the beginnings of things." Is the show's audience in the same camp?
Well, not quite. Devotees of the show tend to be in raving-fan mode during the last third of each season, but "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner has detected a pattern in how seasons of his show are received. Audiences usually like the season premiere -- and they're even more primed to enjoy the Season 5 premiere, given how long they had to wait for it. But in his experience of past seasons, they start carping around the time of the second episode.
"They get irritated and ornery and talk about how crappy it is," he told HuffPost TV with a laugh.
There's something to Weiner's theory, though I think it's around the third or fourth episode that the "where is this going" grumbling tends to crest. But there's certainly...
Well, not quite. Devotees of the show tend to be in raving-fan mode during the last third of each season, but "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner has detected a pattern in how seasons of his show are received. Audiences usually like the season premiere -- and they're even more primed to enjoy the Season 5 premiere, given how long they had to wait for it. But in his experience of past seasons, they start carping around the time of the second episode.
"They get irritated and ornery and talk about how crappy it is," he told HuffPost TV with a laugh.
There's something to Weiner's theory, though I think it's around the third or fourth episode that the "where is this going" grumbling tends to crest. But there's certainly...
- 3/21/2012
- by Maureen Ryan
- Aol TV.
It’s time for a Celebrity Optical Illusion! Is this photo… Brad Pitt’s New Look: Orrrrrr is it actually Ricky Martin’s New ‘Brad Pitt’S New Look’ Look: The photo on the left of ‘Brad Pitt’ was Ricky Martin This Whole Time!!! (- Rejected treatment for the sequel “The Seventh Sense”) The photo is pretty clearly not Brad Pitt when it’s blown up to full-size, but Ricky Martin’s new “mustache” look looks like he’s trying to look like he’s Brad Pitt sporting a new “mustache” look when you look at him from a distance, until you look at him up close and it just looks like Ricky Martin looking very slightly like he’s sporting a look that Brad Pitt once looked like. This explanation brought to you by Look Around You. (Brad pics viaGetty Images, Ricky pic via Splash)...
- 3/13/2012
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
In honor of the internet’s tireless ongoing attempt to make award shows watchable, we at Bwe present this roundup of 50 Oscar Tweets Funnier Than The Actual 2012 Oscars. And if you don’t enjoy them, at the very least, they’ll take you two hours and fifty-some less minutes to sit through. Please enjoy, share, Retweet, whatever, just so the work of these brave, patient internet souls was not in vain (semi-nsfw): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. On Best Animated Short winner Brandon Oldenburg: 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. On the Cirque Du Soleil performance: 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. On this balcony musician (and our favorite Look Around You character): 26. 27. 28. 29. 30-35. Michael Showalter spent the night Livetweeting Michael Ian Black’s Tweets, and it’s amazing. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
- 2/27/2012
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
After sitcoms and serious drama, Olivia Colman is about to start West End rehearsals in a Noel Coward classic
Tomorrow morning, Olivia Colman is alarmed to remind herself, she is due at the first rehearsal for a West End play. "It is Hay Fever by Noël Coward. And I am very nervous about going back on the stage. I am playing Myra, or Myrna, is it?"
Colman will be appearing alongside Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Northam, David Haig and Freddie Fox, but the list of illustrious co-stars does not help. "I used to do stage all the time, but it has been such a long time. I feel they are all going to be shaking their heads soon enough, saying to each other, 'I can see we are going to have to carry this one.'"
The 37-year-old has applied her subversive wit to a wide selection of critically acclaimed television comedies over the past decade,...
Tomorrow morning, Olivia Colman is alarmed to remind herself, she is due at the first rehearsal for a West End play. "It is Hay Fever by Noël Coward. And I am very nervous about going back on the stage. I am playing Myra, or Myrna, is it?"
Colman will be appearing alongside Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Northam, David Haig and Freddie Fox, but the list of illustrious co-stars does not help. "I used to do stage all the time, but it has been such a long time. I feel they are all going to be shaking their heads soon enough, saying to each other, 'I can see we are going to have to carry this one.'"
The 37-year-old has applied her subversive wit to a wide selection of critically acclaimed television comedies over the past decade,...
- 1/8/2012
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Back again. So losing track of time lately. Fridays as Mondays. Thursdays as Fridays. When am I? Saturday Am? What? But here's the promised second part of the Q&A column. I loved the James Dean question and the Spice Girl question but I'll have to give them their own post or something later because my brain can't deal with their enormity tonight.
Here are a few more questions I wanted to / could answer. As always, I love to hear your answers to the same questions or your responses to mine in the comments.
Matthew: Choose three Oscar-nom'ed/winning actresses from the Aughts whose careers are most in need of redirecting and explain how you would help get them back on track.
I would've said Charlize Theron a year ago but -- yay -- totally back on track these days.
I want to start with Ellen Page. She gets work regularly but Whip It,...
Here are a few more questions I wanted to / could answer. As always, I love to hear your answers to the same questions or your responses to mine in the comments.
Matthew: Choose three Oscar-nom'ed/winning actresses from the Aughts whose careers are most in need of redirecting and explain how you would help get them back on track.
I would've said Charlize Theron a year ago but -- yay -- totally back on track these days.
I want to start with Ellen Page. She gets work regularly but Whip It,...
- 11/12/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
There's something fairground-like about The Beast Below. Looking at the story again after my initial first reactions in April 2010, the first thing that strikes me is that the setting reminds me a bit of a trip to the fair. A down-and-out fair on a rainy day, I'll grant you, but then we have... The Doctor and Amy dodging what looks like a non-stop line of hoopla stalls and market stands of cheap bling that fell off the back of a lorry. The Demon Headmaster skulking in a doomy ticket vestibule. The Doctor and Amy taking the unorthodox slide of a lifetime. And of course, too many kids. That should give you a clue as to the writer...
Yes, who else but the current main man, Steven Moffat? Seems he can't get through writing a Doctor Who story without including some pasty-faced young scamp. Think of young Reinette or young Amy.
Yes, who else but the current main man, Steven Moffat? Seems he can't get through writing a Doctor Who story without including some pasty-faced young scamp. Think of young Reinette or young Amy.
- 10/26/2011
- Shadowlocked
Peter Serafinowicz, found talking about movies each week as the host of Orange’s Film Night Live, is a towering colossus of comedy. Huge on Twitter (follow him here, and for that matter, us here!) and somehow even bigger in real life, he has appeared in films, British and American sitcoms and had his own sketch show. He’s something of cult hero, with his brand of silliness and anti-humour standing out from some of today’s more mainstream comedy.
I find Peter sitting at a table in a Notting Hill cafe, and proceed to interrupt his lunch for the following half an hour with inane questions. I greet him with a polite “hebbo” (the greeting of his and Robert Popper’s religion, Tarvuism) and jump right in.
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HeyUGuys: You’re co-creator of a religion – what does the future hold for Tarvuism?
Peter: Robert Popper and I would really...
I find Peter sitting at a table in a Notting Hill cafe, and proceed to interrupt his lunch for the following half an hour with inane questions. I greet him with a polite “hebbo” (the greeting of his and Robert Popper’s religion, Tarvuism) and jump right in.
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HeyUGuys: You’re co-creator of a religion – what does the future hold for Tarvuism?
Peter: Robert Popper and I would really...
- 9/29/2011
- by Guest
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Simon Bird has revealed that he is excited about the return of Friday Night Dinner. Channel 4 ordered a second series of the comedy, created by Robert Popper, back in March. "Robert Popper is writing the second series at the moment, so hopefully we'll start filming early next year," Bird told TV Choice. Inbetweeners star Bird added that he had always been a "massive fan" of Look Around You star Popper. "I always knew I wanted to work with him," he said. "It was exciting (more)...
- 8/24/2011
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
I never thought I’d be alive to see a Captain America movie hit the big screen with a big ol Hollywood studio budget. Look around you — cheapie Reality TV shows “starring” fame whoring whores all over the networks (and don’t even get me started on the quality wasteland that is basic cable), and post-modern hip kids that are so post-modern and hip that their only entertainment value now is to be killed off viciously in the “Scream” films. In a world like that, where does a unhip, unironic Captain America fit in? The guy wears his patriotism on his sleeves (literally!), for God’s sake. Why would Hollywood make such a movie in such an environment? Thank God for Marvel, because they did, and so I give you … Captain America! (Insert patriotic theme song as sung by Whitney Houston, preferably live.) Chris Evans stars as Steve Rogers, who,...
- 7/22/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
July on BBC America (@BBCAmerica) brings the best of British comedy to the U.S. in a two-hour block, Ministry of Laughs (#MinistryofLaughs), every Saturday night. Hosted by Chris Hardwick of the Nerdist, the collection features series from the UK including two new family comedies, Friday Night Dinner and Outnumbered, and the UK.s biggest talk show The Graham Norton Show. Ministry of Laughs airs Saturdays, 10:00pm to midnight Et/Pt. Friday Night Dinner . U.S. Premiere Every family has their quirks and the Goodmans prove that they are no exception in Friday Night Dinner, a new comedy, created by Robert Popper (South Park, Peep Show, Look Around You). Some things never change and for the Goodmans it.s their weekly dinner,...
- 6/16/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
BBC America.s new, two hour, comedy zone, Ministry of Laughs, showcases a new generation of British comedy. Beginning June 18, the lineup includes The Inbetweeners, with an all-new season of the BAFTA winning comedy; Come Fly With Me, the new project from Matt Lucas and David Walliams, creators and writers of their genre-breaking comedy Little Britain and The Graham Norton Show, the UK.s most popular talk show. Also premiering in August is Friday Night Dinner created and written by Robert Popper (Look Around You, South Park, Peep Show). Ministry of Laughs premieres June 18, 10:00 pm - midnight Et/Pt. Perry Simon, General Manager, Channels, BBC Worldwide America says: .There.s nothing quite like British comedy...
- 6/16/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
The comedian has recently turned his hand to directing music videos – with spectacularly odd results. We asked him how it feels to step into a boxing ring with a robot
Shaun of the Dead, Alan Partridge, the voice of Darth Maul ... Peter Serafinowicz boasts an impressive CV. Still, being able to say "You worms are no match for the dark side" in a menacing voice doesn't necessarily mean you're qualified to direct music videos.
This hasn't deterred Serafinowicz, who took up the music video challenge when Hot Chip asked him on Twitter if he fancied directing something for them. He came up with the bonkers video for I Feel Better. Now he's directed a second video – for Alex Metric and Steve Angello's new single Open Your Eyes – a Rocky spoof in which Serafinowicz dons gloves to face a robotic opponent. Thrillingly, it's just as stupid, funny and original as his darkly comic debut.
Shaun of the Dead, Alan Partridge, the voice of Darth Maul ... Peter Serafinowicz boasts an impressive CV. Still, being able to say "You worms are no match for the dark side" in a menacing voice doesn't necessarily mean you're qualified to direct music videos.
This hasn't deterred Serafinowicz, who took up the music video challenge when Hot Chip asked him on Twitter if he fancied directing something for them. He came up with the bonkers video for I Feel Better. Now he's directed a second video – for Alex Metric and Steve Angello's new single Open Your Eyes – a Rocky spoof in which Serafinowicz dons gloves to face a robotic opponent. Thrillingly, it's just as stupid, funny and original as his darkly comic debut.
- 5/4/2011
- by Sarah Bowden
- The Guardian - Film News
I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.
In this episode, I chat with the co-creator/co-writer of Look Around You, creator/writer of Friday Night Dinner, and the man behind Timewaster Robin Cooper, Robert Popper, as we explore birdsong, feces, flowers, and cell-napping.
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In this episode, I chat with the co-creator/co-writer of Look Around You, creator/writer of Friday Night Dinner, and the man behind Timewaster Robin Cooper, Robert Popper, as we explore birdsong, feces, flowers, and cell-napping.
Hope you enjoy…
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- 4/28/2011
- by UncaScroogeMcD
The sci-fi writer's influence stretches far beyond the multiple realities of this week's big movies Source Code and Sucker Punch
Look around you, and tell me we're not now all the children of Philip K Dick. A man who's been dead almost three decades has a grip on our culture so tight that you can detect his eerie premonitory influence almost everywhere you look.
Only a fortnight ago we saw the release of The Adjustment Bureau, from a Dick story, in which fate is finely calibrated and ruthlessly policed by shadowy men in noir-ish fedoras, and reality is as unstable as fantasy. This week's two big movies in the UK, Source Code and Sucker Punch, have no direct link to Dick but drink from the well of his influence. Source Code is about a soldier who can be projected into the mind of any man with eight minutes left to live,...
Look around you, and tell me we're not now all the children of Philip K Dick. A man who's been dead almost three decades has a grip on our culture so tight that you can detect his eerie premonitory influence almost everywhere you look.
Only a fortnight ago we saw the release of The Adjustment Bureau, from a Dick story, in which fate is finely calibrated and ruthlessly policed by shadowy men in noir-ish fedoras, and reality is as unstable as fantasy. This week's two big movies in the UK, Source Code and Sucker Punch, have no direct link to Dick but drink from the well of his influence. Source Code is about a soldier who can be projected into the mind of any man with eight minutes left to live,...
- 3/26/2011
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Robert Popper isn’t a name many people will recognize, but he’s been involved with some of the better British comedies in recent years; most notably his co-writing of ’70s school education film spoof Look Around You with Peter Serafinowicz, which even led to him working on a few episodes of South Park. Popper returns with his first solo project, Friday Night Dinner, which is another example of a recent trend to have sitcoms take place in a restrictive location. It even shares some conceptual DNA with Simon Amstell’s Grandma’s House, as they both involve young people mixing with their middle-aged Jewish relatives.
Friday Night Dinner concerns the Friday night ritual of twentysomething brothers Adam (Simon Bird) and Jonny (Tom Rosenthal) visiting their Mum (Tamsin Greig) and Dad (Paul Ritter) for Shabbat. Needless to say, their parents are an eccentric couple: Mum’s obsessed with recording the...
Friday Night Dinner concerns the Friday night ritual of twentysomething brothers Adam (Simon Bird) and Jonny (Tom Rosenthal) visiting their Mum (Tamsin Greig) and Dad (Paul Ritter) for Shabbat. Needless to say, their parents are an eccentric couple: Mum’s obsessed with recording the...
- 2/26/2011
- by Dan Owen
- Obsessed with Film
Will Now Spend The Rest Of His Life Saying 'It's Still Being Written' In Interviews If you're not familiar with Peter Serafinowicz, rest assured, he's a very, very funny man. First coming to prominence as the voice of Darth Maul in "The Phantom Menace," the actor spent years cropping up in the best of British comedies like "Spaced," "Black Books" and "Look Around You," as well as a major supporting role in "Shaun of the Dead." In recent years, however, he's gone from strength to strength; with his absurdist sketch show "The Peter Serafinowicz Show" becoming a cult hit (watch…...
- 2/4/2011
- The Playlist
British culture is going through a blue period, with actors, musicians and artists all happily admitting that they're privately educated Conservative toffs. What happened?
You may have missed it, but early last month, a very telling photograph appeared in the newspapers. Snapped on New Year's Day by a couple out for a walk on Coombe Hill in the Chilterns, it featured a party of eight – including David and Samantha Cameron, education secretary Michael Gove, film director Tim Burton, and the latter's extremely posh other half Helena Bonham Carter. According to subsequent gossip, the latter couple had been introduced to the Camerons by Bonham Carter's one-time Westminster school contemporary Nick Clegg. Others suggest that the two couples have been friends for years.
The group had reportedly stayed at Chequers, the prime minister's country retreat, on New Year's Eve – where the conversation doubtless turned to Bonham Carter's role in The King's Speech,...
You may have missed it, but early last month, a very telling photograph appeared in the newspapers. Snapped on New Year's Day by a couple out for a walk on Coombe Hill in the Chilterns, it featured a party of eight – including David and Samantha Cameron, education secretary Michael Gove, film director Tim Burton, and the latter's extremely posh other half Helena Bonham Carter. According to subsequent gossip, the latter couple had been introduced to the Camerons by Bonham Carter's one-time Westminster school contemporary Nick Clegg. Others suggest that the two couples have been friends for years.
The group had reportedly stayed at Chequers, the prime minister's country retreat, on New Year's Eve – where the conversation doubtless turned to Bonham Carter's role in The King's Speech,...
- 2/4/2011
- by John Harris
- The Guardian - Film News
Look around you. There’s inspiration to be absorbed from every individual. May it be from the way they carry themselves to the way they speak to the way they live their lives. Some people are carefree, laid-back and have an almost “devil-may-care” approach to life. They face problems as they come, never stress, and smile in the face of adversity. That’s inspiring. Some people push their luck to the best possible limit, burn the midnight oil and personify the very essence of ‘hard work’. That’s inspiring too.<Brone night.<Br nightmarish and day living every with out it battled on plunged she ...
- 11/17/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
Earlier this year Peter Serafinowicz - currently starring in Running Wilde - and his Look Around You cohort Robert Popper delved deep into the documentary history of Great Britain, a trip wherein they discovered non-existent documentarian Lee Titt and his short subject film Markets Of Britain. We missed it at the time but we've found it now and if you have yet to have a Popper / Serafinowicz experience then you are in for a treat. Check it out below.
- 11/15/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Steven Moffat does it again. Over the years he has achieved some remarkable television feats. Not only did he essentially sell his UK version of Friends back to the United States (as Coupling), write the best episodes of Doctor Who during the Russell T. Davies era and eventually take over the running of the show himself, snubbing Spielberg in the process, he and Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who) have now reinvented Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century in spectacular fashion. Note to Guy Ritchie. This is how its done.
The old adage in entertainment is that two similar vehicles come along at roughly the same time. For example, when Armageddon was released in 1998, we also had Deep Impact. When The Illusionist was released, we also had The Prestige. Antz and A Bug's Life, Dante's Peak and Volcano, Iron Eagle and Top Gun. I could go on. Sherlock Holmes is no different.
The old adage in entertainment is that two similar vehicles come along at roughly the same time. For example, when Armageddon was released in 1998, we also had Deep Impact. When The Illusionist was released, we also had The Prestige. Antz and A Bug's Life, Dante's Peak and Volcano, Iron Eagle and Top Gun. I could go on. Sherlock Holmes is no different.
- 8/12/2010
- by Paul Kerton
- TVovermind.com
Cryptozoologists rejoice! Frank Robnik is here to put the steely eye of science to the hidden lives of the world's most mysterious creatures through his Monstrous Wildlife animated documentary shorts. Up first: Everything you will ever need to know about the biology and mating habits of the Tremors underground sand worm, the graboid.
Delivered in a deliciously deadpan style, the spoof of early eighties nature documentaries resembles nothing so much as Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper's UK comedy series Look Around You. Take a look below.
Delivered in a deliciously deadpan style, the spoof of early eighties nature documentaries resembles nothing so much as Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper's UK comedy series Look Around You. Take a look below.
- 8/9/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Deadpan farce so dry Ernie Kovacs might've wanted to use it for kindling, the BBC series Look Around You is the kind of comedy freak you'll never find on an American network. For one thing, it mocks a specific form of old public-service film (old? As in, not new? Not post-2005? Forget it!), and for another, the episodes are each nine minutes long. (The whole first season, now available on DVD, is packed into 71 minutes.) How and when was this thing broadcast?...
- 7/28/2010
- Movieline
The Panel: Things were decidedly casual, with the panel featuring only Look Around You stars/creators Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper. It.s fitting, though, given the show is a spoof of .70s science education videos viewed by the two growing up. This is a personal project, so no one else had to talk about it. The pair bantered back and forth, showed clips from the few 10-minute episodes, and bantered some more.
Show, Not Tell: There was a clip of the show to kick things off, containing random snippets from a bunch of first season episodes. If you didn.t know the format the show takes, those clips might have been a bit too random to... More >>...
Show, Not Tell: There was a clip of the show to kick things off, containing random snippets from a bunch of first season episodes. If you didn.t know the format the show takes, those clips might have been a bit too random to... More >>...
- 7/23/2010
- by Steve Heisler
- TV.com
The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Fred Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
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Children of the 70’s and 80’s remember well the overly-earnest, deadly-dry, unintentionally laughable educational films and programs that were a regular staple of the classroom. Well, the brilliant Peter Serafinowicz & Robert Popper have taken that fertile ground and crafted a magnificently bent parody in Look Around You (BBC, Not Rated, DVD-$24.98 Srp), the first season of which makes its long-awaited Stateside DVD debut in a special...
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Children of the 70’s and 80’s remember well the overly-earnest, deadly-dry, unintentionally laughable educational films and programs that were a regular staple of the classroom. Well, the brilliant Peter Serafinowicz & Robert Popper have taken that fertile ground and crafted a magnificently bent parody in Look Around You (BBC, Not Rated, DVD-$24.98 Srp), the first season of which makes its long-awaited Stateside DVD debut in a special...
- 7/23/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
Welcome to our weekly round-up of featured giveaways here at Fred. Every week, we’ll present a new clutch of DVDs, books, and other cool stuff you can take a shot at winning. All you have to do is click on the graphics below to be taken to their respective contest pages. And good luck!
In conjunction with BBC Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of Look Around You: Season 1 on DVD.
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In conjunction with New Video, we’re giving away five (5) copies of Red Vs. Blue: Season 6 on DVD.
In...
In conjunction with BBC Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of Look Around You: Season 1 on DVD.
In conjunction with MTV Home Video, we’re giving away five (5) copies of Jersey Shore: Season 1 on DVD.
In conjunction with History Channel Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of Life After People: Season 2 on Blu-Ray.
In conjunction with MGM Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of Stargate Universe 1.5 on DVD.
In conjunction with New Video, we’re giving away five (5) copies of Red Vs. Blue: Season 6 on DVD.
In...
- 7/23/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
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- 7/23/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
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