Juliette Harrisson Nov 8, 2016
We salute some of the finest guest stars of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Some episodes of television are elevated by the performance of the regular actors, and with a star of the calibre of Patrick Stewart, Star Trek: The Next Generation is not short of such episodes. Equally important, however, are the performances of guest actors brought in for a one-off appearance who elevate any scenes in which they take part and work with the regular actors to create something really memorable. This list celebrates some of those performances.
See related Arrow season 5 exclusive: Kevin Smith talks Onomatopoeia The Flash season 3: featurette teases new costumes Legends Of Tomorrow season 2: trailer teases 1980s episode Supergirl season 2: Kevin Smith's behind-the-scenes video
N.B. This list is celebrating guest performers who came in for one, or at most two, guest performances as a specific character...
We salute some of the finest guest stars of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Some episodes of television are elevated by the performance of the regular actors, and with a star of the calibre of Patrick Stewart, Star Trek: The Next Generation is not short of such episodes. Equally important, however, are the performances of guest actors brought in for a one-off appearance who elevate any scenes in which they take part and work with the regular actors to create something really memorable. This list celebrates some of those performances.
See related Arrow season 5 exclusive: Kevin Smith talks Onomatopoeia The Flash season 3: featurette teases new costumes Legends Of Tomorrow season 2: trailer teases 1980s episode Supergirl season 2: Kevin Smith's behind-the-scenes video
N.B. This list is celebrating guest performers who came in for one, or at most two, guest performances as a specific character...
- 10/31/2016
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Oct 19, 2016
The Missing series 2 continues to grip as the twisty story of Alice Webster’s abduction begins to unravel…
This review contains spoilers.
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Like the trusty coma, dementia is the perfect illness for a thriller. It enables writers to store key information inside a character and release it precisely when the plot demands without anyone being able to scream ‘but why didn’t you say that weeks ago?!’. Characters suffering from dementia can legitimately flit in and out of lucidity, giving away nothing until the time comes for them to give away everything. Danny Brocklehurst knew that in 2011 BBC thriller Exile, and the writers of The Missing know it too.
In the present day, we learn that Roger Allam’s Adrian Stone is a dementia sufferer.
The Missing series 2 continues to grip as the twisty story of Alice Webster’s abduction begins to unravel…
This review contains spoilers.
See related Revisiting Star Trek Tng: The Mind's Eye Revisiting Star Trek Tng: The Host Revisiting Star Trek Tng: Half A Life
Like the trusty coma, dementia is the perfect illness for a thriller. It enables writers to store key information inside a character and release it precisely when the plot demands without anyone being able to scream ‘but why didn’t you say that weeks ago?!’. Characters suffering from dementia can legitimately flit in and out of lucidity, giving away nothing until the time comes for them to give away everything. Danny Brocklehurst knew that in 2011 BBC thriller Exile, and the writers of The Missing know it too.
In the present day, we learn that Roger Allam’s Adrian Stone is a dementia sufferer.
- 10/19/2016
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Oct 19, 2016
Does E4 comedy horror Crazyhead, from the creator of Misfits, deserve the title of the British Buffy?
This review contains spoilers.
See related Revisiting Star Trek Tng: The Mind's Eye Revisiting Star Trek Tng: The Host Revisiting Star Trek Tng: Half A Life
Two new youth-skewed fantasy series are arriving on UK TV this week, both billed as 'the British Buffy'. One is Howard Overman’s horror comedy Crazyhead, the other is Patrick Ness’ Doctor Who spin-off Class.
Glossing over the fact that Cbbc has been quietly airing a British Buffy since 2012 in the form of the terrific Wolfblood, on the surface, comparisons to the Joss Whedon series make sense. Class is set in a high school that’s a hub for all things alien and strange while Crazyhead is about a young woman who discovers she’s not a slayer but a “seer”, someone able...
Does E4 comedy horror Crazyhead, from the creator of Misfits, deserve the title of the British Buffy?
This review contains spoilers.
See related Revisiting Star Trek Tng: The Mind's Eye Revisiting Star Trek Tng: The Host Revisiting Star Trek Tng: Half A Life
Two new youth-skewed fantasy series are arriving on UK TV this week, both billed as 'the British Buffy'. One is Howard Overman’s horror comedy Crazyhead, the other is Patrick Ness’ Doctor Who spin-off Class.
Glossing over the fact that Cbbc has been quietly airing a British Buffy since 2012 in the form of the terrific Wolfblood, on the surface, comparisons to the Joss Whedon series make sense. Class is set in a high school that’s a hub for all things alien and strange while Crazyhead is about a young woman who discovers she’s not a slayer but a “seer”, someone able...
- 10/5/2016
- Den of Geek
James Hunt Sep 30, 2016
Dr Crusher is in love in The Host, the latest episode of Star Trek: Tng in James' epic lookback series...
This review contains spoilers.
4.23 The Host
The Enterprise is taking the Trill ambassador Odan to mediate a dispute, and as part of the ship’s full-service medical package Dr Crusher has been giving him a lot of personal attention. They’re in love! It’s horrible. Crusher has just arranged to meet in Odan’s quarters for a little hypospray when he’s summoned to a meeting. And this being the Enterprise, you don’t want to miss a meeting otherwise you won’t have any clue what’s going on for the rest of the week.
The problem is that this planet, Peliar Zel, has two moons. And these moons both have colonists. And the colonists on the Alpha moon are doing something which makes the...
Dr Crusher is in love in The Host, the latest episode of Star Trek: Tng in James' epic lookback series...
This review contains spoilers.
4.23 The Host
The Enterprise is taking the Trill ambassador Odan to mediate a dispute, and as part of the ship’s full-service medical package Dr Crusher has been giving him a lot of personal attention. They’re in love! It’s horrible. Crusher has just arranged to meet in Odan’s quarters for a little hypospray when he’s summoned to a meeting. And this being the Enterprise, you don’t want to miss a meeting otherwise you won’t have any clue what’s going on for the rest of the week.
The problem is that this planet, Peliar Zel, has two moons. And these moons both have colonists. And the colonists on the Alpha moon are doing something which makes the...
- 9/30/2016
- Den of Geek
James Hunt Sep 23, 2016
Star Trek: Tng tackles the thorny ethical debate around euthanasia in its latest season four episode, Half A Life...
This review contains spoilers.
4.22 Half A Life
Lwaxana Troi accompanies Captain Picard to meet a visitor from the planet Kaelon II, where the Enterprise has recently arrived. The man – Timicin – is a scientist seeking the Federation’s help in restarting his system’s dying star. Unfortunately, Lwaxana Troi is more interested in restarting Timicin’s dying libido.
Timicin explains to the crew that with some modified photon torpedoes they can restart a star, so the Enterprise rushes him to a valid test site. Meanwhile Lwaxana Troi is spending all her time trying to get Timicin to notice her, which he eventually does. I mean the only way you’d find it easier to notice her is if she wore christmas lights all the time.
Like all attempts to play God,...
Star Trek: Tng tackles the thorny ethical debate around euthanasia in its latest season four episode, Half A Life...
This review contains spoilers.
4.22 Half A Life
Lwaxana Troi accompanies Captain Picard to meet a visitor from the planet Kaelon II, where the Enterprise has recently arrived. The man – Timicin – is a scientist seeking the Federation’s help in restarting his system’s dying star. Unfortunately, Lwaxana Troi is more interested in restarting Timicin’s dying libido.
Timicin explains to the crew that with some modified photon torpedoes they can restart a star, so the Enterprise rushes him to a valid test site. Meanwhile Lwaxana Troi is spending all her time trying to get Timicin to notice her, which he eventually does. I mean the only way you’d find it easier to notice her is if she wore christmas lights all the time.
Like all attempts to play God,...
- 9/23/2016
- Den of Geek
Dear Fern,
Where to start? The festival finally has enough balls in the air that I'm not sure what to juggle, what to toss to you, what to grab from your pile!
You suggest something running through the movies here and certainly an issue dealt with by many filmmakers of a certain age—to steal a word from the English subtitles of Nicolas Rey's remarkable, undefinable differently, Molussia (more on that to come, I hope): it's a question of legacy. Après mai (a far better title, you are right), did not work for me either; it was the first Assayas film I generally found boring, a combination of its simultaneous engagement with the conventional images and motifs of a film taking place in the aftermath of May '68 at the same time as it failing, for me, to find images of these things. (How dull a complaint of...
Where to start? The festival finally has enough balls in the air that I'm not sure what to juggle, what to toss to you, what to grab from your pile!
You suggest something running through the movies here and certainly an issue dealt with by many filmmakers of a certain age—to steal a word from the English subtitles of Nicolas Rey's remarkable, undefinable differently, Molussia (more on that to come, I hope): it's a question of legacy. Après mai (a far better title, you are right), did not work for me either; it was the first Assayas film I generally found boring, a combination of its simultaneous engagement with the conventional images and motifs of a film taking place in the aftermath of May '68 at the same time as it failing, for me, to find images of these things. (How dull a complaint of...
- 9/11/2012
- MUBI
Vistalux
Pardon our Monday-morning quarterbacking, but lately Speakeasy has been thinking back to the big books of 2010 and remarking to friends that Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” was the better, more interesting and likely more lasting novel of the year, over Jonathan Franzen’s widely publicized “Freedom.” Yesterday, the National Book Critics Circle awarded its top fiction prize to Egan over Franzen.
Speakeasy interviewed Egan back in June about “Goon Squad,” an inventive book set in...
Pardon our Monday-morning quarterbacking, but lately Speakeasy has been thinking back to the big books of 2010 and remarking to friends that Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” was the better, more interesting and likely more lasting novel of the year, over Jonathan Franzen’s widely publicized “Freedom.” Yesterday, the National Book Critics Circle awarded its top fiction prize to Egan over Franzen.
Speakeasy interviewed Egan back in June about “Goon Squad,” an inventive book set in...
- 3/11/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Fairly or not, books with the McSweeney’s imprimatur come with certain expectations. Darin Strauss—pre-established and much-praised novelist though he is—lives both up and down to those expectations in Half A Life, an honest but fatally self-questioning memoir on the years of fallout from the accidental killing of his high-school senior-year classmate. Best known for his first novel, Chang And Eng, Strauss tells the story with fragmented self-consciousness, explaining late in the game how all this relates to his work: “First novel about twins (one dies, the other can’t go on living); second novel about a guy ...
- 9/16/2010
- avclub.com
I always love when a film treats children as adults and refrains from presuming with an adult’s supposedly superior knowledge that there is little of importance to kids. Romain Goupil’s beautifully contained film Hands Up isn’t for children, but it is of children and childhood without either a patronizing sensibility or nostalgic sentimentality. Goupil, whose sorrowful, personal documentary on the fallout of May ’68, Mourir à 30 ans (1982) is the only film of his I’m familiar with, sensitively honors the gang of kids in Hands Up by treating their lives with the kind of philosophic and moral weight as that film’s politically active Parisians. Yet it’s not just a attitude towards youth, but a realization that both the participants and the events of today resemble those of the past, invested with importance and historical force. One of the heroines of the film is an illegal Chechen immigrant (the thoughtful,...
- 5/17/2010
- MUBI
No official announcement has been made yet by the fest, but it looks les films du losange, the French distibution co. will see a fourth film in this year's Cannes line-up (added to the previously announced Chantrapas, Des filles en noir and Cleveland Vs. Wall Street). The culprit is a former winner of the Camera D'or back in 1982 for Mourir à 30 ans in Romain Goupil, a name I'm not familiar with would return to the fest with Les mains en L'air (a.k.a. "Hands Up") a drama starring Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Hippolyte Girardot and loads of child actors - No official announcement has been made yet by the fest, but it looks les films du losange, the French distibution co. will see a fourth film in this year's Cannes line-up (added to the previously announced Chantrapas, Des filles en noir and Cleveland Vs. Wall Street). The culprit is a...
- 4/23/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
No official announcement has been made yet by the fest, but it looks les films du losange, the French distibution co. will see a fourth film in this year's Cannes line-up (added to the previously announced Chantrapas, Des filles en noir and Cleveland Vs. Wall Street). The culprit is a former winner of the Camera D'or back in 1982 for Mourir à 30 ans in Romain Goupil, a name I'm not familiar with would return to the fest with Les mains en L'air (a.k.a. "Hands Up") a drama starring Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Hippolyte Girardot and loads of child actors. This focuses on Milana who remembers a life when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends. Question is: If Julie Bertucelli's The Tree has indeed declined the closing night slot, would this picture follow suit?...
- 4/23/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Cologne, Germany -- German TV continues to look back for inspiration, as evidenced by the dominance of historic dramas among this year's nominees for the German TV Awards.
Sat.1's two-part miniseries "Wir sind das Volk" (We are the People), about the events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, is the frontrunner with six nominations, followed by 1970s docu-drama "Mogadischu" from public broadcaster Ard, which tracks the infamous hijacking of a Lufthansa flight in 1977 by left-wing terrorists.
Other frontrunners include the Zdf drama "Ein halbes Leben" (Half a life), a drama about a father's unending search for the man who killed his daughter, which also grabbed six nominations and Zdf's "Die Wolfe" (The Wolves), another historic docu-drama, set in the 1940s, which earned three nominations.
Germany's public broadcasters again dominated the nominations, with state-backed broadcasters picking up 40 of the 65 mentions. Rtl led the commercial broadcasters, with six nominations,...
Sat.1's two-part miniseries "Wir sind das Volk" (We are the People), about the events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, is the frontrunner with six nominations, followed by 1970s docu-drama "Mogadischu" from public broadcaster Ard, which tracks the infamous hijacking of a Lufthansa flight in 1977 by left-wing terrorists.
Other frontrunners include the Zdf drama "Ein halbes Leben" (Half a life), a drama about a father's unending search for the man who killed his daughter, which also grabbed six nominations and Zdf's "Die Wolfe" (The Wolves), another historic docu-drama, set in the 1940s, which earned three nominations.
Germany's public broadcasters again dominated the nominations, with state-backed broadcasters picking up 40 of the 65 mentions. Rtl led the commercial broadcasters, with six nominations,...
- 9/3/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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