Category Archives: cinema

signal interference

Posted on Saturday, 2007 September 08 by Anton

I tried to remember the title theme of Dexter and all I could summon was that of The Odd Couple. Hmm.

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the flickering image

Posted on Thursday, 2007 August 30 by Anton

Bela Lugosi was more interesting in a supporting role in The Black Camel (Warner Oland’s second Charlie Chan picture) than in Dracula, made the same year. Also recently watched: the first disc of season 10 of South Park. The first … Continue reading →

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what’s it called again?

Posted on Tuesday, 2007 August 21 by Anton

I’m watching Dexter. In a flashback, teen Dexter says, “Jesus, Dad, it’s called being on time, did you ever hear of it?” The actors playing Dexter in the present and in the past were born in 1971 and 1987, so … Continue reading →

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secret history

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 August 08 by Anton

“Tooth and Claw”, a recent episode of Doctor Who, features the Koh-i-Noor, a famous diamond: but the shape is wrong, a classic Brilliant cut. The writer missed an opportunity to say that it has its present irregular shape because part … Continue reading →

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eerie

Posted on Sunday, 2007 July 29 by Anton

The last episode of series 3 of A Bit of Fry and Laurie had a courtroom skit in which one could be forgiven for thinking the judge represented the present occupant of the White House, as the actor in that … Continue reading →

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the danger of originality

Posted on Saturday, 2007 July 14 by Anton

I’ve been catching up on Heroes (the link is to the first episode on NBC’s website). Episode 18 “Parasite” has an establishing shot of Las Vegas, an aerial view in daylight, which I did not recognize because establishing shots of … Continue reading →

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am i reading too much into this?

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 March 07 by Anton

I’m surprised to see it acknowledged in two teevee shows that heroin is useful as a painkiller. (Charlie Stross, a former pharmacist, mentioned that “diamorphine (aka Heroin™) is carried routinely in ambulances in the UK.”) In the first series of … Continue reading →

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