Busy For Fun Blogs: June 2010

Lance Henriksen has Nightmares in Red, White & Blue

As you know, the goal of this site and campaign is to get a Millennium movie made. Since Millennium has been off the air for over a decade, sometimes news relating to the series can be scarce. That is why we like to bring other sorts of interesting tidbits to your attention that relate to Millennium or the people involved with the show. Many of the cast and crew from Millennium continue to work to this day and we are always contacted by them about projects they have coming up. Here at Back to Frank Black, we think it's a fantastic idea to keep the Millennium fans up to date on what projects they are working on.

One such project involves our beloved Lance Henriksen. Several months back we were contacted by writer/producer Joseph Maddrey about a documentary he was working for which Lance would provide the narration. The documentary was directed by Andrew Monument. Joseph recently got back in touch with us and we had a fantastic chat about the project and when it would be coming out. The movie is called Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue and provides a history of the horror genre in American film. The movie is narrated by Lance Henriksen and features interviews with George A. Romero, John Carpenter, Back to Frank Black supporter John Kenneth Muir, and many more. Below you can see the trailer for the documentary...

The movie will be available On Demand starting tomorrow and will hit the theaters in September, but stay tuned to Back to Frank Black for an EXCLUSIVE interview with writer/producer Joseph Maddrey and possibly director Andrew Monument. Also look for a special competition as well! We would like to thank Joseph for taking the time to contact us and letting us know about this fantastic film. For more information on the film, please go to the following link.

DVD/Blu-ray Releases: July 2010 (Ashes To Ashes, Breaking Bad, Clash Of The Titans, The Crazies, Generation Kill, Green Zone, Percy Jackson, White Collar, and more...)

5 JULY

Ashes To Ashes: Series 3 [DVD] (** out of four)
Ashes To Ashes: Complete Box-set [DVD] (**1/2 out of four)
Doctor Who: Series 5, Volume 2 [BLURAY] [DVD] (*** out of four)
Generation Kill: Complete Series [BLURAY]
Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief [BLURAY] [DVD]
Predator (Ultimate Hunter Edition) [BLURAY] (**** out of four)
Stargate Universe: Season 1 [BLURAY] [DVD]

6 JULY

White Collar: Season 1 [DVD]

12 JULY

Clerks [BLURAY]
Green Zone [BLURAY] [DVD]
Green Zone (Limited Edition Steelbook) [DVD]
Leap Year [BLURAY] [DVD]
I Love You Phillip Morris [BLURAY] [DVD]
The Bounty Hunter [BLURAY] [DVD]
The Ricky Gervais Show: Series 1 [DVD] (** out of four)
Waking The Dead: Series 8 [DVD]
Youth In Revolt [DVD]

19 JULY

The Blind Side [BLURAY] [DVD]
Chloe [BLURAY] [DVD]
The Crazies [BLURAY] [DVD]
From Paris With Love [BLURAY] [DVD]
How I Met Your Mother: Season 4 [DVD]
Kevin Bishop Show: Series 2 [DVD] (*1/2 out of four)
The Karate Kid [BLURAY] (**** out of four)
The Karate Kid Part II [BLURAY] (*1/2 out of four)
Nanny McPhee / Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang [BLURAY] [DVD]
Scrubs: Season 8 [DVD]
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo [BLURAY] [DVD]

26 JULY

Brotherhood: Season 1 [DVD]
Breaking Bad: Season 2 [DVD] (*** out of four)
Clash Of The Titans [BLURAY] [DVD]
Remember Me [BLURAY] [DVD]
The Spy Next Door [BLURAY] [DVD]

Camille Mendez: Bachelors in Economics

So, I'm practically almost done. My worst thought was not passing 2 of my classes I had Spring Quarter, but I did!!! That was the greatest news ever!!! I can't believe my 3 years of college already passed by. That Saturday, June 12, I walked at my graduation and moved out of Irvine into my permanent home.
Surprisingly, I became really emotional during my graduation. I felt for one thing that it wasn't my graduation. I mean I knew some people, but being able to leave college with the people you came in with would've been great. Not that I'm complaining or anything, but my graduation became a true emotional moment. I found myself in the audience, trying to hold my tears back. I know truly my parents were so proud of me, and I was proud of myself.
At such a joyous moment, I also felt lonely. Seeing all the graduates and their families made me question my family ties. I don't want to go into it, but I just wish there was more of a personal audience to witness that great once in a lifetime moment. People I cared about so much and who I expected to be there weren't, so I began to question who my true family is. Who knew that your own family can be the most careless people sometimes.
Besides that, I'm here back at home, trying to keep sane. I found working out to be my one true, feisty friend. Home really is a place to reflect and see who would really stay in my life, whether it be friends or family. I'm so glad I'm more closer to Los Angeles because now I can get to network in this great city. We'll see what happens!!

Since I have a lot more time on my hands, I promise I will continue writing, and let me know what you think!!!

You do you, imma do me

Camille

'REV' 1.1 - "On Your Knees Forget The Fees"

Three loudmouth builders evoke The Vicar Of Dibley towards the end of Rev's first episode, as it's unavoidably clear this new BBC2 comedy's premise is the inverse of Richard Curtis's beloved '90s sitcom; with a country reverend having been transferred to a city parish. But beyond that, Rev is stylistically and tonally a completely different beast.

Rev concerns Reverend Adam Smallbone (Tom Hollander), essentially reprising his MP character from In The Loop (with a dog collar), and his daily grind as Anglican vicar of rundown inner-city church St. Saviour's, working alongside Nigel McCall (Miles Jupp) for the approval of Archdeacon Robert (Simon McBurney), with the support of his therapist wife Alex (Olivia Colman). Adam faces various challenges his country life didn't offer, not least the more cynical attitude to religion from a community of vagrants and middle-class parents, who in this opening episode boost sermon attendance as a way to get their kids accepted into the local church-affiliated school.

It's a situation that partly benefits Adam because the Archdeacon's been asking tough questions about attendance figures, although his moral compass is severely tested when a parent called Patrick Yam (Alexander Armstrong) offers to have St. Saviour's broken stained glass window repaired in exchange for preferential treatment regarding his son's enrolment at school.

Rev is nicely filmed by director Peter Cattaneo, who made The Full Monty, and everything has a suitably grubby and urban feel that felt authentic and pervasive. Hollander's also a good dramatic actor with some comic merit, surrounded by an interesting mix of familiar and fresh faces. Peep Show's Olivia Colman was a little wasted here, but will hopefully prove a valuable part of the ensemble, and I especially approve of little-known comedian Miles Jupp as Adam's clerical "sidekick" Nigel. Jupp's standup routine is of a genial, upper-middle-class snob, and he appears to have transplanted some of that feel to this role. Tellingly, the best scene was undoubtedly a brief two-hander between Adam and Nigel as they rehearsed a Bible quiz.

Unfortunately, despite a winning cast and some style that marked Rev out as more comedy-drama than Dibley-esque sitcom, the laughs were few and far between. And even the more obviously successful jokes will only inspire wry smiles or a polite giggle. Still, it can take awhile for comedies to find a groove, and there's potential in the concept. It'll be interesting to see how it progresses, as religion in comedy has typically been treated with a silly attitude (Life Of Brian, Vicar Of Dibley, Father Ted), but Rev has a more down-to-earth feel. A moment when Adam argued against atheism by pondering the mathematical precision of the unnecessary spiral to a snail's shell, verged on the profound. It might actually be interesting to see how they elicit comedy if Rev's not going to broadly poke fun at religious iconography, themes and Bible stories.

But whichever way you cut it, a comedy flies or dies based on how often it makes you laugh, and "On Your Knees Forget The Fees" didn't hit any high-notes. I'm expecting quality with the talent involved, but this just didn't tickle my funnybone.

Asides

Rev (working titled "The City Vicar" and "Handle With Prayer") was co-created by star Tom Hollander and James Wood, who previously worked together on 2008's Freezing.
You may recognize Lucy Liemann (playing headmistress Ellie Pattman) from last year's Reggie Perrin remake. Simon McBurney is also the voice of Kreacher in the Harry Potter films, and there's a physical resemblance there.

WRITER: James Wood
DIRECTOR: Peter Cattaneo
CAST: Tom Hollander, Olivia Colman, Steve Evets, Miles Jupp, Lucy Liemann, Simon McBurney, Ellen Thomas, Alexander Armstrong, Hermione Gulliford, Lu Corfield, Ben Willbond, Matthew Fenton, Ravin J. Ganatra & Ricky Champ
TRANSMISSION: 28 JUNE 2010 - BBC2/HD, 10PM

Trailer de "Tropa de Elite 2"

De José Padilha
Com Wagner Moura, Maria Ribeiro, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Seu Jorge.

Sinopse (disponibilizada só em inglês): "Elite Squad 2 (Tropa de Elite 2) continues the story of Nascimento (Wagner Moura), a Special Forces police operative who has now been promoted to intelligence chief in Rio’s security ministry. Nascimento’s promotion brings him a new set of problems as he morphs from a gun-toting street-warrior battling Rio’s drug gangs into a heroic police bureaucrat who stumbles into the city’s brutal mafia underworld through a series of (at times unlikely) coincidences, including his ex-wife’s marriage to Fraga (Irandhir Santos), a leading human rights activist." Screen Daily

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'PERSONS UNKNOWN' 1.4 - "Exit One"

[SPOILERS] There are times when I start to feel involved with Persons Unknown, because a character moment works or there's a decent twist in the tale, but it's weighed down by a few basic problems: the unpopulated town is a tedious backdrop, and there's no obvious villain. I keep comparing this show to The Prisoner (the similarities are too stark not to), and that show kept its location populated and there was the lurking presence of "Number Two" to contend with. Persons Unknown feels very limp, and the characters just aren't compelling, individually or as part of a group. Still, "Exit One" threw up a few welcome developments...

This week, a taxi driven by an Arab (Marshall Manesh) pulled into town and offered Janet (Daisy Betts) a ride with one companion. Joe (Jason Wiles) accepted the risk to accompany her, and they were both driven out of town, before the taxi blew a tire and the driver was killed while changing it after a truck smashed into his cab. This left Joe and Janet alone in the countryside, trying to find help on foot, taking refuge in a log cabin by nightfall and discovering it contained a bee's nest the next morning; a particular problem because Joe's fatally allergic to their stings.

In town, odious Bill (Sean O'Bryan) started to irritate Charlie (Alan Ruck) by insisting he bankroll a "private parks" idea if they ever escape, or risk him telling everyone he smothered his wife to death. Meanwhile, Tori (Kate Lang Johnson) started using her sexuality to escape, by dressing sexily and making a play for the Night Manager (Andy Greenfield), as additional flashbacks revealed her Ambassador father used his own daughter as a prostitute to grease his political career, and likely killed her mother.

Out of town, reporter Mark (Gerald Kyd) continued his investigation, confirming to his editor that he's Janet's ex-husband and thus more invested in his "missing mom" story than he's been letting on.

What worked this week? Well, it was nice to leave the boring town behind during Joe and Janet's road trip, even if the sequence with the bees had been bluntly signposted earlier in the episode. Whenever a character casually reveals he's allergic to bees, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess what's going to be happening within the hour. I also appreciated the Bill/Charlie conflict, because they're the only characters with some personality to them right now.

Socialite Tori got some semblance of character development, but seeing her get released from captivity in a taxi felt strange. What did she do to deserve that? Just say sorry to her father via camera? Does that prove her dad's the mastermind behind all this? I hope there's more to her departure than meets the eye. Perhaps Tori has actually failed "the test" this town represents, and leaving the town actually equals failure? I wouldn't be surprised if Tori turns up dead at some point. But if she has genuinely escaped, I'm at a loss to see why she deserved to go -- beyond their captor feeling sympathetic.

It was quite a middling episode, again, but the final scene threw up a nice twist -- albeit one that wasn't entirely unexpected in a show of this nature. It turns out Joe's in cahoots with whomever's running the town, as he gained access to a secret room in the Chinese restaurant's storeroom to discuss "the process" with the waiter (Reggie Lee), who actually speaks perfect English. It seems there's definitely a good reason these people have been brought here, and it's part of an operation Joe agrees with but is having second thoughts about. A kind of harsh group therapy? Is Joe falling in love with Janet, or was he just upset he had to go through that bee scenario (if he is indeed allergic)?

Overall, "Exit One" wasn't too bad, but I still feel Persons Unknown is dragged down by some weak creative choices and a few plot-lines that just aren't working (the awful reporter in San Francisco, primarily). I'm still waiting for firmer clues, to make this show more fun to discuss and think about afterwards on a mystery level, if nothing else. My thoughts and theories haven't really changed over four weeks, so there's either going to be a series of awesome twists and reveals for mid-season, or Persons Unknown is going to eventually conclude roughly how you expected it to from the start.

Asides

This episode was written by Michael R. Perry, who used to work on Millennium and wrote one of my favourite episodes, "The Mikado". An episode of '90s TV ahead of its time, about a serial-killer (attire based on The Zodiac Killer) who slaughtered people live on the internet if his website's hit-counter reached a certain number. A great hour of TV, worth checking out if you ever notice it being repeated somewhere.
Of course that waiter was more than meets the eye, because I would have been a tragic waste of Reggie Lee otherwise.

WRITER: Michael R. Perry
DIRECTOR: Leon Ichaso
GUEST CAST: Marshall Manesh, Reggie Lee, Andy Greenfield & Gerald Kyd
TRANSMISSION: 28 JUNE 2010 - NBC, 8|9c

MRS. PEEL, WE'RE NOTED

Sophie Deveraux and Alec Hardison needed cover aliases in order to get inside the locked-down Wakefield Corporation. So they assumed the guises of

auditing consultants Emily Peel and Jonathan Steed.

This leads to the supposition that they knew of top professional

John Steed and Emma Peel, talented amateur, who are known to us via the classic British spy series 'The Avengers'.

And within the reality of Toobworld, this could happen. Mrs. Peel has been out of the "Circus" life for over over forty years; Steed more than likely still keeps his hand in the game on a limited basis. But their exploits probably became known to the general public and eventually a movie was made about their spy careers. This would be the same badly-reviewed movie to be found in the real world, starring Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman.

A bad movie it may be, but it serves to nullify any Zonks when 'The Avengers' get cited on other TV shows.

BCnU!

AFRICAN ECHOES: WADATA DATA

Toobworld has gained a new African nation which won't be found on any Rand-McNally map of the real world.

Wadata is a West African nation currently led by President Simeon Moto and it is rich in oil and diamonds. It was the backdrop for one of the latest Boston-based schemes pulled off by the 'Leverage' team.

Wadata has never been invoked in any other TV series - so far as I know - so we can't make a link... as is. However, President Moto's evil brother seemed to infer it was a relatively new nation, which means it either was carved out of some pre-existing country as it broke free in a bid for independence, or it was originally known by some other name.

There are a few candidates for either of those options:

African East Victoria ("Mission: Impossible")

Bocamo ("Mission: Impossible")

Kembu ("Jake 2.0")

Ghalea ("Mission: Impossible")

Limbawe ("Airwolf")

N'Shoba ("Capitol")

The Nyamba Protectorate ("Danger Man")

Topango ("The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.")

Western Natumba/Natsumba ("The Man From U.N.C.L.E.")

Two countries that probably shouldn't be considered would be the Sahalese Republic and Equatorial Kundhu, both from 'The West Wing' which takes place in an alternate TV dimension.

Because the reporter who was in danger from Moto's brother worked for the West African News service, Western Natumba is a strong pozz'bility. However, I'm leaning towards one of the satellite states in the Nyamba Protectorate breaking free to be on its own. Mainly because I'm such a McGoohanite.

BCnU!

IT TOOK A CROOK

There's an episode of 'Hustle' which is entitled either "Whittaker Our Way Out" or "Ties That Bind Us". Either way it's about the team of grifters agreeing to help a fellow con man take down the bank that double-crossed his grandfather - one of the most famous con men of the 19th Century. Even as Mickey, Ash, Danny, Stacie, and Albert go along with the scheme, they already know that their "partner" will try to pull a con on them as well. He won't be able to stop himself, since the greatest con a con man can pull off is on another con man.

And who was their con man "partner"?

"There are a lot of different stories about what happened
to James Whittaker Wright after his adventures in the city.
I don’t really know that the truth is,
but I’d like to think that somewhere along the way,
he found his own little piece of grifting heaven."

Albert Stroller
'Hustle'

And in a way, JW3 did find his piece of grifter heaven along the way, as he mentored Parker to be the best she could be as a thief. Only she knew him as Archie Leach; being the "innocent" that she is, Parker didn't know that the name of "Archie Leach" was an alias. Nor did she know its origin - as Cary Grant's real name. (All of this we learned in the 'Leverage' episode "The Inside Job".)

Archie had to call in the 'Leverage' team to help him get Parker

out of an ultra-secure building where she fell into the trap that was meant for him. At the end of the adventure as they hugged goodbye, Parker lifted his wallet - probably in an attempt to find out who he really was. But Archie Leach got it back before she could learn his true identity of James Whittaker Wright III.

And even that might have been an alias......

We just may yet get an unofficial third name for this one Toobworlder, and then a Richard Chamberlain character can get into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame on the Honors List....

BCnU!

AS SEEN ON TV: ADOLPH HITLER

Today's "As Seen On TV" showcase is for Uncle Brian-El, who made these screencaps possible......

ADOLPH HITLER
aka
DEATH

AS SEEN IN:
"Prometheus 5 or Between Time And Timbuktu"

AS PLAYED BY:
Page Johnson

"I am Death. And I am final.
Oh, God, am I final!"
Hitler

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Primeval series 4 wraps filming

Filming on Primeval's fourth series has finished, ready for broadcast on ITV1 in early-2011 after post-production's completed. The cast/crew have moved on to film the fifth series, which will premiere on digital channel Watch in late-2011. The split is part of the show's unique co-financing deal with ITV, UKTV, BBC America and Germany's ProSieben.

Tim Haines, executive-producer:

"The cast and crew have been brilliant and they have put in a huge effort over the past four months to deliver some amazing work. We have also been very lucky in that Dublin has afforded us some fantastic new locations and the fact that we've filmed in HD for the first time means that the production values are higher than ever. The rough cuts I've seen are very exciting and I think we are going to deliver a show that will really please and delight the fans."

The confirmed cast for series 4 are: Hannah Spearritt, Andrew Lee-Potts, Ben Miller, Jason Flemyng, Lucy Brown, and Ben Mansfield. Newcomers include Alexander Siddig, Ciarán McMenamin, Ruth Bradley, Jonathan Byrne, Anton Lesser and Ruth Kearney. Laila Rouass did not return for filming, and it's unknown how the show will handle her character's absence.

Novo trailer de "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"

De David Slade
Com Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Dakota Fanning.

Sinopse: Bella e Edward estão juntos, mas a sua relação proibida é ameaçada de ser destruída novamente por um vampiro mal que ainda busca vingança. E Bella é forçada a escolher entre o amor verdadeiro de Edward ou a sua amizade com Jacob Black, já que as lutas entre vampiros e lobisomens continua. Mas há ainda outra opção para Bella fazer, a mortalidade ou imortalidade?

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Nota: Estreia amanhã, dia 30 de Junho em Portugal.

Novo trailer de "Rango"

De Gore Verbinski
Com Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Ray Winstone, Beth Grant, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Alfred Molina.

Sinopse (disponibilizada só em inglês): "A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it." ComingSoon.net

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Nota: O primeiro link que pusemos para a página da Apple dedicada a este filme era somente um video de promoção, o link que pomos aqui é do primeiro trailer colocado naquela págima.

Novo trailer de "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I"

De David Yates
Com Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, Robbie Coltrane, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Evanna Lynch, Michael Gambon.

Sinopse: Harry Potter foi encarregado de uma tarefa obscura, perigosa e aparentemente impossível: localizar e destruir os Horcruxes remanescentes de Voldemort. Harry Potter nunca esteve tão sozinho nem teve de enfrentar um futuro tão sombrio. Porém, de algum modo, Harry Potter deve encontrar dentro de si próprio a força para completar a tarefa que lhe foi dada: ele deve saír do ambiente acolhedor e seguro da Toca para seguir sem temor nem hesitação pelo inexorável caminho que lhe foi traçado...

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ComingSoon - inclui uma antevisão de "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II".

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Bravo win UK rights to Hawaii Five-O remake

The CBS remake of cop show Hawaii Five-O hasn't even aired in the US yet, but Bravo are confident enough to have outbid Five for the UK rights already. I'm not sure Five-O will be a good fit for Bravo (which tends to go for macho TV like Spartacus: Blood & Sand), but it should lure a few eyeballs their way, and it's a sign Bravo are getting serious about their move away from reality TV into drama. Bravo may even launch a HD service soon, so hopefully that arrives in time to show off Grace Park's bikini bod in high-def.

Somewhere in London, a marketing exec is mightily upset they can't use the obvious "Hawaii Five-O on Five" campaign. But how about about "Hawaii Brav-O"? I'm in the wrong job.

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Doctor Who: rumours, gossip and assorted piffle

Take everything below with a fistful of salt, but rumours have started to circle about Doctor Who's Christmas special and sixth series. Who knows, some of this might even be true, or a lucky guess...

The 2010 festive episode is written by Steven Moffat (confirmed), the cast will apparently include one famous Hollywood actor with a familiar face from EastEnders, and "The Silence" threat will be mentioned and its voice heard again. No facts are known about what the special concerns, although some people believe series 5's coda (mentioning an Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express, in space) was a sly tease. But that doesn't feel very "Christmassy" to me, and Matt Smith has already said the special is incredibly festive. Another rumour had the action taking place in the 1500s on Christmas Day, which sounds more likely.

There's also a bizarre rumour that the Christmas special's plot will be a loose remake of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with three incarnations of The Doctor representing the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann and David Tennant are names being bandied about to guest-star, but I can't see it happening. It's too early for Tennant to reprise his role, and I'm sure he's too busy this year.

Series 6 gossip includes Rory being given a larger role, perhaps meaning The Doctor will have two companions aboard the TARDIS all year, which I'd be happy with. The Doctor's attire will be amended, primarily to make it warmer for Matt Smith while filming in the colder months. Amy will also reveal a big secret, apparently, and the next time we meet River Song it will be the first time SHE has met The Doctor in her timeline. If true, he'll be wearing a suit (as she mentioned in "The Silence In The Library"), right? His wedding day suit from the series 5 finale, perhaps?

Guest writers supposedly lined up for next year are Neil Gaiman (confirmed, most likely episode 3), Paul Cornell (although he's denied this on Twitter), Tom MacRae ("Rise Of The Cybermen"), Phil Ford (doing the year's mid-series two-parter), and Rob Shearman ("Dalek"). I personally think all of that's just fan speculation, but it would be nice to see Cornell and Shearman back.

Merlin co-creator on series 3

Merlin's co-creator Johnny Capps was recently interviewed by SFX Magazine and spilled some beans about the currently-filming third series.

On the idea that Arthur might some day discover Merlin's secret, he had this to say:

"I think that part of the format of the show is that Merlin keeps his magic a secret, just as Superman keeps his identity secret -- and I think Arthur not knowing about it is the heart of the show. Presumably at some point Arthur would find out, but I think that would be very late on."

On what the third series will cover in general, with the action picking up a year after series 2's finale:

"Within the first five minutes you catch up as to where our characters have been. Camelot has been very focused on the search for Morgana, and Uther has been very concerned about where his ward is. But when she comes back it's very intriguing as to where her allegiances lie and what’s happened to her. She's been on quite a journey."

Capps also confirmed that Emilia Fox will be reprising her role as Morgause (the magical half-sister of Morgana), Excalibur and the Lady In The Lake will feature, Sir Gawain will be joining the action, a Crystal Cave will be discovered, Mark Williams (Harry Potter, The Fast Show) will be playing a "mischievous goblin", and the Great Dragon will have a different role to play.

Novo trailer de "Eat, Pray, Love"

De Ryan Murphy
Com Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, James Franco, Billy Crudup, Richard Jenkins.

Sinopse: Um mulher casada deseja ter uma vida diferente e abandona o marido para poder viajar pelo mundo.

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Novo trailer de "Life As We Know It"

De Greg Berlanti
Com Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Christina Hendricks, Jean Smart.

Sinopse: Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) e Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel), que após passarem por um primeiro encontro desastroso, a única coisa que partilham é a antipatia que têm um pelo outro e o amor pela afilhada, Sophie (Alexis Clagett). Quando, de repente, se tornam a única família de Sophie, Holly e Messer vêem-se obrigados a colocar as suas diferenças de lado. Tentando equilibrar as suas ambições profissionais e eventos sociais concorrentes, eles terão que encontrar sentimentos em comum para conseguir viver sob o mesmo teto.

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Novo trailer de "Centurion"

De Neil Marshall
Com Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko.

Sinopse: A história desta longa-metragem acompanha a violenta incursão romana contra a Tribo dos Pictos em 117 D.C. Quintus (Michael Fassbender) é um dos poucos soldados que sobreviveu a um ataque frontal dos selvagens contra a legião romana e agora irá travar um batalha pessoal contra Etain (Olga Kurylenko), uma guerreira selvagem que foi torturada pelos romanos.

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Novo trailer de "The American"

De Anton Corbijn
Com George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, Bruce Altman.

Sinopse: Um assassino profissional refugia-se numa pequena cidade em Itália, esperando que o chamem para a sua última missão. Quando o informam da dita missão, e perante a hipótese de ter uma vida normal, os descuidos vão lhe custar caro.

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Novo trailer de "[Rec] 2"

De Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Com Manuela Velasco, Leticia Dolera, Juli Fàbregas.

Sinopse: Na continuação de [REC], o filme de terror que conquistou público e a crítica em 2008 e que reinventou o género. Os maiores horrores voltam a ser registrados no mesmo prédio onde dezenas de pessoas foram brutalmente assassinadas.

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Novo trailer de "The Disappearance Of Alice Creed"

De J Blakeson
Com Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston.

Sinopse: Dois sequestradores planeiam o rapto da rapariga rica interpretada por Gemma Arterton. Porém, tudo se complica quando os três se vêem numa trama que envolve desejo, amor, sexo e violência.

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Novo trailer de "The Last Airbender"

De M. Night Shyamalan
Com Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Cliff Curtis, Nicola Peltz, Seychelle Gabriel, Jessica Andres.

Sinopse: Na história, o mundo é dividido em quatro nações: a Nação do Fogo, o Reino da Terra, a Tribo das Águas, e os Nómadas do Ar. A cada geração surge uma pessoa que possa controlar os quatro elementos (terra, água, fogo e ar) e que domine as artes marciais. Essa pessoa é o Avatar. Quando a Nação do Fogo ataca as outras três nações a fim de escravizá-las, o Avatar desaparece, voltando cem anos depois e partindo em busca da libertação das nações.

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Trailer de "The Social Network"

De David Fincher
Com Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Joe Mazzello, Rashida Jones.

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'TRUE BLOOD' 3.3 - "It Hurts Me Too"

[SPOILERS] What's the story this year? I have no idea. Something about werewolves, something about vampire king Russell Edgington (Denis O'Hare), something about nothing. In previous years it was immediately obvious what the storylines were (a murder mystery, search for a missing vampire, etc), but season 3 is keeping its cards close to its chest. I'm sure there's a masterplan, but it would be nice if the writers started letting us in on it. There's only so many hours of jumbled events I can take without starting to feel distanced from the story.

To recap the goings-on: Bill (Stephen Moyer) considered Edgington's offer to join his kingdom; Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) gave Sookie (Anna Paquin) protection in the form of werewolf Alcide Herveaux (Joe Manganiello), who took her to a rough "wereclub" to investigate Bill's disappearance; Tara (Rutina Wesley) slept with vampire Franklin (James Frain), who later revealed himself to Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) as the person who disposed of her dead trucker; Hoyt (Jim Parrack) discovered the headless corpse of said trucker in a ditch, prompting Sheriff Dearborne (William Sanderson) to quit over the high murder rate in Bon Temps; Sam's (Sam Trammell) parents arrived in town; Jason (Ryan Kwanten) resolved to become a cop, but worried about his poor academic skills; Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) was given a sports car by Eric, as reward for his V-dealing; Arlene (Carrie Preston) learned that the timing of her pregnancy means the father can't be Terry (Todd Lowe); and flashbacks to 1892 shed light on the time Bill revisited his human wife three years after "dying", to bury their young son Thomas, who had died of a contagious illness.

Another packed hour of content, but half of it felt like filler and the other half is following storylines I'm just not attached to. A continuing problem is Sookie's quest to find Bill, because we know he's perfectly safe, so the whole exercise feels pointless from the audience perspective. If Bill gets hold of a phone the whole problem goes away. But this kind of plot is the only way to utilize a character like Sookie -- the perky plaything of various hunky, supernatural protectors, using her mindreading to trace someone. Last year it was Godric, remember?

Of course, much of the past three episodes are laying seeds that will bare fruit later in the season, but it's a pity the primary storylines are so intentionally slippery to get a grip on. I think the mystery is supposed to be its own attraction, but only Franklin Mott's working in that regard; mainly because Frain's vampire P.I is a suitably bat-like creep who commands the screen whenever he's around, keeping you guessing about his motives. The fact Franklin's dipping into a few different storylines now is great, particularly because one of them is Tara and that character desperately needs some guidance.

Right now, I couldn't care less about Edgington and the werewolves that are spooking Sookie. As for the distractions with Jason wanting to become a cop, Arlene's pregnancy (the father must be someone from a Maryann orgy last year, right?), and Sam's irritating family of dropouts? I'm struggling to feel interested, although making Jason a likely deputy to Andy (Chris Bauer) feels like a wise move, albeit a development that's going to feel very implausible unless it happens between seasons. Truthfully, True Blood's ensemble has become so large that a good 70% of the cast, and thus 70% of every episode's content right now, is stuck doing soap storylines. Who's the father of Arlene's baby? It's the question nobody's going to be asking this summer.

The best subplot was easily the flashback to 1892, because it at least stirred big emotions, as we saw the moment Bill tried to reconnect with his human life, against his vampire maker Lorena's (Mariana Klaveno) advice. And, naturally, after praising his return as a miracle, Bill's wife quickly became horrified by her husband's "demonic" new form, and broke his heart by reacting very badly to this frigid, fanged echo of the man she loved. The scene was nicely played by Moyer, too, who always does a good job portraying Bill's inner struggle between his vampire nature and vestigial human feelings.

Finally, that scene. You know the one I'm talking about. Thoughts about "It Hurts Me Too" will undoubtedly be dominated by a spectacularly sadistic sex scene between Bill and Lorena, after her taunts caused him to snap and angrily act on their simmering sexual tension. What followed was a blackly amusing sequence of rough sex on a bed, Bill on top, which resulted in him literally twisting Lorena's head around back-to-front so he didn't have to look into her eyes and feel guilty. An ugly physical contortion Lorena actually seemed to enjoy in a sordid way, which made the whole scene even more uncomfortable to watch. It's as if Death Becomes Her filmed a rape scene.

Overall, "It Hurts Me Too" was another narrative soup of fun, tedious, annoying, mysterious, boring, exciting and horrifying moments. As a southern gothic smorgasbord of weirdness and gore, season 3's delivering. As a supernatural adult drama with juicy storylines you can't wait to see continue, I'm still waiting for the show to find focus and make me care.

Asides

The Bill/Lorena head-twisting sex scene will dominate people's minds, but spare a thought for the earlier Tara/Franklin bedroom scene. Rarely have eyelids fluttered so much during fake intercourse. That must have been a very embarrassing scene to film.
Eric sent a werewolf to protect Sookie from werewolves? Have I missed something here? So, some werewolves are affiliated with vampires like Eric, as appears to be the case with Edgington? Only the ones with "Operation Werewolf" tattoo's are actual enemies? Is there some kind of treaty going on?

WRITER: Alexander Woo
DIRECTOR: Michael Lehmann
GUEST CAST: Joe Manganiello, Marshall Allman, William Sanderson, Todd Lowe, Natasha Alam, Bryan Becker, James Frain, Cooper Huckabee, Andy Mackenzie, Lil Mirkk, Don Swayze & Tanya Wright
TRANSMISSION: 27 June 2010 - HBO, 9PM

THE VIEW OF SAN CORDOVA

Two weeks ago on 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', we were introduced to Marta Caldera, the wife of New York State Senator Victor Caldera. Marta was also the daughter of former dictator General Omar Castillo. The name of his South American country is not given in the episode "True Legacy" and that's all for the good where Toobworld is concerned.

Toobworld Central can then make the claim that some other South American dictatorship seen on TV was the same country where General Castillo ruled. And I think a good choice would be San Cordova from the 'Mission: Impossible' episode "The Elixir". Reva Santel, the widow of the former leader, wanted to take over with her own dictatorship. And she would have succeeded if it hadn't been for those meddling IMF agents. Deputy Premier Tomas Avilla tried to hold free and open elections, and his plan may have worked - once the IMF made sure that Riva Santel's ambitions were thwarted. However, freedom and democracy were probably foreign concepts to the people of San Cordova, and so a man like General Castillo could easily have wrested control of the country for his own gains.
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SODDIN' NANCY

Celeste Holm played Abigail Townsend in the sitcom 'Nancy', about the President's daughter falling in love and marrying a small-town veterinarian in Iowa. Ms. Townsend served as sort of a chief of staff for Nancy Smith and her ideas of what was best for the girl often clashed with Nancy's desires.

It's pozz'ble, just pozz'ble (as Mushrat would say), that Abigail Townsend could be related to rich private investigator Charlie Townsend - if he has a counterpart in the parallel world in which we'd find 'Nancy'. See, that show can't be in Earth Prime-Time because there was no President Smith in Toobworld. Toobworld has to follow the real world with the line of succession.

'Nancy' can't be placed in the 'West Wing' dimension either. Their POTUS collection diverges from ours probably right after Nixon (the last real President to be mentioned) although Ford, Carter, and Reagan might still have served. After that, they had Presidents D. Wire Newman, Owen Lassiter, and Jed Bartlet (with Glenallen Walker serving for a few days under the 25th Amendment.)

However, President Smith could easily fit into the same TV dimension in which we'd find the sitcoms 'Hail To The Chief', with President Julia Mansfield (played by Patty Duke), and 'Mr. President', with George C. Scott as President Samuel Arthur Tresch. Apparently that world wouldn't have had any of the same Presidents as the real world in the late 20th Century. And because 'Nancy' is also a sitcom, I think it would make for a good fit.

Two other shows might also fit into this TV dimension: 'Spin City', with its alternateevee Mayor of New York City, and 'Yes, Prime Minister' with a different leader of the British government than to be found in the real world. And its prequel of 'Yes, Minister' would also be included.

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