I think Sorsha and I are going to have an epic throwdown over the superior Sherlock Holmes portrayer: Jeremy Brett or Basil Rathbone. Watch this space for VICTORIAN THUNDERDOME. (I should have Six the Laptop back from my computer-fixer-guy next week!)
Chime in, Dear Readers...who's your favorite Holmes? You know I LOVE Robert Downey Jr. but he's my #2 Holmes. BRETT ALL THE WAY. HE IS THE DEFINITIVE HOLMES.
I can't speak to the quality of the new guy in the BBC series Sherlock (Because it doesn't air in the U.S. until FREAKIN' OCTOBER), but he does have the gay porniest name in all the land: Benedict Cumberbatch. Yeah.
Showing posts with label Secretly British. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Secretly British. Show all posts
Friday, August 6, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
IT'S THE SNOWMAGEDDON!!!11!!
Today was the second (or was it third?) HUGE snow storm that we've gotten here in NJ. Gotta love global warming, right?
I did not go to work because there weather dot com told me I would be in "life-threatening peril" if I left my house. No doubt from polar bears and walruses and ice weasels. I spent the day downloading music and watching the first two Underworld movies. With commentary. Come, let me tell you about the HUGE, WEIRD CRUSH I have on Michael Sheen. Or as Sorsha calls it, my "Michael Sheen Pathology." And she's a mental health professional. She would know.
The first and third Underworld movies are delightfully terrible, just the thing to watch with friends and mock. The second one: Underworld: Evolution? Was an absolute TRIAL to get through and Sheen in in the damn thing for LITERALLY 10 seconds. Awesome. It's a dreadful movie. And I like Scott Speedman as much as the next heterosexual woman with a working optic nerve (TEAM BEN ALL THE WAY!!!), but even his sex scene was lousy. I'm sure glad that the director mentioned in the commentary that the latex suit Kate Beckinsale was wearing smelled like a giant condom. Because that's all I could think of. GREAT.
While I wouldn't exactly call the Underworld franchise a feat of feminist filmmaking, I do enjoy that no one seems to bat an eye at Beckinsale's Selene kicking ass and taking names AND being a girl. They never even mention it. I mean, she's not a human woman, she's a vampire so it's not like she's striking a blow for the average woman. And she's wearing a shiny catsuit that looks like they spraypainted it on her, but still. I'll take my tiny victories where I can get them.
I did not go to work because there weather dot com told me I would be in "life-threatening peril" if I left my house. No doubt from polar bears and walruses and ice weasels. I spent the day downloading music and watching the first two Underworld movies. With commentary. Come, let me tell you about the HUGE, WEIRD CRUSH I have on Michael Sheen. Or as Sorsha calls it, my "Michael Sheen Pathology." And she's a mental health professional. She would know.
The first and third Underworld movies are delightfully terrible, just the thing to watch with friends and mock. The second one: Underworld: Evolution? Was an absolute TRIAL to get through and Sheen in in the damn thing for LITERALLY 10 seconds. Awesome. It's a dreadful movie. And I like Scott Speedman as much as the next heterosexual woman with a working optic nerve (TEAM BEN ALL THE WAY!!!), but even his sex scene was lousy. I'm sure glad that the director mentioned in the commentary that the latex suit Kate Beckinsale was wearing smelled like a giant condom. Because that's all I could think of. GREAT.
While I wouldn't exactly call the Underworld franchise a feat of feminist filmmaking, I do enjoy that no one seems to bat an eye at Beckinsale's Selene kicking ass and taking names AND being a girl. They never even mention it. I mean, she's not a human woman, she's a vampire so it's not like she's striking a blow for the average woman. And she's wearing a shiny catsuit that looks like they spraypainted it on her, but still. I'll take my tiny victories where I can get them.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Mini-Television Review: "Flashforward"
Well, Flashforward, you've got my attention. At the very least.
John Cho and Joseph Fiennes -- you are both so, so pretty. But Joseph! WHY WON'T THEY LET YOU BE BRITISH? It makes me sad when hot British men are not allowed to be their hot British selves.
John Cho and Joseph Fiennes -- you are both so, so pretty. But Joseph! WHY WON'T THEY LET YOU BE BRITISH? It makes me sad when hot British men are not allowed to be their hot British selves.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Mini-Television Review: "Sons of Anarchy"
Why did none of you tell me that I needed to watch Sons of Anarchy*? WHYYY? BW alerted me to the fact that Henry Rollins** has joined the cast. So, naturally, I tuned into the season premiere reairing tonight. Oh, Henry. Another role where you play a rapist? Why? WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME? AND TO MAME? AND YOU'RE A WHITE SUPREMACIST TOO? WHYYYYYY!?
Ahem.
So, it seems like a decent show. Damn, Katey Sagal looks good for her age. Go Katey! And hellooo, Charlie Hunnam and Charlie Hunnam's ass! What a great cast! I think I'll tentatively pick this show up for the season.
*I'm fully aware of the fact that my brother, my dad, possibly my Uncle V, Dan Mac (I think? Didn't you?) and the guy I chat with at the library about movies have all told me that I really should watch Sons of Anarchy and I ignored them for a year. Bygones.
**Mame and I have a long-standing crush on Henry Rollins. We looooooooove him. We want to maaaaarry him. We want to have 10,000 of his baaaaaaaabies. We've sat through Johnny Mnemonic, Morgan's Ferry and many tapes of his spoken word shows (But those are actually GOOD). Our love is pure, ok? But he was in Lost Highway and that makes up for a lot.
Ahem.
So, it seems like a decent show. Damn, Katey Sagal looks good for her age. Go Katey! And hellooo, Charlie Hunnam and Charlie Hunnam's ass! What a great cast! I think I'll tentatively pick this show up for the season.
*I'm fully aware of the fact that my brother, my dad, possibly my Uncle V, Dan Mac (I think? Didn't you?) and the guy I chat with at the library about movies have all told me that I really should watch Sons of Anarchy and I ignored them for a year. Bygones.
**Mame and I have a long-standing crush on Henry Rollins. We looooooooove him. We want to maaaaarry him. We want to have 10,000 of his baaaaaaaabies. We've sat through Johnny Mnemonic, Morgan's Ferry and many tapes of his spoken word shows (But those are actually GOOD). Our love is pure, ok? But he was in Lost Highway and that makes up for a lot.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Dude.
Mame and I are on the phone, watching Conan O'Brien and giggling together. You know. As you do. And Stephen Moyer from our very favoritest show ever True Blood is on. (Bill! He plays Bill!)
He's BRITISH in real life, people. Which we knew. But we'd never heard him speak. It's...disconcerting, to say the least. Also, hot. And he's ridiculously charming. And then he started morphing back and forth into different kinds of British accents and then to his southern Bill voice. Weird!
EGT! It was like that time that we discovered that Chuck Bass was really British In Real Life and I dug up that Youtube clip of him just being English at everyone. And we were like o_O.
Who else is Secretly British In Real Life? Because it just makes them more attractive.
He's BRITISH in real life, people. Which we knew. But we'd never heard him speak. It's...disconcerting, to say the least. Also, hot. And he's ridiculously charming. And then he started morphing back and forth into different kinds of British accents and then to his southern Bill voice. Weird!
EGT! It was like that time that we discovered that Chuck Bass was really British In Real Life and I dug up that Youtube clip of him just being English at everyone. And we were like o_O.
Who else is Secretly British In Real Life? Because it just makes them more attractive.
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