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F.U.C.K.T.#8: Powrót do życia

Shinigami — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:45:09 +0000

Reaktywujemy FUCKT razem z nadesłanym przez czytelniczkę tekstem. Jak widzicie, na razie brak nam nagłówka, pojawi się jutro, na razie jest w fazie projektowania (jak i nowa nazwa dla działu oraz lepszy wstęp ). No ale nie przejmujcie się tym, zapraszam do czytania.

edycja:
No i proszę, jest nowe logo. Ale nazwa i wstęp zostają Jak się podoba ulepszenie?

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Był emitowany dotychczas w 20 krajach, m.in. w Wielkiej Brytanii, Kanadzie, Portugalii, Hiszpanii i Australii. Powrót do życia (Life) - serial kryminalny, któremu warto się przyjrzeć. Tytułu nie bierzcie dosłownie, ponieważ chodzi tu raczej o 12 lat wyjęte z życiorysu czynnego gliny, który został wrobiony w morderstwo, którego nie popełnił. Tak właśnie wszystko się zaczyna. Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis) główny bohater – niesamowity rudzielec o podejrzliwym spojrzeniu - wraca do służby ponownie stając się policyjnym detektywem. Został przydzielony do (jakże by inaczej) pięknej pani detektyw. Wszyscy mają go na celowniku, ponieważ nie wierzą w jego niewinność. Charlie na własną rękę szuka dowodów by dowiedzieć się kto go wrobił. Pojawia się parokrotnie u detektywa prowadzącego przed 12 laty tę sprawę… Motywem przewodnim serialu jest życie Charliego po godzinach pracy: sypiające z nim różne laski, kumpel z celi rozporządzający jego kasą, jaką dostał za zadośćuczynienie (a było tego troszkę). Za nią zakupił sobie willę, samochody a nawet traktor…

Każda ze spraw, którą prowadzi wraz z partnerką Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi) trzyma w napięciu do samego końca, rozkminę pozostawiam wam….

A oprócz tego wszystkiego od czasu do czasu pojawiają się scenki z przesłuchań różnych świadków dotyczących jego dochodzenia. Charlie jest „niepokojący”, nigdy nie wiadomo do końca co zrobi. Głośno myśli, co irytuje Dani. Wiecznie jest nieobecny myślami, jakby rozmawiał ze swoim drugim ja.

Fajna muzyka w scenach „grozy” (bo zdarza się i tak, że nie zawsze wszystko idzie po naszej myśli), podejrzane ujęcia z różnych kamer i częste zbliżenia na twarz Charliego – myślącego… Trudno go rozgryźć… i dlatego myślę, że jeśli lubisz seriale, te trzymające w napięciu, to jest on właśnie dla Ciebie. Ze wszech miar polecam! Choć nie musicie wierzyć kobiecie, której przecież nie znacie

Misa

La vida loca

Zdenek — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:40:58 +0000

Life J’adore mon lapin. Bien qu’il ne soit pas aussi vif que son cousin de Caerbannog,

Things We Like #3: Deadwood

jimmybing — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:54:28 +0000

Best. Show. Ever. And what did David Milch give us after it was over? John From Cincinnati. Well… it was just a black day for television. The below promo ran before Deadwood’s third season, and is probably one of the best commercials I’ve ever seen. *sniff* I’m getting a little teary just thinking about it. I’d like to be alone now.

Life: prima stagione: riassunto episodi 1x07 Guerra civile (Civil war) - 1x08 Due ti tutto (farthingale) - 1x09 La gabbia (serious control issues)

inotelefilm — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:53:13 +0000

Questo riassunto è di mia proprietà scritto e pubblicato mesi fa sul sito blogapuntate.it Charlie (D

Life: prima stagione: riassunto episodio 1x06: Confessioni (Powerless)

inotelefilm — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:08:57 +0000

Life riassunto dell’episodio: Questo riassunto è di mia proprietà scritto e pubblicato mesi fa

Shonda Rhimes Wants to Hurt You Extravaganza (4.30.09): Grey's Anatomy 5.20 "No Good At Saying Sorry (One More Chance)" and Private Practice 2.22 "Yours, Mine & Ours"

marcusandstevi — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:27:37 +0000

The Husband:

Whenever Grey’s Anatomy is in doubt, it always returns to one theme — family. In a lot of ways it’s the basis of this show, and it’s incredibly smart as a backup in case things get a little too wild at Seattle Grace. Because, with very few exceptions, those who become doctors are usually either following in their parents’ footsteps or they’re pressured into the field by the same people, and especially in the case of these residents, they often cannot escape their parents’ shadows no matter how hard they try.

While Callie deals with last week’s visit from her dad and his ultimatum that she either leave Seattle and her gay lover and move back to Miami or lose her trust, that parent hole is filled not once, not twice but thrice this week in various forms.

You still get breast implants, even if you're dying of skin cancer!

First up is Sharon Lawrence, done ruining everybody’s life over on Privileged (I swear I’ll get to a wrap-up on that show one day, especially if it gets renewed), showing up in all her crazy glory as Izzie’s ignorant trailer park mother. She’s completely baffled that she had to come all the way up to metropolitan Washington just to hear that he daughter simply has skin cancer — which she mistakenly equates as “just a mole” and not at all fatal like breast cancer — until Izzie lets her in on a few pretty well-known facts about tumors, the fact that the skin is indeed an organ, and that cancer spreads. To get her off Izzie’s back, Bailey comes in and tells the both of them that the cancer is disappearing, but once Ms. Lawrence is gone, informs Izzie that no matter how hard they try, this cancer doesn’t seem to be going away. The show did a good job of making Sharon Lawrence just annoying enough so that we appreciated her appearance but probably never want to see her again.

Meredith and Lexi, meanwhile, have some major family damage control ahead of them as their father, now out of rehab and dealing with his alcoholism, is trying to ask their forgiveness for all the horrible things he has done to both of them and their respective dead mothers. But this is too tough for Meredith, and so she takes out her aggression on the Case of the Week.

But what is this case of the week? Well, imagine a three-person family. Now imagine the father continually beating the mother and sometimes the under-ten-years-of-age daughter. Now imagine the daughter getting cut on the face and also watching her father break her mother’s arm, and then proceeding to grab his gun and shooting him 17 times. At the hospital, it doesn’t take long to figure out that the shooting wasn’t an accident, but the wife is such a pushover that she tries to get the daughter to apologize to the [slowly] recovering dad for her reaction, when she was just defending herself. Meredith can’t have this, not another woman in her life getting bullied around, and so she berates the mother for not standing up to the abuse and setting a good example for her daughter. Finally, the mother gathers the courage to say goodbye to the father forever, and that they would be too far away once he recovered for him to find them.

But Meredith’s outburst has consequences, and the Chief gets on her case for being unprofessional and getting her feelings involved in something that doesn’t concern her. This nearly leads to Meredith’s firing, but Derek has a one-on-one with the Chief and makes him painfully aware that he is treating Meredith not like an employee but as a daughter, as the Chief had a decades-long affair with Meredith’s mother, one that didn’t really lead to anything but confusion and emotional messiness.

I like how this episode dealt with the old GA notion of family. Not that it was great, because it was just a-okay. But at least it wasn’t like season 3 when it seemed that everybody’s parent was dying, first Meredith’s crazy mother, then Lexi’s mother, then George’s father, until it just seemed like cheap soap opera tactics. Unfortunately, the familial focus pushed the Owen-Cristina drama to the side to a point where even their emotional conversation at episode’s end, where Owen reveals that he’s been seeing a shrink to get to a place where he could be the right man for Cristina, didn’t really hold a lot of weight. Oh well, only two episodes to go, and it’s pretty damn clear that it’s all going to be about the Meredith-Derek wedding and Izzie’s cancer. Who knows if anything will get solved other than those two things. And who knows if George is going to be given any figment of a story this season.

But it’s season finale time on Private Practice, and they’ve got a doozy of a Moral Quandary with which to contend. (My wife is right; this show should absolutely be renamed Moral Quandary.) When two women have their embryos planted, Naomi makes the horrible discovery that they’re carrying each other’s babies, which at the very least is no good for the struggling practice. But even worse is that the embryo that belongs in Robin Weigert’s belly is her last egg and the last bit of sperm from her dead husband, and the woman carrying this last effort baby wants to terminate it as it doesn’t feel right, and doesn’t want Robin Weigert carrying her baby. For once, I’m with the decision to actually keep the damn babies where they are and not terminate, because they’re both going to come out anyway, and they’ll still be the baby you, non-Robin Weigert, wanted as a result of your money and your effort with this in vitro fertilization. You’ll still get the experience, you’ll still get the genetic connection, and you won’t fuck with Robin Weigert’s poor brain. Fortunately, the non-Robin Weigert finally comes to her senses and realizes how ridiculous she and her husband are being.

But this is the season finale, and you want to know how it ended, right? I’ll make it easy for you.

Dell: His baby mama comes back into town with their daughter demanding $10,000 for the child, but even when Sam gives Dell the money, Dell takes his child and shames the mother into not taking the money, something that would just wreck her drug-addled brain even more. And finally forgiven for his attitude over the past few weeks (and the mistake that led to the embryo switch), he is absolved and given back his patients and his midwivery.

Addison: Still trying not to get it on with Dr. Swingtown despite her attraction to him, she convinces him to stay with his wife, but right before his wife is to give birth, they have a near-fucking until both their pagers ring. As far as I could tell, their relationship is still up in the air, which is difficult especially now that his wife is starting to grow suspicious.

Pete: Finally wins Violet’s heart as she chooses him over Sheldon as her man, despite Sheldon’s marriage proposal.

Sam: Declares that he is still in love with Naomi.

Naomi: After much inner debating, she takes the job as director of Pacific Wellcare.

Charlotte: Is fired as director of Pacific Wellcare for, basically, not having a heart, which finally breaks this very strong woman.

Cooper: Is about to take care of a ready-to-burst Violet, when he gets the call from Charlotte that she desperately needs him now. He is unaware of the horror that is about to occur on the other side of that door to Violet’s house.

DOOM AWAITS YOU!!!!!

Violet: And what horror? It seems that that bit of insane psychology I bitched about a few weeks ago in re: Amanda Foreman’s character, the crazy lady who tried to continue on with her pregnancy despite the baby being dead inside of her, finally returned to bite everyone in the ass, as Ms. Foreman comes to Violet’s door, knocks her out with a quick syringe to the arm, and then proceeds to tell Violet that she stole her baby out of her and was gestating it herself. In short, Amanda Foreman gon’ cut that baby out of Violet. Violet, realizing that she is finally trapped at without question at the end of her life, tells Ms. Foreman how to give a C-section correctly, which while killing Violet, would save the child. And as the scalpel is about to cut into skin, the season ends.

Ahhhhh Private Practice. How shameless you are. And how shameless and fascinating and sad of a cliffhanger to go out on. We have at least four months to figure out what’s going to happen — I’m just gonna guess that come September, Pete or Sheldon is going to bust through that door and knock that bitch out, but it seems that you never know with Shonda Rhimes. I never grew tired of PP this year (while I did at least three times with GA), so that bodes well for this addictive trifle of a primetime soap. Do I realize that this show is pretty ridiculous and probably bad for my brain? Yes. But will I apologize for watching, nay, enjoying it? Hell naw.

Oh Shonda Rhimes, how will you try to hurt me next season?

Life: prima stagione: riassunto episodio 1x02: Lacerazione (Tear Asunder)

inotelefilm — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:01:28 +0000

Life riassunto dell’episodio: Questo riassunto è di mia proprietà scritto e pubblicato mesi fa

Life: prima stagione: riassunto episodio 1x01: Ritorno alla vita (Merit Badge)

inotelefilm — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:49:02 +0000

Life riassunto dell’episodio: Questo riassunto è di mia proprietà scritto e pubblicato mesi fa

Two Underrated Talents

The Friendinator — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:44:00 +0000

I’m totally disappointed with the state of TV today. If someone was to have asked me five years ago if I thought the reality TV craze would still be thriving in 2009, I would have said, “nuh-uh, people will go crazy by then and rebel, demanding story-driven material to watch.” Clearly, I would have been wrong. Reality programming seems to continue growing and growing and growing because, i assume, it’s what people want. The sad part of it all though is that so much high-end TV talent has been dropped and traded-out for reality personalities, leaving some amazing actors out in the dust to whither away until they ultimately disappear.

I’ve been thinking lately about a couple of actresses I feel are totally underrated. One of them is Robin Weigert, the other is Linda Gray. Robin, I’m sure, would have a pile of work getting thrown her way if only there were projects being developed for her to be considered for. In this age of drama-queen reality celebritydom though, it seems like for every one written show being taken off the air, two new reality shows are created. As for Linda Gray, her heyday was years before reality TV even existed. I assume her early absence from TV was due to a case of major typecasting after her super-long stint on CBS’s Dallas. It’s understandable, after spending 14 years as a total standout talent, I suppose it would be hard to imagine her as anything else. Whatever the case with either of these amazing actresses, I wish there would have been more opportunities for them to exercise their talents, rather than fade into lonesome states of non-household nameness, picking up bit parts in large projects and large parts in bit projects.

Robin Weigert, looking more like a lady and less like a cowboy.

I was a huge fan of HBO’s Deadwood, which has now been off the air for a couple of years. The cast as a whole had enough talent to fill the entire atmosphere of Mars. One particular cast member however totally stands out in my mind and I can’t for the life of me understand why in the world she hasn’t been plastered all over the place, winning role after role after role, since she’s no longer busy with Deadwood. One would think that true talent like hers would be heavily sought after by producers high and low. Her name is Robin Weigert and she porttrayed the character of Calamity Jane. Those familiar with the show and her portrayal will likely agree, she seriously emphasized putting the “calamity,” into her role of Calamity Jane.

When Calamity first appeared on the show, she had already taken her journey through the savage-ridden western plains and wound up, somehow, in the lawless town of Deadwood, trying to move forward while almost frozen in a place in her head, much like someone who has witnessed a brutal murder and can’t seem to express herself in any valid way. Throughout the show, when Calamity came on the screen, it was like her eyes were projecting images of her brain-shaking journey right in front of you. I’ve never seen anyone act with their eyes like Robin Weigert can. She portrays Calamity in a way that makes you want to hug her, cry with her, then go out and get whisky-soak wasted with her. Her ability to so emotionally lure me in completely amazes me.

Linda Gray, looking more sober than Sue Ellen ever did...

Dallas. Hands down, the greatest nighttime drama of all time. Period! The happenings of J.R. Ewing and the oil-rich Ewing clan would be nothing but spilled milk if not for the chronic mis-happenings of J.R.’s wife, Sue Ellen Ewing. The alcoholic, constantly bruised, battered-wife-syndromed, frequently reduced to nothing, off the wagon-on the wagon-off the wagon again woman whom J.R. loved to hate had and still has a very special place in the hearts of all truly qualified Dallas aficionados. Her physical transformations as she so frequently swayed back and forth between lush and sober, sane and insane, strong and depressed, astound all whom have had the opportunity to see her in action.

Linda Gray did nothing particularly noteworthy after Dallas, which ran from 1978 to 1991. Some may know her from her appearances on Fox’s Melrose Place, which ultimately spun her character off to another Fox show called Models, Inc. Some younger folks might have seen her make a brief appearance in one episode of The CW’s new 90210. Sadly, she is a tremendous talent whom it’s likely not too many people can name off the tops of their heads. She will always be Sue Ellen Ewing to me.

Life

Adam — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:45:52 +0000

“Vengeance is a dark light that blinds all who seek it.”

NBC. All season 1 episodes free at Hulu. Starring Damian Lewis, Sarah Shahi, Robin Weigert, Brooke Langton, Brent Sexton and Adam Arkin.

A few years ago, after the runaway success of CSI, crime procedurals were all the rage and soon there were so many forgettable CSI or Law and Order spin-offs and rip-offs filling the airwaves. Then came the next sensation, thanks to Lost, serial dramas like Vanished and Kidnapped and whatever else, of which very few made it past season 1, or even through season 1.

Now, apparently, networks are combining the two, figuring they can get the best of both worlds, and NBC’s drama Life is a perfect example. Much like another last TV series I reviewed, New Amsterdam, every week there’s a new mystery that gets wrapped up by the end of episode (yay, short-attention spans!) but there’s also an ongoing story that drives the plot of the series (yay, passionate fanbase!). It’s actually very similar to New Amsterdam, except for the whole, living forever thing — each show’s main character is a homicide detective trying to solve a life mystery, paired with a tough minority female partner with a cop father, with a comic relief sidekick in his personal life and an elusive love interest.

In this case, detective Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis, or Winters from Band of Brothers as I like to think of him) has just been released from prison after spending 12 years behind bars for a triple-murder he didn’t commit. The season arc focuses on him trying to find the real killer and who set him up and why and dealing of course, with his adjustment to a new world. The latter consists of him trying to gain the trust of his fellow officers and also lame gags like him not knowing what an IM is. He has come out of prison with a new Zen-like mentality and a love for light and fruit, and all three are hammered home somewhat annoyingly (though they do tone it down as the season progresses).

His new partner, Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi, or that girl Tony sleeps with in Vegas on The Sopranos) is a recovering alcoholic who is annoyed by Crews, but of course, becomes loyal in the face of dissent from her colleagues, especially their boss (Weigert). His old partner (Sexton), still a beat cop, is racked by guilt for helping put Crews away in the first place and somehow finds himself at every one of their crime scenes, despite the fact that L.A. is a huge city of ten million. His sidekick is a white-collar criminal he befriended in prison (Arkin) who now manages his huge settlement from the city, as procured by his lawyer/love interest (Langton).

Much as with New Amsterdam the procedurals are pretty hit-or-miss and mostly forgettable while the most interesting part of each show is the season-long plot. The shows feature more of Crews trying to solve his own mystery are the better ones, as he slowly puts the pieces together on his wall o’ conspiracy in a back room in his new big mansion.

Damian Lewis is good and gets better as the season goes on, and his voice gets a lot less annoying after the pilot. Plus, he’s Winters, and I’ll always give him the benefit of the doubt. Arkin is amusing as the sidekick, but hasn’t had much screen time except for a throwaway plot with Christina Hendricks of Mad Men. Shahi is actually pretty convincing and her character is interesting, and Langton does a good job with her limited screen time and has good chemistry with Lewis. Weigert doesn’t have much of a role as their lieutenant, and apparently they’re bringing in Donal Logue next year as the precinct captain, so that will cut into her role some more.

They do provide a fair amount of closure in the best and final episode of the season (just in case they got cancelled, I guess) which is nice, but now I find it hard to imagine what season 2 is going to be about. However, with the promise of Crews’ secret room and his grand diagram of the conspiracy, the actual answers weren’t very interesting.

Overall, if you like procedurals, you’d do worse than Life or New Amsterdam, which at least have something else going for it besides the fairly predictable murder plots every week. And with Life, there will definitely be a season 2, and with both you can watch all the episodes for free at hulu.com.

Grade: C+

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Halle Berry - "Things We Lost In The Fire" "Oltre il fuoco"

Elena — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:10:00 +0000

Vestita di un bellissimo abito blu elettrico con il pancione in vista, Halle Berry è arrivata alla prima Londinese del suo nuovo film ”Things We Lost In The Fire.”

“Things we lost in the fire” racconta la storia di Audrey Burke, giovane vedova, rimasta sola con due bambini. Per sconfiggere la solitudine ed i problemi economici invita in casa il migliore amico di suo marito, un avvocato con problemi di droga…

Nel cast Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny, Alison Lohman, Sarah Dubrovsky, John Carroll Lynch, Robin Weigert, Robin Weigert, Quinn Lord.

Il sito ufficiale del film è già online con video, download e gallery di foto

L’attrice esce fuori da giorni di pesanti polemiche nei suoi confronti scaturite da un un commento fatto in un talk show (Jay Leno), Halle vedendo una sua foto distorta con il naso ingrossato ha commentato “sembro mio cugino giudeo”.

Al termine della trasmissione hanno tagliato la parola “Giudeo” per sostituirla con una risata ma le critiche non hanno comunque tardato ad arrivare!