If you are interested in learning about the history of film but have a short attention span or if you’re sitting outside one of your first year film school classes waiting for a test, this short video from Cinefix will give you the quick and dirty history of film, from 65 CE until now in…
Art House Super Hero Movies: If Ingmar Bergman directed “the Flash”
American blockbuster super hero movies may be a bit over the top, but there it could be worse. Here is YouTube user Patrick (H) Willems‘ take on Ingmar Bergman doing the Flash. For the sake of comparison, you can check out this 5 minute extended trailer for the CW show ‘the Flash‘, coming this fall.…
One last gag reel from Warehouse 13
Most successful shows run too long – well past the point where the writers run out of ideas and just start repeating themselves. Warehouse 13 was just the opposite, the longer the series ran the better the writers seemed to understand the show and the characters. The last 6 episodes ran earlier this season but…
David Bowie stars in a 1982 BBC production of Bertolt Brecht’s Baal (video)
This part might have been written for David Bowie, if Bertold Brecht was capable of time travel. Baal was written by Brecht in 1918 while he was a 20 year old student at the University of Munich. The musical tells the tales of a genius living a life of hedonism and sometimes crime on the…
Teaser for Doctor Who Season 8: Coming August 23
I haven’t been this excited for a new season of Doctor Who since David Tennant left. Yes, Stephen Moffat is still at the wheel and he’s completely botched his run with the Doctor so far but Peter Capaldi is taking over the TARDIS. Capaldi may be the most qualified actor ever cast in the roll,…
Utopia Series 2 Trailer is Here: Best new series of 2013 returns in July
Utopia is the darkest British series I’ve ever seen. It was also the best new series of 2013. The story of a graphic novel containing government secrets, a government conspiracy to permanently solve overpopulation and a group of comic book fans who (in the beginning) had very little idea what they had made for a…
Led Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’ on the dulcimer sounds pretty awesome
If Led Zeppelin ever decides to reunite, Jimmy Page might want to think about trading in his guitar for one of these. Here is Sam Edelston playing the classic “Whole Lotta Love” on a 3-string electric mountain dulcimer. Via Laughing Squid
Newcastle ad looks at what would have happened if the Brits won the American Revolution
As a US/Canadian dual citizen I have experienced the 4th of July from both sides of the border. Americans definitely love to celebrate it – fireworks, beer, BBQ and mass gatherings. They also love to celebrate the ‘founding fathers’ but when it comes to ‘Independence Day’ the other parties involved seem to put more thought…
What if a British football team hired an American football coach? (Video)
I’m not a sports fan. I don’t care about football – not American football, or the sport the rest of the world calls football (or even the sport the Australians call football). I will however admit that, although FIFA is an entirely evil organization, the sport that the rest of the world calls football is…
Watch the hilarious Mel Brookseque short ‘the Gunfighter’ narrated by Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman of Parks & Rec stars, as the narrator, in this tale of western … well sex mostly. It examines the question of what might happen if everyone could hear the all knowing narrator. The Gunfighter was directed by Eric Kissack (Brüno, Role Models), written by Eric Kissack and stars Shawn Parsons as the…