For anyone thinking of entering this year’s 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking competition, here’s some inspiration. Three guys spent four days (and awesome amounts of brain skillz) recreating the D-Day storming of Omaha Beach. Here’s the trailer for the upcoming BBC special Bloody Omaha:
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In anticipation of the release at Christmas this year of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek XI (back to before the beginning with a new cast including Karl Urban and Simon Pegg) and because I really don’t have enough to do (ahem, that would include Downstage, Capital Times, Latin American Film Festival, Wellingtonista, 48HRS, Newtown Athletic and the commencement of a Post Graduate Diploma in Business and Administration at Massey) I hereby embark on my longstanding plan to watch all the Star Trek episodes and movies in chronological order.
And when I say chronological order I mean in story order which, according to this Wikipedia entry, starts with “Enterprise” set in 2151 and ends with Nemesis in 2379. Ever the iconoclast, however, I intend to start tonight with First Contact which, despite featuring the TNG crew of Picard, Data, etc. contains Zefram Cochrane’s first warp flight, thus leading to all the other stories. Then to Season One of “Enterprise” and onward, hopefully arriving at the end before I have to review Star Trek XI this time next year.
I won’t be reviewing every entry because, frankly, who cares?
Wish me luck. Live long and prosper.
Or should I say: Resistance is futile.
Guardian Unlimited yesterday demonstrated the growing ubiquity of Flight of the Conchords with the caption to an article about business travel to Dubai. It’s business time, indeed.
David Simon, producer of “The Wireâ€, in the New Yorker:
Every single moment on the planet, from here on out, human beings are worth less. We are in a post-industrial age. We don’t need as many of us as we once did.
I tried “The Wire†a year or so ago and gave it a few episodes before giving up but now I have nearly kicked my “West Wing†addiction I think I should give it another go.
