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LOWCULTURE FILM REVIEW OF THE YEAR
2009 has been a funny old year for films. There have been several pretty good films, but few outstanding ones; several pretty bad films but few absolute turkeys. So with that disclaimer in mind, what are the highlights and lowlights of the year?
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Like so much leftover turkey being reworked into sandwiches and curry, today’s schedules are full of repeats and revisits. However, like a turkey sandwich, sometimes repeats can be a very tasty prospect. Well, I say that, but I’m a vegetarian, so I don’t actually know if the simile works.
The day kicks off with [...]
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Because the telly is chock-full of awesomeness this yuletide, Steven, Carl and I will be here everyday with our ’selection box’ of highlights for each day between here and January 1. Well, unless we overdose on the mulled wine and Cava and forget about it, that is.
Christmas Eve kicks off with perennial family favourites [...]
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Over the next week or so, we’ll be looking back over the high and low lights of 2008 in the lowculture world, and particularly those things that got the forums all excited. We’re kicking off today with films.
2008 was a year for massive films, as everything that was written before the writers’ strike got [...]
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TEENAGE!Kidulthood, BBC Three, 11.45pm
Warning: Kidulthood may have the same effect on you as Skins (i.e. make you feel old and wonder why your youth wasn’t anything like that). The film, which was shown last night, but is repeated again tonight for good measure focuses on a group of teenagers in London as they negotiate [...]
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Time was when a former Hollyoaks actor could dream of nothing more than the occasional appearance on Fear Factor or Loose Women when they left the soap. Eventually the bar was raised ever so slightly to the point where they might hope for a role in Bad Girls or Where The Heart Is. Aspiring [...]
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GLITZY!The British Academy Film Awards, BBC1, 10pm
» With the writers’ strike not yet having reached a conclusion, it is possible (unlikely, but possible) that the Oscars will not go ahead, thus making this THE film industry ceremony to be at in 2008.
» We liked a lot of the films we saw in 2007.
» Jonathan [...]
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HIGH SCHOOL! Ten Things I Hate About You, Sky Movies Comedy, 8pm
HI-JINKS! A Knight’s Tale, FilmFour, 9pm
Like many of you, we were saddened to hear of the death of Heath Ledger last month. Tonight the movie channels are giving you a couple of opportunities to remember him with two of his most-loved films (and we [...]
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ANOTHER YEAR OVER! New Year’s Eve telly
So, 2007, then. The year that brought us two Big Brother race rows, Any Dream Will Do, Harry Potter film 5 and book 7, floods, an actually good remake in the form of Hairspray, a new Prime Minister, Heroes, LOLyoaks, McDean, Ugly Betty, Martha Jones, Steven Beale, data loss [...]
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I see a little silhouetto of a muppet.
Oh dear, what are you on about now? Join the discussion here.
I saw them perform it "live" on GMTV this morning and I nearly spluttered out my tea. 