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It’s a fact of life that even the biggest names in acting sometimes sully themselves in the murky world of advertising. These days, it’s no surprise to see Uma Thurman flogging cars or Kate Winslet demonstrating her breathiest dramatic pauses to encourage viewers to tune into Sky Movies, but you wouldn’t expect to find them … >
Even if you’re not a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation – or, perhaps, particularly if you’re not – you have to admire the lengths to which the cast of the show have gone to lampoon their former characters, send up the pompousness of the franchise, and generally make tits of themselves in the … >
Another day, another clip from a television programme with words bleeped out to imply crudity. We ought to be getting tired of these by now, but to be quite honest, we’re not. Join Nigel Havers and Maggie Smith at Downton Abbey for yet more censor-tainment…
Okay, so it worked in the end, and Fox Mulder finally ended up copping off with the most beautiful woman in the history of the FBI – Dana Scully, obviously, no matter what you apologists for Monica Reyes and Diana Fowley might say – but his skill at flirting with his glamorous fellow agent was … >
Ten years since The X-Files ended, we’re starting to think that a third movie, showing the events of the colonisation and Mulder and Scully’s heroic fight against the odds, isn’t going to materialise after all.
Before the execrable Johnny English: Reborn, there was the enjoyable Johnny English; and before that, there was a series of excellent adverts for Barclaycard starring Rowan Atkinson as a character called Richard Latham – Johnny English in everything but name. Here, the secret agent’s hapless howlers (always solved in the pre-credit crunch age by Bough … >
The genius of Homeland is that we genuinely don’t know who to trust. Every character that might be telling porkies has a compelling explanation for their suspicious behaviour.
After Cracker, gentile detective dramas like The Ruth Rendell Mysteries felt as cosily outdated as wearing a vest.
The zenith – or possibly nadir – of Dalekmania during the 1960s saw the production of a pop record so extraordinary that it still bewilders the brain and affronts the ears almost fifty years on. Recorded by the Go-Gos – sadly not the American group featuring Belinda Carlisle and Jane Weidlin, although it is vaguely … >
Anyone who laments the current state of Britain’s privatised rail network, with its high fares, overcrowding and delays (and the buffet car? Let’s literally not even go there), may well feel a pang of wistfulness at this truly epic commercial, made in the days when trains were run for the benefit of the passengers rather … >