It's About Time » Films/TV http://www.timelady.com/blog I am subject to change without notice... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:08:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Angelina Jolie and her film on the Bosnian War http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/12/angelina-jolie-and-her-film-on-the-bosnian-war/ http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/12/angelina-jolie-and-her-film-on-the-bosnian-war/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:33:24 +0000 timelady http://www.timelady.com/blog/?p=6526 Continue reading »]]> This film sounds like it evokes the horrors of war in a way that many films have not ever capture – the female horrors of rape, child loss. It is different from male horrors experienced. And as rending, heart breaking as it sounds, that is a valuable voice to hear.

[Jolie] took this focus and directness, this earnest approach to her new film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, which opens in the U.S. this month. She told me that when it came to the technicalities of making a film, “I wasn’t afraid to ask the DP [director of photography]. And I listened to my cast, most of whom lived through the war. I listened to their stories and tried to incorporate it into the work.” Against the backdrop of the war, she has created a moving and surprising love story of a Serbian soldier and the Bosnian woman he reencounters ambiguously during the war. It is difficult not to admire Jolie, particularly after watching her film.

via Angelina Jolie Directs a Film About the Bosnian War – The Daily Beast.

]]> http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/12/angelina-jolie-and-her-film-on-the-bosnian-war/feed/ 0 Outland – Disability, Australian, Scifi, Gay – ticks all the boxes for me:) http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/11/outland-disability-australian-scifi-gay-ticks-all-the-boxes-for-me/ http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/11/outland-disability-australian-scifi-gay-ticks-all-the-boxes-for-me/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:03:52 +0000 timelady http://www.timelady.com/blog/?p=6422 Continue reading »]]> Image of alien planet and gender symbols

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An Australian tv series about gay *(disclaimer) scifi fans – with a disabled woman? Could this appeal to me any more succinctly???

Btw, fans (like me) of the absolutely marvellous Boxcutters podcast have long been waiting for this:)

The new television series Outland, set to air on Australia’s ABC1 in February, has been described by some as a gay answer to The Big Bang Theory. Says the show’s producer: “[C]loseted science fiction fans will finally have a voice… a full family of gay Australian characters can go where they never ventured before – prime-time television.”

via Upcoming Outland TV Series: Australian, Geeky, Gay.

 

 

*(disclaimer)Ok technically my sexuality is fairly ambiguous, i subscribe to the love the person, notice the packaging later theory – I happen to love my husband, and have for many years, but have loved women too. I find both sexes attractive, IF I find the personality attractive – looks alone just cannot do it, and people become more attractive the more I like them as a person anyway. Thats another post though, but I just don’t get the need for labels and putting people into strict boxes of definition –  unless that is where they WANT to be).

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]]> http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/11/outland-disability-australian-scifi-gay-ticks-all-the-boxes-for-me/feed/ 0 My thoughts on the announced Doctor Who movie http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/11/my-thoughts-on-the-announced-doctor-who-movie/ http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/11/my-thoughts-on-the-announced-doctor-who-movie/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:43:35 +0000 timelady http://www.timelady.com/blog/?p=6358 Continue reading »]]> The Doctor is known to have changed appearance...

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The best two paths this could take :
1) The Time Wars – what formed the reboot Doctor?
2) the start of the Doctor as we know him – as a young Gallifreyan, with Rassilon. What made him a renegade Timelord?

Epic coolness there with both. Basically, lets see what forms our doctor, hmm?

If the intent of the director is to ignore canon, i fully agree with the quote featured in this article from a comment on the first news of this :”I’m just going to say this: it might be a good film. It might be a great film. It might be the greatest film ever made but without it being part of the Whoniverse, it won’t be a Doctor Who film”

In one of those lovely quirks of irony, I was showing my seven year old son the Doctor Who episode Dalek on Sunday. You might remember it. Written by Robert Shearman, it’s arguably the finest Dalek story since the show returned in 2005, and the bit that stuck in my head tonight was the moment when the solitary Dalek managed to absorb the entire Internet.

It struck me that if he’d tried to do that, around twenty minutes after Variety uploaded its story regarding a film being made of Doctor Who, it might just have imploded there and then.

via A few thoughts on the Doctor Who movie news – Den of Geek.

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]]> http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/11/my-thoughts-on-the-announced-doctor-who-movie/feed/ 0 where has this been hiding???? http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/where-has-this-been-hiding/ http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/where-has-this-been-hiding/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:12:14 +0000 timelady http://www.timelady.com/blog/?p=6287 More Astronomer’s Noise, This is cool beyond words… #DoctorWho

]]> http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/where-has-this-been-hiding/feed/ 0 I am a happy little geek… http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/i-am-a-happy-little-geek/ http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/i-am-a-happy-little-geek/#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:35:00 +0000 timelady http://www.timelady.com/blog/?p=6285 The Ultimate Kenny Everett Sketch Site Home Page.

Ahh, much of my youth was spent worshipping this man. Off to watch Captain Kremmen,,,

]]> http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/i-am-a-happy-little-geek/feed/ 0 Add to the list of my epic wants… http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/add-to-the-list-of-my-epic-wants/ http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/add-to-the-list-of-my-epic-wants/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:50:57 +0000 timelady http://www.timelady.com/blog/?p=6276 TARDIS Teapot.

]]> http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/add-to-the-list-of-my-epic-wants/feed/ 0 Rolling in The Hamster Wheel http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/rolling-in-the-hamster-wheel/ http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/rolling-in-the-hamster-wheel/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:05:56 +0000 timelady http://www.timelady.com/blog/?p=6247 Continue reading »]]> As a sometime only Chaser’s fan, i am revelling in The Hamster Wheel – looking at media in Australia in a way that is very Australian but with elements of Chasers & The Daily Show crossed. The Hamster Wheel comes from a quote from Jay Rosen “The Hamster Wheel isn’t speed; it’s motion for motion’s sake. The Hamster Wheel is volume without thought. It is news panic, a lack of discipline, an inability to say no.”

The Hamster Wheel – ABC TV.

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]]> http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/rolling-in-the-hamster-wheel/feed/ 0 Sarah Jane Smith, Best Friend to us all http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/sarah-jane-smith-best-friend-to-us-all/ http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/sarah-jane-smith-best-friend-to-us-all/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:07:08 +0000 timelady http://www.timelady.com/blog/?p=6210 Continue reading »]]> You know i said before i probably would always be reduced to tears about Sarah Jane…well, watch the final bit of the last of her series. No wonder i am weeping.

We already said goodbye to Elisabeth Sladen, one of Doctor Who’s greatest stars, back in April. But with today’s final episode of the Sarah Jane Adventures, we’re having to say goodbye to Sarah Jane Smith, the character she played since 1973.

via A Final Goodbye to Sarah Jane Smith, Doctor Who’s Best Friend.

]]> http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/sarah-jane-smith-best-friend-to-us-all/feed/ 0 Some say Farewell, Sarah Jane Smith – I say Thanks. http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/some-say-farewell-sarah-jane-smith-i-say-thanks/ http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/some-say-farewell-sarah-jane-smith-i-say-thanks/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:49:57 +0000 timelady http://www.timelady.com/blog/?p=6202

It’s the final episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures today.

via Farewell, Sarah Jane Smith – Den of Geek.

 

Not in my heart. In timelines, Sarah Jane roams still.

Thanks, Liz…

]]> http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/some-say-farewell-sarah-jane-smith-i-say-thanks/feed/ 0 How sugar molecules secretly shaped human evolution http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/how-sugar-molecules-secretly-shaped-human-evolution/ http://www.timelady.com/blog/2011/10/how-sugar-molecules-secretly-shaped-human-evolution/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:25:56 +0000 timelady http://www.timelady.com/blog/?p=6064 Continue reading »]]> Sugar. How it has changed us. There is a speech i cherish from the seventh Doctor Who, storyline Remembrance of the Daleks, (the anniversary episode) which goes :
JOHN: Hmm? Your tea. Sugar?
DOCTOR: Ah. A decision. Would it make any difference?
JOHN: It would make your tea sweet.
DOCTOR: Yes, but beyond the confines of my tastebuds, would it make any difference?
JOHN: Not really.
DOCTOR: But
JOHN: Yeah?
DOCTOR: What if I could control people’s tastebuds? What if I decided that no one would take sugar? That’d make a difference to those who sell the sugar and those that cut the cane.
JOHN: My father, he was a cane cutter.
DOCTOR: Exactly. Now, if no one had used sugar, your father wouldn’t have been a cane cutter.
JOHN: If this sugar thing had never started, my great-grandfather wouldn’t have been kidnapped, chained up, and sold in Kingston in the first place. I’d be a African.
DOCTOR: See? Every great decision creates ripples, like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
JOHN: Life’s like that. Best thing is just to get on with it.

See? Life’s like that, and as it turns out, more than we think.

Three million years ago, a gene mutation switched off a sugar-making enzyme in early hominids. Our ancestors actually became unable to breed with those who still had the enzyme, possibly causing the emergence of our evolutionary grandparent, Homo erectus.

via How sugar molecules secretly shaped human evolution.

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