The Age Of Stupid director attacks Channel 4 and BBC over green documentaries

Franny Armstrong, acclaimed director of global warming drama-documentary The Age of Stupid, has attacked the BBC and Channel 4 over their green documentary records, calling them “miserable.”

The worst movie taglines: Crank 2 and more

I’m sure Crank 2: High Voltage is  a shockingly bad film. I haven’t seen it, nor the first one, but you can guarentee that any film with Jason Statham playing a cockney John McClane with the tagline ‘He was dead. Then he got better’ is going to be bloody awful. Granted, a few teenagers with haywire testerone are going to love it in much the same way they regard Statham’s other action franchise The Transporter, but the rest of us will either avoid it or leave the cinema and run straight home for a Coen Bros/Scorcese boxset marathon to exercise the memory.

Fast and the Furious 5 touted: Movie franchises that won’t go away

This week, pseudo action-hero Paul Walker told a radio show that Fast and the Furious 5 is on the cards, and that both he and Vin Diesel would be reprising their roles. Considering that the first film was a masterclass in poor quality, over-budgeted, hi-concept dross and that the rest of the series has gotten progressively worse, the money-spinning success of the franchise can be the only possible reason it lives on.

Here, Eye Box casts its mind over other movie franchises which just won’t go away and considers how we can get rid of them…

Shameless self-promotion

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This is just to say a quick thank you to the BBC Blogs editorial team who linked my post on The Wire, which brought a lot of new people to my blog, and also to the Blogs of the Day wordpress blog, which ranked Eye Box in a top 100 last week. All good news and posting will increase over the next few days. I’ve been working at the Times Higher Education magazine so my output has dipped a bit but keeping checking in for more tele and film news and opinion.

Welcome to the Tellydump podcast

Following on from my post about the public annoyance of the late night showing of The Wire on BBC, here is a discussion I had with my tell! Magazine co-news editor Ali Plumb about the problems with commissioning programmes on Britain’s public broadcaster.

Welcome to the world’s first Tellydump…

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