LOOKS:Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Blu-Ray) - the second time around it's still great, and it still spins my head when the Burj Kalifa segment comes up.
Mad Men Season 5 - the last few months have had a decidedly
Mad Men flavour to them, and now I'm finally all caught up on Don & Co's adventures in advertising ... roll on season 6!
2 Broke Girls - sometimes E4's relentless advertising of new shows really grates (
I almost didn't start watching Lost specifically because I hated how often they trailed the first season on Channel 4), but now and then that doesn't factor in so much and you give a show a fair chance on its own merit. It took me a few episodes to get into it, but I've found myself somewhat curiously
into this show, which is like a strange clash of '
ever-so-sitcommy' and '
post-modern-malaise'.
Hell On Wheels - all I knew of this show before reading an article in Total Film about it, was the title, and I'd just assumed it was a rip-off of
Sons of Anarchy or something. However, having got utterly obsessed with
Deadwood earlier this year, I was up for more western drama, and AMC are delivering. It's not in the same league as
Deadwood (
the first two seasons of which were downright perfect, while the third season lost its sense of pace until the final episodes), but I'm still watching it - so it must be doing something right. You gotta love the opening titles too - I've had Gustavo Santaolalla's toe-tapping, hard-edged themetune in my head for weeks.
Leon (Blu-Ray) - it's been a very long time since I saw this excellent flick, and I have to say the Director's Cut (
133 minutes in length) is a superior effort. It delves much more into the ever-so-strange relationship between the eponymous assassin (
Jean Reno) and his young ward (
Natalie Portman).
Jackass 3 & 3.5 - the last time I saw these was a few weeks before Ryan Dunn was killed in a high speed car wreck along with Zachary Hartwell in 2011, and until now it felt a little strange watching anything
Jackass knowing that Dunn was gone ... however it was about time I gave these another spin, and they're still hilarious. Dunn may be gone, but he ain't forgotten.
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