Monthly Archives: August 2012

Arthur Mathews‘ pilot, ‘Toast of London’ premieres tonight on Channel 4 at 10pm.

The plot:

Steven Toast (Matt Berry) is asked to audition for long-running television series ‘Summer Time Murders’. However, the producer has been imprisoned for racial chanting on the set of his own production, so Toast has to audition for the part of a gay corrupt detective during prisoners’ visiting time.

 

Watch clip here

Thanks Lars Biscuits

 

And not forgetting the boy in the green cap:

Where are they now?

Inner city Dublin and Stephen’s Green: examples of the spine-tingling photography of Evelyn Hofer (1922–2009) on show (until August 31) at The Gallery of Photography, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin.

Hofer, who used a barely-mobile four-by-five-inch viewfinder camera, came here in the Autumn of 1966 with the travel writer V. S. Pritchett for their book, Dublin: A Portrait (1967)

Evelyn Hofer: Dublin And Other Portraits (GalleryofPhotography)

(Thanks Sibling)

Suzy Maher writes:

I know you ‘don’t normally do this’, but you’d really be helping me out. Out walking my dog this morning and a little white dog (red collar, no tags or road sense), above, followed me home.
I am based in Dun Laoghaire and he followed me from Crosthwaite Park at about 7am. I don’t really know what to do – have called local vets and gardai, and will check if he’s microchipped later on (had to come into work). If you could post this, I’d really appreciate it.

 

UPDATE: Owner located. More as we get it. Thanks all.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LksGNgOgLsY

What you may need to know

1. Back in the day, Spike Lee was one of cinema’s foremost and prolific provocateurs.

2. In recent years he’s been finding it harder to get movies financed, while still producing stunning documentaries like his epic post-Katrina joint When The Levee Breaks (2006) and bastketball epic Kobe Doin’ Work (2009) – watch the latter here.

3. Red Hook Summer is a companion piece (of sorts) to Lee’s seminal Do The Right Thing (1989)- Lee even makes an appearance as Mookie.

4. RHS stars Clarke Peters, AKA from Lester from The Wire and Albert from Treme. The best Spike Lee (mini) movie you’ve never seen: We Wuz Robbed (2002)

5. Spike’s next movie is a remake of Korean extreme cinema classic Oldboy (2003), starring Josh Brolin, which sounds like a REALLY bad idea, but hey, it was meant to be Steven Spielberg and Will Smith.

6. On an unrelated note: Tony Scott RIP. We’ll always have True Romance (1993) and The Last Boy Scout (1991).

Release Date: TBC (out now in U.S.)