Louisa Mellor Aug 10, 2016
How do they choose the 100 people polled on Pointless? What counts as a Mastermind specialist subject? 7 geeky game show questions…
It’s all very well for game shows to sit there and ask all the questions. How would they feel if we turned the tables and started to interrogate them? Then the quizzing shoe would be on the other foot.
(Potential ITV pitch “The Quizzing Shoe”: two teams of professional cobblers answer trivia questions on the history of footwear for a chance to win their choice of shoe worn by a member of the opposing team. Suggested hosts: Imelda Marcos, P.C. Boot from The Shoe People, Elizabeth Shue.)
Here are our best attempts at answering seven questions we’ve long wondered about some of the UK’s finest game and quiz shows…
1. How do they choose the 100 people polled on Pointless?
If a lady with...
How do they choose the 100 people polled on Pointless? What counts as a Mastermind specialist subject? 7 geeky game show questions…
It’s all very well for game shows to sit there and ask all the questions. How would they feel if we turned the tables and started to interrogate them? Then the quizzing shoe would be on the other foot.
(Potential ITV pitch “The Quizzing Shoe”: two teams of professional cobblers answer trivia questions on the history of footwear for a chance to win their choice of shoe worn by a member of the opposing team. Suggested hosts: Imelda Marcos, P.C. Boot from The Shoe People, Elizabeth Shue.)
Here are our best attempts at answering seven questions we’ve long wondered about some of the UK’s finest game and quiz shows…
1. How do they choose the 100 people polled on Pointless?
If a lady with...
- 8/9/2016
- Den of Geek
"It [has] the most shocking ending ever and there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last five minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead," said Stephen King of The Mist, Frank Darabont's adaptation of his classic novella. He wasn't kidding! While many appreciated the bleaker-than-bleak denouement of the 2007 horror film -- which I will not reveal here for fear of being lynched -- many others, myself included, were not particularly keen on Darabont's version (it bears mentioning that King's novella ended on a more hopeful note). With today's news (via Variety) that Spike has ordered the pilot for a TV series adaptation of the book, I'm here with a friendly reminder that people are still not over the ending of this damn movie. So not over it, in fact, that even in the days and weeks and months preceding today's...
- 2/26/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
The winners of the 2015 Focus On Ability Short! Film Festival were announced at a red carpet event attended by over 600 people in Sydney.
The festival attracted 161 entries from 14 countries including Rwanda, Canada, Us, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
The annaul festival aims to raise awareness of the abilities of people with disabilities.
Jenna Kenell's Bumblebees took out the best international short film, while Georgia Cramp's L'iare won the Best Australian Short Film Award.
Dragon Dreaming, from Daniel Clarke, won best documentary; Kellyville High School won the Best School Short Film and Caption Jacob won Best School Documentary.
The winners were decided by public online voting and an international panel of film industry professionals including casting director Rick Milikan, producer, Bill Hughes, director, David Cameron, producer/director, Di Drew, actor Christopher Thornton and director Rod Hardy..
Focus On Ability chief executive, Martin Wren, said the ability of filmmakers to highlight the...
The festival attracted 161 entries from 14 countries including Rwanda, Canada, Us, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
The annaul festival aims to raise awareness of the abilities of people with disabilities.
Jenna Kenell's Bumblebees took out the best international short film, while Georgia Cramp's L'iare won the Best Australian Short Film Award.
Dragon Dreaming, from Daniel Clarke, won best documentary; Kellyville High School won the Best School Short Film and Caption Jacob won Best School Documentary.
The winners were decided by public online voting and an international panel of film industry professionals including casting director Rick Milikan, producer, Bill Hughes, director, David Cameron, producer/director, Di Drew, actor Christopher Thornton and director Rod Hardy..
Focus On Ability chief executive, Martin Wren, said the ability of filmmakers to highlight the...
- 9/10/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Mark Ruffalo only gave himself a small part in his directorial debut, but his absence behind the camera is more keenly felt. There’s an intriguing core to Christopher Thornton’s script, but it’s surrounded by bad ideas that a more discerning director might have banged into manageable shape. Thornton stars as Delicious D, a once-promising DJ (or, as he prefers, “turntablist”) whose career was derailed by his partial paralysis. (Thornton himself was paralyzed in a rock-climbing accident at age 25.) Now he sleeps in his car and takes his meals at a mission run by a well-meaning priest ...
- 4/28/2011
- avclub.com
Sundance released their slate for 2010. It includes:43 documentaries on the Middle East12 films about friends who 'discover' something33 movies about people you've never heard about1 comedyHopefully the lineup this year is strong but it doesn't look that way compared to last year. Last year we had Push (Precious), that Lil Wayne documentary that never went anywhere, Mystery Team which might make my top ten, Moon, Mike Tyson documentary, Cold Souls. Just so much last January that was excellent. I hope I don't go out therer and freeze my tail off just to see...I don't know, a documentary about a former Pakistani prime minister or something silly like that.Here's the lineup so far: Premieres To showcase the diversity to contemporary independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section offers the latest work from American and international directors as well as world premieres of highly anticipated films. Presented by Entertainment Weekly.
- 12/3/2009
- LRMonline.com
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