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Sort of half watching The Golden Globes - which is dull, but there was an unintentionally funny bit when Matt Damon forgot his glasses so couldn't read the teleprompter, and two presenters were given the wrong script. Also, predictably, Breaking Bad won best series and best actor. I'm not sure I agree on Best Series, nor am I certain you can compare it to the other nominees...different genres. But mileage, it varies. Some people love lima beans, some love green beans. Oh, they also had the real Philomena Lee, whose story the film Philomena is based upon.
Anyhow...lists. Not everyone loves lists. Had a friend once who bemoaned them as a guy thing (they aren't, women do lists too), or a geek thing (again, not, there are non-geek's who are into list making). Personally, I like lists. I make them for basically everything. At work, I list all the things I'm working on. Online I list favorite movies, tv shows, etc. The only thing I suck at in regards to list making is well - shopping lists. I'll make a shopping list and then forget I did it or leave it at home. Which sort of foils the whole point of making the shopping list - doesn't it? I also suck at keeping track of tv shows, movies, and books that I've watched, read, or own. And, I'm not great at personal financial tracking - maybe because I track financial stuff at work - and don't want to deal with it outside work?
With all of that in mind, below are some cultural related lists or fannish lists.
10 Favorite Movies (I'll underline the ones that featured or starred female characters, just to be spicy)
( List of 10 movies )
10 TV Shows That Look Promising in 2014
* Legends (TNT, Summer)- a sort of Bourne Identity flick - starring Scean Bean, and based on a novel by Robert Little about an agent for FBI's Deep Cover Operations Division, who makes the unsettling discovery that he may not be who he is.
* Tyrant (FX, Summer) - about the son of a Middle Eastern dictator who returns with his family to his homeland after 20 years of self-imposed exile in the US.
* Turn (AMC, Spring) - A historical thriller that explores the origins of tradecraft during the Revolutionary War, with Jamie Bell playing a farmer who helps establish America's first spy ring. This is based on the Alexander Rose book, Washington's Spies.
* Outlander (Summer, Starz) - based on Diana Gabaldon's time-traveling romantic fantasy historicals - about a married 1940s battlefield nurse who is transported to the 18th Century and falls in love with a hunky warrior. The show-runner is Ron Moore, who is hopefully better here than he is with Helix.
* Wayward Pines (Summer, Fox) - M. Night Shyamalan decides to do television with a Twin Peaksesque series, starring Matt Dillon, Juliette Lewis, Melissa Leo and Terrence Howard.
It's a 10 episode mini-series that follows a Secret Service Agent who lands in the bucolic and vaguely creepy tow of Wayward Pines, Idaho, only to discover things are not as they appear.
* The Leftovers (Summer, HBO) - this is created by Damon Lindelof of Lost fame and Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights), and is an adaptation of Tom Perotta's best seller about people who remain on earth following a Rapture-like event (called the Departure). It's basically the kid of Friday Night Light's and Lost.
* Penny Dreadful ( Spring, Showtime) - This horror drama posits that Victorian London was one helluva town, in which characters from classic novels like Frankenstein and Dracula crossed paths with each other - and with an American sharpshooter and a mysterious woman battling her own demons. Creator is the guy behind Skyfall.
The movies and books - listed in EW, regrettably, look far less interesting.
Anyhow...lists. Not everyone loves lists. Had a friend once who bemoaned them as a guy thing (they aren't, women do lists too), or a geek thing (again, not, there are non-geek's who are into list making). Personally, I like lists. I make them for basically everything. At work, I list all the things I'm working on. Online I list favorite movies, tv shows, etc. The only thing I suck at in regards to list making is well - shopping lists. I'll make a shopping list and then forget I did it or leave it at home. Which sort of foils the whole point of making the shopping list - doesn't it? I also suck at keeping track of tv shows, movies, and books that I've watched, read, or own. And, I'm not great at personal financial tracking - maybe because I track financial stuff at work - and don't want to deal with it outside work?
With all of that in mind, below are some cultural related lists or fannish lists.
10 Favorite Movies (I'll underline the ones that featured or starred female characters, just to be spicy)
( List of 10 movies )
10 TV Shows That Look Promising in 2014
* Legends (TNT, Summer)- a sort of Bourne Identity flick - starring Scean Bean, and based on a novel by Robert Little about an agent for FBI's Deep Cover Operations Division, who makes the unsettling discovery that he may not be who he is.
* Tyrant (FX, Summer) - about the son of a Middle Eastern dictator who returns with his family to his homeland after 20 years of self-imposed exile in the US.
* Turn (AMC, Spring) - A historical thriller that explores the origins of tradecraft during the Revolutionary War, with Jamie Bell playing a farmer who helps establish America's first spy ring. This is based on the Alexander Rose book, Washington's Spies.
* Outlander (Summer, Starz) - based on Diana Gabaldon's time-traveling romantic fantasy historicals - about a married 1940s battlefield nurse who is transported to the 18th Century and falls in love with a hunky warrior. The show-runner is Ron Moore, who is hopefully better here than he is with Helix.
* Wayward Pines (Summer, Fox) - M. Night Shyamalan decides to do television with a Twin Peaksesque series, starring Matt Dillon, Juliette Lewis, Melissa Leo and Terrence Howard.
It's a 10 episode mini-series that follows a Secret Service Agent who lands in the bucolic and vaguely creepy tow of Wayward Pines, Idaho, only to discover things are not as they appear.
* The Leftovers (Summer, HBO) - this is created by Damon Lindelof of Lost fame and Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights), and is an adaptation of Tom Perotta's best seller about people who remain on earth following a Rapture-like event (called the Departure). It's basically the kid of Friday Night Light's and Lost.
* Penny Dreadful ( Spring, Showtime) - This horror drama posits that Victorian London was one helluva town, in which characters from classic novels like Frankenstein and Dracula crossed paths with each other - and with an American sharpshooter and a mysterious woman battling her own demons. Creator is the guy behind Skyfall.
The movies and books - listed in EW, regrettably, look far less interesting.