Jessica Hynes is still funny! via almost witty
As long-time readers of this blog may know, I (along with lots of pop-culture-obsessed UK’ers) am a huge fan of Spaced. For those not in the know, it’s almost a British piss-take on Seinfeld, albeit obsessed with pop culture instead of the people around them. (In so many ways, Seinfeld would have worked better if it was British! I mean, what other nation is such an expert when it comes to examining the innards of human society, and the bizarre rituals and expectations that grow up around them?)
Anyway, skip to the end and while Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright (director) went off to do many funny things (and Pegg is the new Scotty for Star Trek), Jessica Stevenson’s career seemed to take an interesting turn.
She could have continued to mill her geek comedienne persona into...
About a decade ago, I had my first experience of Hamlet, via Kenneth Branagh’s full-length sumptious cinematic adaptation in glorious 70mm. I remember at the time, thinking the following:
- blimey, 70mm is gorgeous
- I can’t follow everything that’s going on, but I can follow enough to get by
- how many phrases from the English language were plucked from this ?!
- If Ophelia isn’t the archetypal Doctor Who companion, I don’t know who is…
- Kate Winslet. She’d make a great companion (she wasn’t the all-conquering Titantic heroine she is now)
Fast-forward to this weekend, and we three (times two, making six) ended up voyaging from various corners of the UK (and one eBayer from Bermuda) to the twee country town of Stratford-upon-Avon to see a...