Daily Archives: May 3, 2009

DNR Form For Scrubs?

  By Dermot | May 3, 2009 - 3:47 pm | Comedy, The Culch, TV
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Network ABC is planning to renew “Scrubs” for a ninth season. Minus Zach Braff & show creater Bill Lawrence which is a huge downer on myself (and I’m sure many others) because the show is my favourite , always has been. From left to right: Donald Faison as “Turk”; Judy Reyes as “Carla”; Neil Flynn as “Janitor”; Zach Braff as “JD”; Sarah Chalke as “Elliot”; Ken Jenkins as “Dr.Kelso”; John C. McGinley as “Dr.Cox” If you have never seen Scrubs or somehow never heard about it, the show revolves around several employees who work in Sacred Heart Hospital. JD, played by Braff, encounters hilarious scenarios day-to-day with his friends and co-workers while providing a humourous narration of his life. Surreal vignettes in the form of daydreams add to its well-known slapstick and occasional random humour. The latest , Season 8 , is very different. It’s newer characters are a breath … There’s more →

Crank 2: Bring on The Wrath of Men

  By Lottie | May 3, 2009 - 1:36 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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Last Thursday I went on my first “Culch.ie Cinema Trip” to see the testosterone fueled Crank 2: High Voltage, the sequel to 2006′s Crank . So what can I say about this movie? It’s lewd, crude and full of very questionable plot lines and gratuitous ridiculous sex scenes. It crosses every politically correct threshold you can imagine and goes totally over the top at every given opportunity. It’s little more than a series of video game concepts crammed together with no connective fabric what-so-ever. Where as the beauty of it’s predecessor was it’s cheerful contempt for reality Crank: High Voltage simply takes wanton advantage of any freedom the first film afforded. As Janis says, freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose: two words: Puppet Montage. However, it ties up a few loose ends from the first film, it’s splattered with familiar faces in varying degrees of disguise and … There’s more →

On the QT - Part 1, sort of

  By Maxi Cane | May 3, 2009 - 12:52 pm | Movies & TV, On The QT, The Culch, wantsies
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Right, so carrying on from HERE I was hoping to start with a good review of Quentin Tarantino’s first ever film - “My Best Friend’s Birthday”. Written by Quentin in 1987 it was the first of his scripts to be made into a film. Not Resevoir Dogs, like most would believe and if I’m honest, that’s what I thought. With the little research I’ve done the synopsis is simple. “It’s Mickey’s Birthday and his girlfriend just left him, so that’s when his friend Clarence shows him a birthday he’ll never forget”. Quentin plays Clarence and straight away you can see that his acting skills haven’t exactly improved over the years, but some would say they didn’t have to. It’s grainy and black and white and I wish I could offer more of a review on it, but I can’t track down a copy of it and I really don’t fancy … There’s more →