ZERO-G EPISODE #750
11th Jan 10
TITLE: POD ANOTHER DVD IN THE MACHINE
PLAYLIST:
-ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN BY THE DUBLINERS FROM THE BEST OF THE DUBLINERS 1999 CASTLE PIE
-THE SHINING (EXCERPT) MUSIC FOR STRINGS, PERCUSSION AND CELESTA BY BELA BARTOK FROM THE DEFINITVE HORROR MUSIC COLLECTION SILVA SCREEN 2009 SILCD1288
-TRIUMPH JEFF BEAL FROM ROME TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM 2007 HBO RYKO FILMWORKS RCD10896
-RESURRECTION BY BEN FOSTER FROM TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH SOUNDTRACK 2009 SILVA SCREEN SILCD1290
-BOWIE BY FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS FROM FOLK THE WORLD TOUR
-SMASH AND GRAB (REPRISE) AND END TITLES FROM DR WHO AND THE DALEKS SILVA SCREEN 2009 SILCD124
REVIEWS:
FILMS
DVDS
SUNSHINE CLEANING (2009)
DIRECTED BY CHRISTINE JEFFS
SINGLE DISC MADMAN DVD
PICTURE: SUNSHINE CLEANING DIRECTED BY CHRISTINE JEFFS STARRING AMY ADAMS AND EMILY BLUNT. 2009 OVERTURE FILMS
GLADIATRESS (2004)
DIRECTED BY BRIAN GRANT
SINGLE DISC DVD ICON 96160
RUNNING TIME 85 MINUTES
PICTURE: GLADIATRESS DIRECTED BY BRIAN GRANT
STARRING FIONA ALLEN, DOON MACKICHAN AND SALLY PHILLIPS. 2004
THE ZOMBIE DIARIES (2006)
DIRECTED BY MICHAEL BARTLETT AND KEVIN GATES
SINGLE DISC DVD ACCENT AUN0096
RUNNING TIME 85 MINUTES
PICTURE: THE ZOMBIE DIARIES DIRECTED BY MICHAEL BARTLETT AND KEVIN GATES ACCENT FILMS 2006
TELEVISION
TORCHWOOD CHILDREN OF EARTH - DAY ONE ABC TWO FRIDAY 8.30 PM
THE T.V GEEK- GENRE TELLY THIS WEEK IN MELBOURNE
NOTE: ALL BROADCAST TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE BY STATIONS DUE TO WHIMSY, ENNUI, DISTEMPER OR INDEED, THE FLAP OF A BUTTERFLY WING, SAY, A CONTINENT AWAY.
MONDAY JANUARY 11TH
AVENGER PENGUINS - U.S S.F ANIMATED SERIES- 7TWO - WEEKDAYS 7.40 AM
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES - U.S HORROR SERIES - GO! - 8.30 PM
THE MYSTERIOUS GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF JASPER MORELLO- SBS TWO -MONDAY 8.30 PM
Anthony Lucas’s 2005 spikily steampunk aerial exploration told in silhouette animation. Joel Edgerton voices the plucky dirigible aviator.
H.G WELLS: WAR WITH THE WORLDS - ABC1 - MONDAY 8.40 PM
2005 BBC biographical docudrama, part of a larger series that includes Orwell, Chistie and Ian Fleming. Michael Sheen plays the author, the actor was Lucian in the Underworld series and Aro in the Twlight films.
DOCTOR WHO (REPEATS) - BRITISH S.F SERIES - ABC2 - MONDAY 9.30 PM
DANTE’S COVE - U.S HORROR SERIES - GO! - MONDAY 10.30 PM
DEATH NOTE - JAPANESE HORROR ANIMATED SERIES - ABC 2 - MONDAY 11.30 PM
TUESDAY JANUARY 12TH
THE LADY VANISHES- 1938 Alfred Hitchcock thriller. 2nd last before he left England for Hollywood. - CHANNEL 31 - TUESDAY 10.00 AM
REAPER - U.S HORROR COMEDY SERIES - 7TWO - TUESDAY 8.30 PM
THE MAID- 2005 Unusual, low key supernatural horror film from SIngapore. Stars Phillipino actress Alessandra de Rossi- SBS TWO - TUESDAY 10.45 PM
BEHIND THE RISING SUN - TUESDAY 11.40 PM. Rare 1943 war film, directed by Edward Dymtryk, who rose from Paramount messenger boy in the 1920s to director in the 1930s. Accused of having associated with the Communist Party he was imprisoned in the U.S for contempot of Congress for a year, subsequently blacklisted in the U.S, went off to direct films in the U.K, later returning to America to make The Caine Mutiny and The Young Lions. Behind The Rising Sun looks at the indoctrination of a Japanese soldier, Tom Neal in Asiatic make-up. Odd film which contains sympathetic Japanese characters alongside its obvious wartime propaganda.
WEDNESDAY- JANUARY 13TH
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - CHANNEL 31 - WEDNESDAY 10.00 AM
This is the 1925 Silent version with Lon Chaney Snr. Certainly worth catching up with if you’ve not seen it.
TIN MAN - U.S FANTASY MINISERIES - 7TWO - WEDNESDAY 8.30 PM
FRINGE - U.S S.F SERIES - GO! - WEDNESDAY 8.30 PM
HARVIE KRUMPET- SBS TWO - WEDNESDAY 8.30 PM. Adam Elliot’s 2003 Oscar winning short film.
TAXIDERMIA - SBS TWO -WEDNESDAY 9.00 PM. Hard to describe this cross-generational surreal 2006 Hungarian satirical horror comedy. Based on the eccentric stories by Lajos Parti Nagy. Directed by György Pálfi. This one’s off the wall even by Zero-G’s rapidly dissolving standards! Contains scenes of gross-out body alteration, fair warning!
THE I.T CROWD - BRITISH COMEDY SERIES - ABC 1 - WEDNESDAY 9.05 PM
NEW AMSTERDAM- U.S FANTASY SERIES - GO! - WEDNESDAY 9.30 PM
BEING HUMAN (REPEATS) - BRITISH HORROR SERIES - ABC 1 - WEDNESDAY 10.40 PM
NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES- AUSTRALIAN HORROR ANTHOLOGY SERIES -GO! - WEDNESDAY 10.30 PM
Partly based on a 1993 collection of Stephen King short stories with some others. Eight episodes, this is the second. I watched an episode last week...really hard to get past playing ‘spot the Victorian location’, if in fact you want to!
THURSDAY- JANUARY 14TH
THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - CHANNEL 31 - 10.00 AM
Roger Corman, Jack Nicholson horror movie. Not the musical
Two listings for the 8.30 pm 7TWO timeslot, in place of Stargate Atlantis, either:
FLASHFORWARD (REPEATS) - 7TWO - THURSDAY 8.30 PM -
or the fantasy movie THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN which is kind of a This Is Your Life, with ghosts. The first’s from the Green Guide, the second from 7TWO’s guide.
FRIDAY - JANUARY 15TH
BLACKADDER (REPEATS) - BRITISH HISTORICAL COMEDY SERIES - GO! - FRIDAY 8.30 PM, SATURDAY 1.00 AM
TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH: DAY 2- BRITISH S.F SERIES - ABC 2 - FRIDAY 8.30 PM
THE ISLAND - NINE - FRIDAY 8.30 PM. 2005 movie with Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor trapped in a dystopian uptopia.
GHOST- TEN -FRIDAY 8.30 PM. Patrick Swayze Demi Moore Whoopi Goldberg supernatural romance.
BLADE II - GO! -FRIDAY 9.30 PM. 2002 vampire film.
ANATOMY 2- SBS ONE - FRIDAY 10.50 PM. Sequel to the German horror movie played last week same timeslot.
SATURDAY - JANUARY 16TH
NED- 7TWO- SATURDAY 2.00 AM. 2003 Aussie comedy about the accidental bushranger.
SHALAKO - CHANNEL 9 - 1.50 AM. 1968 British western starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot.
OSMOSIS JONES - GO! - 2.00 AM. Animated movie in which Bill Murray voices a blood cell trying to clean up the mean veins of Bill Murray’s body...
SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN - U.S ANIMATED SERIES - TEN - SATURDAY 6.05 AM
SKYLAND - FRENCH ANIMATED SERIES - ABC3 - SATURDAY 6.43 AM
MARINE BOY - JAPANESE S.F ANIMATED SERIES - GO! - SATURDAY 9.00 AM
THE JETSONS - U.S ANIMATED S.F SERIES - GO! - WEEKDAYS 9.00 AM & 6.30 PM, SATURDAY 11.00 AM
WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN - U.S S.F ANIMATED SERIES - ABC 3 -SATURDAY 7.05 AM (REPEATED ABC 3 4.55 PM SUNDAY)
STEPSISTER FROM PLANET WEIRD - 7TWO - SATURDAY 12.30 PM. Disney film of not too much account but I mention it because it includes Lance Guest, who played the Last Starfighter in the classic 80s Sci Fi film.
UP, UP, AND AWAY! - 7TWO- SATURDAY 2.15 PM. Kid without superpowers has to rescue his superhero family.
THE SUPERHERO SQUAD SHOW - U.S S.F ANIMATED SERIES - ABC3 -SATURDAY 5.30 PM
CLONE (REPEATS) - BRITISH S.F SERIES - ABC2 - SATURDAY 6.00 PM
MERLIN (REPEATS) - BRITISH FANTASY SERIES - TEN - SATURDAY 6.30 PM
IRON MAN ARMOURED ADVENTURES - U.S S.F ANIMATED SERIES - ABC 3 -SATURDAY 7.30 PM (BLOCKS OF 2 EPISODES, REPEATED ON SUNDAY MORNING AT 9.25 AM. NOTE THAT SINGLE EPISODES OF THE SHOW ARE ALSO SHOWN ON ABC 1 ON SUNDAY AT 8.35 AM)
THE BLACK PANTHER - MARVEL COMICS ANIMATED SERIES - SATURDAY 8.15 PM
BACK TO THE FUTURE II- TEN - SATURDAY 7.30 PM
MINORITY REPORT- NINE - SATURDAY 10.30 PM
CURANDERO- SBS1- SATURDAY 9.35 PM. Mexican horror movie. Written by Robert Rodriquez and directed by his brother
RESIDENT EVIL - SEVEN - SATURDAY 11.45 PM
SUNDAY - JANUARY 17TH
THE ANNIVERSARY - GO! - SUNDAY 1.00 AM. 1968 stage play adaptation directed by Roy Ward Baker starring Bette Davis. Black comedy about a controlling matriarch.
THUNDERBIRDS (REPEATS) - BRITISH S.F PUPPET SERIES - GO! -SUNDAY 7.00 AM
THE BATMAN - U.S ANIMATED S.F SERIES - GO ! - SATURDAY & SUNDAY 10.00AM
MARTY - 7TWO - SUNDAY 12.30 PM. 1955 movie with Ernest Borgnine. Paddy Chayefsky script. About a butcher who finds love.
CAT BALLOU - GO!- SUNDAY 3.00 PM. Jane Fonda in the comedy western with Lee Marvin in his duel role as both a drunken gunslinger and a killer with an artificial silver nose.
SPLASH- 7TWO - SUNDAY 5.30 PM. Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah movie.
LOST WORLDS: UNEXPLAINED GLASTONBURY - SBS ONE - SUNDAY 7.30 PM. Three part documentary where Tony Robinson mythbusts famous English 'paranormal' stories.
TRUE HORROR: WEREWOLF- SBS ONE - SUNDAY 8.30 PM. Three part documentary looking at Werewolves, Frankenstein's monster and Dracula.
THINGS TO COME - ABC1- SUNDAY 11.00 PM. The Alexander Korda 1936 H.G Wells classic. Starring Raymond Massey. Future of Everytown as it falls into ruin after a prolonged World War. Great score!
ESCAPE FROM L.A - TEN- SUNDAY 11.20 PM. Inadequate John Carpenter sequel to the cult Kurt Russel movie.
LEGION OF SUPERHEROES - U.S ANIMATED S.F SERIES - GO ! - SUNDAY 10.30AM
THE BIG BANG THEORY - U.S COMEDY SERIES - NINE - SUNDAY 8.00 PM
LOCAL CINEMA
ACMI
FREAKY FRIDAYS
Stingray Sam- Directed By Cory McAbee.
Musical Sci-Fi Western from the director of cult hit The American Astronaut. Narrated by Frasier and Hellboy’s David Hyde Pierce.
A lounge singer on Mars, Stingray Sam (McAbee) teams up with a former jailbird buddy, the Quasar Kid (Crugie) on a mission to rescue a little girl...
Cory McAbee will be at the ACMI Store from 8.30pm and in a post-screening Q&A on January 15th.
Fri 15 Jan 2010, 9.30pm
Fri 22 Jan 2010, 9.30pm
MOONLIGHT CINEMA AT THE BOTANICAL GARDENS
2012- SATURDAY 16TH JANUARY
THE ASTOR
SERGIO LEONE FESTIVAL
A Tribute to Sergio Leone — on four successive Sunday nights from February 14.
PAUL MCGANN (9th Doctor Who) LIVE
Paul McGann, the “I” in Withnail and I at The Astor to introduce the film and hold an audience Q&A.
The screening starts at 8 PM on Friday, March 19
FRIDAY - THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR PARNASSUS
ROOFTOP CINEMA
GHOST - SUNDAY 17TH