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Entertainment Wrap-up

Logged Sunday, 3rd February 2002 - Science Fiction - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Has anyone noticed how much there is in the way of good movies, live music and television on offer at the moment? Plenty to keep you interested, new series' of cult TV shows, lots of bands/acts touring, and lots of great movies, especially foreign ones.

I went to Jamiroquai at the Horden this week, it was good, and although I wouldn't classify myself as a big Jamiroquai fan, hearing his music live was great. I've been to quite a few things over the years at the Horden, when it's just below capacity, it's a great venue, you have the choice to sit down or to get out on the dancefloor, it's relatively easy to move around the place and the ventilation isn't too bad either. I also managed to park right outside the front of the gates too, which meant a thirty second walk from the venue exit to my car. It amuses me though how many people will pay $75 to hang around outside the front of Horden for a majority of the main act, rather than going inside and enjoying the music.

I was looking forward to seeing The Chemical Brothers playing there in March, but after buying their latest album, Come With Us, I'm not that thrilled anymore, the album certainly doesn't live up to the hype in my honest opinion. It might be decent live though, hopefully they'll play a good amount of their older stuff.

As far as television goes, sports fans couldn't ask for more, the Tennis has been great, and I guess for the cricket fans, it has been equally exciting. Although I don't follow the cricket, I hope Australia don't win, as the current Australian team are a bunch of yobbos who deserve to be taken down a few ego rungs. Go New Zealand and South Africa! (heh).

Although none of the new TV series' have made it to Australia yet, for those of us who get their latest episodes off the web in VCD/SVCD format 24-48 hours after they've been broadcast in the US, it has been excellent. Buffy season 6 has been brilliant so far, and epsiodes 13 and 14 of Enterprise were much better than the last few. Hopefully Enterprise will continue to improve, expect big interest in Enteprise and Buffy season 6 when it starts screening on Australian TV in the next couple of months.

For sci-fi fans like me there is so many interesting new series' being released in the US, hopefully more of them will find their way to Australia, or onto the internet ;). Ones to watch out for include Smallville - a new superman series, and Mutant X.

There's also lots of interesting sci-fi and fantasy movies in various stages of pre and post production including the Incredible Hulk, Spiderman, a fifth Alien film, Battlestar Galactica, two Matrix sequels, Blade 2, a Doctor Who movie, a second X-Files movie, Scooby Doo, Eight Legged Freaks, Solaris directed by Steven Soderbergh, the 20th James Bond film, Ghost Ship, a Stephen King film called Dreamcatcher, Rollerball, Monsters Inc., Jack the Ripper starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham, Star Trek X, The Time Machine, Arac Attack, The Sub-Mariner, Iron Fist, the X-Men sequel, Daredevil, Deathlok, The Ugly Little Boy based on a short story by Issac Asimov, and lots more.

Add to that quite a few promising other genre movies out soon or screening now including Amelie, Gosford Park, The Closet, Mullholand Drive, and Spy Game. I watched Amelie last week and it was excellent, also saw In The Bedroom last night, it was very good, but an incredibly long two hours, it's not one of the movies you walk out of feeling all happy and bouncy about.

Anyway, lots to see and do at the moment, and that's just considering movies, cult television and few live acts, things are definitely picking up again entertainment wise, from a very uneventful past six months.