"Tonight we celebrate the cliches that have made cinema what it is today!" Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a fun one-hour comedy special coming up next week titled Attack of the Hollywood Cliches!, an authentic tribute to Hollywood history and a chance to make fun of all the dumb things movies do. This is an hour-long one-off event made by Netflix. A special featuring some of the most famous films along with Screenwriters, Academics and Critics as they guide through the funny, weird and controversial clichés which appear on the screens. Ben Caudell is the head writer alongside writers including Dane Baptiste, Sean Doherty, Erika Ehler, Jason Hazeley, Daniel Maier, Michael Odewale, Charlie Skelton. The special is hosted by Rob Lowe, who takes us through some of the best and worst cliches - like the desk sweep, the ticking bomb, the maverick cop. It actually looks like good,...
- 9/24/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Never mind the fact that Netflix original films traffic quite heavily in well-worn tropes — the streaming service has launched the first trailer for a new comedy special called “Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!” that finds celebrities discussing, dissecting, and having fun with familiar plot beats in your favorite movies. Hosted by Rob Lowe, the one-off special features a wide range of celebrities weighing in on everything from the Meet-Cute to the Ticking Time Bomb to the Jump Scare, using iconic films like “Forrest Gump” and “Out of the Past” as examples.
“Stock characters, familiar story beats, and convenient plot devices have crept in over time,” Lowe says in the trailer. “Tonight, we celebrate the clichés that have made cinema what it is today,” Lowe adds, as Netflix is pegging the special as something between a comedy special and a celebration of cinema history. It’s not quite the full-on roasting...
“Stock characters, familiar story beats, and convenient plot devices have crept in over time,” Lowe says in the trailer. “Tonight, we celebrate the clichés that have made cinema what it is today,” Lowe adds, as Netflix is pegging the special as something between a comedy special and a celebration of cinema history. It’s not quite the full-on roasting...
- 9/24/2021
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Two more acts left The X Factor last week, but The Show Must Go On! After a little fussing and fighting, the team settled on Michael Jackson vs Queen as the theme for tonight's show.
Find out who's singing what here and while you're waiting, feel free to enjoy the original versions of the songs with our Spotify playlist.
21:40Thanks so much for sharing Mj vs Q on The X Factor with us, we always appreciate it. We'll see you (and One Direction) around this time tomorrow on the results show!
21:38Since you've twisted my arm... I'm voting for Fleur, Fleur, Fleur, Only The Young, and Fleur.
21:37That's it for the performances - Dermot is giving us a quick reminder, Where are your five free votes going?
21:35"A bit bored now" says Daniel Snelling "so shouty... and cheesy" says Susan_Phelan. Don't be shy, tell us what you really think!
Find out who's singing what here and while you're waiting, feel free to enjoy the original versions of the songs with our Spotify playlist.
21:40Thanks so much for sharing Mj vs Q on The X Factor with us, we always appreciate it. We'll see you (and One Direction) around this time tomorrow on the results show!
21:38Since you've twisted my arm... I'm voting for Fleur, Fleur, Fleur, Only The Young, and Fleur.
21:37That's it for the performances - Dermot is giving us a quick reminder, Where are your five free votes going?
21:35"A bit bored now" says Daniel Snelling "so shouty... and cheesy" says Susan_Phelan. Don't be shy, tell us what you really think!
- 11/8/2014
- Digital Spy
Two more acts left The X Factor last week, but The Show Must Go On! After a little fussing and fighting, the team settled on Michael Jackson vs Queen as the theme for tonight's show.
Find out who's singing what here and while you're waiting, feel free to enjoy the original versions of the songs with our Spotify playlist.
21:40Thanks so much for sharing Mj vs Q on The X Factor with us, we always appreciate it. We'll see you (and One Direction) around this time tomorrow on the results show!
21:38Since you've twisted my arm... I'm voting for Fleur, Fleur, Fleur, Only The Young, and Fleur.
21:37That's it for the performances - Dermot is giving us a quick reminder, Where are your five free votes going?
21:35"A bit bored now" says Daniel Snelling "so shouty... and cheesy" says Susan_Phelan. Don't be shy, tell us what you really think!
Find out who's singing what here and while you're waiting, feel free to enjoy the original versions of the songs with our Spotify playlist.
21:40Thanks so much for sharing Mj vs Q on The X Factor with us, we always appreciate it. We'll see you (and One Direction) around this time tomorrow on the results show!
21:38Since you've twisted my arm... I'm voting for Fleur, Fleur, Fleur, Only The Young, and Fleur.
21:37That's it for the performances - Dermot is giving us a quick reminder, Where are your five free votes going?
21:35"A bit bored now" says Daniel Snelling "so shouty... and cheesy" says Susan_Phelan. Don't be shy, tell us what you really think!
- 11/8/2014
- Digital Spy
Review Louisa Mellor 25 Aug 2013 - 22:00
The BBC’s new four-part whodunit starring David Threlfall, Indira Varma, and Russell Tovey is grim stuff…
This review contains spoilers.
Episode one of What Remains presents us with a game of Cluedo. A woman’s body is discovered in the loft of a shared address, but who killed her, and with what? Was it the maths teacher with the rope? The journalist with the candlestick? Or the lesbian with the lead piping?
We’ll find out over the course of the next three episodes thanks to David Threlfall’s drowsy old-school detective, Len Harper, a widowed tortoise in a leather jacket determined to solve the case despite it landing in his in-tray on his - yes, really - last day on the force. (At least, we hope he’s going to solve it. Since one woman had to point to her roundly pregnant...
The BBC’s new four-part whodunit starring David Threlfall, Indira Varma, and Russell Tovey is grim stuff…
This review contains spoilers.
Episode one of What Remains presents us with a game of Cluedo. A woman’s body is discovered in the loft of a shared address, but who killed her, and with what? Was it the maths teacher with the rope? The journalist with the candlestick? Or the lesbian with the lead piping?
We’ll find out over the course of the next three episodes thanks to David Threlfall’s drowsy old-school detective, Len Harper, a widowed tortoise in a leather jacket determined to solve the case despite it landing in his in-tray on his - yes, really - last day on the force. (At least, we hope he’s going to solve it. Since one woman had to point to her roundly pregnant...
- 8/25/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Feature Louisa Mellor Jan 7, 2013
The BBC’s Ripper Street marks a growing trend in TV period crime drama, which has turned from nice to nasty…
Contains mild spoilers for episodes one and two of Ripper Street
Time was when period detective drama meant spending fifty minutes or so in the company of a shrewd Oap solving aristocratic murders in picturesque country houses by drinking Earl Grey from china cups and gently probing the scullery maid. It was sanitised, sexless, and more doilies than Deadwood.
Of late however, period crime TV has evolved into something nastier. Twinsets, dastardly heirs and moustachioed Belgians are out, muckiness, dismemberment and gratuitous nudity are in. Looking ahead to new commissions from ITV and the BBC, the trend set to give Scandi-noir a run for its cosily attired money is for knobbing-and-knifing period crime drama. Forget Call The Midwife, we're talking Kill The Midwife, and leave...
The BBC’s Ripper Street marks a growing trend in TV period crime drama, which has turned from nice to nasty…
Contains mild spoilers for episodes one and two of Ripper Street
Time was when period detective drama meant spending fifty minutes or so in the company of a shrewd Oap solving aristocratic murders in picturesque country houses by drinking Earl Grey from china cups and gently probing the scullery maid. It was sanitised, sexless, and more doilies than Deadwood.
Of late however, period crime TV has evolved into something nastier. Twinsets, dastardly heirs and moustachioed Belgians are out, muckiness, dismemberment and gratuitous nudity are in. Looking ahead to new commissions from ITV and the BBC, the trend set to give Scandi-noir a run for its cosily attired money is for knobbing-and-knifing period crime drama. Forget Call The Midwife, we're talking Kill The Midwife, and leave...
- 1/6/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Sky 1 HD are continuing to announce new UK productions and their second of the day is a two-hour comedy crime drama titled A Touch of Cloth which promises to be ‘a spoof of every British crime drama made in the last decade.’ We would imagine most obviously A Touch of Frost but no doubt Taggart, Rebus, Silent Witness…. all them shows that send people to sleep and will be like a U.K. version of Police Squad.
Written by Charlie Brooker (Dead Set) and Daniel Maier (Harry Hill’s TV Burp) the one-off show will star John Hannah as the awesomely named Dci Jack Cloth a “maverick, heavy drinking loner who has thrown himself into his work following the mysterious death of his wife”, a role that he has probably played straight a few times in his career, alongside the “plucky no-nonsese” female partner DC Anne Oldman (Suranne Jones).
Brooker...
Written by Charlie Brooker (Dead Set) and Daniel Maier (Harry Hill’s TV Burp) the one-off show will star John Hannah as the awesomely named Dci Jack Cloth a “maverick, heavy drinking loner who has thrown himself into his work following the mysterious death of his wife”, a role that he has probably played straight a few times in his career, alongside the “plucky no-nonsese” female partner DC Anne Oldman (Suranne Jones).
Brooker...
- 8/26/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Charlie Brooker has produced a spoof British detective show titled A Touch of Cloth for Sky1. John Hannah, Suranne Jones, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Adrian Bower are among the cast for the classic cop show parody. Based on Boris Starling's Messiah, Brooker and Daniel Maier (Harry Hill's TV Burp) have penned the script, which was commissioned by Sky's Head of Comedy Lucy Lumsden. "Witty, naughty and unashamedly silly - Charlie Brooker gives the British TV detective genre a right good comedy kicking with this one-off special for Sky 1 HD," Lumsden said. Hannah stars as Dci Hack Cloth, a maverick, heavy-drinking loner, who throws himself into work following the mysterious death of his wife, while Jones is cast as no-nonsense sidekick DC Anne Oldman. It is billed as "an all-encompassing parody of every police procedural (more)...
- 8/25/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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