Perhaps the most inventive of the five films nominated for Best Animated Short at the 2023 Oscars, Lachlan Pendragon’s playfully unnerving stop-motion work recalls the 1955 Frederik Pohl short story The Tunnel Under The World, though the frustrations it depicts are very much centred on today’s world. It opens with sales agent Neil (voiced by Pendragon himself) sitting in his cubicle trying to persuade a stranger at the other end of the phone to buy a toaster. Of course, most people already have toasters, so the call is not a success. As it turns out, Neil hasn’t had a successful call all day, and the boss soon steps in to remind him that the lowest performing employee will be let go at the end of the week. This situation may sound grim, but what Neil is about to discover is a whole lot worse.
It doesn’t begin with the ostrich (though.
It doesn’t begin with the ostrich (though.
- 1/28/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Network: CBS All Access. Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour). Seasons: Ongoing. TV show dates: November 12, 2017 — present. Series status: Has not been cancelled. Performers include: Patrick Brammall and Tim Meadows, with guest stars Mark Berry, Arturo Castro, Mackenzie Davis, Bridget Everett, Will Ferrell, Darren Gilshenan, Travis Guba, Jake Johnson, Sunita Mani, Jason Mantzoukas, Adrian Martinez, Jesse Plemons, Fred Pohl, Alex Rodriguez, Amy Sedaris, J.K. Simmons, Courtenay Taylor, Michaela Watkins, and Daniel Zolghadri. TV show description: Based on the Australian series of the same name from creators Trent O'Donnell and Patrick Brammall, the No Activity TV show comes from Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Funny Or Die. The sitcom centers police officers on a stakeout, their dispatchers, and the criminals who...
- 11/12/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
CBS All Access has released a funny red-band trailer for their upcoming original comedy series No Activity. The series comes from Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Funny Or Die and it looks like it could be a great show worth checking! If you're already signed up with CBS All Access to watch Star Trek: Discovery, now you've got another series to look forward to watching! I enjoyed what I saw in this first trailer as it contained a few things that managed to make me laugh. Here's the synopsis:
No Activity celebrates the mundane in what should be a high stakes sting operation. Set against the world of a major drug cartel bust, the series follows two low-level cops who have spent far too much time in a car together; two criminals who are largely kept in the dark; two dispatch workers who haven’t really clicked; and two Mexican...
No Activity celebrates the mundane in what should be a high stakes sting operation. Set against the world of a major drug cartel bust, the series follows two low-level cops who have spent far too much time in a car together; two criminals who are largely kept in the dark; two dispatch workers who haven’t really clicked; and two Mexican...
- 10/30/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
“The fight isn’t over ’til it’s over,” Colonel Weaver reassured members of the 2nd Mass on more than one occasion. Now it really is over: “Falling Skies” aired the finale of its fifth and final season tonight on TNT. Warning: Spoilers Ahead for “Reborn,” the series finale of “Falling Skies.” Tonight’s finale concluded the tale that began with a ragtag team of alien invasion survivors and ended with that same group of survivors becoming heroes, leading the fight to claim back their home, Planet Earth. Tom Mason and co. have battled all manner of extraterrestrial creatures, gruesome weapons that manipulated once-loyal members of the 2nd Mass to turn on their own, and fellow humans (non-alien-manipulated ones) who were plenty troublesome in their own selfish or fearful agendas, as if a powerful alien threat weren’t trouble enough. After the final push brings the 2nd Mass to Washington,...
- 8/31/2015
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
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