The Fedora Lounge - The Moving Picture

Premature burial that causes you the most pain....

Worf — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:56:41 GMT

Television history is replete with great shows that were cancelled far to soon for far too many bad reasons. Many of these are soooo good they become instant cult classics or spawn fan clubs that will live forever. What's the one cancellation that leaves you sleepless at night wondering where the story went and how the characters fared?

A part of my heart died with STTOS and I hadn't felt that way again until "Frefly" and more recently "The Event". But that's just network television. HBO has an entire boneyard devoted to great shows killed in their cribs... "Carnivale" comes to mind.

Worf

Tales of the Gold Monkey

Edward — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:05:02 GMT

According to the Wikipedia entry for this series, the lead pilot character, Jake, was a former Flying Tiger, yet (as Wikipedia's own page on "Flying Tigers", linked to in the same sentence as the claim is made, shows) the AVG came later than the events of this series are supposed to have taken place (it opens in 1938). As I type, memory reminds me that Sky Captain was also referred to as having previously flown with "the American Volunteers", in a plot also set in 1938. The latter I've always written off as being an alternate timeline (makes sense in the context of a Diselpunk sci-fi affair), but what's the excuse for the former show? Is it just a plot mistake, or was there some prior organisation to which the term has been retrospectively applied (as it was by many to the entire USAAF 14th, following the disbandment of the AVG when the US officially entered the war against Japan)?

As a by the by, I remember watching this series, and the similar Bring 'em back alive! when they were originally broadcast in the Eighties. Are they worth catching again, or am I better to just remember them as good fun?

Doctor.... Who? Spoilers! Really, don't read if ur not up to date.

W-D Forties — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:09:06 GMT

I know this is not the place really, but has anyone else just watched the series finale of Doctor Who?

And if you have, is it really HIM as the new Doctor? If so, then.... wow, I'm impressed!

Poirot Finale 2013

Albert.Tatlock — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:39:30 GMT

Exciting news that Hastings, Miss Lemon, and Inspector Jape with be reunited, in one of the final episodes of "Poirot" ever to be filmed, starring David Suchet, in a role he has performed for the last 22 years!
http://tellyspotting.org/2013/04/08/...ot-disappoint/

The perfect gift for a Game of Thrones fan: A Life Size Iron Throne Replica

Corky — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:01:47 GMT

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German TV series Generation War, and The Tower coming to US

MrBern — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:52:53 GMT

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/u-...er-1200334062/

From Wiki:
Generation War tells in three 90-minute episodes the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II. The narrative spans over five years starting in 1941 Berlin, when the friends meet up for a last time before embarking on their journeys, enthusiastically vowing to meet up again the following Christmas. The story's conclusion is set in a time shortly after the end of the war in 1945/46.

�The Tower� is a two-parter based on Uwe Tellkamp�s novel, Der Turm (2008), about life in East Germany in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

'Working class hero' movies

Metatron — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:39:05 GMT

In total contrast to the current trendiness of Gatsby and friends ;)
I seem to enjoy old movies about working class men having moral/existential upheavals.
Taxi driver is probably the best of all, but keeping it 1930s-1950s:
On the Waterfront is my favourite, but I have also enjoyed films with Jean Gabin like La jour se Leve, Le Quai des brumes(a bit tedious) and Moontide(just a bit cheesy).
I would appreciate some recommendations, are there other good vintage films about the working man out there?

Ground Control to Major Tom

Bruce Wayne — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:43:10 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=KaOC9danxNo

Coming To A Theatre Near You! (This is hilarious)

Worf — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:18:58 GMT

Friend of mine on another forum sent me this. Hope you've not seen it before but if you have... she deserves a reboot anywho! Made the mistake of watching this a work... thought they were gonna call the "Wacky Wagon" I wuz laughin' so hard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe9Fs10IIk0

Worf

In The Fog

Story — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:29:31 GMT

Sergei Loznitsa's stark parable about Soviet collaboration with the Nazis has echoes of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/...the-fog-review

http://www.inthefog-movie.com/

Classic train movies

tealseal — Sun, 12 May 2013 00:36:50 GMT

Hi all,

Later this month, my father and I will be doing the California Zephyr from Emeryville to Chicago. It's something we've always wanted to do. One thing I thought might be fun was to assemble a collection of classic train-related movies for the trip, but I'm coming up short on ideas.
Any suggestions from the Lounge?

Thanks!
-TS

Is Tom Cruise finished?

Worf — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:07:45 GMT

Considering the less than stellar box-office of his recent efforts... is Tom Cruise finished as an "A-List" actor in H-Wood? Just curious.

Worf

Harrison Ford in Ender's Game

MrBern — Tue, 07 May 2013 23:40:02 GMT

A fine book.
And tho his character was described as fat & old, it will be interesting to see Harrison Ford do a little SciFi.
It will be interesting to see how the story is altered for the big screen, beyond the student characters being aged up from 6 year old children to more like 13 year olds....
Children trained in the art of ZeroG space war to avert alien invasion.

Upcoming on the Small Screen

W4ASZ — Sun, 05 May 2013 00:06:40 GMT

Tonight (Saturday, 5/4/13) MeTV's Svengoolie offers up Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in the 1935 classic The Raven , at 10:00 P.M. EDT.

Don't see it alone ! :eeek:

Some Men Just Want to Watch The World Learn

Bruce Wayne — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:43:29 GMT