American Gothic

The charming side of evil

Lucas Buck (Gary Cole) is not just the sheriff of the small town Trinity, he's also pure evil. He is on the hunt for 10 year old Caleb (Lucas Black), a boy who's parents were killed by himself, to raise him in his own "spirit". So sheriff Buck goes round the town to cash in all the little favours the citizens owe him and everyone who doesn't follow his orders dies under mysterious circumstances.

"American Gothic" was TV series released in 1995, featuring the everlasting battle between light and evil. Unfortunately it ran only one season although that was enough to introduce Gary Cole as the perfect actor for those kinda seriously badass characters. Unlike many series that tried to fit into the mystery and horror genre this one really did a good job on it.

This was once and is still one of the best TV series ever, feels like Stephen King but is none of his work. Worth watching again and again.


American Gothic - On TV from 1995 to 1996

Underworld : Rise of the lycans

Continuing the story from the very beginning

"Underworld : Rise of the lycans" is a prequel showing the background behind the story you already know if you've watched part 1 and 2 which are stated in the modern days.

The vampire lord in the past keeps lycans for slaves and pets. He also made a deal with the humans to save them from the lycans in the wild for high taxes they've got to pay to him. And everyone who doesn't pay will just die. It has been going like this for years when one amongst them, Lucian, decides to rise against the empire. Together with his secret lover Sonja, the daughter of the king, he goes to battle for freedom.

If you enjoyed the first two movies, you will also like this prequel. However it is set somewhere in the dark age and conditions to make it look really cool with nice effects are harder. Still the movie has a lot of good points and I liked it. It continues the movie series very well without much confusion.

Underworld : Rise of the lycans - Released 2009

Primeval

Season 3

Primeval is back on screen for the third time. Series number three had a not so great trailer released a while ago, now for the fourth episode already it is back on TV.

Hm, I started up watching it "back in the days" as a huge fan. I mean, great characters, nice storyboard, you can overlook the strangely bad animations of the creatures themselves. You can do that one season, you can do it two seasons but then the third seasons starts up with a supercroc walking on two legs. To fit into ancient egyptian mythology.

Yes, I like supercrocs, I also like egyptian mythology. What I not so much like is when screenwriters can't come up with new ideas anymore and therefore set the whole storyline into a mystery context. First episode, okay Sina, give them a chance.

The second episode came up with ... this ... and what the hell that is describes the website of ITV: "The Camouflage Beast is a visitor from the future. It appears to be a form of primate and shares many characteristics with the Madagascan aye aye: a creature so strange looking that native mythology believes it to be a symbol of death." Is that so? Aha ...

No, ITV, you can not make that up with big carnivore dinosaurs in episode four and it even overshades my love for the characters a bit. Please. Stop. This. The story became a mess. Don't stop the series, get it back on a straight path! Pleeeeeaaaaase!

Primeval Season 3 - on TV since April 2009

Fringe

"We should do some new mystery series!"


That's how it all must have been started. Someone stepped up and said "Mystery is big! And science is, too! Let's mix it up and ... when we are already on that, I don't like these simple location descriptions shown at the side of the screen. We need to come up with something new for that!". "Fringe" was created. A mix of conspiracy, pharmaceutical companies, bio terrorism, mysterious phenomenons and of course the FBI and a lost love - what a series. In a negative way.

Agent Dunham (Anna Torv) creates a new team to solve strange happenings, getting herself a modern day Dr. Frankenstein and ... his son? ... and a few other FBI MDs and tries to find solutions for all the strange cases that come her way since her partner died in an other case where he had turned out to be the terrorist, not the victim.

Sounds illogical and messed up? Yes it is! And also it's very boring set up. The acting is some normal TV series thing and the only good thing is Peter Outerbridge in the first episode. I love Peter Outerbridge.

Oh and back to the location descriptions. Have you ever seen giant letters floating in the air in front of buildings showing you where you are? You will - in this series. When a line at the side of the screen isn't enough you gotta stretch the description to the whole scene and make it 3D. Very ... clever ... guys ...

Fringe - On TV since 2008

Blood Ties

Very short review

In the times of "Moonlight", "Twilight", "Buffy", "Charmed" and all the other nice, little vampires and other strange things series it is really hard to come up with something new. The makers of "Blood Ties" came up with something never seen before however. A vampire ... that helps a police officer ... hunting monsters! Wohooo. You heard that one already?

Okay, but back then you didn't imagine they could ever put a forty year old female police officer in it. And a romance!

Oh, you did? Yes, it's true, there are slight similarities with lots of other movies, b-movies and series but we can't just get enough of those modern, always good looking, never too evil helpful vampire guys, now can't we.

Blood ties - On TV since 2006 (the fun never stops)

David Duchovny

A portrait of strange success

Nowadays everyone knows David Duchovny. Even people who don't really watch movies know him from „Californication“ the TV series around Hank Moody that went to be a total success all around the globe and everyone who grew up in the 90s would never get Agent Mulder from „The X-files“ out of his mind. David Duchovny has a safe place in the hall of fame of TV stars but he also made it through in Hollywood. Who is that charismatic guy that a famous celeb website even called an „uber-sex god“ - for the record, we find that a bit exaggerated.

David Duchovny was born in Manhattan August 7^th 1960 into a Jewish family. He went to Princeton and Yale later, worked on a Master's degree in English literature. Young Duchovny was no fool so to speak but some when the interest in acting took over and he dropped the whole thing to ... have you ever heard of the „Red shoe diaries“ series?

„Red shoe diaries“ was a TV erotic series that started up in 1992. David Duchovny was on board there from the first part released to the 18^th in 2002. Now if that would not be a start to a serious acting career. He had caught a few small roles from 1988 to 1991 already but what really made him famous were the three episodes of „Twin peaks“ he starred in 1991.

From that he headed over directly to his role of a lifetime, our all time favorite, Mr Everybody-loves-him, Agent Fox Mulder. At total of 176 episodes, 4 movies and lots of video games and specials were released basing on „Spooky

Mulder“ and Dana Scully hunting for mysterious phenomenons at „The X-files“. A whole generation growing up with the series agreed later that 9 seasons were really enough for the latest movie from 2008 was kinda … boring.

But as mentioned from the start Duchovny also got famous with movies. For example there was “Evolution”, the sci-fi comedy from 2001 with Duchovny in a lead role. He was in “Zoolander” with Ben Stiller in 2001 and a handful of other movies in the last years.

But David Duchovny also successfully tried himself as a writer. He wrote 8 episodes of The X-Files and in 2004 the wonderful movie “House of D” .

“Californication” in 2007/2008 brought him back as a teeny idol and sex symbol and it seems he always grabs the right roles to make it up to the top again and again. This guy had a strange but kind of straight career and for that David Duchovny is one of our highly recommended actors!

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Stay exited for many reviews on David Duchovny's well- and unknown movies, coming the next days!

David Duchovny movie reviews yet available on JebbyMovies:

-> Don't tell Mom the Babysitter's dead (1991)
-> Californication Season 1 (2007)
-> House of D (2004)
-> Full Frontal (2002)