Christmas DVD's

Having effectively just got a massive box full of dvd boxsets (TV programs and films) for christmas I'll keep on blabbering on about stuff I've been watching from them

Have been slowly working my way through Big Train, series one and it's gooood, anyone who likes Spaced or anything else done my simon Pegg/Mark Heap/Graham Lineham et al (I like to think of them as the new(ish) generation of comedy writers, otherwise known in my head as channel four gold).

I also got the previous generations equivalent on dvd: Not The Nine O'Clock News, and while some of the more topical stuff goes straight over your head (which is unsurprising considering it was made before I was actually born) it still gold, the combination of the comedians just produces such good stuff.


I've also been watching Band of Brothers and am about halfway through. Again abslutely brilliant TV, think Saving Private Ryan, but over hour long episodes. Like whereas in Saving Private Ryan D-day is the first 20 minutes there's an entire episode on it. Also admittedly it's from the Airborne rather than the beach landings but it's stupidly engaging stuff nonetheless. Note should also go to the cast who are uniformly great, even David Schwimmer playing a hard ass Captain seems normal after you get over the initial humour of Ross being such a hard ass for no good reason (actually he get accross the cowardliness of the man very well),
in particular Damian Lewis who plays the Captain of Easy Company (well Lieutenant at first), who the program follows is just brilliant. He's massively underrated and has been a favourite actor of mine since I saw him The Forsythe Saga years ago and it's really nice to see him get a big part. In I think Spielberg's words, he's the best ginger actor of his generation, which I think is a fair comment.

Will probably post again on Band of Brothers as the series progresses I've just watched an episode and I think some really heavy shit is gonna kick off so I look forward to watching the rest