University Challenge contestants have been entertaining us a lot lately - with their leather vests and ridiculous jumpiness around buzzers.
But this latest quizzer is just magic, bearing more than a passing resemblance to one Harry Potter with his round black-rimmed glasses.
He actually appeared earlier on in the series but was looking particularly Hogwartsian in Monday night's episode, as St Peter's College, Oxford took on Glasgow University. Twitter - as you can imagine - was quick to note the similarities:
F**k me, surely that should read 'Potter '? #universitychallenge #bbctwo #harrypotter #lifeafterhogwarts pic.twitter.com/0qNYDFbpQC
— Ian Simpson (@noiseresearch) October 20, 2015
Bonus For 5 On Quidditch. #universitychallenge pic.twitter.com/u4cc5ZIllD
— stu eleventhirty8 (@eleventhirty8) October 19, 2015
Good to see both Harry Potter and the bloke who does the voice for the Meerkats on #universitychallenge
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) October 19, 2015
But that's not all - in another geekdom-pleasing twist, the gent...
But this latest quizzer is just magic, bearing more than a passing resemblance to one Harry Potter with his round black-rimmed glasses.
He actually appeared earlier on in the series but was looking particularly Hogwartsian in Monday night's episode, as St Peter's College, Oxford took on Glasgow University. Twitter - as you can imagine - was quick to note the similarities:
F**k me, surely that should read 'Potter '? #universitychallenge #bbctwo #harrypotter #lifeafterhogwarts pic.twitter.com/0qNYDFbpQC
— Ian Simpson (@noiseresearch) October 20, 2015
Bonus For 5 On Quidditch. #universitychallenge pic.twitter.com/u4cc5ZIllD
— stu eleventhirty8 (@eleventhirty8) October 19, 2015
Good to see both Harry Potter and the bloke who does the voice for the Meerkats on #universitychallenge
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) October 19, 2015
But that's not all - in another geekdom-pleasing twist, the gent...
- 10/21/2015
- Digital Spy
[Editor's note: I've been talking with Ian off and on for some time, and while I'm excited to see his film Nadine which I'm going to finally get a screener for, Man In Wood takes the cake. If only we could share all the material provided, but alas, we can't.]
A woman wakes up from a nightmare involving a sexual encounter with a decomposed corpse in an isolated mountain cottage. An old hotel houses a dead spirit of her mother and the rotting carcass of a goatlike animal while a jukebox inexplicably plays her favored childhood pop songs. These are but a taste of the twisted insides that make up artist/filmmaker Ian Simpson's next horror-tinged outing, Man in Wood.
When I first read the synopsis for Man in Wood, I got the distinct feeling that this is what it must have been like for the people who first read Von Trier's Anti-Christ. Obviously free of all types of standard film categorization, Man in Wood is a deeply personal film that delves into the subconscious to discover insights into age old questions like: Where do we come from? Where do we go? Who are we?
So where does inspiration...
A woman wakes up from a nightmare involving a sexual encounter with a decomposed corpse in an isolated mountain cottage. An old hotel houses a dead spirit of her mother and the rotting carcass of a goatlike animal while a jukebox inexplicably plays her favored childhood pop songs. These are but a taste of the twisted insides that make up artist/filmmaker Ian Simpson's next horror-tinged outing, Man in Wood.
When I first read the synopsis for Man in Wood, I got the distinct feeling that this is what it must have been like for the people who first read Von Trier's Anti-Christ. Obviously free of all types of standard film categorization, Man in Wood is a deeply personal film that delves into the subconscious to discover insights into age old questions like: Where do we come from? Where do we go? Who are we?
So where does inspiration...
- 4/7/2010
- QuietEarth.us
It has taken me seven weeks to collect my thoughts about the only film, among thousands, to ever burrow its way beneath my pale-though-gen y-jaded skin. Even the most extreme of the French Extremist Wave seems to have a wink and nod somewhere within texts and yarns and yards of innards—and umbilical cords, Yet it is difficult to identify a definitive Starting Point—was it the jaw dropping violence of Haute Tension (2003)? The horrific Jaws-esque unseen-force-of-terror of Ills (2006), if you count Ht as fraud? Perhaps we’ve all been duped and they’ve been doing it since 1960’s wildly unnerving Eyes Without A Face—incidentally the same year of Psycho—iconic for its shocks and the rule-making and breaking of virtually all American horror species to follow—yet I’d throw it out there that Eyes…, with its own quiet graces and familial transgressions, keeps me awake, haunted by subtle beauty,...
- 6/26/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (R. Ian Simpson)
- Fangoria
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