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Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Mad as a Hatter

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 "Gotta do what Mr Hat says!" Yet another strong episode this time around as another member of the Batman's traditional rogues...
Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Twin Peaks: Laura's Secret Diary

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 "He never exercises. He never washes his car. And he doesn't even own a sports coat!" By Twin Peaks standards, this is a fai...
Monday, 31 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Appointment in Crime Alley

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 "Good people still live in Crime Alley..." Another excellent episode this time, if more low key than some. Yes, the plot is basic...
Sunday, 30 March 2025

Better Call Saul: Plan and Execution

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 "Is this how these usually go?" Wow. SPOILERS, obviously. This was a perfectly crafted mid-season finale, with all the pieces fit...
Saturday, 29 March 2025

Carry On Camping (1969)

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 "Do you know, she's been showing me how to stick the pole up!" It's back to the contemporary world of 1969 after all of t...
Thursday, 27 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- The Clock King

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 "I'm here to clean ypur clock, Fugate." Last episode may have been a little below the usual standard, but this one is as good...
Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Twin Peaks: The Man Behind the Glass

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 "I love you, Sheriff Truman." Less weirdness this week, possibly not unconnected to the fact that David Lynch doesn't direct....
Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Fear of Victory

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 "There's enough powder in that helmet to panic a pachyderm!" After a run of very good episodes, we finally hit one that's...
Monday, 24 March 2025

Twin Peaks: Coma

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 "I do not introduce the log..." A lot of plot stuff happens here, pertaining to what happened witrh Lauraand all the many plot th...
Sunday, 23 March 2025

Better Call Saul: Axe and Grind

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 "Pop Pop, it's not that kind of gas!" Quickly checking the cast list on iMDb made me realise why Gus isn't in this- Gianc...

Hawk the Slayer (1980)

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"I'd sooner eat cow dung. Oh my. What did I just watch?  I absolutely adored this movie. I mean, yet again, I make no bones about t...
Saturday, 22 March 2025

The Blob (1958)

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 "Excuse us, we were just looking for a monster..." You know how you can sort of cheerfully accept that a film is flawed in many w...
Thursday, 20 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Vendetta

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 "I've had cats that made more noise than you...!" Another good episode here. Oh, we introduce Killer Croc, whosew portrayal i...
Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Twin Peaks: May the Giant Be with You

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 "There are things in life that exist, yet our eyes cannot see them. I finished blogging the first season in... April 2024. Wow. No won...
Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Joker's Favour

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 "You just toddle on back to your mundane, meaningless little life, and when I need you... I'll call..." And there she is: Har...
Monday, 17 March 2025

Dead of Night: A Woman Sobbing

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 "I thought women's bladders were different?" And so already we come to the last of the three surviving episodes of this rathe...
Sunday, 16 March 2025

Bank Shot (1974)

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 "I'm learning how to swim, and I'm coming after you!" This is... well, it may not be the greatest comedy ever made, but i...
Saturday, 15 March 2025

Bicycle Thieves (1948)

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 "You live, and you suffer." I am, unsurprisingly, going to praise this film.It is, after all, a known classic of cinema. It's...
Thursday, 13 March 2025

Dead of Night: Return Flight

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 "He'll shut up soon, Skip. He's, er, got no legs left." It's an amusing start as a plane descends to land at Heathrow...
Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Feat of Clay, Part II

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 "There is no Hagen. It's only me now... Clayface!" A strong conclusion, this, ramping up the tragedy for Hagen, who is now st...
Tuesday, 11 March 2025

Dead of Night: Exorcism

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 "Just my husband frightening the life out of me- it's quite normal"> You may be wondering what is this new series I've...
Monday, 10 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Feat of Clay, Part I

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 "Once they're hookred, they stay hooked..." We get another first appearance here from another traditional member of Batman...
Saturday, 8 March 2025

Night of the Hunter (1955)

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"They abide and they endure!" This film is, I suppose, unique. Yes, it's a '50s film noir...but it feels like something el...
Friday, 7 March 2025

Daredevil: Born Again, and Future Plans

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 I know; Daredevil: Born Again is streaming right now and I always blog the latest Disney series on Disney Plus reasonably quickly... But, ...
Thursday, 6 March 2025

The Sweeney: Abduction

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 "One by one they stopped inviting us. One by one the Christmas cards stopped coming. One by one I lost every friend I ever had." ...
Wednesday, 5 March 2025

Trancers III (1992)

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 "Only squids can be tranced!" Oh yes. Not long after seeing the first two, I'm back, blogging the gloriously awful, straight-...
Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Prophecy of Doom

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 "We are but radios for the cosmic transmitter..." So Heather Locklear plays Lisa! Wow. That's unexpected. And, indeed, possib...
Monday, 3 March 2025

Better Call Saul: Black and Blue

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 "You've mistaken my kindness for weakness." This is, as if it needed to be said, a superb episode, but aren't they all? I...
Sunday, 2 March 2025

The Founder (2016)

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 "You know,contracts are like hearts.They're made to be broken." This is not, by any means, the sort of film I'd naturally...
Saturday, 1 March 2025

Doctor Faustus (1967)

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 "Why, this is Hell, nor am I out of it". I fear that, much though I enjoy the deliciously irreverent work of Christopher Marlowe,...
Thursday, 27 February 2025

The Sweeney: Contract Breaker

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 "They've made up their mind it was me...." Once again it's fun to see the world of half a century ago. Prison scenes stra...
Tuesday, 25 February 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Beware the Grey Ghost

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 "So it wasn't all for nothing..." Yet another masterpiece this time, and an inspired idea. A pulp style hero, shown in the mo...
Sunday, 23 February 2025

Black Sabbath- Paranoid (1970)

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It's extraordinary, looking back, how Sabbath could have released this second album so soon after the first. I suppose it was an era whe...

Carry On Up the Khyber (1968)

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 "For the last time, stop calling it a dangler!" Sometimes conventional opinion is conventional for a reason, and I strongly suspe...
Saturday, 22 February 2025

Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

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 "Let's say it's a kind of magic..." I'm not saying this film is any good, you understand. I'm just saying that I ...
Thursday, 20 February 2025

The Sweeney: Big Spender

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 "I found a way of getting a lot of bread for no graft at all." Intriguing episode, this, where it takes time for the penny to dro...
Wednesday, 19 February 2025

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

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 "Tell them I was murdered by my mathematics tutor!" This is the first time I've ever seen this rather good film, but I did re...
Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- See No Evil

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 "All I want is for you to disappear!" Another excellent episode this time- these one-offs where the villain isn't necessarily...
Monday, 17 February 2025

Better Call Saul: Hit and Run

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 "You think we're wicked?" This is a very artily directed episode by... Rhea Seehorn. Wow!  There's so much going on here ...
Sunday, 16 February 2025

Ghostbusters II (1989)

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 "Being miserable, and treating other people like dirt, is every New Yorker's God given right!" I hadn't seen this film si...
Saturday, 15 February 2025

Trancers II (1991)

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 "I don't want to have my brain vacuumed!" I was going to watch some art house movie but, well, I was in the mood for a B movi...
Thursday, 13 February 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- The Cat and the Claw, Part !!

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 "So you do care." "More than you'll ever know." Hmm. This is ok, I suppose, but doesn't quite match the first p...
Tuesday, 11 February 2025

The Sweeney: Stoppo Driver

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 "Who taught you to drive- Evel Knievel?" Another strong episode this time round as a newlywed copper is forced to act as a getawa...
Monday, 10 February 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- The Cat and the Claw, Part I

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 "A cat at the end of its nine lives..." At last we meet Catwoman. Of course, those of us who know our Batman will not be surpris...
Sunday, 9 February 2025

Better Call Saul: Rock and Hard Place

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 "Today you are going to die..." Obviously this episode is all about Nacho. Jimmy doesn't even appear until sixteen minutes in...

Murder by Decree (1979)

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 "I prefer bad manners in the theatre to violence in the streets..." This film is an odd and intriguing beast. It's very well ...
Saturday, 8 February 2025

Torture Garden (1967)

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 "Did you know that there are ways to raise the dead...?" This is, I believe, the only one of the Amicus horror anthologies that I...
Wednesday, 5 February 2025

The Sweeney: Golden Boy

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 "You're nicked, and I'm not authorised or insured to drive this car!" I know: all this current telly, especially, means T...
Tuesday, 4 February 2025

Squid Game: Friend or Foe

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 "We surrender...!" Well, we weren'rt exactly expecting a happy ending, were we...? I'm in two minds about this finale.  O...
Monday, 3 February 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- Heart of Ice

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 "Think of it, Batman. To never again walk on a summer's day with the hot wind in your face and a warm hand to hold." Mr Freez...
Sunday, 2 February 2025

Carry On Doctor (1967)

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 "Matron doesn't approve of banging in the ward..." Agh. I hadn't seen this film for decades, but then last night I watche...
Friday, 31 January 2025

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

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 "Ghost in the machine..." Let's admit it: this isn't exactly the greatest film ever made. But it's a fascinating one....
Thursday, 30 January 2025

Squid Game: O X

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 "Your money, your girl, your life, they're all mine..." And with this, the most brutal episode yet, the stakes are even highe...
Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Inspector Morse: Driven to Distraction

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 "I think our friend Chief Inspector Morse could prove to be something of a major pain in the rectum area." This one is.. well, di...
Tuesday, 28 January 2025

Squid Game: One More Game

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"Only 110 people died? Is that all?" We begin with the tense resolution of the second game, in which the characters we're foll...
Monday, 27 January 2025

Inspector Morse: The Sins of the Fathers

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 "He didn't think Mr Trevor could organise a proverbial. Even in his own brewery." Last episode was, especially on reflection,...
Sunday, 26 January 2025

Batman: The Animated Series- I've Got Batman in My Basement

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 "Befouled by a couple of fledglings!" Well, they can't all be good, can they?  Positives first, though: I like what they'...
Thursday, 23 January 2025

Squid Game: Six Legs

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 "I pressed the O button because of you..." It's a fascinating dynamc as we await the second game, and the paradoxical implica...