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Saturday, 21 December 2024

Don't Lose Your Head (1967)

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 "That's all very well, but that would never have happened under a Royalist government." We're entering a stretch that rep...
Friday, 20 December 2024

Futureworld (1976)

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 "Nothing can go wrong..." Sequels are rarely better than the original, right? I mean, I tend to think this statement olds even wi...
Thursday, 19 December 2024

Stigma

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 "It's the old religion. I read about it in a book." Hmm. It has its moments but... I'm not sure about this one. It's ...
Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Wolf Hall- The Mirror and the Light: Light

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 "The King of France gave me gloves. He didn't want to marry me..." Wow. And with that... I'm broken. The genius of this r...
Tuesday, 17 December 2024

The Signalman

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 "You! Down below!" By 1976, it seems, the BBC had decided to move the focus of their Ghost Stories for Christmas annual traditio...
Monday, 16 December 2024

Better Call Saul: Bad Choice Road

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 "How about a day without drama?" Oh boy. What an episode. Kim is, of course, the focus of our sense of mounting dread and, natura...
Sunday, 15 December 2024

Erik the Viking (1989)

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 "Stay calm. This is not happening." Oh dear. What went wrong here? We begin with a moderately well-scripted Pythonesque little sc...
Saturday, 14 December 2024

The Pink Panther (1963)

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 "You do the walking and I'll do the drinking." Yes, I know, forty-seven and have only just seen this...  Anyway, it's fas...
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Thursday, 12 December 2024

Wolf Hall- The Mirror and the Light: The Mirror

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 "You have few friends, Cromwell..." This episode, as are so many others, is a materpiece in how it shows us the slow bursting of ...
Wednesday, 11 December 2024

Number 13

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 "Well, I'm sure I don't intend to disappear..." So we here we havethe second of the BBC's 2000s revival of their Ghos...
Tuesday, 10 December 2024

Batman: The Animated Series- It's Never Too Late

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 "All your power and money has bought you is an empire of misery." Another excellent episode here. It's interesting once again...
Monday, 9 December 2024

A View from a Hill

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 "I can't explain it..." I confess I've never read any M.R. James, just as I've never read and H.P. Lovecraft or Rober...
Friday, 6 December 2024

Batman: The Animated Series- Two-Face, Part II

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 "Chance is everything. Whether you're born or not. Whether you live or die. Whather you're good or bad. It's all arbitrary...
Wednesday, 4 December 2024

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

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 "Christianity isa ratiional system of belief, Peter." Once again we have one of the BBC's once annual Christmas ghost stories...
Tuesday, 3 December 2024

Lot No. 249

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 "Your filthy Egyptian tricks won't answer here in England!" I must have missed this, last year's offering from the excell...
Monday, 2 December 2024

Wolf Hall- The Mirror and the Light: Jenneke

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 "You're going to bring them down? The oldest and richest familes in the land?" "Like skittles!" It's redundant,...
Sunday, 1 December 2024

Better Call Saul: Bagman

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 "The alternator's shot. Literally." Wow. You kbow, when Vince Gilligan himself writes and directs that you're getting a t...
Saturday, 30 November 2024

Quantum of Solace (2008)

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 "Bond, if you could avoid killing every possible lead, it would be appreciated." Finally I've caught up in my Bond marathon. ...
Thursday, 28 November 2024

Wolf Hall- The Mirror and the Light: Defiance

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 "In the north parts, they use your name to terrify their children..." Oh my. There's soooo much going on here. Yet the overal...
Wednesday, 27 November 2024

Batman: The Animated Series- Two-Face, Part I

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 "I'm more worried about the mental scars..." Our first two parter, and... the series seems to be stepping up a gear. This is ...

Wolf Hall- The Mirror and the Light: Obedience

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 "I created him..." And the second episode turns out to be even better than the first, which is saying a lot. In fact, let us not ...
Monday, 25 November 2024

Batman: The Animated Series- Be a Clown

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 "If it wasn't risky, I wouldn't enjoy it." I suppose, on the basic level, this is a by-the-numbers and very typical Joker...
Sunday, 24 November 2024

Casino Royale (2006)

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 "That last hand nearly killed me..." I'm doing lots of different film marathons where I blog each film in order, in some case...
Saturday, 23 November 2024

Hard Target (1993)

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 "How does it feel to be hunted?" Before I go anything further, something has to be said. That mullet is not acceptable. There. A...
Thursday, 21 November 2024

Wolf Hall- The Mirror and the Light: Wreckage

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 "I do not understand you, Cromwell. Why are you not afraid? You should be afraid." It's been... yeah, many, many years. Use t...
Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Batman: The Animated Series- Forgotten

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 "Maybe I'll lose my memory and wake up a milliuonaire too." Surprisingly, this is the third episode in a row without any of B...
Tuesday, 19 November 2024

The Sweeney: Cover Story

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 "I think that fish fancies me". Hmm. Good dialogue, good acting, and it all looks great- not surprising for an episode directed b...
Monday, 18 November 2024

Better Call Saul: JMM

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 "No rings. Okey dokey..." After last episode's deeply dishearening last line, we begin the last line with the world'd lea...
Sunday, 17 November 2024

Code of Silence (1985)

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 "Just like the cops. Just like the Comachos. Nobody talks. Omerta." This is, surprisingly, the first time I've ever seen or b...
Saturday, 16 November 2024

The Gorgon (1964)

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 "It never ceases to amaze me that the most noble work of God, the human brain, is the most revolting to the human eye. It's been a...
Thursday, 14 November 2024

Agatha All Along: Maiden Mother Crone

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 "I do tend to... kill my coven members." I suppose, in terms of bare plot, and certainly in comparison to recent episodes, what h...
Wednesday, 13 November 2024

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

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 "Because I'm Marvel Jesus. Or Spock. Hard to say..." I knew this was going to be enormous fun, and oooooh, it was. Both the s...
Monday, 11 November 2024

Better Call Saul: Wexler v Goodman

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 "Because it's cold pizza fondled by community actors..." For the first time, the pre-credits shows a small episode from Kim...
Sunday, 10 November 2024

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

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 " I wasn't surprised to see that this film is very, very good- the director and the star meant that would always be likely. What d...
Saturday, 9 November 2024

Stargate (1994)

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 "There can be only one Ra..." I've never seen any of the subsequent telly series, but I have seen this film before, back in t...
Thursday, 7 November 2024

Agatha All Along: Follow Me My Friend / To Glory at the End

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 "So, Agatha's ex is death". "That also makes sense..." Wow. So much happens here in forty-odd minutes. Agatha All A...
Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Batman: The Animated Series- P.O.V.

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 "I guess Batman must have gotten a second wind after Detective Bullock dragged him out, because he was in rare form!" I'm inc...
Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Agatha All Along: Death's Hand in Mine

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 "We can be culturally offended later..." Yeah, I know. They're all dressed like famous witches from popular culture- Wicked W...
Saturday, 2 November 2024

Raw Deal (1986)

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 "You should not drink and bake." …Or, indeed, shoot and drive. Please, any drivers reading this: keep your eyes on the road (or q...
Tuesday, 29 October 2024

The Wild Robot (2024)

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 "I do not have the programming to be a mother." "No one does. We just make it up." Little Miss Llamastrangler and I tod...
Monday, 28 October 2024

Batman: The Animated Series- The Under-Dwellers

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 "Leprechauns and Batmen. What's Gotham coming to?" For the first time we have a new villain and no Batman lore other than Bru...
Thursday, 24 October 2024

Agatha All Along: Familiar by My Side

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 "Don't you dare feel guilty about your talent!" And this is where we realise how clever Agatha All Along is, I've no dou...
Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Agatha All Along: Darkest Hour / Wake Thy Power

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 "We have to ouija." "It's not a verb!" At first, this seems like yet another test on the Road and just another epis...
Sunday, 20 October 2024

Army of Darkness (1992)

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 "I may be bad, but I feel... good!" It's October, so time for another suitably Halloween-ish film... although I seem to be in...
Thursday, 17 October 2024

Agatha All Along: If I Can't Reach You / Let My Song Teach You

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 "You don't have to know a person's name to know who they are..." I've enjoyed Agatha All Along up until now, but this...
Wednesday, 16 October 2024

The Lord of the Rings- The Rings of Power: Shadow and Flame

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 "You are their prisoner, Sauron. Lord of the rings..." I know, this is two blog posts in succession and both on the same show. Bu...
Thursday, 10 October 2024

The Lord of the Rings- The Rings of Power: Doomed to Die

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"Forgive me..." "Win!" More than seventy minutes for this penultimate episode, and there's not a Man, Wizard or Harf...
Monday, 7 October 2024

Better Call Saul: Dedicado a Max

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 "You never told me that he was a side sitter!" Another gripping episode this time, one that may well spell doom for Kim. Of cours...
Sunday, 6 October 2024

Relative Values by Noel Coward at the Little Theatre in Leicester

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 Alas, it was the final performance when I saw the play last night, so this blog post won't be of any use in plugging any future perform...
Saturday, 5 October 2024

Carry On Screaming (1966)

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 "May I blow it?" It's October. The month of Halloween. The month of ghouls and ghost and things that go bump in the night... ...
Thursday, 3 October 2024

The Lord of the Rings- The Rings of Power: Where Is He?

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 "Your friend or your destiny? The choice is yours." Perhaps the finest scene in this excellent episode is the two hander between ...
Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Agatha All Along: Through Many Miles / Of Tricks and Trials

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" He's not in the coven. And he's underage..." Once again, this episode is filled with wit, fun, and four witch characters...
Tuesday, 1 October 2024

The Lord of the Rings- The Rings of Power: Halls of Stone

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 "It will open with a password known only to friends..." This episode is, perhaps, the most exciting yet to those of us who have r...
Monday, 30 September 2024

Agatha All Along: Circle Sewn with Fate / Unlock Thy Hidden Gate

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 "Witches like you are the reason people think we poison apples, and steal children, and eat babies." "Babies are delicious....
Saturday, 28 September 2024

Elizabeth (1998)

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 "It is no easy thing to be loved by the Queen. It would corrupt the heart of any man". Before I praise this wonderful film, I...