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Showing posts with label Alan Napier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alan Napier. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 November 2023

Julius Caesar (1953)

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 " Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death." I'm utterly knackered today after a lo...
Sunday, 21 February 2021

Premature Burial (1962)

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 "I don't enjoy life. I merely experience greater or lesser degrees of tedium." I haven't seen any of Roger Corman's P...
Sunday, 16 August 2020

Batman: Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires

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"Batman, how could you have opened a vault, to which you didn't even know the combnation, in three seconds flat?" "With...
Thursday, 13 August 2020

Batman: The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra

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"A Batfight seldom takes more than forty seconds, and they're already half an hour late." Now this is more like it. It will ...
Wednesday, 12 August 2020

Batman: The Joker's Flying Saucer

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"Holy known unknown flying objects!" Oh dear. Only last episode I was rejoicing that, while this season is clearly under-budget ...
Monday, 10 August 2020

Batman: I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle

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"I'll build an indestructible empire that no one will be able to destruct!" Every episode of this last run is the last gasp ...
Sunday, 9 August 2020

Batman: The Great Train Robbery

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"You cheated! You know we ain't no good in a fair fight!" Just to recap, before I discuss this splendid episode... I've ...
Wednesday, 5 August 2020

Batman: The Great Escape

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"They've got Batgirl, and we've got Fanny." There are two things which are probably worh mentioning as I start to blog t...
Tuesday, 4 August 2020

Batman: Penguin's Clean Sweep

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"Don't you see? That's what happens, Pengy-poo, when you send a fly out to do a man's job." We're getting close ...
Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Batman: Nora Clavicle and the Ladies’ Crime Club

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“This is torture... at its most bizarre and terrible. Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. One must always be careful not to treat television program...
Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Batman: Louie’s Lethal Lilac Time

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“Tell me something, Batgirl. How did you get out of that cat?” “With my Batgirl vat-opener.” Louie the Lilac gets a second appearance, w...
Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Batman: The Joke’s on Catwoman

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“That’s the first time I ever It’s our first episode of 1968- a less idealistic and more cynical year than ‘67, with rioting and body bags...
Thursday, 16 July 2020

Batman: The Funny Feline Felonies

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"Karate isn't effective unless accompanied by yelling...!" Now this is a good one and no mistake. And yes, it’s another Catw...
Tuesday, 7 July 2020

Batman: The Ogg Couple

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"But this isn't exactly woman's work." This episode is a very odd beast here, at this point of the season. I suspect it ...
Sunday, 5 July 2020

Batman: Catwoman’s Dressed to Kill

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“You better leave the crime fighting to the men!” There is, of course, no doubt that the much-missed Julie Newmar is the definitive Catwom...
Tuesday, 30 June 2020

Batman: The Bloody Tower

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“And don’t forget to drive on the left!” I liked the previous two episodes- fun, silly and utterly bonkers. But this final part is the mos...
Thursday, 25 June 2020

Batman: The Foggiest Notion

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"You ogress! You vixen!" We get more of the same this week, with everything now established. Again, the plot progresses nary an ...
Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Batman: The Londinium Larcenies

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“Is Batman up against a sticky wicket?” Well, this is completely unlike any previous episode. It's utterly, utterly mad, and very sill...
Sunday, 21 June 2020

Batman: Surfs up! Joker's Under!

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"Cowabunga!" This extraordinarily inconsistent season has shown us the full range of high to low and, indeed, high camp to low c...
Thursday, 11 June 2020

Batman: How to Hatch a Dinosaur

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"Think they can crack it, Commissioner?" This second episode begins with a threat to undermine Egghead as much as the previous e...