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Friday, 20 February 2015

Fatherhood

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I have a daughter, and she's perfect! Mrs Llamastrangler gave birth to our little angel at 3.15pm on Wednesday 18th February, 2015 after...
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Sunday, 15 February 2015

Marvel's Agent Carter: Time and Tide

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"If you wish to clear Mr. Stark's name, you must do so from the shadows!" The third episode, then, and things are moving i...
Saturday, 14 February 2015

Cucumber: Episode 4

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"You're actually patting my vagina..." Wow. What a masterful piece of television. Such a triumph of structure and characte...

Grimm: The Last Fight

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 "It's cheating, right, if he's Wesen?" "There are probably Wesen in all sports." Boxing usually bores me, but t...

Black Mirror: Be Right Back

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"Are you sitting down? This might sound a bit creepy.." It's been a while since I did the first season of Black Mirror , but n...
Friday, 13 February 2015

Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)

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I have some time to kill but don't want to wake up the lovely Mrs Llamastrangler, who is now several days past her due date and fast a...
Thursday, 12 February 2015

Angel: Billy

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"No woman should ever have to go through that." About a week ago there was a lot of talk amongst the commentariat concerning a ...
Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: All the Way

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"I'm gonna marry that girl." I really can't put my finger on why this episode underwhelmed me. The misdirection with the o...
Monday, 9 February 2015

Angel: Fredless

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"You haven't run far enough!" There's nothing like a good bit of misdirection. This episode pretty much consists of spendi...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Life Serial

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"Stop touching my magic bone!" Last night we were introduced to our three, er, suoervillains; this time we get to know a bit bette...
Sunday, 8 February 2015

Angel: Carpe Noctem

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"I'm not a eunuch!!!" This episode may be a story-of-the-week, but the central conceit is fantastically dark; a feeble, dying ...

Marvel's Agent Carter: Bridge and Tunnel

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"What's your first name?" "Agent." "That has a ring to it..." Two episodes in and I'm rath...
Friday, 6 February 2015

Cucumber: Episode 3

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"You're a prostitute!" "Yes. How much money do you make?" Three episodes in, and the clever little tropes and writer...
Thursday, 5 February 2015

Grimm: Octopus Head

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"I just saw Burkhart. He's not the Grimm." The first season of Grimm was, in hindsight, a bit blah, all story of the week epis...
Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Flooded

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"So... You guys wanna team up and take over Sunnydale?" Never has a flooded basement been more redolent with obvious metaphor; Buf...
Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Angel: That Old Gang of Mine

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"Don't go reading me!" "I wouldn't, but, sweetie, you're a billboard!" Interesting, this one. It...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: After Life

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"That's the thing about magic. There's always consequences. Always!" After the opening two parter, the aftermath. Buffy is...
Saturday, 31 January 2015

Cucumber: Episode 2

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"Uncle Lance says you never take it up the bum!" This episode is perhaps a little shorter on the flashes of brilliance than the la...
Thursday, 29 January 2015

Grimm: Thanks for the Memories

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"Let's give them some Trubel." First things first. I'm calling it: Sean Renard isn't dead, especially with that ending...
Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Cucumber: Episode 1

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"It's not my fault they went and invented it." I'm conscious that the only Russell T Davies scripts I've ever blogged ...
Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Angel: That Vision Thing

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"Time to go visit Daddy!" Interesting cliffhanger, with pregnant Darla and the above quote, but this is, essentially, a story of t...
Sunday, 25 January 2015

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bargaining, Part 2

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"Is... this Hell?" This is the first episode of Buffy not to feature Anthony Stewart Head. It feels weird. But, quite rightly, we...

Marvel's Agent Carter: Now Is Not the End

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"You're an agent. They treat you like a secretary." First impressions count for a lot, which is fortunate, as first signs ...
Sunday, 18 January 2015

The Dam Busters (1955)

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"Every time one of these Lancasters flies over, my chickens lay premature eggs!" There's something about a British war fil...
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Saturday, 17 January 2015

Nanny McPhee (2005)

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"I did knock..." I wasn't originally going to blog this, hence the fact that I'm wings big it without any notes. It is...
Monday, 12 January 2015

Biography of Anthony Ainley by Karen Louise Hollis

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One of the perks of having a blog is that you can use it to plug books by friends of yours. This is an excellent biography, thoroughly resea...
Friday, 9 January 2015

Angel: Heartthrob

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"Don't say the "B" word." My wife could go into labour any week now, and becoming a new father is unavoidably go...
Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bargaining, Part 1

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"Did your life pass before your eyes? Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged, cup of tea?" Any day now my wife is going into l...
Tuesday, 6 January 2015

The Cat in the Hat (2003)

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"Can't I have some rules?"" "No chewing tobacco!" Lots of people don't like this film. This is main...
Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Happy New Year!

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Before I start drinking certain alcoholic beverages I'd like to wish all my readers a happy and prosperous 2015 as well, of course, as a...
Saturday, 27 December 2014

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: What They Become

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"I'm her father, not you!" And they end it there ? Wow. What a half season. Trip is dead. Mack may not be. Whitehall is dead. ...
Friday, 26 December 2014

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2000)

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"Blast this Christmas music. It's joyful and triumphant!" Ok, I'll admit I never encountered Dr Seuss as a kid (he...

Doctor Who: Last Christmas

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"So that's 22 million children per hour. That's impossible! So, obviously, I've got a second sled?" Could this be ...
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Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Merry Christmas

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In advance of tomorrow's festive episode of Doctor Who , I'd like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas (to all of you at home......
Monday, 22 December 2014

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: Ye Who Enters Here

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"One crisis at a time!" Oh my God, they killed Mack! The bastards. On the one hand he's a minor character from the comics who,...
Sunday, 21 December 2014

Angel: There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb

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"We all got our demons..." On the surface this is a fun, fluffy little season finale in which the bad guys running Pylea get o...
Saturday, 20 December 2014

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Gift

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"How many apocalypses now?" "Six, I think." It's very clear from the start that this was originally suppose...
Friday, 19 December 2014

Angel: Through the Looking Glass

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"Numfar! Do the Dance of Joy!" Yes, that is indeed Joss Whedon playing Numfar. That alone is a good argument for this episode of A...

Angel: Over the Rainbow

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"Who has handcuffs?" "Well, I... wouldn't know..." Oops. I thought I only has two episodes of Angel left and not thr...
Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Weight of the World

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"I'm willing to wager, when all's said and done, Buffy likes it rough..." Just one more episode after this, and Buffy...
Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Angel: Belonging

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"I  remember when a few bob got you a good meal, a bottle and a tavern wench." Yay! It's Fred! Er, for a few seconds. In a...
Monday, 15 December 2014

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spiral

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"Running away? Finally, a sensible plan..." Ahem. Yes, I know. Blog-wise, this is the longest season of Buffy ever. It will ge...
Friday, 12 December 2014

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: The Things We Bury

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"Paddington and Time Lord are closing in!" Well then. It's all coming out now. Daniel Whitehall is a hundred year old Nazi war...
Thursday, 11 December 2014

The Quatermass Experiment: Part 1 ("Contact Has Been Established")

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"It's one of them things. They dropped one." This is, sadly, one of only two episodes of this six part serial that I will ...

Black Christmas (1974)

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"That's the Mormon Tabernacle Choir doing their annual obscene phone call." Er, merry Christmas, folks. This film is s...
Friday, 5 December 2014

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: The Writing on the Wall

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"I have to know!!!" So, it seems that in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2014, it is still acceptable to name young boys "Graham". ...
Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: A Fractured House

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"I'm telling you I have your brother in a basement!" Another gripping episode, in which SHIELD goes smoothly from Public Enemy...
Sunday, 23 November 2014

Monsters Inc (2001)

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"Kids these days... They just don't get scared like they used to!" I'm somewhat winging it with this one; I wasn't...
Saturday, 22 November 2014

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: A Hen in the Wolf House

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"I prefer you blonde!" Right. You know how last week I gushed about how brilliant last episode was? Well, this episode knocks it i...

I'm Going to Be a Dad!!!

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I think it's about time I announced to all my adoring fans that my wife is 29 weeks into her pregnancy and our first baby, a little girl...
Saturday, 15 November 2014

A Friend to Die For (1994 TV Film)

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"I never really liked her..." This is one of those things I would never have seen if not for my wife who, bizarrely, has fond chil...
Friday, 14 November 2014

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: Face My Enemy

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"It didn't work out because interspecies relationships are hard. I was a human, whereas she was a demonic hell beast." Wow. Wh...