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Sunday, 31 May 2015

Doctor Who Pubcast

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Nick and I have recorded another of our splendid wittering sessions... http://dwpubcast.podomatic.com/entry/2015-05-31T08_16_25-07_00
Saturday, 30 May 2015

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

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"Daisy Johnson. Huh." Oh, such a complex web of allegiances: we have two competing visions of what SHIELD should be, Skye'...
Saturday, 23 May 2015

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: Melinda

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"I moved a mountain!" At last we get the backstory to all this "Cavalry" stuff that Agent May did in Bahrain. The truth ...

Cinderella (1950)

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"Bibbidi bobbidi boo!" Hmm. This film is ok, but, well, it seems to drag out s very short fairy tale to film length with a lot...
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Friday, 22 May 2015

The Parent Trap (1998)

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"I have class and you don't!" This isn't exactly the greatest film ever made or anything. Nor is it a particular favou...
Tuesday, 19 May 2015

The C Word

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"I'll tell you what, mate, right. You stand up, and I'll rummage around in your nuts." Let's get all the superlati...
Monday, 18 May 2015

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: Afterlife

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"Seriously? I was only gone a week!" My God, there's so much going on in Agents of SHIELD these days. That's why I love it...

Grimm: Bad Luck

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"You learned to understand me. Now I have to learn to understand you." We're back after the season break, although we in the U...
Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

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"They're breeding like Catholic rabbits." Because Samuel L Jackson always gets the best lines. It's the law. Obvio...
Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Daredevil: Rabbit in a Snowstorm

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"Used to be if you killed a man you sent his wife flowers. Now you send his wife with him." This is the first episode with no intr...
Monday, 4 May 2015

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: One Door Closes

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"Who's coming for me?" "SHIELD." More big things happening this week; Agents of SHIELD is swiftly reminding me of Ch...
Saturday, 2 May 2015

Grimm: Trial By Fire

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"So the fire had a mind of its own?" The strong run of stories-of-the-week continues, this time with an arson murder mystery invol...
Friday, 1 May 2015

The Parent Trap (1961)

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"We're twins, aren't we?" The main selling point of this veeeery sloooow paced film is the technical wizardry of getti...

Freaky Friday (1976)

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"Male chauvinist pig!" This is one of two back-to-back old Disney films I will be blogging, mainly because we wanted them off ...
Thursday, 30 April 2015

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: Love in the Time of HYDRA

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"Well, then. I guess it's safe to say we all hide our true selves, don't we?" Nicely structured, this episode. Coming ...
Saturday, 25 April 2015

Coalition

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"I'm worried about Nick. He's in a bad place." "Sheffield?" I tend to write up my blog posts late these days, wh...
Friday, 24 April 2015

Grimm: Marechaussee

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"Back to reality!" Even by the standards of this arc-heavy season, this episode feels big and pivotal. It's the Wesen Council!...

Cube (1997)

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" This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under ...
Thursday, 23 April 2015

Daredevil: Cut Man

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"Word's getting around..." There's a certain logic to the structure of this second episode. Last episode introduced the ch...
Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Daredevil: Into the Ring

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I'm "I'm seeking forgiveness for what I am about to do..." Daredevil  was never a title I followed much as n my comics rea...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Scooby-Doo (2002)

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"I'm so over this damsel in distress nonsense." Let's admit it: a live action Scooby-Doo film was never on my people...

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: One of Us

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"We want SHIELD exposed for its barbaric crimes against exceptional humanity!" This episode is, obviously, superb. It's also g...
Saturday, 18 April 2015

Grimm: Death Us Do Part

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"What kind of police are you?" This begins like an episode of Most Haunted mixed with The Blair Witch Project . It ends as one of ...
Friday, 17 April 2015

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: Who You Really Are

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"Skye is my friend. That's different!" A game-changer of an episode, but aren't they all these days? We meet Sif again, we...

Grimm: Tribunal

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"Oh no! I prematured again!" Last episode was the set-up. This is where it all kicks off in the parallel storylines of Monroe bein...
Saturday, 11 April 2015

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

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"You gave me life, and then you left me to die." This is a very different cinematic version of Frankenstein . The point is not...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wrecked

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"It was like a meat party in my mouth!" This episode is quite a shock. It's not as though Willow's journey to rock bot...
Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Angel: Lullaby

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"There will be no birth. Only death!" An interesting episode this, with very lasting effects which pull Angel very nicely away fro...
Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Grimm: Wesenrein

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"I'm gonna looove watching you die!" I'm genuinely at a loss as to what the subtext is here; obviously the Wesenrein are N...

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: Aftershocks

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"There's something wrong with me." "No, you're just different now." At last Agents of SHIELD is back. It's b...
Monday, 6 April 2015

Grimm: Chupacabra

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"This is not the time." "No, it never is." It was, of course, inevitable that Grimm would do an episode about the Chupac...
Saturday, 4 April 2015

Cucumber: Episode 8

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"Right, I'm off for a wank." And so it ends, with a slow-paced, philosophical and reflective episode to tie things up. And I...
Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Grimm: The Grimm Who Stole Christmas

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"Strange is your speciality!" These Christmas episodes with a twist are becoming quite the Grimm speciality and this one, with its...
Saturday, 28 March 2015

Grease (1978)

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"Rock Hudson lost  his heart to Doris Day." Yeah, right. Suuure  he did. I'm sure I'm not the only man to have bee...
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Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Cucumber: Episode 7

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"I thought we'd seen the last of this- funerals at too young an age." After last episode's extraordinary demonstration of ...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Smashed

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"How've you been?" "Rat. You?" "Dead." "Oh." Another light episode, then, but on...
Monday, 23 March 2015

Angel: Quickening

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"Manifest destiny, the Beach Boys..." Well, that's me up to date with blogging all the episodes of Angel I've seen so far....
Friday, 20 March 2015

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tabula Rasa

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"Magic's all balderdash and chicanery!" It's the morning after the musical before. After all the heaviness of the revelati...
Thursday, 19 March 2015

Grimm: Highway of Tears

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"It's good to have you back!" It looks as though this season is going to continue as well as it started; we're several epi...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Angel: Offspring

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"We tried to stop her by hitting her fists with our faces." This is where the season really begins. The characters have had their ...
Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, with Feeling

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"She needs back-up. Anya, Tara..." The metatextual joke in the above quote is that, yes, Giles is sending two of the gang to help ...
Monday, 16 March 2015

Agent Carter: Valediction

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"I plan a complete and total overhaul of the kitchen spices..." It's the end of the season and, worryingly, if online goss...
Sunday, 15 March 2015

Agent Carter: SNAFU

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"Have you ever been hanged, Mr. Jarvis?" "I don't think I have, no." "It is quite unpleasant." ...

Agent Carter: A Sin to Err

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"I knew you didn't work at the phone company!" Yes, this is the episode where Peggy gets caught by her SSR "mates...
Saturday, 14 March 2015

Agent Carter: The Iron Ceiling

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"He may be an utter wanker but he is  one of us." Nice title; alluding to the glass ceiling that pretty much defines the show,...
Saturday, 7 March 2015

Agent Carter: The Blitzkrieg Button

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"Hey, can I borrow the sports section?" Yes, it's the inevitable Stan Lee cameo, sitting on a park bench. He's 94, you kno...