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Saturday, 31 October 2015

Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion

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"Well, you can't have the United Kingdom. There are already people living there. They'll think you want to pinch their benefits...
Friday, 30 October 2015

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

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"Indiana? We called the dog Indiana!" And so we come to the last and easily the best of the original trilogy. And, given the h...
Sunday, 25 October 2015

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

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"I had bugs for lunch..." I wasn't sure whether or not I'd seen this film before but I must have done; the memories al...
Saturday, 24 October 2015

Doctor Who: The Woman Who Lived

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"This is banter! I'm against banter. I'm on record on the subject of banter." Hmm. I have to admit that wasn't bad...
Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Wolf Hall: Episode 5- Crows

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"You are not a gentleman born. You should not meddle in the affairs of those set over you." It's 1535. Charles V is being diff...
Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Wolf Hall: Episode 4- The Devil's Spit

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"You think I keep you for the charm of your person? I keep you because you are a serpent!" The King's dejected response to the...
Monday, 19 October 2015

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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"Snakes! Why does it have to be snakes?" This film still feels fresh thirty years later: not bad for a movie based on the movi...
Sunday, 18 October 2015

House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

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"Whatever you need to do, you do it. There is no wrong. If someone needs to be killed, you kill 'em. That's the way." Wow....
Saturday, 17 October 2015

Doctor Who: The Girl Who Died

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"I'm not in the mood for Vikings!" I already liked this episode a lot when it still seemed to be a fairly low-key tale abo...
Thursday, 15 October 2015

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

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"The gods of Greece are cruel! In time, all men shall learn to live without them." This film looks great with its location f...
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Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Wolf Hall: Episode 3- Anna Regina

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"This is Master Cromwell. He used to be a moneylender. Now he writes all the laws." It's 1531. The Pope still says no. The Kin...
Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Wolf Hall: Episode 2- Entirely Beloved

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"The Pope will learn his place" It's December 1529. Cromwell is stubbornly loyal to the doomed Wolsey in spite of the total la...
Monday, 12 October 2015

Superman (1978)

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"I have sent them you, my only son." This is, perhaps, the first of the current era of superhero films. The 1966 Batman film...
Sunday, 11 October 2015

8½ (1963)

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"A writer's block? What if it's not just temporary, my friend? What if it's the final downfall of a liar who has run out of...
Saturday, 10 October 2015

Doctor Who: Before the Flood

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"My first proper alien, and he's an idiot!" So perhaps this second episode doesn't quite maintain the superlative qual...
Friday, 9 October 2015

Wolf Hall: Episode 1- Three Card Trick

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"Never mind who that is. It's nobody." So, how many different TV series am I blogging at the moment? Anyway, here's anothe...
Wednesday, 7 October 2015

The Madness of King George (1994)

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" We consider ourselves blessed in our constitution. We tell ourselves our Parliament is the envy of the world. But we live in the heal...
Tuesday, 6 October 2015

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

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"And now the woman's of Er-Heb will cut his bollocks off. Ha ha!" Let's deal with the elephant in the room first: is this ...
Monday, 5 October 2015

if... (1968)

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"Paradise is for the blessed. Not the sex-obsessed." I wasn't privileged/unfortunate enough to go to a public school mys...
Saturday, 3 October 2015

Doctor Who: Under the Lake

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"Two weeks of "Mysterious Girl" by Peter Andre- I was begging for the brush of Death's merciful hand." The obvio...
Friday, 2 October 2015

Class

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So: new Doctor Who spinoff on BBC 3. Personally I'm excited to see what happens. We know little at this stage, but one thing is for sure...

The Latest Doctor Who Pubcast

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This month we have some of our interviews with guests at the splendid Whooverville event last month... http://dwpubcast.podomatic.com/entry/...
Thursday, 1 October 2015

Countess Dracula (1971)

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"Countess Dracula! Countess Dracula!" Meh. I like me a good Hammer, but this is the most forgettable sort of early '70s ...
Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Battle of Britain (1969)

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"So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall. And even then we won't listen." Well, that...
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Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Daredevil: World on Fire

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"Could be the machines plotting, but I don't speak computer overlord..." At last. Five episodes in and Daredevil clicks for me...
Saturday, 26 September 2015

Doctor Who: The Witch's Familiar

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"So... anyone for dodgems?" Wow. That was unbelievably good, and indisputably the first truly epic Dalek story of the twenty-f...
Friday, 25 September 2015

Neighbours (1920)

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This is only my second foray into silent comedy and, a couple of programmes presented by Paul Merton which I saw many years ago aside, my fi...
Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)

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"What kind of fiend are you?" "The kind that wins, my friend." What a disappointing sequel, especially as The ...
Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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"No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees." I was expecting to write about Syria, Iraq and the current turmoil ...
Saturday, 19 September 2015

Doctor Who: The Magician's Apprentice

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"Pardon my sci-fi..." Well, there's me floored. At last Steven Moffat, in what is possibly his last full season as showrun...
Friday, 18 September 2015

Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 1 ("Winter is Coming")

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"Do the dead frighten you?" Doctor Who starts again tomorrow. Yay! And I'm blogging so many other series at the moment, so...
Thursday, 17 September 2015

The Stepford Wives (2004)

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"And I'm gonna attach a pine cone to my vibrator and have a very merry Christmas." Before anyone says anything... no, I ...
Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Planet of the Apes (1968)

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"The vet's going to geld him." Wow. I know this film is famous, but I wasn't expecting it to be so good . So good, in ...
Monday, 14 September 2015

When Worlds Collide (1951)

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"If our calculations prove correct, this will be the most frightening discovery of all time!" Oh dear. I'm no scientist; I did...

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

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"What would you call that hairstyle you're wearing?" "Arthur." At long last I get to see this film; I've...

The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

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"I should have drowned you at birth!" "Thank you, father!" Interesting that this enjoyable Hammer romp is pre-Ge...

The Quatermass Experiment: Part 2 ("Persons Reported Missing")

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"Don't. Don't comfort me." OK, confession time. When I blogged Part 1, last year, I was somehow under the impression that ...

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

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"You're the first king we haven't eaten." This is a psychologically brilliant and delightfully weird film, as you'...
Thursday, 10 September 2015

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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"She's a servant. It's not as if she's a person." That's how you do it. Unlike the recent The Scandalous Lady W  t...
Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Twins (1988)

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"Actually, I hate violence." "But you're so good at it!" How '80s can you get? We even get a montage, fo...