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Thursday, 31 March 2016

Grimm: A Reptile Dysfunction

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"You still think you're talking to Juliette?" The story of the week here is solid: a Loch Ness style tourist attraction hires ...
Sunday, 27 March 2016

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

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" What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back." ...
Friday, 25 March 2016

Octopussy (1983)

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" You must be joking! 007 on an island populated exclusively by women? We won't see him till dawn...!" Now that's mo...
Thursday, 24 March 2016

Forbidden Planet (1956)

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"Sorry, Miss. I was giving myself an oil job." Wow. After all the '50s sci-fi B movies I've seen so recently this is...
Tuesday, 22 March 2016

Marvel's Agent Carter: Smoke & Mirrors

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"You can be whatever you want." At last we have an episode which is directly, rather than implicitly, about the misogyny and g...
Monday, 21 March 2016

Watchmen (2009)

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"Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never have I been so favourably surprised by a film. Yes, Alan Moore refus...
Sunday, 20 March 2016

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

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"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned." "That's putting it mildly, 007." This is very odd for a Bond film...
Friday, 18 March 2016

The Night Manager: Episode 4

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" To the victor... and to the blind man who can’t see the human bloody hand grenade in front of his bloody eyes,” This is where things ...
Thursday, 17 March 2016

Marvel's Agent Carter: Better Angels

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"Have you quite finished fannying about?" So Dr. Jason Wilkes isn't dead after all. Oops. He merely lacks physical substan...
Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Moonraker (1979)

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"I think he's attempting re-entry, Sir!" Meh. This is Bond by numbers. It's just a collection of barely connected se...
Tuesday, 15 March 2016

Marvel's Agent Carter: A View in the Dark

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"Good Lord! Is that a mirror?" Jason getting unexpectedly killed at the end here is uncomfortably close to the trope of "...
Sunday, 13 March 2016

The Night Manager: Episode 3

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" Becoming a man is realising it’s all rotten. Realising how to celebrate that rottenness – that’s freedom." This is where it real...
Saturday, 12 March 2016

The Black Knight (1954)

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"I know I'm not a knight, but is it impossible to become one?" I only sat through this film because it had Patrick Troug...

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

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"Just keeping the British end up, Sir..." Ah, 1977. The year of my birth. No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones. The two seven...
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Friday, 11 March 2016

Notorious (1946)

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"I am married to an American agent!" I'm not entirely sure why German spies should still be up to no good by April 1946 ...
Thursday, 10 March 2016

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

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"See the amazing cinematograph- the wonder of modern civilisation." Francis Ford Coppola gives us a lush, gorgeous Dracula ....
Wednesday, 9 March 2016

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

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"It's me legs!" This is the third version of The Quatermass Xperiment I've blogged, easily the shortest and, to be b...
Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Time Bandits (1981)

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"Four foot one! That is a long time, isn't it?" This isn't really all that brilliant a film, in spite of some splend...
Monday, 7 March 2016

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

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"I admit it's a little kinky..." It says a lot for the recent high standards of Bond films that, while The Man with the ...
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Saturday, 5 March 2016

Live and Let Die (1973)

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"There's no sense in going out half-cocked..." Well then. It seems there's a possible new candidate for best Bond fi...
Friday, 4 March 2016

Marvel's Agent Carter: The Lady in the Lake

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"It's the flamingo, isn't it?" "It is indeed the flamingo." This first episode just sparkled; the charac...
Thursday, 3 March 2016

The Night Manager: Episode 2

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"Just remember one thing, honey; you're nothing but a dirty whore." So this is where it gets good. Stuff is finally happening ...
Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)

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"When an armed and threatening power lands uninvited in our capital, we don't meet him with tea and cookies!" This film is...
Tuesday, 1 March 2016

The Doctor Who Pubcast

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Here's the latest Pubcast, courtesy of Nick and myself.., http://dwpubcast.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-01T10_48_46-08_00

Hellboy (2004)

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"Plus, you're nine. You're not old enough to be giving me advice!" I cannot applaud highly enough the excellent deci...
Monday, 29 February 2016

Men in Black (1997)

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"No, Elvis is not dead. He just went back home." Here's a heretical opinion for you: Men in Black is a bit pants. Ye...

Memento (2000)

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"I have to believe in a world outside my own mind." This film still blew me away sixteen years later. The concept- the story...
Sunday, 28 February 2016

Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983)

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"Please take your hand off my butt!" Now this is what I call a proper B movie. My good friend and host Nick pointed out,...
Saturday, 27 February 2016

The Night Manager: Episode 1

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"The most evil man in the world..." I suppose I should reserve judgement on this. Yes, it's an episode of set-up, but it hasn...

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

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"The lesser of two weevils!" It's been far too long since I read Patrick O'Brian's superlative tales of Captain Ja...
Friday, 26 February 2016

First Men in the Moon (1964)

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"Not married?!! Kindly leave the room!" It rather pleases my geek sensibilities to see that Ray Harryhausen worked on a film co-wr...
Thursday, 25 February 2016

Predator 2 (1990)

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"Ok, pussy face. This is your move..." Meh. After the glory that was Predator this is such a let-down. It's not a bad f...
Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Predator (1987)

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"If it bleeds, we can kill it!" The fact that this film is so good didn't surprise me; I knew that, ever since I hired o...
Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)

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"I absolutely forbid it!" Oh dear, this just isn't any good, is it? The script is for kids in the worst possible way, casually...
Monday, 22 February 2016

The Evil Dead (1981)

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"The trees! They're alive!" This film is magnificently gory, far gorier than I expected for 1981, even given the film's re...
Friday, 19 February 2016

Deadpool (2016)

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"I'm gonna do to your face what Limp Bizkit did to music in the late '90s..." I can honestly say that no film has ever...

Daredevil: Speak of the Devil

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"You don't need sight to appreciate art, but you do need honesty." "Sight helps..." This episode, yet again, is anot...
Thursday, 18 February 2016

The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

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"I always have a small one before I operate..." This early Hammer is a bit odd: the opening is genuinely atmospheric, the style of...
Tuesday, 16 February 2016

X the Unknown (1956)

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"It's on it's way for the biggest meal of its life." Yes, Mr. Kneale. We realise you refused permission to use the charact...
Sunday, 14 February 2016

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

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"I was just walking my rat and I seem to have lost my way..." This film really has no right to be as brilliant as it is. On pa...
Saturday, 13 February 2016

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

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"Because it's a legend, you numbskull!" I must have read Patrick Suskind's novel back in the late '90s, so my memories...

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: A Wanted (Inhu)Man

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"Trust is a strong word for a psychopath..." It's still early days, and what we're seeing is still just set-up for the...
Thursday, 11 February 2016

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

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"This never happened to the other fella!" Well, a couple of days ago I praised You Only Live Twice to the skies and queried w...
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Wednesday, 10 February 2016

It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

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"The mind of man had thought of everything- except that which was beyond his comprehension!" Yesterday's long film review is t...
Tuesday, 9 February 2016

You Only Live Twice (1967)

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"Well, at least he died on the job..." Well, it's quite the contrast. Thunderball was a pile of pants, an incoherently ...
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Monday, 8 February 2016

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: Purpose in the Machine

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"To the plane! Am I allowed to say that?" I love this episode in so many ways. Not only do we get a delightfully unexpected return...
Sunday, 7 February 2016

Grimm: Eve of Destruction

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"Is this another Back From The Dead thing?"- Phew. This episode is a big one and probably a bit of a turning point. Juliette i...