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Thursday, 26 May 2016

True Blood: Keep This Party Going

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"This isn't a fight." "Yes it is!" Ooh, intriguing- Lafayette is about to become a vampire, and loyal to Eric? We al...
Wednesday, 25 May 2016

True Blood: Nothing But the Blood

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"My ass is magnetic now!" Season Two, then- but we continue straight on. There's even a reprise. The body isn't Lafayette:...
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

True Blood: You'll Be the Death of Me

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"So... collecting stray black people, that some kind of hobby of hers?" This is the exciting finale we were all expecting- we know...
Monday, 23 May 2016

True Blood: To Love Is to Bury

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"You are the worst maker ever !" The penultimate episode, and (SPOILERS)... the last shot confirms it's Rene who's the kil...

True Blood: I Don't Wanna Know

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I'm "I used to scratch your butt in the parking lot at the bar!!!" A theory: are all the episode titles the names of songs we ...
Sunday, 22 May 2016

True Blood: Plaisir d'Amour

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"There's vampire in your cleavage..." Apparently Bill is in trouble with Eric, "sheriff of area 5", for killing Long...
Thursday, 19 May 2016

True Blood: The Fourth Man in the Fire

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"I don't think my boyfriend likes silver!" Yeah, this is another good episode, let's just say that straight up. A lot of i...

True Blood: Burning House of Love

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"I don't know how to be with somebody." An episode about relationships here as, in an interesting contrast with Buffy losing h...
Wednesday, 18 May 2016

True Blood: Cold Ground

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"You is a stupid bitch, Jason Stackhouse." This extraordinary episode is, at its core, an examination of how a murder is so de...

True Blood: Sparks Fly Out

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"Excuse me, who ordered the hamburger with AIDS?" Bill has weird musical tastes, which makes sense. The older you get, the more op...
Tuesday, 17 May 2016

True Blood: Escape from Dragon House

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"I got gout of the dick!" Dawn being dead isn't good for Jason: it seems that the last two women he's slept with have been...
Monday, 16 May 2016

True Blood: Mine

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"If we can't kill people, what's the point of being a vampire?" We begin to meet more vampires, and it's definitely se...

True Blood: The First Taste

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"Do doctors know that V-Juice can do this?" "No. We wanna keep it that way." This series is addictive: I may only be blo...
Sunday, 15 May 2016

True Blood: Strange Love

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"I know every man, whether straight, gay or George motherfucking Bush is terrified of the pussy." I'm in the middle of several...
Thursday, 12 May 2016

Little Nicky (2000)

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"Remember you have to shove a pineapple up Hitler's ass at 4pm..." Every so often I just have to blog an utterly crap fi...
Sunday, 8 May 2016

The Doctor Who Pubcast

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Here's Nick and myself with the latest instalment... http://dwpubcast.podomatic.com/entry/2016-05-08T06_59_58-07_00
Thursday, 5 May 2016

GoldenEye (1995)

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"I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War." I saw and enjoyed this film at the pictures bac...
Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Licence to Kill (1989)

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"There's more to this than just your personal vendetta!" Meh. After a good Bond film we get a very late '80s action ...
Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Henry V (1989)

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"I'm afeared there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argumen...
Monday, 25 April 2016

The Living Daylights (1987)

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"We've nothing to declare!" Before I go on to praise this splendid film... I may get one last blog post out tomorrow on ...
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Monday, 18 April 2016

9½ Weeks (1986)

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"I almost waited too long." Oh dear. I've blogged some bad films in my time but this is by far the worst, committing that most...
Friday, 15 April 2016

Most Popular Posts...

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Just for the hell of it, here are the ten most popular posts on this blog, a pleasingly random bunch...  Blog 1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: T...
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Thursday, 14 April 2016

Ted 2 (2015)

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"Piss off- I don't want to get any jizz on me..." Ted 2 is much like Ted , which is no bad thing. And that is to say tha...
Sunday, 10 April 2016

A View to a Kill (1985)

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" Well my dear, I take it you spend quite a lot of time in the saddle." "Yes, I love an early morning ride." ...
Saturday, 9 April 2016

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

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"You're not my father!!!" Harrison Ford has aged nineteen years since Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , so it's 1...
Friday, 8 April 2016

Ask Father (1919)

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I'll admit to not much liking the only Harold Lloyd short I've seen previously but this was genuinely funny and, like all silent com...
Thursday, 7 April 2016

The Night Manager: Episode 6

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"You'd buy that girl for $300 million?" Wow. I'll be honest: most final episodes of TV miniseries are mildly disappointing...
Wednesday, 6 April 2016

The Night Manager: Episode 5

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"They didn't watch the cups, you see." This penultimate episode sets things up for a tense final episode, with Roper ascendant...
Tuesday, 5 April 2016

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

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"Why is everything so hard for me? Why can't I play the piano like I can breathe?" I've been fascinated by the story...
Monday, 4 April 2016

Never Say Never Again (1983)

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"Now you're on this, I hope we're going to have some gratuitous sex and violence." And so we come to the second Bond...
Sunday, 3 April 2016

The Story of O (1975)

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"You're very lucky. They'll be more severe with you." I've blogged a lot of geeky films lately: time for another...

The Lego Movie (2014)

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"Wiping your bum with a hook for a hand is really hard.." This is the perfect Lego movie. Not only does the all-Lego animati...
Saturday, 2 April 2016

Grimm: Map of the Seven Knights

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"You killed my uncle. You shouldn't have done that." Yay for badass Monroe! This is an exciting and pivotal episode, albeit a ...
Friday, 1 April 2016

A New Episode of the Doctor Who Pubcast

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Nick and I are back with more Pubcasty goodness... http://dwpubcast.podomatic.com/entry/2016-04-01T10_49_52-07_00

Grimm: Star-Crossed

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"These people are insane!" This time the story of the week is a disgusting and apparently ancient Wesen ritual involving crucifixi...
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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