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Friday, 31 March 2017

Galaxy of Terror (1981)

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"There's no horror here we don't create ourselves." Every so often I have to watch a trashy-looking genre film with quir...

Grimm: Blind Love

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"You know, I hate to admit it- but you are one damn fine-looking man!" At last we get an episode that isn't an episode of th...
Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Labyrinth (1986)

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"It's only forever. Not long at all." This film is all about two departed individuals- Jim Henson, the creative mind behind ...
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Tuesday, 28 March 2017

The Crown: Season 1, Episode 6: Gelignite

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"There's no such thing as a blameless party in a divorce!" So this is the one where Margaret isn't allowed to marry the ...
Monday, 27 March 2017

X-Men (2000)

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"Well, what would you prefer- yellow spandex?" I've blogged so many Marvel films but, Deadpool aside, no X - Men ones....
Saturday, 25 March 2017

Grimm: Breakfast in Bed

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"He won't let you sleep." Hmm. Nice central idea- a Wesen that's a kind of cross between the Sandman and Freddy Krueger,...
Friday, 24 March 2017

Genghis Khan (1965)

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"It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness." Oh dear. This film is not very good, Where to start? Well, how ab...
Thursday, 23 March 2017

The Crown: Season 1, Episode 5: Smoke and Mirrors

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"Borrow it, Ma'am? From whom? If it's not yours, whose is it?" And so we come to the coronation, that watershed in Briti...
Wednesday, 22 March 2017

The Crown: Season 1, Episode 4- Act of God

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"Be careful out there. It's a real pea-souper!" This episode is interesting in that it deals with the great smog crisis of 1...
Tuesday, 21 March 2017

The Crown: Season 1, Episode 3- Windsor

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"I know he's Winston Churchill and all that, but remember who you are!" This episode plays a clever trick in constantly juxt...
Monday, 20 March 2017

Grimm: The Seven Year Itch

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"Check to see if there are any reports of a naked man in a park sometime last night." "Uh, this is Portland; I might have t...
Sunday, 19 March 2017

Yellowbeard (1983)

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"Three farthings for a lump of shit please..." This film is, well, not all that good which, considering that two of its three wr...
Saturday, 18 March 2017

The Crown: Season 1, Episode 2- Hyde Park Corner

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"I thought we'd have longer." This second episode is a superbly crafted piece of drama, significantly better than the last o...
Friday, 17 March 2017

The Crown: Season 1, Episode 1- Wolverton Splash

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"I've signed myself away." "Or won the greatest prize on Earth." Yes, I know: yet another TV series on the go an...
Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Grimm: El Cuegle

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"We live in a world full of, you know, people with shoes." As stories of the week go, this is a good one: a baby-eating Wesen th...
Monday, 13 March 2017

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

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"Do you know where you are, Bartolome? I'll tell you where you are. You are about to enter Hell, Bartolome, HELL!... The netherworl...
Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 2 ("The Kingsroad")

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." I blogged the first episode of Game of Thrones on 18th September 2015 so...
Tuesday, 7 March 2017

Legion: Chapter 2

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"We're having a romance of the mind." More non-linear narrative and superb acting this week as Melanie and the mysterious Pt...
Friday, 3 March 2017

Legion: Chapter 1

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"How does that make you feel?" I haven't read a lot of Marvel stuff concerning Legion, or David Haller, but I know he's ...

Grimm: Oh Captain, My Captain

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"You're not my Daddy!" Such a brilliant episode for most of its length, this. The asymmetrical battle between Nick's lit...
Monday, 27 February 2017

Grimm: Trust Me Knot

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"Whatever happens to Nick is gonna happen to you!" Wow. Firstly, that was awesome. Secondly, it was clever, with a last minute t...
Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Grimm: Fugitive

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"You chose the wrong side, Sean." Things keep on moving fast with no sign of a new status quo emerging; normally we can expect t...
Thursday, 16 February 2017

Friend Request (2016)

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"Why did you accept my friend request?" I wasn't expecting much of this film; it's part of what seems to be establishi...
Tuesday, 7 February 2017

The Dark Knight (2008)

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"Let me get this straight, you think that your client, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilant...
Monday, 6 February 2017

Batman Begins (2005)

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"What chance does Gotham have when the good people do nothing?" Yes, it's odd to see Ra's al-Ghul used in this way, co...

The Walking Dead- Season 2, Episode 9: Triggerfinger

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"Rick? I keep you safe!" These last episodes are a contrast between Rick and Shane as rival alpha males; Shane as the volatile ...
Sunday, 5 February 2017

Class: The Lost

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"I would quite like to kiss you now." Here we go then: the season finale. Hope it's not the last ever episode. I came to Cla...

Class: The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did Next

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"Coal Hill provides. It always provides." So here we have an episode that takes place simultaneously with the last one, give or ...

Class: Detained

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"Sometimes action isn't pretty, you big Polish giraffe!" Interesting bottle episode, this one. It's obviously the season...
Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Class: Brave-Ish Heart

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"How do you have an army?" Unlike Buffy I don't think we can say this increasingly awesome series uses monsters as specifi...
Sunday, 29 January 2017

Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

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"Curiouser and curiouser..." Alice in Wonderland was a very Tim Burton film, and Tim Burton is a director with a very dist...
Friday, 27 January 2017

Class: Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart

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"Have you noticed no-one under the age of 35 is called John?" Poor April has to share her heart with a bloodthirsty alien shadow...

The Walking Dead- Season 2, Episode 8: Nebraska

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"Get him off my land!" It's the morning after the night before, and the shocking events, as the second season recommended in...

Class: Nightvisiting

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"Do you often see your parents after sex?" This time the spotlight falls on Tanya as her late father seemingly returns to her, i...
Thursday, 26 January 2017

Class: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo

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"He's from Ofsted. Of course he's evil." Still no subtitles. Grr. Still, it's the last time I'll be watching the...
Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Class: For Tonight We Might Die

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"Look at you all. The cream of the crop. High achievers. No wonder this country only exports Downton Abbey ." I must begin this...
Monday, 23 January 2017

Sherlock: The Final Problem

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"I wrote my own version of the nativity when I was a child. "The Hungry Donkey". It was a bit gory. But if you're gonna p...
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Sherlock: The Lying Detective

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"I'm the widow of a drug dealer, I own property in central London, and for the last bloody time, John, I'm not your housekeeper...
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Friday, 20 January 2017

Grimm: The Beginning of the End- Part 2

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"Monroe, I'm pregnant!" We know what Grimm season finales are about by now. Anything goes, the status quo is not safe, some...
Thursday, 19 January 2017

Grimm: The Beginning of the End- Part 1

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"You better get used to it. Because this is a position you can't quit..." Nearly there now... I think there's an inter...
Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Grimm: Bad Night

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"You're gonna be the one who's self-winding tonight..." The end of the season is so close you can almost taste it. Ha...
Monday, 16 January 2017

Cromwell (1970)

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"An England without a king is unthinkable!" I watched this film principally because I wanted to see two great actors- Richard Ha...

Grimm: The Taming of the Wu

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"Did I kill him?" I love Wu episodes; he's probably my favourite character. And now he has superpowers. Not because he's...
Saturday, 14 January 2017

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

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"And it rides up in the crotch a little bit too." Hmm. Still not entirely enamoured with Sam Raimi's take on Spider-Man in...
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Grimm: Good to the Bone

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"Then someone took his wallet, phone, keys and bones." A quote which, rarely, I recognised- from Julius Caesar - starts off a g...
Friday, 13 January 2017

Grimm: Inugami

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"He's doing this for us." A very odd, Japanese-themed story of the week this episode, dripping with such stereotypical theme...
Wednesday, 11 January 2017

Grimm: The Believer

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"Is this a tent revival?" A story set in the disturbing world of religious brainwashing this week as an evangelical preacher use...
Saturday, 7 January 2017

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

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"You are now a murderer, little Alex." Anthony Burgess may not be a fashionable author but I'm a huge fan of his. I've...
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Thursday, 5 January 2017

Grimm: Skin Deep

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"You may have the face, but I have the boobies!" A metaphor for plastic surgery and other dodgy quackery in the beauty industry ...
Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Krampus (2015)

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"Because that's what family is. We have to get along with them, even if we don't have much in common." This film was sug...
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Sherlock: The Six Thatchers

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"Don't you dare! You made a vow!" Oh my. Well, spoilers abound, obviously. You have been warned. The episode starts out so...
Friday, 30 December 2016

Grimm: Lycanthropia

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"Yeah... but who attacked whom?" It's a neat and elegant, if simple, story of the week this episode as we inevitable get the...

Wanted (2008)

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"This is me. Taking back control." Grr. Don't talk to me about "taking back control". I'll be glad to see the ...

For Fans of 1960s Doctor Who...

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MrVortexofDOOM has been busy with his recon of The Smugglers . Here are Episode 1 and Episode 2 with more coming soon... https://youtu.be/...
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Thursday, 29 December 2016

Grimm: Silence of the Slams

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"There's a ceremony for everything..." We're back to a regular story of the week, albeit with arc elements, about a mask...
Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Grimm: Into the Schwarzwald

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"There's something we're not seeing..." It's a dark, dank catacomb and we get an entertaining opening few minutes as...
Monday, 26 December 2016

Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio

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"Brains with minds of their own? No one will believe that. This is America." From the very beginning- a joyful pastiche of the c...