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Monday, 31 July 2017

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

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"Can't you just be a friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man?" Hmm. Well, let me first emphasise that I liked and enjoyed this. ...
Friday, 28 July 2017

Lifeforce (1985)

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"Columbia, they're all dead!"  Well, this certainly isn't the sort of film you'd expect of Tobe Hooper, he of The ...
Sunday, 16 July 2017

It's Jodie Whittaker!

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So the new incarnation of the Doctor under the Chibnall era is to be Jodie Whittaker. I'm not too exercised by her gender- it's a po...
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Pulp Fiction (1994)

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"I'm gonna get mediaeval on your ass!" This is, quite alarmingly, the 384th film I've done for this blog. Just as alar...
Saturday, 15 July 2017

My Girl 2 (1994)

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"It's not easy being a woman!" It's sometimes good to see and blog a film not in the usual genre, without all the expl...
Thursday, 13 July 2017

Blair Witch (2016)

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"The Sun is not coming up!" I wasn't expecting to like this film. I really wasn't. After all, both The Blair Witch Pro...
Tuesday, 11 July 2017

The Circle (2017)

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"Secrets are lies!" It's a surprise to see that Netflix are making films (and this is a film, with a cinematic release) wi...
Sunday, 9 July 2017

An Update...

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Let's just say I'll be rather busy in real life until 25th July, hence the reduced frequency of posts lately. Things are hectic, but...
Saturday, 8 July 2017

The Theory of Everything (2014)

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"While there is life, there is hope." I'm quite familiar with Stephen Hawking's career from reading both his biography...
Sunday, 2 July 2017

The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)

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"They call me... Swamp Thing!" I looooved this. Am I allowed to say that? In fact I, er, actually prefer it to the first film. ...

Doctor Who: The Doctor Falls

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"Is it wrong that I..." "Yes, very!" Wow. That was an emotional rollercoaster and no mistake, and probably the best ...
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Saturday, 1 July 2017

iZombie: Looking for Mr. Goodbrain, Part 2

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"Well, at least it's not just us with our wangs hanging out..." Oooh boy. This is quite the eventful finale. Hard to believe...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017

iZombie: Looking for Mr. Goodbrain, Part 1

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"It was a grudge boink." Into the two-part season finale, then. We begin with Ravi admitting to Liv that he's the source for...
Monday, 26 June 2017

IZombie: Conspiracy Weary

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"Did we just have a three-way?" It's a dramatic opening, as both Liv and Blaine rescue Ravi and Don E from the zombie truthe...
Sunday, 25 June 2017

Doctor Who: World Enough and Time

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"Hello. I'm Doctor Who." Wow. Not sure what the Andrew Marvell quote has with anything, and I did English at uni, but this e...
Saturday, 24 June 2017

iZombie: Return of the Dead Guy

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"So, you know, discipline me!" I know I've been away a bit; I moved house last Tuesday. But last night I binge watched three...
Saturday, 17 June 2017

Doctor Who: The Eaters of Light

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"Death by Scotland!" Usually my Doctor Who blog posts are fairly long ones as there's always something fannish for me to ca...

Young Frankenstein (1974)

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"He would have an enormous Schwanstucker!" Ok, so Gene Wilder excels, in the best performance I've ever seen by him, as Vict...
Monday, 12 June 2017

Jessica Jones: AKA It's Called Whiskey

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"Ok. So there's you, me, the big green dude and his crew." It's an eventful third episode as Jessica and Luke bond over ...
Sunday, 11 June 2017

Doctor Who: Empress of Mars

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"We're British! Mars is part of the Empire now!" You can always rely on Mark Gatiss to bring a good bit of fanwank, but this...
Friday, 9 June 2017

iZombie: Twenty-Sided, Die

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"That's from an impotent proctologist, by the way. Enjoy it." So iZombie does a D&D episode and, while not so chock fu...

IZombie: Eat a Knievel

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"I didn't get called here to present a Darwin award..." An engaging story of the week this time as a Jackass -style prankste...
Sunday, 4 June 2017

Doctor Who: The Lie of the Land

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" Worse than that, you had history. History was saying to you, 'Look I've got some examples of fascism here for you to look at...
Saturday, 3 June 2017

Blue Velvet (1986)

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"Why are there people like Frank?" It really is about time I got round to blogging a David Lynch film, frankly. It's inevi...
Thursday, 1 June 2017

IZombie: Dirt Nap Time

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"Maybe you should explain my boyfriend history to him?" "It is a bit like being a drummer for Spinal Tap." A fairly...
Monday, 29 May 2017

Tank Girl (1995)

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"I'm gonna need a microscope and tweezers, it's like, uh..." Don't get me wrong; this is a B-movie, with all that ...
Sunday, 28 May 2017

Doctor Who: The Pyramid at the End of the World

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"We must be wanted. We must be loved. To rule by fear is inefficient." In just a couple of episodes the character of the season ...
Friday, 26 May 2017

IZombie: Some Like It Hot Mess

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"But... it also turned you into a baby?" Odd episode, this: simultaneously awesome with the story of the week, as we shall most ...

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)

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"Even Buddha has to conquer evil." '70s Hong Kong martial arts films are a genre which I freely admit I know nothing about...
Monday, 22 May 2017

iZombie: Spanking the Zombie

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"Draw the nipples, Jimmy!" This is a somewhat odd episode, albeit a fun one with a heartbreaking ending. Peyton and Blaine take ...
Sunday, 21 May 2017

Doctor Who: Extremis

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"Do not, under ANY circumstances, put the Pope in my bedroom!" This is something of a gear-changing episode, obviously. shifting...
Friday, 19 May 2017

Jessica Jones: AKA Crush Syndrome

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"You should kill yourself." "Probably. But I'm the only one who knows you're innocent." The quality doesn...
Sunday, 14 May 2017

Jessica Jones: AKA Ladies Night

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"New York may be the city that never sleeps but it sure sleeps around." I should start by saying that, although I read a lot of ...

Doctor Who: Oxygen

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"Do people ever hit you?" "Well, only when I'm talking." In some ways this is very much a story of the week- a t...
Saturday, 13 May 2017

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

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"Yeah, he's right. Peter Cushing does that all the time. It's been twenty-odd years since I last saw this film and it is, i...
Thursday, 11 May 2017

Grimm: The End

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"I want the people I love to live again!" I.m sad to see the back of Grimm , satisfying it is to finally complete a series what ...

Babs

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"Queer as a nine bob note!" I've always been fond of old British comedy, from Carry On to Round the Horne to Beyond the F...

IZombie: Wag the Tongue Slowly

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"I will juice you like an orange, my friend." This episode is, for iZombie , relatively story-of-the-week, but with a show as on...
Saturday, 6 May 2017

Doctor Who: Knock Knock

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"Landline??? What is this- Scotland?" So that's four good episodes in a row for this quietly impressive season; we get a sol...
Thursday, 4 May 2017

Grimm: Zerstorer Shrugged

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"And the hitch-hiker didn't need some guide to the galaxy. He just needed a Grimm." Bloody Ayn Rand references. I hate any r...
Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Sausage Party (2016)

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"We need to unite and stop focusing on each others' differences. Especially in immature and outdated ways." Yes, this film...
Tuesday, 2 May 2017

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

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"The world is a cruel place." Let's begin by acknowledging not only that this is the best fantasy film I have ever seen,...
Saturday, 29 April 2017

Doctor Who: Thin Ice

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"Bit more black than they show in the movies!" "So was Jesus. History is a whitewash." In a sense this episode heark...

Grimm: Where the Wild Things Were

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"I suppose this is what Alice felt like falling down the rabbit hole..." So, here we are, at the start of the three part finale,...
Monday, 24 April 2017

Buried (2010)

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"You American?" "Yeah." "Then you soldier!" I imagine that this, a thriller set entirely in a cramped,...

iZombie: Eat, Pray, Liv

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"Can we get rid of this fixation of who did what when?" "It's a murder investigation!" Blimey, iZombie is a bit ...