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Saturday, 30 March 2019

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

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“I just don't like getting old! This is an odd film, only loosely based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story on which it's bas...
Thursday, 28 March 2019

Angel: A Hole in the World

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"I am not gonna be cut down by some monster flu! I'm better than that!" I haven't felt like this since Tara died. Whedon...
Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Angel: Smile Time

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"You're a wee little puppet man!" This is obviously the best episode ever. Let’s get that right out there. I mean, what’s no...
Monday, 25 March 2019

Angel: Why We Fight

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"You're a Nazi!" "What? Oh, no, I just ate one." Meh. Well, there had to be an episode that failed to impress at...

See No Evil (2006)

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“The eyes are the windows of the soul...” This is a somewhat obscure little horror film, somewhat gory, starring a wrestler as the baddi...
Sunday, 24 March 2019

RoboCop 3 (1993)

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"We're dead, you stupid slag!" This final film in the series is, I see, not much liked. And yes, diminishing returns are ...
Saturday, 23 March 2019

King Kong (1933)

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“It was beauty killed the beast." I’d seen this film before, of course- it’s King Kong - but not for many, many years. It’s an awe...
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Friday, 22 March 2019

Angel: You're Welcome

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"She's evil, you gormless tit!" So we finally get to say a proper goodbye to both the magnificent Cordelia Chase and the bri...
Wednesday, 20 March 2019

Angel: Damage

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"Danny, we're gonna need a whip..." A Spike episode, then, sort of, after an unusual beginning with a super-strong disturbed...
Tuesday, 19 March 2019

Angel: Soul Purpose

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"No offence, Mr.Vader, but I've got no itch to join the evil empire." An interesting episode, this; directed by David Borean...
Monday, 18 March 2019

Angel: Harm's Way

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"Once again keeping corporate America safe from evil..." It’s good that we get a Harmony episode; the character would be sort of...
Sunday, 17 March 2019

Audition (1999)

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“All words are lies. Pain doesn't lie." This is a famously disturbing horror film that it’s taken me twenty years to see (1999 ...
Saturday, 16 March 2019

Trainspotting (1996)

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"I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978." This is one of my favourite films of all t...
Friday, 15 March 2019

Angel: Destiny

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"Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you!" "Wow, that explains a lot ...! Well, this is certainly an arc ...
Wednesday, 13 March 2019

Angel: Lineage

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"Sex with robots is more common than people think." So it’s a proper Wesley episode, we get to meet Wesley’s overbearing dad, so...
Tuesday, 12 March 2019

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

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“I pity your wife if you think six minutes is a long time." I like Queen . Unlike Mrs Llamastrangler I wouldn't say they're...
Monday, 11 March 2019

Transformers: The Movie (1986)

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"Bah weep graahah weep ni ni bong." I was born in 1977. Thus I care nothing for anything other than what is now called "G...
Saturday, 9 March 2019

Iron Man 3 (2013)

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“Gods, aliens, other dimensions- I’m just a man in a can.”  I rather liked this film the first time I saw it. And this time around it st...
Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Angel: The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco

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"Hermanos! The Devil has built a robot!" This is, I suppose, as bog standard and disposable as episodes of Angel get. It certai...
Monday, 4 March 2019

The Happytime Murders (2018)

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“I never knocked a guy out with his own balls before..." Well then. I doubt, somehow, that that puppet sex scene will ever be topp...
Sunday, 3 March 2019

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

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"Touch his dick and he's dead!" I first saw this magnificent farce back when I hired out the video, which shows you how lo...
Saturday, 2 March 2019

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

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“I’ll have no pointy earer outscoring me!” This is probably my least favourite of the trilogy but only because it’s the middle one and t...
Friday, 1 March 2019

Angel: Life of the Party

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"Charles, you just peed on my shoes..." After Lorne’s relatively low profile, especially last episode, at last he gets forty-odd...
Wednesday, 27 February 2019

Angel: Hell-Bound

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"I liked your poems." " You like Barry Manilow." So an arc episode, then, and a pretty good one, although the threa...
Tuesday, 26 February 2019

Angel: Unleashed

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"That something you English eat with your beans on toast?" Three episodes in and the season still hasn’t settled into the story-...
Sunday, 24 February 2019

Angel: Just Rewards

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"Wisecracking ghost sidekick? No bloody thanks!" So far this season is pretty much as good as telly gets, with the second episod...

Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)

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"When I go to confession I don't offer God small sins, petty squabbles, jealousies... I offer him sins worth forgiving!" T...
Saturday, 23 February 2019

The Airzone Solution

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“Have I been scintillating company?”  Unexpectedly, Amazon Prime is now showing- complete with subtitles- this interesting little piece ...
Thursday, 21 February 2019

Tangled (2010)

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“ This is another one of Little Miss Llamastrangler's favourites. And yes, another modern bloody Disney Princess film where they’ve ...
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Wednesday, 20 February 2019

Frozen (2013)

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“The cold never bothered me anyway.” Little Miss Llamastrangler turned four on Monday, and I didn’t get a chance to watch anything last ...
Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Angel: Conviction

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”I need you to to initial here concerning your mortal soul...” This week my in-laws are visiting for Little Miss Llamastrangler’s birthday...
Sunday, 17 February 2019

Creepshow (1982)

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“Where’s my Father’s Day cake...?” EC horror comics, although I’m sad to say I’ve never read any, are best known, unfortunately, for bei...
Saturday, 16 February 2019

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

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“Now, father, you’re living in the past. This is the fourteenth century!” I’ve seen many, many Disney Princess films; I’m the father of a ...
Sunday, 10 February 2019

Get Out (2017)

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“With my genetic material, shit gonna go down.”  This is an extraordinary film, still very recent and an instant horror classic. Like th...
Saturday, 9 February 2019

Belle de Jour (1967)

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"What you need is a firm hand..." I've done lots of geeky films lately and, yes, I love geeky films, but it’s time now for...
Friday, 8 February 2019

The Gifted- Season 1, Episode 10: eXploited

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"Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go...” This episode always threatened to be a downbeat one, and unavoidably it is, but we also get...
Monday, 4 February 2019

The Gifted- Season 1, Episode 9: outfoXed

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"Noooooo!" After a revelatory episode last time we get a decisive one this time. There are only so many times the Mutant Undergr...
Sunday, 3 February 2019

Ghost Rider (2007)

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"Mooooo!" I hadn't seen this film until last night hit my expectations we’re not high. The film doesn’t seem to be well-re...
Saturday, 2 February 2019

The Sixth Sense (1999)

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“I see dead people!” I've spent twenty years trying, not very successfully,  to avoid spoilers for this notoriously twist-dependent ...
Friday, 1 February 2019

The Gifted- Season 1, Episode 8: threat of eXtinction

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"I failed! It came back!" This is, quite clearly, a pivotal episode in which we comics fans have our suspicions confirmed about ...
Thursday, 31 January 2019

The Gifted- Season 1, Episode 7: eXtreme measures

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"All he ever believed in was Magnet Girl..." A lot of different threads are unfolding- it must be mid-season- in an episode that...
Sunday, 27 January 2019

The Punisher: War Zone (2008)

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"Who punishes you?" The first Punisher film was, well, a load of late '80s tat with Dolph Lundgren, but fun for that very ...
Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Inhumans: Behold... the Inhumans

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“This is why nobody invites you to do their birthday toasts...” I’m told the critics didn’t like this, but Mrs Llamastrangler certainly di...
Sunday, 20 January 2019

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

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"What happens if a psycho wanders in?" Sigh. That was boring . It may have had a slightly more famous cast than usual, with Co...
Saturday, 19 January 2019

Pet Semetary II (1992)

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"You bury your own." This film is supposed to be awful. It is, or so I e found, perfectly adequate as a serviceable sequel to ...
Friday, 18 January 2019

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

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“There’s an Ant-Man and a Spider-Man?” At last I can stop dodging spoilers. I’ve seen it, at last. And it was bloody good. SPOILERS, mi...