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Saturday, 31 August 2019

Batman and Robin: Episodes 4 and 5

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Episode 4: Batman Trapped! "You're clever, Batman. But not as clever as the Wizard!" Sigh. Spoiled with all this Stranger ...

Stranger Things: Season 2, Chapter Three- The Pollywag

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"He's like a living booger!" So Dustin has found a little slimy creature, unknown to science, that dislikes light and which ...
Friday, 30 August 2019

Stranger Things: Season Two, Chapter Two- Trick or Treat, Freak

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”I specifically didn’t agree to be Winston.” A lot of stuff happens in this episode and there’s more than the usual quotient of pop cultur...
Thursday, 29 August 2019

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Tinker Tailor

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“You don’t break, exactly. You just run out of stories to tell.” Yes, I know; it’s been nothing but Stranger Things for a week. I’m afra...

Stranger Things: Season Two, Chapter One: MADMAX

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"Don't walk or bike home. I know!" A brand new season, and it’s October 1984, nearly Halloween, with The Terminator showin...
Wednesday, 28 August 2019

Stranger Things: Chapter Eight- The Upside Down

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“Mike, I found the chocolate pudding.” Here we are then; the finale. Just four short days after Mrs Llamastrangler saw the first episode a...

Stranger Things: Chapter Seven- The Bathtub

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“Why are you keeping this curiosity door locked?” You can tell it’s the penultimate episode as all the goodies are getting together; yes, ...

Stranger Things: Chapter Six- The Monster

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”You read any Stephen King?” The pre-titles is tense, with Jonathan frantically looking for Nancy in the upside Down as the beast attacks ...
Tuesday, 27 August 2019

Stranger Things: Chapter Five- The Flea and the Acrobat

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”Science is neat, but I’m afraid it’s not very forgiving.” On the one hand Hopper is being the conspiracy theorist hero, sneaking into the...

Stranger Things: Chapter Four- The Body

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”I think somehow she’s channelling him.” “Like Professor X!” So the police have found Will’s body- that’s it, right? Joyce is just crazy...
Monday, 26 August 2019

Stranger Things: Chapter Three- Holly, Jolly

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“So, do you think Eleven was born with her superpowers like the X-Men or she acquired them, like Green Lantern?” We begin with Barb findin...

Stranger Things: Chapter Two- The Weirdo on Maple Street

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“We never would have upset you if we knew you had superpowers.” The focus for this second episode is the mysterious psychic girl, now ensc...

Stranger Things: Chapter One- The Vanishing of Will Byers

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”Mornings are for coffee and contemplation!” So Mrs Llamastrangler have decided to watch Stranger Things now that Atypical is up to dat...
Sunday, 25 August 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 10- Ernest Shackleton’s Rules for Survival

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”Die slowly, you shitbirds!” It’s graduation day, a more than usually meaningful moment to Sam; it’s an achievement he’s never been able t...

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 9- Ritual-licious

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“You’ve been smooching! Under my tutelage! I love it!” The penultimate episode, and this one is again framed by a theme introduced by a Sa...
Saturday, 24 August 2019

Aquaman (2018)

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”Show off... I could have just peed on it." Unusually for a superhero movie, I'm going in blind. For once I know pretty much na...
Thursday, 22 August 2019

Batman and Robin: Episodes 2 and 3

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Episodes are seventeen minutes long from this point, so I’m doing two at a time. Episode 2: Tunnel of Terror "Ms Vale evidently wal...
Wednesday, 21 August 2019

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

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“You never met a monster you couldn’t love.” Well, this is a very different beast to its nice little understated predecessor. No more do...
Tuesday, 20 August 2019

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: How It All Fits Together

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”One day that lack of moderation will be Karla’s downfall.” Things are developing now, plot-wise, but plot is not, of course, everything. ...
Monday, 19 August 2019

Layer Cake (2004)

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"England. Typical. Even drug dealers don't work weekends." I'd wager this film was not entirely without influence in D...
Sunday, 18 August 2019

Batman and Robin: Episode 1- Batman Takes Over

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"I always have a plan!" This is the first time I'm blogging a movie serial, and let us be clear about what they are; pure pu...
Saturday, 17 August 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 8- Living at an Angle

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"I wouldn't want them to mistake me for a wizard." This is another splendidly crafted episode, as I keep having to say, but ...
Friday, 16 August 2019

Snatch (2000)

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"You know... fish and chips, cup of tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins... London!" I once saw this film, back ...
Thursday, 15 August 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 7- The Smudging

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"Your wall is ringing..." It seems that my blog of every episode consists of effusive praise about how perfectly crafted it is, ...
Wednesday, 14 August 2019

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Smiley Tracks the Mole

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"Poor loves. Trained to empire. Trained to rule the waves." The pace is certainly as slow as ever and, in fact, the structure of...
Monday, 12 August 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 6- In the Dragon’s Lair

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“Stop sitting on me like an egg. I’m not an egg.” More masterful plotting and character this episode as Elsa and Doug confront the parents...
Sunday, 11 August 2019

The Misfits (1961)

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“Because we're all dying, aren't we?" This is a film well known for ominous reasons. It had a troubled production, with Joh...
Saturday, 10 August 2019

Robot Jox (1990)

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“But there’s nothing special about your body.” “Thanks!” I hadn’t heard of this delightfully bonkers Stuart Gordon film 24 short hours...
Friday, 9 August 2019

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Tarr Tells His Story

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"It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?" Again the pace is positively glacial- plot-wise, Ricky ...
Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 5- The Egg Is Pipping

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"The egg is pipping!" A pivotal episode this time, I think, in the wake of Doug's panic attack as it becomes clear he's ...

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 4- Pants on Fire

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"I'm like your hair cutting pimp." Another splendidly constructed episode, developing both plot and character with masterful...
Tuesday, 6 August 2019

iZombie: All's Well That Ends Well

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"This is why the time of patty cake is over..." Last night Mrs Llamastrangler and I bit the bullet. We’d been delaying seeing th...
Sunday, 4 August 2019

Back to the Future, Part III (1990)

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“My horse broke down...” There’s a difference between our favourite films ever and the ones we objectively think are best, and it’s the ...
Friday, 2 August 2019

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Return to the Circus

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"I shall become an oak of my own generation..." This is, of course, a justly renowned piece of telly and, as I saw it before man...
Thursday, 1 August 2019

The Prisoner: Fall Out

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“You are the only individual.” That was... a lot to digest, utterly glorious and at the same time quite, quite mad. On the surface this ma...

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 3- Little Dude and the Lion

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“Was that a brag or an apology?” More superb character development this week as Sam recognises his “pack” is falling apart, leaving him vu...
Tuesday, 30 July 2019

The Prisoner: Once Upon a Time

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”Why don’t you resign?” The Prisoner has never really cared much for realism; it’s full of surreal imagery and relies on it, being a pro...
Sunday, 28 July 2019

iZombie: Bye, Zombies

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"We are in the South now. You don't put stolen jewellery in a black man's pocket." The penultimate episode. Nearly there...
Saturday, 27 July 2019

Starship Troopers (1997)

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“Fresh meat to the grinder, eh?” I saw this film once before, and loved it, twenty-odd years ago. But I only read Robert Heinlein’s orig...
Friday, 26 July 2019

The Prisoner: The Girl Who Was Death

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"My name... is death!" Well... at least the game of cat and mouse and the sequence with all the booby traps was entertaining. I ...
Thursday, 25 July 2019

The Prisoner: Living in Harmony

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“Welcome to Harmony, stranger...” Argh. I want to like this episode, I really do. It tries to do something brave and left field, and I...
Wednesday, 24 July 2019

O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)

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“I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday. I'm afraid she's startin' to turn." I've blogged close to 600 films but, to...
Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Terminator Salvation (2009)

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“If you’re listening to this, you are the resistance.” This is it, then: the moment the Terminator franchise leaps headlong over a larg...

iZombie: Killer Queen

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”Jenkins, find me all the Chers." It's the pen-penultimate episode of iZombie , ever, and by Jove this is bloody good. So much ha...
Monday, 22 July 2019

The Prisoner: Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling

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"For once I am dictating!" Well, I can’t like them all. I know nothing of Prisoner fandom; is this episode disliked? This epi...
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Sunday, 21 July 2019

Moon (2009)

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"I want to go home..." Well, it's the fiftieth anniversary of the Moon landing so I'm blogging this splendid film- wha...