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Tuesday, 31 December 2019

Metallica- Ride the Lightning (1984)

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This may be my favourite Metallica album. There is, of course, a difference between one's personal favourite and what one critically...

Martin's Close

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"Thirteen!" I'm only on my second glass of this rather nice Spanish red, so I think I'm safe to blog this short M.R. Jam...

A Christmas Carol: Part Two

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"This is not reason versus fancy, Ebenezer." Two thirds in and I think I can say that this daring, dark and devilishly clever ve...
Monday, 30 December 2019

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

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"The eagles are coming!" So. I finally find three and a bit to complete the trilogy, a feat possible only during the Chrimbo lim...
Saturday, 28 December 2019

A Christmas Carol: Part One

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“Bah humbug!” It's quite a statement of intent to begin an adaptation of A Christmas Carol with a boy pissing on a bloke's grave,...
Friday, 27 December 2019

Earth- Primitive and Deadly (2014)

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Why is it that my favourite music made this decade (for half a week, at least) tends to be drone doom made either in Norway or (as here) W...

The Hateful Eight (2015)

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"They shot my nuts off!" Wow. I know I tend to like Quentin Tarantino's films a lot. \but this, of the ones I've seen,...
Thursday, 26 December 2019

Black Sabbath- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973)

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This is Sabbath's finest album- mature, creative, with amazingly structured songs that are actually about stuff. And "Spiral Acro...

Iron Maiden- Iron Maiden (1980)

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No album should be considered in a vacuum; where and when a collection of songs was made is always absolutely central to understanding it....

Union Jack: Blood

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"Come on, man- this is my wanking hand!" So this is it, almost: the penultimate episode. After Thursday next week (the '20s!...
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A Grand Day Out (1989)

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“We’ve forgotten the crackers!” This is a rather different short film to watch now, in 2019, knowing the massive industry Wallace & ...
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Tuesday, 24 December 2019

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

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“Everything can still be awesome!” Yeah, I’m not exactly going to give this film a slapping. Let’s say right now that I loved the first ...
Sunday, 22 December 2019

Outlaw King (2018)

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“I’m done with running and I’m sick of hiding!” Time for a good, proper historical epic, I thought; it’s been a bit of a while. And what...
Saturday, 21 December 2019

Mothra (1961)

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"We are living in the atomic age!" I know this isn't a Godzilla film, but I know it crosses over later, so I'm watchin...
Thursday, 19 December 2019

Scratch Acid- Just Keep Eating (1986)

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I haven't heard this album before, and have only heard a couple of tracks by this forerunner of the Jesus Lizard before. And, well, th...

The Jesus Lizard- Goat (1991)

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So here we go, my first album review. It begins now. Somehow I need to evolve a way to talk about music. I chose Goat by Texas' ver...

So I'm going to try blogging albums now

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Ive been doing this blog for ten years and, barring the odd unusual update, it's been exclusively focused on discussing TV and film. Ess...

Union Jack: Right

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"You're a pathetic phallus!" A very different episode this week, bravely centring on a moral dilemma portrayed through dialo...
Tuesday, 17 December 2019

Atypical: Shrinkage

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"Hi, Bob. You look silly." An interesting episode, cleverly structured as always- but there's no doubting that things end up...

The Sopranos: A Hit Is a Hit

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"This, as far as I'm concerned, blows away Matchbox Twenty." My farts blow away Matchbox Twenty. Let's be clear about ...
Sunday, 15 December 2019

The Sopranos: Boca

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"They made me an offer I couldn't refuse..." This episode is largely about, to use a term we wouldn't have used in 1999,...
Saturday, 14 December 2019

Scrooged (1988)

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"Where are we? Trump Tower?" This is my Christmas movie to slot in before said holiday properly commences. There may or may no...
Friday, 13 December 2019

Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

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"You bastard. Have you already limited yourself to a woman's level of drinking?" Time for a second film after last night...
Thursday, 12 December 2019

Union Jack- Co-operation

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"So sorry I shot you, mate. My bad." It's a weird time to be blogging this, a few minutes away from the exit poll in a somew...
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The Sopranos: The Legend of Tennessee Moltisani

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"Where's my arc?" Another clever episode, this, and probably the closest this programme has ever come to skirting with the...
Wednesday, 11 December 2019

So, there’s a General Election on...

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This election feels Quite Big. The last chance, if one happens to be an incurable optimist, to stop Brexit. A potential fourth Tory term wit...
Tuesday, 10 December 2019

The War of the Worlds: Part 3

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"I should like a bacon sandwich." Sigh. I've been procrastinating about watching this final episode and yes, like the series...
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Godzilla (1954)

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"It's getting even closer, It looks like our doom!" I'd never seen a Godzilla film in my forty-two years until now. Y...
Monday, 9 December 2019

The Box of Delights: Leave Us Not Little, Nor Yet Dark

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"Splendiferous!" So that’s it. A splendid ending to a bonkers but deeply festive and entertaining adventure. Let’s just gloss ov...
Sunday, 8 December 2019

The Box of Delights: Beware of Yesterday

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"Now do you see, you mutineering doddlehead?" Well then. A lot can happen in half an hour. We begin with a reprise of the big ...

Atypical: The Essence of a Penguin

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“There are no rules!” It’s an interesting problem for Sam this time- he can draw an anatomically perfect penguin, but how does someone so ...
Saturday, 7 December 2019

Atypical: Only Tweed

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“I saw Zahid’s penis.” Another beautifully constructed episode this time as Sam struggles with the concept, in ethics at uni, of a “Socrat...
Friday, 6 December 2019

Union Jack: Connection

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"Gavin, stop looking at my dick." Ok, so Union Jack was already bloody good.But this episode- along with giving us all the usual...
Thursday, 5 December 2019

The Box of Delights: The Spider in the Web

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"Put her in the scrounger!" A revelatory episode at last as we stake out the baddies’ lair and, at the end, finally get some ans...
Wednesday, 4 December 2019

The War of the Worlds: Part 2

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"This isn't our planet any more." Oh dear. The first episode was flawed but had promise, and Peter Harness is a writer with ...
Tuesday, 3 December 2019

The Box of Delights: In Darkest Cellars Underneath

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“He was a child for whom I had the utmost detestation and contempt.” More goodness here as Kay and his rubbish mouse friend begin the epis...
Monday, 2 December 2019

The Box of Delights: Where Shall the 'Nighted Showman Go?

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"I think it's the purple pim!" Ok, now this is getting delightfully weird. The cliffhanger reprise sees Kay, having flown on...
Sunday, 1 December 2019

Jaws (1975)

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“We’re gonna need a bigger boat...” My parents still remember seeing this at the pictures, two years before I was born, at the old Canno...
Saturday, 30 November 2019

Enter the Dragon (1973)

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“Boards don’t hit back.” This film is surprisingly excellent- very Hollywood compared to the other Bruce Lee stuff I’ve seen but very, v...
Friday, 29 November 2019

Union Jack: Compromised

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"You're like a shit Captain Britain." Well, that went in a direction I wasn’t expecting. An Axis Mundi agent running MI5; Jo...
Thursday, 28 November 2019

The Box of Delights: The Wolves Are Running

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"That's the time that likings are made." I have distinct childhood memories of watching The Box of Delights , but I haven’t ...
Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks (Revisited), Episodes Five and Six

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Episode Five "Why do human beings kill human beings?" The Daleks have revealed their plans, and we know them to be duplicating...
Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Union Jack: Clean

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"Why is the first thing that you say that he's Muslim...?" I’m afraid this episode is late- life and all that; I’ve had a fe...
Monday, 25 November 2019

The War of the Worlds: Part 1

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“I mean, something can’t erupt from Mars and end up in Surrey.” I know, I’m a week behind, but here I am blogging this. After all, followi...
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Sunday, 24 November 2019

Frozen II (2019)

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“You can’t just follow me into fire.” “Then don’t run into fire!” This afternoon Mrs Llamastrangler and I visited our local cinema acc...
Saturday, 23 November 2019

Phenomena (1985)

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“People call it the Swiss Transylvania...” This is, to my shame, the first film by Dario Argento that I’ve seen. This film isn’t perhaps...