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Saturday, 29 February 2020

Batman: The Movie (1966)

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“It approaches a climax...” "Nyet, not so fast. Be more slow." I had to watch this before embarking on Season Two, but I’d for...
Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Batman: Fine Finny Fiends & Batman Makes the Scenes

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Fine Finny Fiends "Dick, I'm afraid you'd better put your Latin verbs aside for the nonce." The final two parter of a ...

Batman: Death in Slow Motion & The Riddler’s False Notion

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Death in Slow Motion “Our hopes for his reform have been blasted once again!” The last time I saw this episode I’m sure it was introduce...
Sunday, 23 February 2020

Doctor Who: Ascension of the Cybermen

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“We're carrying the Cyberman that makes other Cybermen scream..." Well, yeah. That was very good indeed. Actually, it was sort of...

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

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"I think we're dead meat..." I know; it's been a long time. But after the not-very-goodness of the last film- indeed, ...
Friday, 21 February 2020

Batman: The Bookworm Turns & While Gotham City Burns

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The Bookworm Turns "I solemnly swear by my oath as a crimefighter that this outrage will not go unavenged!" This episode boast...
Sunday, 16 February 2020

Doctor Who: The Haunting of Villa Diodati

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“I must poppeth to the little boys' room." Now that was unexpected. Also clever. This looks very much, for a large chunk of the e...
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Saturday, 15 February 2020

Dracula (1979)

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“Oh, I loved to be frightened..” This was the last of the famous Dracula films I’d seen and, while it doesn’t rival the recent BBC TV se...
Thursday, 13 February 2020

Batman: The Curse of Tut & The Pharaoh's in a Rut

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The Curse of Tut "How many times must I tell you? Queens consume nectar and ambrosia, not hot dogs!" For the first time ever, ...
Wednesday, 12 February 2020

Batman: The Joker Trumps an Ace & Batman Sets the Pace

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The Joker Trumps an Ace "Let Gayfellow take you to the cleaners." The Jokers's back a third time and, like the previous tw...
Tuesday, 11 February 2020

Batman: The Ring of Wax & Give 'Em the Axe

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The Ring of Wax "What devilish sticky stuff!" This two-parter is, really, pretty much Batman by numbers- the script is quite ...
Monday, 10 February 2020

Batman: The Penguin Goes Straight & Not Yet He Ain't

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The Penguin Goes Straight "Jumping jeepers- a bulletproof umbrella!" It's taken a surprisingly long time for the Penguin t...
Sunday, 9 February 2020

Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

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“This family is clearly in desperate need of a nanny." I'm almost glad the winds and the rain were so angry and threatening tod...

Doctor Who: Can You Hear Me?

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“What do you think it feels like to be them, to be such tiny, ephemeral flashes of existence?" That was an extraordinary piece of tel...
Saturday, 8 February 2020

From Morn to Midnight (1920)

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Time for a silent German expressionist film, I think, and one that's a hundred years old this year. This has all the crooked, alienati...
Friday, 7 February 2020

King Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster (1964)

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"Is Jupiter in Africa?"  This film is, of course, completely bonkers- the mere fact that it ends with Godzilla, Rodan and Moth...
Thursday, 6 February 2020

Batman: The Purr-fect Crime & Better Luck Next Time

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The Purr-fect Crime "You can brush my pussy willows before you leave..." We finally meet the last of Batman's iconic foes ...
Wednesday, 5 February 2020

Batman: True or False Face & Holy Rat Race

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True or False Face "Candy? Oh, but fresh fruit is so much more healthful." Er, that's not a word, Batman. So far every v...
Tuesday, 4 February 2020

Batman: The Joker Goes to School & He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul

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The Joker Goes to School “You... jailhouse lawyer!" It's an unusual beginning this week, with Lorenzo Semple back on writing du...

Batman: The Thirteenth Hat & Batman Stands Pat

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The Thirteenth Hat “There’s been a kidnapping. And a hatnapping...” Another episode and another new villain in Jervis Tetch, aka the Mad...
Sunday, 2 February 2020

Doctor Who: Praxeus

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“That’s why you smell of dead bird!” That was rather good. Not, perhaps, up there with last week or Spyfall, but at last this season has g...

Mudhoney: Superfuzz Bigmuff (1988) and Early Singles (1990)

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This is, and probably always be, my favourite EP of all times. If I were ever to go on Mastermind , my specialist subject would be a toss-...
Saturday, 1 February 2020

Brexit

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So we lost. We are now exiled from the European Union. I personally, plus my wife and innocent daughter, have been robbed, by thieves, of ou...

Terminator Genisys (2015)

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"Bite me!" "That is a very immature response." Ok, I started off resenting this film for its retconning earlier fi...
Wednesday, 29 January 2020

Batman: A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away & When the Rat's Away the Mice Will Play

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A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away "Cheese?" "Not without a glass of vintage port, you lackey!" It's the fi...
Tuesday, 28 January 2020

Wire- Pink Flag (1977)

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Wire are, of course, very much still going, and I absolutely must hear their new album. But it's the early albums that had a huge infl...

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band- Trout Mask Replica (1969)

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This album presents me with an interesting challenge. It’s an album which does all sorts of clever stuff and is anything but easy to liste...
Monday, 27 January 2020

Batman: Zelda the Great & A Death Worse Than Fate

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Zelda the Great "A loyal taxpayer stooping to such criminal methods...?" You can tell Lorenzo Semple Jr is back: this two part...
Sunday, 26 January 2020

Doctor Who: Fugitive of the Judoon

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“Consider your rhino backside imperially regulated!" Er... so this isn't a story of the week, then. Blimey. I'm still more ...
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Friday, 24 January 2020

Videodrome (1983)

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“Television is reality. And reality... is less than television." This is my first really early film by David Cronenberg, I've a...
Thursday, 23 January 2020

Television- Marquee Moon (1977)

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It's odd what a disconnect there is between the popular impression of this album and the reality. I mean, don't get me wrong- it h...

Batman: Instant Freeze & Rats Like Cheese

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Instant Freeze "Nippy, have you ordered the airplane to go zoom zoom zoom?" Another entertaining opening here as Mr Freeze, fr...
Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Dracula: The Dark Compass

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“I knew the future would bring wonders. I did not know it would make them ordinary.” Wow. Well, I suspect that won't have pleased ever...

The Beatles- Revolver (1966)

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So this is the first Beatles album I’m blogging- not their first, naturally, but right in the middle of their career. It’s almost imposs...

Batman: The Joker Is Wild & Batman Is Riled

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The Joker Is Wild “We think there may be a daring crime plotted!” I know I keep on banging on about this, but Batman in the comics was n...
Monday, 20 January 2020

Batman: Fine Feathered Finks & The Penguin's a Jinx

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Fine Feathered Finks "That pompous waddling master of fowl play..." After the first two-parter we petty much know the format a...