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Sunday, 28 February 2021

Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Two- The Railway Station, Part 2

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 "The girls who gave us flowers..." Things are getting more and more intriguing: we get more tantalising hints of the soldier, res...
Saturday, 27 February 2021

Captain Marvel (2019)

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" If toast is cut diagonally, I can't eat it." I should say fromthe start that I love this film, more so than most Marvel film...
Friday, 26 February 2021

The Sign of Four (1987 TV Film)

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 "Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains- however improbable- must be the truth." This is the first feature len...
Thursday, 25 February 2021

The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Six Napoleons

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 "Watson! This is no time for humbugs!" This is an interesting choice of episode for a season finale- the short story by Conan Doy...
Wednesday, 24 February 2021

Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand (2004)

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I first heard of this band in the pags of the NME- remember that? 2004 wasn't that long ago, but it feels as though it was in the midst ...

Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Two- The Railway Station, Part 1

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 "You see, it happens to be more than just a ghost..." This episode is, in some ways, very different. This is only the second Assi...
Tuesday, 23 February 2021

Radiohead- In Rainbows (2007)

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This album really made us all sit up and take notice in 2007, of course, by its initial release as a download which, bravely, invited us to ...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Priory School

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 "You have given me back my future..." Another splendid episode here, with a more or less faithful adaptation of the story filmed ...
Monday, 22 February 2021

The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Man with the Twisted Lip

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 "I sometimes wonder whether men ever really, truly grow up." This is another superb episode, again a rather faithful adaptation w...
Sunday, 21 February 2021

It's a Sin: Part 5

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 "I haven't handled this well. I realise this now." RTD, you magnificent bastard. You have this grown man still teary an hour ...

Premature Burial (1962)

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 "I don't enjoy life. I merely experience greater or lesser degrees of tedium." I haven't seen any of Roger Corman's P...
Saturday, 20 February 2021

The Thing from Another World (1951)

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 "We aready found one boner..." I've never seen this film before, unless you count the fact that characters watch it in Hallow...
Friday, 19 February 2021

Bonding: Season Two, Episodes Four, Five, Six, Seven and Eight

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 Episode Four: Threesomes "Was he always this crazy?” The plot lines continue to unravel cleverly. Pete, in a club, sees Josh’s somewha...
Tuesday, 16 February 2021

The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Musgrave Ritual

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 "And the singular affair of the aluminium crutch." We have another splendid episode here- a delightful little gothic puzzle which...
Monday, 15 February 2021

Catweazle: Season 1, Episode 7- The Telling Bone

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 "Though braying bolster! Thou black beehive!" This episode is... well, more of the same. It's another farce, as Catweazle...

Sapphire & Steel: Assignment One- Escape Through a Crack in Time, Part 6

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 "Goodbye, Rob." Probably best not to analyse this last episode too much; some stuff happens and we're back at the beginning, ...
Sunday, 14 February 2021

It's a Sin: Part 4

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 "Something's wrong with your skin..." Four episodes in it's quite clear that this series is an extraordinary masterpiece;...

Drunken Master (1978)

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 "Fart for the stick king..."th century Today's film is brought to you, appropriately, with four pints of Bishop's Finger....
Friday, 12 February 2021

Look Back in Anger (1959)

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 "I learned at an early age what it was to be angry..." I've never seen a John Osborne play before, and this film puts me in a...

Bonding: Season Two, Episodes One, Two and Three

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 This time I'm not blogging the whole thing in one sitting, probably wisely.   Episode One: The Kinks "Domme 101..." Overall, ...

Enola Holmes (2020)

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 “ This is, incredibly, the first and only film I’ve seen and blogged from the current decade. I suppose this isn’t really much of a surpris...
Thursday, 11 February 2021

The Return of Sherlock Holmes- The Second Stain

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 "The motives of women are so inscrutable..." This, again is a very strong episode- again adapted from a particularly strong Conan...
Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Sapphire & Steel: Assignment One- Escape Through a Crack in Time, Part 5

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 "They're the real danger, the real threat. Nothing else is." I love this serial, as all the gushing I've done maks quite ...
Tuesday, 9 February 2021

The Return of Sherlock Holmes- The Abbey Grange

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 "The game is afoot!” This is, perhaps, one of the finer episodes, where the production and acting are very much on form in an adaptati...
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Monday, 8 February 2021

It's a Sin: Part 3

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 "Don't lose your head..." Dammit. All these bloody feelings . RTD, you are one magnificent bastard. Right. Obviously, Colin,...
Sunday, 7 February 2021

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)

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 "I'll need new socks!" Last week I watched and blogged The Mystery of Chess Boxing , a '70s Hong Kong kung fu film. It wa...
Friday, 5 February 2021

All the President’s Men (1976)

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 “Follow the money!" This is the second time I've seen this film- my first viewing was many years before this blog was even imagine...
Thursday, 4 February 2021

Sapphire & Steel: Assignment One- Escape Through a Crack in Time, Part 4

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 "Well, I sank the real one, yes." In some ways this fourth episode gives us spins on what we've already seen, not that this i...
Wednesday, 3 February 2021

Catweazle: Season 1, Episode 6- The Magic Face

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 "Such an English face!" This is, perhaps, one of the more bog standard episodes with little to make it stand out. Even the plot, ...
Tuesday, 2 February 2021

Sapphire & Steel: Assignment One- Escape Through a Crack in Time, Part 3

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 "You could have settled for Oranges and Lemons..." This third episode just increases both the timey-wimeyness (as they certainly ...
Monday, 1 February 2021

The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Series 1- The Empty House

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 "Thank you.... Doctor... Watson..." Well, that was a wholly enjoyable, and somewhat faithful adaptation of The Empty House . It h...
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Jazmin Bean- Worldwide Torture (EP 2019, full album 2020)

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 I'd never heard of this very young artist (they are still in their teens, I believe) until Mrs Llamastrangler introduced me to their wo...
Sunday, 31 January 2021

It's a Sin: Part 2

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 "There's nothing wrong with boys from London." Wow. That was another masterclass in television drama from RTD, again managing...

The Mystery of Chess Boxing (1979)

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 "To play chess, one must be as calm as a mountain." This film, let us be clear from the start, is utter pants. The pace and tone ...
Saturday, 30 January 2021

Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991)

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 "You can tell your son about it when he's born, Major Spielberg." I thought it was about time I continued with my Godzilla ma...
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Tuesday, 26 January 2021

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Series 2- The Final Problem

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 "You have less frontal development than I should have expected..." This episode is, like the short story to which it is almost en...
Monday, 25 January 2021

Sapphire & Steel: Assignment One- Escape Through a Crack in Time, Part 2

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 "So nothing's safe." This is the second episode, not the first, so it has a different job to do. Last episode blew me away wi...
Sunday, 24 January 2021

It's a Sin: Part 1

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 "You haven't got a parrot, have you?" Russell T. Davies, after a few quiet years since leaving Doctor Who (alas, said quietn...

Camp at Blood Island (1958)

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 "No room for shirkers!" This film is a definite oddity- a non-horror Hammer film (this weekend's theme) made in 1958, several...
Saturday, 23 January 2021

David Bowie- Blackstar (2016)

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This haunting and mournfully reflective bunch of songs was unexpectedly given to us mere days before David Bowie died at the disappointing a...
Friday, 22 January 2021

The Terror of the Tongs (1961)

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 "Like all occidentals, you find it impossible to accept the inevitable." This is one of those occasional non-horror films Hammer ...
Thursday, 21 January 2021

Update

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Seeing as I've now finished both The Crown and Life on Mars , here's a quick confirmation of what I'll be up to. Effectively I...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Series 2- The Red Headed League

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 "It is quite a three pipe problem..." Yes, I know; it's been a while, and I stopped abruptly, but now I'm back to bloggin...
Wednesday, 20 January 2021

Sapphire & Steel: Assignment One- Escape Through a Crack in Time, Part 1

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 "Lots of old things. Lots of old, old echoes..." It's been years since I last saw this (and I've only ever seen the first...
Tuesday, 19 January 2021

Life on Mars: Season 2, Episode 8

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 "If you're strong enough to go through with this operation..." And so it ends.On transmission, I was a little disappointed: S...
Sunday, 17 January 2021

Catweazle: Season 1, Episode 5- The Eye of Time

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) "Thou ass-eared turnspit!" I know I've done several episodes of Catweazle in a row and seem to be procrastnating over the la...

The Blood Beast Terror (1968)

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 "They'll never believe this at the Yard!" There were many non-Hammer, non-Amicus little horror films starring Peter Cushing i...
Saturday, 16 January 2021

Asylum (1972)

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"Never turn your back on a patient..." I've seen a far few Amicus portmanteau horrors by now; I know the score: three or so fl...
Wednesday, 13 January 2021

Catweazle: Season 1, Episode 4- The Witching Hour

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 "I say, they boy's hair needs a jolly old cut!" I'm not saying this is the greatest television programme ever or anything...
Tuesday, 12 January 2021

Catweazle: Season 1, Episode 3- The Curse of Rapkyn

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  "'Tis all here, Touchwood. Here lies our way back!" Another fun little episode here as Catweaze discovers a curse on the far...
Monday, 11 January 2021

The Crown: Season 4, Episode 10- War

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 "There is no dignity in the wilderness..." And so the season ends, with two parallel plots- the downfall of Thatcher and the coll...
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Sunday, 10 January 2021

Life on Mars: Season 2, Episode 7

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 "I appear to have killed a man..." The penultimate episode; we're close to the end, and it's interesting to see where the...

The Card (1952)

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 "Oh, indeed. I thought you were a gentleman." Ealing comedies are always fun to watch, lightly amusing and very well-acted and ma...
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