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Thursday, 30 June 2022

David Bowie- Hunky Dory (1971)

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  It's odd I've never blogged this particular album before. I've got rather deeply into Bowie over the years- and by no means ju...
Wednesday, 29 June 2022

The Boys: Last Time to Look upon This World of Lies

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 "With great power comes the certainty that you'll turn into a right ****!" Wow. The Boys does it again. We have the Legend, a...
Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Luke Cage: Soliloquy of Chaos

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 "What are you, a pimp stormtrooper?" I know, it's been a while: a confluence of Stranger Things , Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Boy...
Monday, 27 June 2022

The Boys: Glorious Five Year Plan

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 "Let's just say that Maeve can bend a steel pipe without using her hands." Wow. So much happens in this episode... and Homela...
Sunday, 26 June 2022

Breaking Bad: Blood Money

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 "Spock's like a toothbrush." This, ladies and gentlemen, is quite simply the finest episode of television drama that I have e...
Saturday, 25 June 2022

The Crow (1994)

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 "Abashed the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is."  I'm not religious, personally, but I certainly worship John Milto...

Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)

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 "I'm in love with Spider-Man's aunt!" Yes, I know. I'm well behind oin the Marvel films; I intend to remedy that. And...
Thursday, 23 June 2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Part VI

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 "It's not about us, is it? It's about you and him." This is the perfect finale to a series which, well, has no pretension...
Tuesday, 21 June 2022

Breaking Bad: Gliding Over All

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 "Lydia, learn to take yes for an answer..." SPOILERS. Be warned. Be very waerned. Wow. This episode is extraordinarily played and...

The Green Hornet, Episode 6: Highways of Peril

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 "I never saw a car move so fast!" It should have been Luke Cage in this slot but I needed something shorter, so here’s the next G...
Sunday, 19 June 2022

The Boys: Barbary Coast

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 “I. Am. Homelander.” I realise I could say this about any episode… but where to start? Let’s start with Grace Mallory’s tale of Soldier Boy...
Thursday, 16 June 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode 5: The Time Bomb

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 "He's got two murders to his name." "They haven't been proved!" Apologies for the wait. It's just that new ...
Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Part V

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 "Was beginning to think you weren't coming, Master..." SPOILERS! This  is the finest episode so far, full of both excitement ...
Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Stranger Things: Season 4, Chapter 7- Massacre at Hawkins Lab

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 "Where others saw order, I saw a straitjacket..." SPOILERS. Be warned. . But, like, wow. I mean, yes, there are other plot thread...
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Monday, 13 June 2022

Breaking Bad: Say My Name

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 "Do you really want to live in a world without Coca Cola...?" So that's it, then. Mike and Jesse (for now!) are out of the me...
Sunday, 12 June 2022

The Boys: The Only Man in the Sky

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 "A hamburger with a donut for a bun? There really is no God here." This is a brilliant episode, and one f the reasonds it's b...

Satan's Slave (1976)

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 "Don't forget- tomorrow is your special day!" This film has such a lurid title, and an equally lurd opening scene and sequenc...
Saturday, 11 June 2022

Stranger Things: Season 4, Chapter 6- The Dive

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 “What’s the Internet?” Obviously, this is bloody good. It's Stranger Things . But things are getting pretty intense in all plot arcs, a...

Venom (2018)

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 "Eyes! Lungs! Pancreas! So many snacks, so little time!" I thought, given that current stuff that must be blogged is interrupting...
Thursday, 9 June 2022

Stranger Things: Season 4, Chapter 5- The Nina Project

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 "You're bigger than Madonna to them!" Yet again we have an insanely long episode that juggles so many plot threads and so man...
Wednesday, 8 June 2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Part IV

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 "I let them go..." This is, one senses early on, a middle episode that's there to get from A to B in preparation for the last...
Tuesday, 7 June 2022

Stranger Things: Season 4, Chapter 4- Dear Billy

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 "I am still very much in Hell..." No Eleven this episode, although her absence is very much felt. But we get a fittingly creepy c...
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Monday, 6 June 2022

The Boys: Payback

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 "He's trying to get in my ass!" I'm not sure there's much I can say about THAT particular CGI-heavy scene that is a t...
Friday, 3 June 2022

Stranger Things: Season 4, Chapter 3- The Monster and the Superhero

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 "They're nobodies. And you're a superhero." This season is getting better and better. And also, for this episode at least...
Thursday, 2 June 2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Part III

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 "He's coming, Master..." Halfway through and, yes, this series is somewhat predictable in how it's padding out. It looks ...
Wednesday, 1 June 2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Part II

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 "You're not a Jedi any more, Kenobi. You're just a man. And you're bleeding all over my floor." Episode two... and we...
Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Stranger Things: Season 4, Chapter 2- Vecna's Curse

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 "I thought we were watching Thundercats ?" Once again, we have a movie length episode, and a bloody good one. Nt only is this top...
Monday, 30 May 2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Part I

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 "It's been ten years. I'm not who I used to be." We begin with a"previously on" showing us a succint summary of...
Sunday, 29 May 2022

Stranger Things: Season 4, Chapter 1- The Hellfire Club

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 “I like boobies. You like boobies.” It’s back. And it’s… seventy-seven minutes long. With the following six episodes to be released thus fa...

Update

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 So at the moment I’m blogging Breaking Bad , Luke Cage and Green Hornet , plus the odd film, novel, and album. That won’t change. However, ...
Saturday, 28 May 2022

Ring (1998)

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 Frolic in brine; goblins be thine." This is a very late '90s film, full of truly great interior decor. It's also the greatest ...
Thursday, 26 May 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode Four: Pillar of Flame

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 "He'll be getting a visit from the Green Hornet!" It's fascinating to think that literally all the movie serials I've...
Wednesday, 25 May 2022

Luke Cage: Now You're Mine

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 "What you talkin' about, Willis?" This is a taut, exciting episode crammed full of action and drama in equal measure. It'...
Tuesday, 24 May 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode Three: Flying Coffins

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 "Any landing you can walk away from isa good landing!" A summary of this episide wouldn't give much of a clue as to how good ...
Monday, 23 May 2022

Luke Cage: Take It Personal

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 "I am my brother's keeper. Whether I like it or not." This is an episode of answers, as the season starts to inch towards its...

Breaking Bad: Buyout

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 "I said I threw them. I would never come to the headquarters of our illegal meth operation, dragging a bunch of cops, would I?" T...
Sunday, 22 May 2022

Neuromancer by William Gibson

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 I last read this novel in something like 1996. That was long ago, and the world has changed. We all live our lives, to a large degree, with...

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

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 "Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!" This is a very unusual curiosity. For one thing, it's the only film in the Halloween franchise ...
Saturday, 21 May 2022

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994)

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 "I can't stand women who jabber like parrots! I never really was a gamer in the modern sense of headphones and immersive games. I ...
Thursday, 19 May 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode Two: Thundering Terror

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 "This man has been shot by the Green Hornet!" Once again it's clear that this is a superior movie serial. The direction, the ...
Wednesday, 18 May 2022

Breaking Bad: Dead Freight

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 "Everyone sounds like Meryl Street with a gun to their head..." This is a heist episode, obviously. The heist is splendidly tense...
Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Luke Cage: DWYCK

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 "What's up, Doc?" So much happens in this extra-long episode, in which Luke truly reaches rock bottom and literally everythin...
Monday, 16 May 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode One: The Tunnel of Terror

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" I think the Hornet is the modern Robin Hood this city needs!" Time for a new series to take the non-Marvel spot, and what better...
Sunday, 15 May 2022

Breaking Bad: Fifty-One

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 "Tell me, can a geezer do donuts? So Walt is fifty-one, exactly one year before the fast forward that opened the season... and little ...

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)

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 "That's crazy. The government doesn't lie to people!" This is a terrible film. It stinks. And let me be quite clear about...
Saturday, 14 May 2022

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

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 "Do you always try to stop trespassers by hanging yourself?" Wow. This is the first of Wes Craven's films not involving Fredd...
Friday, 13 May 2022

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

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 "I do like his cereal, though. I'll give him that," This film is delightfully metatextual throughout, as only an animated fil...
Thursday, 12 May 2022

Luke Cage: Blowin' Up the Spot

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 "Who the Hell is Luke Cage?" ... And suddenly, the status quo is gone. Cottonmouth is shockingly dead, with the actual season big...
Tuesday, 10 May 2022

Breaking Bad: Hazard Pay

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 "Just because you shot Jesse James doesn't make you Jesse James." This is, perhaps, a quiet episode, one which has time to br...
Monday, 9 May 2022

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?: Episode Three

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 "Well, this is a pickle." "Just a bit." In the week where Ncuti Gatwa was announced as the new Doctor Who (he'll be...
Saturday, 7 May 2022

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

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 "Also, this is Texas..." Meh. This film  is a bit rubbish, Yes, it has Linda Hamilton and Arnie in it. Yes, they're both good...
Thursday, 5 May 2022

Led Zeppelin- IV (1971)

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This was the first Zep album I ever heard, back in my mid-90s teen heyday. Inevitably, perhaps; this is the most famous album, and has Stair...

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?- Episode Two

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 "We have to have blood. Blood is of the essence." I havew no idea wha's going on, butb I'm loving this. This is Agatha Ch...
Tuesday, 3 May 2022

Luke Cage: Manifest

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 "Sometimes, if you want justice, you have to get it yourself." Wow. The middle episode, just after all seemed so neatly wrapped u...

Breaking Bad: Madrigal

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 "You are a time bomb. Tick, tick, ticking. And I have no intention of being around for the bomb." I have the distinct impression ...
Monday, 2 May 2022

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971)

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 "You're a walking repository of carbohydrates." I suppose I have to start that this is a rubbish film, made by pretty much th...
Sunday, 1 May 2022

Breaking Bad: Live Free or Die

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 "What about that stuff you young guys wear on the end of your pricks? Speak now or forever speak soprano." This is an interesting...

The Machine Girl (2008)

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 "Well? How do you like my drill bra?" This  is, quite obviously, a B movie: the premise is a girl avenging her younger brother ag...
Saturday, 30 April 2022

Death Race 2000 (1975)

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 "I think you're one very large baked potato." There's such a concept as "the greatest film ever". This film doe...