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Sunday, 9 October 2022

Better Call Saul: Nacho

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 "I was calling you tonight with quality, PC conversation." This is a clever, clever episode- and bloody brilliant. Most of it is ...
Friday, 7 October 2022

Werewolf by Night (2022 TV Movie)

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 "But what of the darkness...?" This is apparently the first of a new kind of Marvel thing on Disney Plus- not a continuing serial...
Thursday, 6 October 2022

Hawkeye: Echoes

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 "I mean, look on the bright side. You don't have to go and see Imagine Dragons." Kate is right. Imagine Dragons are exactly t...
Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Andor: That Would Be Me

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 "I messed up..." I have to confess that, while this is an improvement, I'm still not really feeling this series. That's n...
Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Inside Man: Episode 2

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 "There's no reason this has to be uncivilised..." Look, I really like this programme. Indulge me, and let's pretend, for ...
Monday, 3 October 2022

The Lord of the Rings- The Rings of Power: Udun

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 "New life... in defiance of death!" Wow.This is when Rings of Powe r really comes alive. I may not be a huge fan of battle scenes...
Sunday, 2 October 2022

Better Call Saul: Mijo

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 "I'm not a criminal! I'm a lawyer." Yeah, Jimmy. You go on thinking that. But you've already started rolling down the...

A Cock and Bull Story (2005)

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 "Poke your little pecker out the window..." I've actually read (and indeed blogged) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,...
Saturday, 1 October 2022

The Raven (1963)

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 "But you'd be kiled!" "I do hope not..." I haven't checked how many of Roger Corman's Poe films I've se...
Thursday, 29 September 2022

Andor: Kassa

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 "This case appears to bear all the hallmarks of what I like to describe as regrettable misadventure." Hmm. This isn't bad tel...
Wednesday, 28 September 2022

The Sandman: Dream of a Thousand Cats/Calliope

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 "Writers are liars." I'm again following far too many series because pesky present day telly insists on throwing up The Rings...
Tuesday, 27 September 2022

Inside Man: Episode 1

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 "Anyone can wind up in this place..." One might say, in some ways, that there is much we might have expected from Steven Moffat i...
Monday, 26 September 2022

The Lord of the Rings- The Rings of Power: Partings

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 "We set sail!" This episode, and a fine episode it is- the start has been uneven, but there was much to establish. Thois iscan ep...
Sunday, 25 September 2022

Better Call Saul: Uno

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 "You work for people who have sex with chopped off head?" Straight into this prequel to Breaking Bad - you knew this was coming-...
Friday, 23 September 2022

The Oblong Box (1969)

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 "We have knowledge of things you know nothing of..." This film is an odd yet enjoyable beast. It's an adaptation of an Edgar ...
Thursday, 22 September 2022

Hawkeye: Hide and Seek

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 "A twenty-two year old vigilante. Shouldn't you be in school?" Ok, first of all, the Hawkeye LARPing montage was obviously aw...
Wednesday, 21 September 2022

The Sandman: Lost Hearts

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 "It was a pleasure being human with you." It is, perhaps, true, that the second half of this first season, adapting The Doll'...
Tuesday, 20 September 2022

Hawkeye: Never Meet Your Heroes

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 "I need a bow and arrow!" This is all very new to me. I know Hawkeye, obviously, but Kate Bishop is from well after my comics-rea...
Monday, 19 September 2022

The Sandman: Collectors

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 "I thought there'd be cereal..." My Netflix issues are fixed. Normal blogging is resumed. Phew. Things are moving fast. Rose ...
Sunday, 18 September 2022

The Lord of the Rings- The Rings of Power: The Great Wave

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 "You have been told many lies..." Halfway through the season, already, and things are getting ominous. I liked this episode a lot...

Black Coffee by Agatha Christie at the Little Theatre in Leicester

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 I saw this excellent play last night, admittedly because a friend of mine is in it, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience.  Agatha C...
Thursday, 15 September 2022

What If... the Watcher Broke His Oath?

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 "Blimey! Bloody bollocks!" Still having Netflix issues which may delay the last episodes of Sandman for a few days, so I'll j...
Wednesday, 14 September 2022

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

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 "If you don't shut up, you won't be invited to the orgy. Right, let's just get Taika Waititi to do all the Thor films from...
Tuesday, 13 September 2022

What If... Ultron Won?

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 "All those worlds. All that suffering. And you just watched ?" And that's more like it. Wow. (Bear with me on Sandman : more ...
Monday, 12 September 2022

What If... Thor Were an Only Child?

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 "We never get to fire the nukes...!" I think it's fair to say this is a lighter episode in both senses. Yes, it's light-h...
Sunday, 11 September 2022

The Lord of the Rings- The Rings of Power: Adar

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 "The sea is always right..." Wow. This episode has blown it all wide open. We are suddenly immersed in charactewrs we know from T...
Friday, 9 September 2022

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)

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 "Dude, you're on fire!" This film is, perhaps, a little slow at first. But it's slow for a reason and, as with anything w...
Thursday, 8 September 2022

Queen Elizabeth II

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  This is weird. More upsetting than this quasi-republican had expected. And more momentous and consequential to so many more people than I ...
Wednesday, 7 September 2022

What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?

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 "You believe the cure for human suffering is more suffering?" This is a fascinating episode. Killmonger saves Tony Stark... so he...
Tuesday, 6 September 2022

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power- Adrift

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 "The tides of fate are flowing..." This episode, it has to be said, is a fair bit slower and less gripping than the promising ope...
Monday, 5 September 2022

The Sandman: Playing House

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 "I'm sure he's fine..." This is, once again, rich and textured drama with much to say about dreams, both literal and in t...
Sunday, 4 September 2022

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power- A Shadow of the Past

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"We thought our light would never dim..."  Fear not: Netflix problems are now solved and I'll be carrying on with Sandman alon...
Saturday, 3 September 2022

The Big Sleep (1946)

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 "I don't slap so good around this time of the evening..." I'm beginning, now I've seen enough 1940s film noirs to at ...
Friday, 2 September 2022

Rashomon (1950)

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 "It's not as thougfh men are reasonable." I call it the Citizen Kane factor. A film can be pretty much sublime yet the hype i...
Thursday, 1 September 2022

What If... Zombies?"

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 "Do you guys just not have horror movies in Wakanda?" "We don't need them. We have American reality shows." Bear wi...
Sunday, 28 August 2022

Office Space (1999)

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 "The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care." It's a shame I waited so damn long ...
Friday, 26 August 2022

Velvet Goldmine (1998)

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 "I needn't mention how essential dreaming is to the character of the rock star." It would be an exaggeration, perhaps, to say...
Thursday, 25 August 2022

What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?

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 "Stephen, this path only leads to darkness and the end of this reality." This episode is very good: a timey-wimey tale of another...
Wednesday, 24 August 2022

The Sandman: The Doll's House

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 "It's trerrible. We know." Watching this episode brought back long- repressed and surprisingly vivid memories of the comic bo...
Tuesday, 23 August 2022

What If... the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?

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 "Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to exit the donut." Another intriguing, if very short, eposode here as Nick Fury has to de...
Monday, 22 August 2022

Breaking Bad: Felina

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 "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And... I was really... I was alive." We start with Walt, miserable and freezing i...
Sunday, 21 August 2022

What If... T'Challa Became a Star Lord?

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 "You are very articulate for a duck..." "That, Sir, is very closed-minded!" It's fascinating, with a second episode...

The Sandman: The Sound of Her Wings

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 "That's all there is, little one. That's all you get." Yes, that scene... I'm a parent and it shook me deeply. I'...
Friday, 19 August 2022

The New Mutants (2020)

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 "I masturbated twice..." We're not supposed to like this film, are we? It was the last Marvel film made by Fox but released a...
Thursday, 18 August 2022

What if... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?

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 "Who needs a plan? I have shield!" So Loki has unleashed the Multiverse. Branches now proliferate. So here's the first. In a...

Loki: For All Time. Always

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 "Only one person gets free will. The one in charge!" Wow. This is huge. So suddenly there are branches everywhere, there's an...
Wednesday, 17 August 2022

The Sandman: 24/7

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 "The trouble with stories is, if you keep them going long enough, they all end in death, don't they?" I realise that, current...

The Green Hornet, Episode 13: Doom of the Underworld

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 "My job is finished..." And so the serial ends... suddenly, within twenty minutes, but with finality. The Hornet rather efficient...
Tuesday, 16 August 2022

Loki: Journey into Mystery

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 "Don't die isn't a plan. It's just a general demand of living." Nice title. I love these subtle, or not so subtle, li...
Monday, 15 August 2022

The Sandman: A Hope in Hell

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 "I am hope..." Why does Lucifer not just counter with despair, or nihilism, or some such dreary bollocks? Never mind; I usually t...
Sunday, 14 August 2022

Breaking Bad: Granite State

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 "Just so you know, this isn't personal." Oh my. Where to start? Suddenly everything is going horribly wrong. Walt is still dy...

The Green Hornet, Episode 12: Panic in the Zoo

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 "I got the Hornet..." I'll get to the episode in a minute- it is the penultimate one, after all- but, yeah, zoos in 1940. Thi...

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

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 "You can shovel ****, can't you? The critics are wrong. This film is a masterpiece, and easily the best of the original Mad Max tr...
Saturday, 13 August 2022

Loki: The Nexus Event

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"What an incredible seismic narcissist..." This isan incredible episode, full of twist, turns and big, big reveals along all the t...

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

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 "This time it's gonna take more than killing me to kill me." Well, thgis film blew me away. It's a huge fanwank treat. It...
Thursday, 11 August 2022

The Sandman: Dream a Little Dream of Me

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 "What's the point of you...?" This is a pivotal episode and, as far as I recall, faithful to the comic. Much of it is set-up....
Wednesday, 10 August 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode 11: Disaster Rides the Rails

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 "Six months? Give me six days!" It's incredible how close we are to the end. Next episode is the penultimate one.And yet stil...
Tuesday, 9 August 2022

Loki: Lamentis-1

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 "What part of imminent death confuses you?" This episode seems to take things in unexpected directions. Just as we seemed to be s...
Monday, 8 August 2022

The Sandman: Imperfect Hosts

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 "He almost never murders me before lunch..." After a deep and emotional first episode, the second episode feels curiously mythica...
Sunday, 7 August 2022

Breaking Bad: Ozymandias

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 "What the hell is wrong with you? We're family!" Having started my blog on this brutal and almost perfect piece of television...