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Wednesday, 30 November 2022

Century Falls: Episode 6

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 "Before disaster came, when things were perfect still." This script is beautiful; consider the quote above with its perfect iambs...
Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Ms Marvel: Destined

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 "Excuse me, Miss Agent... next time, remove your shoes." Where to begin here? Perhaps with the reveal that Kamran's grandma N...
Monday, 28 November 2022

Century Falls: Episode 5

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 "I've never tied anyone up before..." I have, thus far, defended RTD's script for Century Falls while allowing criticism ...
Sunday, 27 November 2022

Better Call Saul: RICO

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 "Blow my magic flute..." It's getting increasingly difficult to find new ways of saying that each episode of Better Call Saul...

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

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 "Be excellent to each other!" Obviously, I've seen this film a million times. That goes withoit saying. But that was before m...
Saturday, 26 November 2022

5 Minute Dating (2010)

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 "It's quite a funny story, actually..." I love a horror film with a punchline. This is at once a sad little meditation on how...

Curve (2016)

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Good old Existentialism. Life is a struggle with no objective purpose, but there is liberation in the fact that we are therefotr free to mak...

Portrait of God (2022)

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"Why does God appear to them and not us?" This, at seven and a bit minutes long, is a serious contender for the best horror film I...

Possibly in Michigan (1983)

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 "The three of them have two things in common- violence and perfume." We live in a surreal world. One where male violence against ...

Braindead (1992)

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 "I kick arse for the Lord!" I utterly adore this film with all my heart. It is, of course, absolutely nothing like a cerain trilo...
Thursday, 24 November 2022

Ms Marvel: Crushed

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 "No Snapchatting in the Masjid!" This is, of course, another perfecr episode. Witty, full of humour and character, and once again...
Wednesday, 23 November 2022

Andor: Rix Road

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" Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." This is, if not unexpected in what happens, a tense and taut finale with lots of...
Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Century Falls: Episode 4

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 "Being alone is the easiest escape there is." This episode is the turning point, full of revelations. Tess and her mother are rec...
Monday, 21 November 2022

Ms Marvel: Generation Why

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 "You're Kamala Khan. If you want to save the world, then you're going to save the world." I'm far too old to know Kam...
Sunday, 20 November 2022

Better Call Saul: Bingo

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 "Why are you sending her to the cornfield, Howard?" This episode isn't as good as the last one, but what episode is? This is ...
Thursday, 17 November 2022

Century Falls: Episode 3

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 "I'm aware only that three spinster women have nothing better to do than gossip." This is, it has to be said, a slow episode,...
Wednesday, 16 November 2022

Andor: Daughter of Ferrix

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 "Everything's all right..." After last week's extrsaordinary drama it's back to getting all the pieces in order for t...
Tuesday, 15 November 2022

Moon Knight: Gods and Monsters

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 "Are you an Egyptian superhero?" "I am." This surprisingly short yet satisfying finale packs everything in. We have an ...
Monday, 14 November 2022

Century Falls: Episode 2

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 "All the past of Century Falls- and it's coming back." The plot thickens. So Richard has powers too, as do many in the villag...
Sunday, 13 November 2022

Easy Street (1917)

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It's been a while since I've watched a silent comedy short, so here's another one. After all, all of them are well out of copyri...
Saturday, 12 November 2022

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

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 "No guns. No killing." "Where's the fun in that?" I've been putting off this film for years. Oh, its predecesso...
Friday, 11 November 2022

Moon Knight: Asylum

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 "There can be no progress without understanding." Ok. This one is deep. Almost certainly the pivotal episode, in fact. This is a ...
Wednesday, 9 November 2022

Andor: One Way Out

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 "I burn my decency for someone else's future..." This is an extraordinary episode of television. Obviously the focus is on th...
Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Century Falls: Episode 1

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 "If you were born outside Century Falls, you're always an outsider!" Yes indeed, this is a local village for local people. I...
Monday, 7 November 2022

Moon Knight: The Tomb

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 "I squashed it, I squashed it." I was enjoying Moon Knight already... but that was a turn to the unexpected. Shades of Legion th...
Sunday, 6 November 2022

Better Call Saul: Five-O

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 "I am asking you to take a few ounces of lukewarm coffee and spill it on him." Bob Odenkirk is certainly  in this, an episode of ...
Friday, 4 November 2022

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

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 "I'll pray for him for the rest of my days. But I will not risk testing his faith against your stupidity." Two things first. ...

Andor: Nobody's Listening

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 "I can't help him. I can't help anyone." Andor continues to be the best television exploration of totalitarianism. Where ...
Thursday, 3 November 2022

Moon Knight: The Friendly Type

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 "To signal for an audience with the gods is to risk their wrath." Wow.This episode switches everything around. This time we follo...
Tuesday, 1 November 2022

Andor: Narkina 5

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 "You think the Empire stops to catch its breath?" The episode begins like the Space Fall episode of Blake's 7 as a pseudonymo...
Sunday, 30 October 2022

Better Call Saul: Alpine Shepherd Boy

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 "Hey, I'm not the one with the sex toilet..." The sex toilet scene is, of course, utterly bloody hilarious. It's not ofte...

Robo Vampire (1988)

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 "Since Tom's dead. I'd like to use his body to make an android-like robot, Mr Glenn." Oh dear. This is, let's be clea...
Saturday, 29 October 2022

Cronos (1993)

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 "You're going to Heaven covered in make-up. Your wife will think you've been with a whore." 'Tis the weekend before H...
Friday, 28 October 2022

Moon Knight: Summon the Suit

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 "She said I needed a suit." "Yeah, the ceremonial armour from Khonshu's temple, not psycho Colonel Sanders." This s...
Thursday, 27 October 2022

Andor: Announcement

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 "Watch your back..." And so we have the aftermath. Luthen got what he wanted: the Empire has been rattled. On the one hand, some ...
Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Moon Knight: The Goldfish Problem

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 "There's chaos in you..." Oh my. This is brilliant. And also bloody bonkers. My era for Marvel comicswas the '80s and ear...
Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Andor: The Eye

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 "We win, or everyone dies..." As expected, this episode is full of tension and entirely concerns the heist, which is more or less...
Monday, 24 October 2022

Hawkeye: So This Is Christmas

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 "Is this what heroes do? Arrest their mothers on Christmas?" It's interesting watching this season finale the day after an ev...
Sunday, 23 October 2022

Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor

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 "We could call this the Master's Dalek plan..."(!) I love the line above. A nice little fourth wall breaking riff on a story ...
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The Thing (1982)

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 "I'm trying to get some sleep. I was shot today." Yes, it's absurd that I'm seeing The Thing for the first time in ...
Thursday, 20 October 2022

Andor: The Axe Forgets

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 "Who brings a treasure to a robbery?" This episode is brave and interesting. We finished the last instalment poised to execute a ...
Wednesday, 19 October 2022

Hawkeye: Ronin

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"Kate, this is not cutlery." This is a bloody brilliant episode. Yes, there are revelations upon revelations, but after last episo...
Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Andor: Aldhani

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 "To put a real stick into the eye of the empire... and get paid for it." And all has changed. The preamble is over. Sybil Kane- w...
Monday, 17 October 2022

Inside Man: Episode 4

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 "How does anyone ever get murdered? There's so much admin!" There so much about this episode that's great. The above line...
Sunday, 16 October 2022

Better Call Saul: Hero

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 "Human slavery. So..." Mrs Kettleman, you are David Brent and I hereby claim my £100. This is another intriguing and transitional...

The Lords of the Rings- The Rings of Power: Alloyed

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 "He is not Sauron! He is the other! He is the Istatr! Where to begin? This first series has struggled at times. Yet, having seen the w...
Saturday, 15 October 2022

The Imitation Game (2014)

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 "You just defeated Nazism with a crossword puzzle..." I've been waiting to see this film for years. It's very good: Alan ...
Thursday, 13 October 2022

Hawkeye: Partners, Am I Right?

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 "If I ever met Huey Lewis, I'd be a wreck." Hawkeye is not, perhaps, the best Disney Marvel series yet, but it's pretty s...
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Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Andor: Reckoning

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 "What have you done?" The series is hotting up now, with this episode beting the finest so far. Syril Karn, Sergeant Mosk and the...
Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Inside Man: Episode 3

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 "Much be so much easier." "What must?" "Not believing in Hell." This is the hardest decision I've had to ...
Monday, 10 October 2022

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

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 "We move at first light." "What light?" After last week's triumphant victory, all is lost after an unnatiral volcan...
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 ...