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Friday, 31 March 2023

The Taming of the Shrew (1929)

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 "O my word, she is a lusty wench." This is not, of course, a very good adaptation. It is, nevertheless, the first big Hollywood S...
Wednesday, 29 March 2023

The Mandalorian: Chapter 21- The Pirate

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 "Bo-Katan walks both worlds..." Wow. The Mandalorian gets better and better. This season is on fire. The plot is simple, time-ho...
Monday, 27 March 2023

Dead Set: Part 4

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 "I mean, don't forget, this place used to be like a church to them." Things are hotting up. The Big Brother house is under si...
Saturday, 25 March 2023

G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987)

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 "I hope you both get fleas!" The previous year, the creators of thisfilm gave us Transformers: The Movie . It was, for a great bi...
Thursday, 23 March 2023

Iron Fist: Shadow Hawk Takes Flight

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 "We're not bad guys, if that's what you think..." For a series apparently disliked by the critics, this is pretty damn go...
Wednesday, 22 March 2023

The Mandalorian: Chapter 20- The Foundling

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 "But it was real!" Before I gush about this wonderful bit of telly, let me first gush about geekier matters. Carl Weathers, that ...
Tuesday, 21 March 2023

Dead Set: Part 3

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 "I'm only on the front cover of Heat !" These episodes following the first are only twenty minutes long and the whole thing i...
Monday, 20 March 2023

Iron Fist: Snow Gives Way

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 "That's my building." "You should sell it and buy some shoes," Apologies, but I'm having trouble sourcing furth...
Friday, 17 March 2023

Scream (1996)

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 "There's a formula to it. A very simple formula. Best horror film of all time? That's a hard question. But this is a work of g...
Wednesday, 15 March 2023

The Mandalorian: Chapter 19- The Convert

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 "This is the way!" This is, perhaps, a less obviously crowd-pleasing episode, despite the events at the start and finish, and muc...
Monday, 13 March 2023

Dead Set: Part 2

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 "Does this mean we're not on telly any more?" After all the Big Brother fun of the first episode we were always going to sli...
Sunday, 12 March 2023

Better Call Saul: Bali Ha'i

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 "The price is fifty thousand dollars..." This is another episode of set-up... yet the tension is nicely set simmering. Indeed, it...
Saturday, 11 March 2023

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

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 "That's right, buddy. You show that turd who's boss." It's 1997, Cool Britannia amd that. That brief period of time w...
Thursday, 9 March 2023

Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer, Part 1

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 "Beware the Horned One!" I dimly remember reading the comic strip in Look-In in the mid-'80s, of which I remember nothing, bu...
Wednesday, 8 March 2023

The Mandalorian: Chapter 18- The Mines of Mandalore

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 "Did you think your dad was the only Mandalorian?" This is an interesting and fascinating episode: a bit of humour with good old ...
Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Dead Set: Part 1

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 "Please do not swear!" Long before Black Mirror , in 2008, when Charlie Brooker was still giving us his excellent Screen Wipe o...
Monday, 6 March 2023

Foundation: The Leap

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 "It's time the dynasty bent..." Oh my. That was an eventful finale and, ultimately, a rather good one. This season hasn't...
Sunday, 5 March 2023

Better Call Saul: Rebecca

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 "My brother is not a bad person. He has a good heart. It's just he can't help himself..." I find myself saying variations...
Saturday, 4 March 2023

Carry On Constable (1960)

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 "A dog! That's a sign of Pluto, the darkest, most evil planet of all!" Ok, this is no one's favourite Carry On film. The...

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

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 "You speak treason?" "Fluently!" I've been meaning to watch this rather fascinatinhg film for some time, anfd it do...
Wednesday, 1 March 2023

The Mandalorian: Chapter 17- The Apostate

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 "Now that's using your head..." Oh, I've missed The Mandalorian . It may not be particularly deep or philosophical, intel...
Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Foundation: The First Crisis

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 "And Sometimes emotions shout larger than logic..." We're slimmed down to two plot threads in this penultimate episode- perha...
Sunday, 26 February 2023

Better Call Saul: Gloves Off

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 "Just saying... you went a long way to not pull that trigger. Why?" This is a fascinating episode. Yes, lots of plot happens. Yes...
Saturday, 25 February 2023

Shock Waves (1977)

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 "Why, some say they're more afraid of the water than little old ladies are of the dark..." This is, let us be clear, a B movi...
Friday, 24 February 2023

Carry On Teacher (1959)

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 "They've taken the pea!" My very, very slow marathon of the Carry On films continues with this fascinating third film. It...
Wednesday, 22 February 2023

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law- Whose Show Is This?

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 "Bruce smashes buildings. I smash fourth walls and bad endings. And sometimes Matt Murdock." Those who dislike postmodernism, sel...
Tuesday, 21 February 2023

Foundation: The Missing Piece

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 "I would not wish that emptiness on anyone..." Again, we are moving away from the novels here-although there's some interesti...
Monday, 20 February 2023

Update

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 Just to say that, for life reasons, I probably won’t post as much this week as usual, although I hope I’ll still do some blogging. All is f...
Thursday, 16 February 2023

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law- Ribbit and Rip It

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 "Why do you pretend to be blind, man? Cos that is really problematic." Before we get to you-know-who, because it's Jen's ...
Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Foundation: Mysteries and Martyrs

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 "The Empire must be protected from mistakes. Like me." This is an extraprdinary episode, full of revelation and, as good dramas d...
Monday, 13 February 2023

Foundation: Death and the Maiden

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 "Hari said an entire galaxy can pivot around the actions of an individual." Hmm. Not sure he did, love. Psychohistory sees only m...
Sunday, 12 February 2023

Better Call Saul: Amarillo

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 "Beautiful penmanship, a lost art." Here, I think, we see the beginnings of why Jimmy, despite his genuine talent, will never thr...

Hamlet (1948)

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 "This is thevtragedy of a man who could not make up his mind. Said quote is the popular opinion of the play. It has truth to it. Yet, ...
Saturday, 11 February 2023

Julius Caesar (1970)

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 "This was the noblest Romam of them all." Obviously, I know this play. I also know the 1953 film with Marlon Brando, and with Joh...
Thursday, 9 February 2023

R.E.M.- Automatic for the People

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I first discovered R.E.M. via this album, and I know that immediately marks me out, potentially, as a fashion conscious wanker. Let me, then...
Wednesday, 8 February 2023

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law- The Retreat

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 "Spanish is a language, not a nationality, so..." "You've never heard of Spain?" In fact, Spanish is a nationality ...
Tuesday, 7 February 2023

Foundation: Upon Awakening

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 "I was not afraid of the dark..." We are, it must be said, diverting a little from Asimov here, not that we haven't already. ...
Sunday, 5 February 2023

Better Call Saul: Cobbler

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 "It looks like a school bus for six year old pimps." This episode, fascinatingly, takes place in two different worlds, one of hig...

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

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 "Youtr brother is with the ancestors" This is an interesting film, centred on Letitia Wright as Shura, yet full of thoughful subt...
Wednesday, 1 February 2023

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law- Just Jen

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 "Yes, itr's a self-contained wedding episode." Another short little sitcom episode ensues with more fourth wall-breaking, thi...
Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Killing Joke- Killing Joke (1980)

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  This is uncannily of its time and quite brilliant. The soundscape, the production: both are so different from the much later singles from ...
Monday, 30 January 2023

Foundation: Barbarians at the Gate

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 "Violence is the last refuge..." "Of the incompetent. I know. That's an old man's doctrine." As the above line ...
Sunday, 29 January 2023

Better Call Saul: Switch

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 "That's right. Not a lawyer. Bye." This is a fascinating, tantalising, nuanced opening episode, scrutinising the two roads Ji...
Friday, 27 January 2023

Orphée (1950)

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 "Men always come back. They're so absurd." To describe this film as a mere updating of the Orpheus myth to mid-twentieth cent...
Wednesday, 25 January 2023

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law- Mean, Green and Straight Poured into These Jeans

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 "I own who I am!" Yet again this is short, bvery short, a thirty minute sitcom episode. And it's based on a very sitcom premi...
Monday, 23 January 2023

Foundation: The Mathematician's Ghost

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 "It's just that you always leave me..." Time passes. We see nothing of Gaal (though she narrates; we shall see her again)  or...

The Incredible Hulk (1977 TV Movie)

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 "Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." There is, of course, no guarantee that I'll blog this...
Sunday, 22 January 2023

Persona (1966)

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 "The hopeless dream of being. Not seeming, but being...." This is a glorious mind**** of a film, shockingly only the second examp...
Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Foundation: Preparing to Live

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 "The more human I act, the more human I am." Here we begin to branch out from the original novel. There are divergences, the four...
Tuesday, 17 January 2023

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Is This Not Real Magic?

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 "You can't own magic!" This is, essentially, a sitcom. And, despite Jen's frequent fourth wall breaking ways, we're n...
Monday, 16 January 2023

Foundation: The Emperor's Peace

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 "Oh, it's not a theory. It's the destiny of the human race, expressed in numbers." You may have noticed I've blogged ...
Sunday, 15 January 2023

Better Call Saul: Marco

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 "It's like watching Miles Davis give up the trumpet." This is both an extraordinary episode and an extraordinary finale. Inte...

Petticoat Pirates (1961)

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" You long haired idiot. Meh. I mean, this film isn't exactly terrible, but there's a reason why it- and Charlie Drake- are pre...
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Saturday, 14 January 2023

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

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 "Radiation's rising. Still, one mustn't grumble too much. I'm full of sesations from this extraordinary film. It contains ...
Thursday, 12 January 2023

Update

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 Bear with me as real life means I won’t be able to blog much if at all for the next couple of days. I should be back to normal by Sunday or...
Monday, 9 January 2023

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law- The People vs Emil Blonsky

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 "I don't know about you, but I'd smash." This is where She-Hulk really hits it's stride. I love everything about this...
Sunday, 8 January 2023

The Day of the Triffids (1981): Part 6

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 "We were walking on a tightrope for a Hell of a long time..." The sixth and final episode and, appropriately, six years have pass...
Saturday, 7 January 2023

Gremins 2: The New Batch (1990)

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 "I've got rabies, and I'm supposed to get the flu this week." Oh, I love this film. It is- and I know this is a weird thi...
Thursday, 5 January 2023

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law- Superhuman Law

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 "That name better not stick." After last week's superhero origin story, we now have the introduction of the format. After get...