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Sunday, 30 July 2023

Better Call Saul: Chicanery

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 "My brother, whatever else may be said about him, is quite clever." Before I write a blog post, I invariably look at iMDb in orde...

Good Omens: The Arrival

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 “I don’t believe the Almighty has actually created a suggestion box.” This isn’t just wonderful television. It’s pure bliss. Take the pre-c...
Thursday, 27 July 2023

Secret Invasion: Harvest

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 "It's really just a matter of taste. Cake or death." Oh boy. Not that things have been uneventful so far, but it's all ki...
Monday, 24 July 2023

Knights of God: Episode 9

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 "Let him be a fisherman..." The plot gets thicker and thicker in this pivotal episode which, presumably, thrusts us into the fina...

Secret Invasion: Beloved

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 "You are delusional!" Yes, I know. I'm breaking my rules here, blogging the same series consecutively to catch up. But things...
Thursday, 20 July 2023

Iron Fist: Dragon Plays with Fire

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 "It was someone much more treacherous than I..." And so the season ends, at last. And the finale is, in the end, superb. What cou...
Wednesday, 19 July 2023

Secret Invasion: Betrayed

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 "Well, I never cared much for golf, so,,, I'm thinking I might as well take up revenge," And with that, it suddenly clicks. I...
Sunday, 16 July 2023

Better Call Saul: Sabrosito

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 "Sabrosisto tells me Gustavo's is bigger than yours." Even by Better Call Saul standards, this is a bloody good episode. And ...

Henry V (1944)

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 "But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make." It is, I suppose, extraordinary that I've wa...
Thursday, 13 July 2023

Knights of God: Episode 8

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 "You can call me Arthur..." There was me thinking this episode was going to be about Gervase and Julia in the "Wasteland...
Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Iron Fist: Bar the Big Boss

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 "I know a good family therapist that could help... should any of you survive the night." This is an excellent season finale, wrap...
Monday, 10 July 2023

Secret Invasion: Promises

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 "I'm Nick Fury. Even when I'm out, I'm in." This isn't really a Nick Fury show, but more of an ensemble. The diff...
Saturday, 8 July 2023

Shakespeare in Love by Tom Stoppard at the Little Theatre in Leicester

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 “She has been plucked since I saw her last- and not by you.” I saw this last night, the second play I’ve seen at this splendid establishmen...
Wednesday, 5 July 2023

Iron Fist: Lead Horse Back to Stable

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 "I wasn't chosen. You were. And you took it and ran." Again we get a bloody good episode. You never quite know what you'r...
Monday, 3 July 2023

Better Call Saul: Sunk Costs

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 "Just so you know, this isn't a typical week around here..." And suddenly it's all go. We have two narratives, with both ...
Saturday, 1 July 2023

Mallrats (1995)

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"And don't ever lose that nipple!" Finding a quote for a Kevin Smith film is not exactly the most difficult thing ever, which ...
Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Knights of God: Episode 7

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 "Being with you. That's all I ever thought of." This middle episode is surprisingly eventful and fast-moving as we seem to be...
Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Iron Fist: Black Tiger Steals Heart

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 "Wow. You are the worst Iron Fist ever." Oh, Iron Fist, why so inconsistent? This episode is actually pretty good, all about lie...
Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Secret Invasion: Resurrection

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 "Take his face. Now take his mind." So it begins, a one-off mini-series for which I'm thoroughly unspoiled: I'm fairly fa...
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Monday, 19 June 2023

Knights of God: Episode 6

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" Fire!" An episode of skulduggery here, yet not one without  the pulling of heartstrings. Scenes with both Julia and Gervase make...
Sunday, 18 June 2023

Better Call Saul: Witness

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 "Perfection is the enemy of the perfectly adequate..." Regarding the above quote, this episode is pretty much the former, with th...

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

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 "Tokyo Police Corporation will give us more plentiful lives..." Two years after the delightfully depraved Machine Girl , Yoshihir...
Wednesday, 14 June 2023

Iron Fist: The Mistress of All Agonies

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 "Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is leave." Argh. This episode could have been really good. The ideas are good, the plot...
Sunday, 11 June 2023

Better Call Saul: Mabel

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 "For ten minutes today Chuck didn't hate me..." This opening episode of the season was written and directed by Vince Gilligan...

Clerks (1994)

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 "She broke your heart and inadvertently drove men to deviant lifestyles." I haven't seen this wonderful film since I was at u...
Sunday, 4 June 2023

Iron Fist: The Blessing of Many Fractures

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 "Are you a moron? You thought you could end a criminal conspiracy by destroying a few test tubes?" Iron Fist continues to be inco...

Carry On Cruising (1962)

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 "He's one of the biggest bull shippers in the business." Well, there are a lot of Carry On films. They can't all be good....
Saturday, 3 June 2023

Enys Men (2022)

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 "Trim your feeble lamp, my sister!" I'm only 25% Cornish, I've never listened to an album by Gwenno, and I've only ac...
Monday, 29 May 2023

Knights of God: Episode 5

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 "I find history rather boring..." Sirprisingly, Gervase's gets relatively little screen time here. Plotlines elsewhere develo...
Sunday, 28 May 2023

Iron Fist: Felling Tree with Roots

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 "And it makes my hand light up..." Wow. This series is bizarrely all over the place. Last episode was pretty awful. This episode ...
Wednesday, 24 May 2023

The Beatles- Abbey Road (1969)

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It's time for another Beatles album, and this time my favourite. I know it's fashionable to rave about the later Beatles albums and ...
Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Knights of God: Episode 4

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 "All hail the knights of God!" This episode isn't quite as intensely totalitarian as the last one, and that's sauying som...
Sunday, 21 May 2023

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

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 "You know, what's remarkable is how much England looks in  no way like Southern California." I'm not in the mood for anyt...
Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

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 "How many holes do you have? I'm sorry, is that a personal question?" I hear this film is not so well-liked as some Marvel fi...
Monday, 15 May 2023

Iron Fist: Immortal Emerges from Cage

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 "I had the fastest donkey cart in K'un Lun too." Hmm. I liked the stuff with Ward's unravelling opioid addiction, sudden ...
Sunday, 14 May 2023

Better Call Saul: Klick

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 "You finally got me where you want me..." Wow. I thought this episode was going a certain way, with Cbhuck dying because of Jimmy...
Friday, 12 May 2023

The Wrong Box (1966)

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 "Yes, I enjoy an egg myself. They don't make good pets, though." This splendid film is, yes, a farce, quite literally, and on...
Wednesday, 10 May 2023

Knights of God: Episode 3

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 "Aim..." Crikey, this is bleak, bleak stuff and an unflinching study of fascism. And this is a kids' programme?  Things take ...
Monday, 8 May 2023

Iron Fist: Under Leaf Pluck Lotus

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 "I want the leak under the sink fixed!" Things get more and more intriguing. There's a new, synthetic heroin on the market, b...
Friday, 5 May 2023

The Devil's Men (1976)

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 "I beliewve the Devil has taken possession of this village!" There was, around 1976-ish, a sudden craze for movies about robed de...
Wednesday, 3 May 2023

Knights of God: Episode 2

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 "Worshipping a god of power, strength, and vengeance..." We begin with a "previously on"... and then it's straight ...
Tuesday, 2 May 2023

Iron Fist: Eight Diagram Dragon Palm

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 "You're all I've got..." Suddenly it all changes: Danny doesn't fall far, fortunately, and wakes up to a charm offens...
Monday, 1 May 2023

Knights of God: Episode 1

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 "You've got to live. For all of us." I have only the vaguest of memories of seeing bits of this in 1987 when I was young, and...
Sunday, 30 April 2023

Better Call Saul: Nailed

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 "Like two hundred bucks expensive...?" Oh Jimmy. Oh Kim. Oh Chuck. This penultimate episode is where, if I can play fast and loos...
Saturday, 29 April 2023

Star Crash (1978)

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 "Time for a little robot chauvinism!" What's that you say?You suspect this hilariously low budget space opera, clearly based ...
Wednesday, 26 April 2023

1917 (2019)

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 "Am I dying?" "Yes, yes, I think you are." Wow. How else can I begin? This film is at once a tour de force of cinematog...
Sunday, 23 April 2023

Better Call Saul: Fifi

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 "Things work out the way they're supposed to, I guess..." We begin with an extraordinary tour de force of direction with a va...
Wednesday, 19 April 2023

The Mandalorian: The Return

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 "Mandalorians are stronger together." And so the season ends. Din Djarin gets an epic heroic quest to do, and shower himself in h...

This Week

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 Just to say that there’s a specific and temporary reason for my absence at the moment. I don’t expect to blog again until Sunday, most like...
Monday, 17 April 2023

Duck Children (2001)

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 This is an eight minute short film, sperficially giving the message (Amewricans, this isaimed at you) that civilians owning firearms is, ob...
Sunday, 16 April 2023

Better Call Saul: Inflatable

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 "There are wolves and sheep in this world, kid." Oh Kim. We know you're doomed. The dramatic irony is blatant. The script wan...
Saturday, 15 April 2023

Carry On Regardless (1961)

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 "P.. P.. Panting?" "No, that's the way I always breathe." These early Carry Ons are fascinating... and, don't g...

Ninja Champion (1986)

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 "Not the wine. My nipples, you jerk." Oh, look. It's a cheap Hong Kong action film from the mid-80s, directed by Godfrey Ho a...
Thursday, 13 April 2023

The Mandalorian: Chapter 23- The Spies

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 "Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes." Oh my. This is how you do a penultimate episode. It's simple, really. Two sets of plans are m...
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Wednesday, 12 April 2023

Iron Fist: Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch

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 "It's my name!" Like the two previous episodes, this is utterly gripping. We have the narrative of Danny trying to prove who ...
Saturday, 8 April 2023

BMX Bandits (1983)

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 "Your little walkie talkies... have gone walkies." I had my opening line all planned out. You know, Mad Max II , Picnic at Hangi...
Thursday, 6 April 2023

Dead Set: Part 5

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 "This makes you the winner of this year's Big Brother". That quote up there... yeah, it's an empty prize, but aren't ...