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Wednesday, 30 August 2023

Ahsoka: Part Two- Toil and Trouble

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 "An ancient people from a different galaxy..." I saw this episode while wondering whether I ought to have started watching Ahsoka...
Monday, 28 August 2023

Inception (2010)

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 "The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you." I can't believe it's taken me until 2023 t...
Friday, 25 August 2023

The Roaring Years (1962)

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 "I'm teetotal, but I'll take a sip..." This is, perhaps, a timely film to watch now that the current government of Italy,...

Knights of God: Episode 13

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" The king had to be found within yourself.” Sigh. This has been a pretty good series, but this final episode is profoundly disappointi...
Wednesday, 23 August 2023

Ahsoka: Part One- Master and Apprentice

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 "Sometimes even the right reasons have the wrong consequences." I'm familiar with the Star Wars movies, all of them, plus all...
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Good Omens: Every Day

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 "You know as well as I do how badly understaffed Hell is right now." Crikey, that was a busy final episode. And, in the end, it w...
Monday, 21 August 2023

Knights of God: Episode 12

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 "Noooo!" Well, that’s certainly a twist. SPOILER alert. It’s now clear why we have the contrast between Gervase and  Mordrin, wit...
Sunday, 20 August 2023

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

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 "We can mutate the whole world to metal. We can rust the world to the dust of the universe.” This is a very weird film indeed. You kne...
Saturday, 19 August 2023

Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

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 Yes, I know. It took me months to read Infinite Jest , rewarding experience though that was, and a couple of days to read this Isaac Asimov...
Thursday, 17 August 2023

Good Omens: The Ball

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 "Well, it wouldn't be a Shopkeeper's Association without dancing, would it?" This is another very good episode, with a de...
Wednesday, 16 August 2023

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

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Every now and again I set myself a bit of a literary challenge, and force myself to read a long, difficult bit of literary fiction. This is ...
Monday, 14 August 2023

Knights of God: Episode 11

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 "Not toys now. Real." There's a distinct feeling, and an odd one, as this often briliant and very '80s dark dystopian thr...
Sunday, 13 August 2023

Good Omens: The Hitchhiker

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 "We'd like to apologise for the wait and the conditions, but we won't. Cheer up. Things could be worse, and they will be....
Wednesday, 9 August 2023

Knights of God: Episode 10

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"To Canterbury!" A lot happens this episode. At the outset, Gervase and Julia are outlawed and outcast; Hugo is disgraced and impr...
Monday, 7 August 2023

Good Omens: I Know Where I'm Going

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 "So Elspeth here has all the opportunities because she's so poor." "That's lunacy." "No, that's ineffa...
Sunday, 6 August 2023

Better Call Saul: Off Brand

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 "It's a name..." This episode is a crossroads in several ways. It moves away from the Jimmy/Chuck sparriung of the first half...

Dunkirk (2017)

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 "He's shell-shocked, George. He's not himself. He might never be himself again." Obviously, this is no typical war film: ...
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Saturday, 5 August 2023

Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 (2023)

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 "I was stabbed, you extraordinary phallus!" James Gunn is back at Marvel, presumably just this one and... yeah, this was never go...
Friday, 4 August 2023

Good Omens: The Clue

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 "Shoemaking and obstetrics. Those have always been the twin passions of Bildad the Shuhite." This is, of course, wonderful stuff....
Tuesday, 1 August 2023

Secret Invasion: Home

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 "That's real one-term president stuff!" So I gather this finale is widely disliked. Well, I loved it. And I think the issue h...
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...