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Sunday, 30 June 2024

This Above All (1942)

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 "A man ,must have integrity..." This is another British war film, reasonably obscure despite starring Joan Fontaine, and a fascin...
Saturday, 29 June 2024

Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

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 "Called himself the Physician, or the Dentist, or something..." The new season of Doctor Who is over. I need something for the w...
Thursday, 27 June 2024

The Boys: We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here

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 "Elon Musk has more charm than he does. And she's half-android." This episode proves that, good as the last two were, it'...
Tuesday, 25 June 2024

The Boys: Life Among the Septics

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" I swear to God... stupod people who think they're smart make me want to eat my own ***." Yet again, there's a lot going ...
Saturday, 22 June 2024

Doctor Who: Empire of Death

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 “Is this thing safe?” “Absolute deathtrap, Melanie B.” I was going to do a separate blog post for the Tales of the TARDIS thing for Pyrami...
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Tuesday, 18 June 2024

The Boys: The Department of Dirty Tricks

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 "You know, there were no relations with an octopus..." Ouch. Three new episodes of The Boys dropped last Friday, showing zero re...
Monday, 17 June 2024

Better Call Saul: Magic Man

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 "Doesn't that sound like you're envouraging people to commit crimes?" We begin the season- as we haven't for a while-...
Sunday, 16 June 2024

Carry On Spying (1964)

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 "Stop messin' about..." I keep thinking I'm still quite early on in my chronological journey through the Carry On films, ...
Saturday, 15 June 2024

Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday

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 "I am in Hell..." Needless to say, this is going to be a long one. It's sort of fasionable within fandom, and indeed within f...
Wednesday, 12 June 2024

Batman: The Animated Series- Christmas with the Joker

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 "Jingle bells, Batman smells..." I love that they use the opening to the version of Jingle Bells I ised to sing in primary school...
Tuesday, 11 June 2024

The Last Sect (2006)

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"Once you join us you'll see this isn't a Heaven you have to suffer to enter..." I don't mind a good bad film. Bad fil...
Sunday, 9 June 2024

The Dogs of War (1980)

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 "He wants to be God. I want to be rich!" I was expecting this film to be rather more similar to Day of the Jackal - after all, bo...
Saturday, 8 June 2024

Doctor Who: Rogue

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 "Just try not to get engaged, or accidentally invent tarmac". My, Doctor Who is very metatextual these days. Another bloody good...
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Thursday, 6 June 2024

The Sweeney: Night Out

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 "Wait, where's my gun?" "In the dishwasher?" This is another subtle little character episode from the pen of none o...
Tuesday, 4 June 2024

Batman: The Animated Series- On Leather Wings

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 "I only toss butlers, Alfred..." And so it begins. I'm watching these in production order, as I'm, reliably informed the ...
Monday, 3 June 2024

The Sweeney: Jigsaw

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 "He's got the Church and the Palace of Westminster on his side. Who have you got?" On the surface, this episode is all plot, ...
Saturday, 1 June 2024

Doctor Who: Dot and Bubble

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 “You’re so good at walking!” This episode is, obviously, brilliant. I suppose it’s Doctor Who riffing on Unfriended and other films of t...
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Thursday, 30 May 2024

Update

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 This is just to say there will be no updates this week as I’m in full on dad mode, but I’ll be back with Doctor Who late on Saturday and a...
Saturday, 25 May 2024

Doctor Who: 73 Yards

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 “Everyone has abandoned me my whole life…” Let’s just pause to get the praise out of the way before we start: this is a bloody brilliant bi...
Friday, 24 May 2024

Carry On Jack (1964)

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"And all I get is the scrubbing..." This is not one of the well-remembered Carry Ons... and there's a reason for that. As with...
Thursday, 23 May 2024

The Pledge (1981)

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 “There's no peace for a dead man..." Yes, it’s another old adaptation of an old horror short story tonight- this time it’s The Hig...
Wednesday, 22 May 2024

The Sweeney: Queen's Pawn

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 "I'm not a gentleman. And I don't like losing." Oh, I like this episode: hard boiled and clever. It's a simple premis...
Monday, 20 May 2024

Echo: Maya

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 "You must not run..." Well, I suppose this is a satisfying finale. Fisk and his subordinates infiltrate the Choctaw pow wow and h...
Sunday, 19 May 2024

Doctor Who: Boom

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 "Keeps you dying. Keeps you buying." Phew, I've finally seen this, after twenty-four hours of feeling like I'm in that ep...
Wednesday, 15 May 2024

The Sweeney: Thin Ice

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 "I merely strangled the hound with my bare hands..." This is the best episode yet. Oh, the plot is clever and entertaining, and w...
Tuesday, 14 May 2024

The Pit (1962)

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 "Morte!" This is a fascinating litle curiosity, a short, thirty minute film made for the British Film Institute as an artistic ex...
Monday, 13 May 2024

Schalken the Painter (1979 TV Film)

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 "The darkness is unsafe..." This is an intrertestying little curiosity, a one-off Christmas ghost story broadcast on the BBC in l...

Better Call Saul: Winner

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 "I mean, four or six nipples. That's interesting..." This is, of course, a truly astonishing finale, based around two shockin...
Saturday, 11 May 2024

Doctor Who: The Devil's Chord

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 "I thought that was non-diegetic". The above quote says it all, and the song at the end even more so: this episode has a delightf...
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Doctor Who: Space Babies

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 "Is vthat, like, a matter transporter, like in Star Trek ?" Here we are, at last, at the start of a proper full run of episodes w...

Total Recall (1990)

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 "Hey, I've got five kids to feed!" Yes, I know. I'm exactly the age and demographic to have seen this film close to when ...
Thursday, 9 May 2024

Echo: Taloa

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 "I suspect you've come to kill me. Again." For the most part, Maya is likeable, despite how brurally direct she can be at tim...
Monday, 6 May 2024

Peeping Tom (1960)

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 "Whenever I photograph, I always lose..." , a This film, by Powell not Pressburger, was apparently considered so shocking back in...
Sunday, 5 May 2024

Mulholland Drive (2001)

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 "You will see me one more time, if you do good. You will see me two more times if you do bad..." This is, of course, an interesti...
Saturday, 4 May 2024

Passport to Pimlico (1949)

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 "Blimey! I'm a foreigner!" It's ridiculous that I hadn't seen this iconic Ealing comedy until last night but, well, n...
Wednesday, 1 May 2024

The Sweeney: Jackpot

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"There's got to be a perfectly logical explanation for all this..." Another excellent episode to follow-up the pilot, perhaps ...
Monday, 29 April 2024

Echo: Tuklo

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 "If the offer still stands... I'm helping you." This is the best episode so far. Of course, it centres on Maya, Bonnie and th...
Sunday, 28 April 2024

Inspector Morse: Deceived by Flight

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 "You can't arrest a man because his wife won't sleep with him." This is,perhaps, not as good an episode as some, and it f...
Thursday, 25 April 2024

Comments

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 Annoyingly, for a while I've only been able to respond to comments as "Anonymous" because Blogger makes me "sign in...
Wednesday, 24 April 2024

The Sweeney: Ringer

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 "Who's Godot?" "Plays full back for QPR." I knew of The Sweeney , of course. I certainly knew the theme tune, one o...
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Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Echo: Lowak

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 "You seem to have forgotten that the people close to you are the ones who get hurt..." The strong start continues; I'm enjoyi...
Sunday, 21 April 2024

The Cruel Sea (1953)

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"You know, when you lose a ship, it's like losing a bit of yourself." I'm becoming increasingly fascinated by British war ...
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Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Batman: The Doom of the Rising Sun

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"I assure you I'm no footpad!" The finale starts off with a fascinating, and rather good, cliffhangerresolution. Last episode ...
Tuesday, 16 April 2024

Echo: Chafa

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 "You have greatness in you..." Bear with me; Robin of Sherwood will follow in this blogging "slot", then more Twin Pea...
Sunday, 14 April 2024

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeouisie (1972)

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 "Unbelievable what they smoke in the army..." It's about time I watched and blogged another of Luis Bunuel's extraordinar...
Tuesday, 9 April 2024

Twin Peaks: The Last Evening

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 "One can never answer questiions at the wrong moment..." And so the first season is over, rather satifyingly. Of course, not all ...
Monday, 8 April 2024

Batman: The Executioner Strikes

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"Looks like a trap..." "'Course it is. But we won't get caught in it." Of course you won't, Bruce. Although ...
Sunday, 7 April 2024

Better Call Saul: Wiedersehen

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 "We should only use our powers for good..." This is a fascinating penultimate episode. An awful lot happens, and there's so m...
Saturday, 6 April 2024

Morbius (2022)

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 "I'm going to get hungry. And you don't want to see me when I'm hungry." I'm not too familiar with the Morbius ch...