What are you watching? 2022/23

Indeed. Dealing with a cow entails cancelling all for that day. Although, it is easier than dispatching snakes and eels.

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I don’t even want to know.

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And I won’t even hint about it.

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Thank you, I prefer to fall asleep on lovely thoughts.

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me too, though with my insomnia, I need to be dosed and mollified.

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Well, I have been asked to speak at another debate regarding Christianity. Sadly it isn’t a stretch to knock the CoE, Anglicans in general, The Catholic Church and its dissenting Orthodox child. in 3 sentences. An ex Methodist with Franciscan and Jesuit training is a dangerous thorn.

Just exposing lies and the dogma which flies against the text of the Bible destroys Catholic dogma and the utterly heretical rapture theology which has no foundation in text.

Edit: I should include a warning about listening to Ann Widdecombe - the most racist and bigoted individual I have had the displeasure of meeting: All you’d expect in one contrary in all regards to Jesus of Nazareth.

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Well, recent conversations have got me interested in replaying Mornington Crescent. Now, as the rules are so obvious, explaining them to non-Brits would just waste all our time.

So Ross Noble playing for the first time should make all of it clear to you. Although, Graham did poorly explain the risk of being in nip.

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Sadly I was just made aware of Airplane Mode after receiving a request to watch it.

I’m going to have to crack open a few bottles of something potent to get through this one.

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Here’s my august for August list. It is is made of movies which are refined to their core, are lightning a a bottle films or have influenced the media with some ‘outstanding’ characteristic.

Some you’ll know, some you’ll spot that I have covered before (I don’t mind watching movies more than once a year) and a few where you’ll think WTF is that?!

1st Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Theatrical release)

2nd From Beyond (Vinegar Syndrome 4K)

3rd Baskin (International subtitled release)

4th Nosferatu (2013 Deluxe Remastered)

5th The Man in a White Suit (1951)

6th Le Voyage dans la Lune

7th Joe Dante Presents Matrix: Resurrections.

8th Evil Dead (Full unrated tree rape restored cut)

9th Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (US Theatrical)

10th Little Shop of Horrors (Director’s Cut)

11th 1984

12th Surviving Edged Weapons

13th Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Despecialised V2.0)

14th Batman

15th Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (luckily South Park stopped Spielberg from making any alternate or ‘special’ editions).

16th Come to Daddy

17th Jurassic Park

18th A Wounded Fawn

19th Dog Soldiers

20th The Suckling

21st Black Sheep

22nd Possum

23rd Despicable Me (Korean retitled as ‘Super Bad’ cut)

24th Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Extended Edition)

25th Nekrotronic

26th Back to the Future

27th Alien 3 (restored workprint Quadrilogy cut)

28th Fateful Findings

29th The Fountain

30th Pan’s Labyrinth

31st Star Wars Holiday Special

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One of the best of all time. I agree with @robrrt1 , it is an event. And Paula did a great job. She only had a couple of days to rehearse because she was brought in at the last minute. Outstanding !!

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Love the list however, I’d have to add August Rush to the mix (just a personal “feel good” favorite of mine)

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I’ll keep it in mind in case I need to switch things up or need to watch a second due to insomnia.

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Went to the jays game yesterday

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By Grabthar’s Hammer, what an impressive crowd making championship. The chaps on the odd grass seem to have not understood the event but the rest are glorious: Triple Plus Good.

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As I had a typical bout of insomnia, after I realised that it was after 12, I decided to enjoy the visual and emotional warmth of Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

Why is this the first august for August movie? Well, to put it simply, this is the lightning in a bottle movie with ‘fuck off’ written on the vial.

After rewatching it, it was glorious from start to finish, exceptional in quality from start to finish. A few optical effects didn’t work well but for a movie over 30 years old - it is still punching above almost everything which came out this year.

Now the true glory of it comes from the utter disregard for studios, producers and the Hollywood system it proudly presents. Warner Brothers couldn’t find a way to develop a sequel to Gremlins but Joe Dante refused again and again. In the end, WB just wrote a check and allowed Joe to make it. What he made was the most subversive Hollywood movie ever with maybe Freddy Got Fingered being the only other to get close to it.

Each time you watch it, you will find something new: Whether that’s Casablanca but with a happier ending or countless real and fake cameos. The prefix ‘Joe Dante presents’ originates in this glorious work of screwing with the system and still remains a beloved work.

RLM covers it in detail, so I’ll leave you with them:

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Care to elaborate?

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I now have it on my main cloud and will give it a go. Personally, I think it may not resonation with me but, you never know until you try.

Although, for tonight I have Geoffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton in a tale by Lovecraft, adapted by Brian Yuzna and directed by Stuart Gordon - Cinematic gold.

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It is definitely a feel good story but I love it, You may not and that’s ok, I think it fantastic that you looked it up and have it in your cloud. As you said, “you never know”
I have never been one for the horror genre with the exception of a few, it may be time for me to give it a go.

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The professor’s recommends on the B movie genre are exceptional IMO. And IMO, B-movie horror are the most fun to watch.

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Well, after seeing the pitiful view count, I had to share this classic.

All Brits know that the Freddo is for economics, as in the way Wales is used as the common measure for disaster.

Up there with It’s Bloody Cold when it comes to parodies.

‘James Blunt is rhythming slang’.

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