Sweeping Strings

'Imagine being the reason the Kardashians are famous and that NOT being the worst thing about you' is by far the best comment I've seen about Simpson kicking the bucket.

Truman-Lodge was hilarious, a perfect parody of 80s 'yuppie' tossers.

'You'll have to show some sort of ... special talent.' *Bond glances around the room* 'Well, that shouldn't be too difficult'. 'What about the money, padrone?' 'Launder it'.

The Night House - supernatural psychological horror with Rebecca Hall as Beth who loses her husband to suicide, leaving her alone in the lakeside house that he built for them. When some incidents lead her to suspect that he's haunting the house, she starts investigating and discovers that he had dark 'urges' that may be connected to an incident in her past ... A fairly creepy and unsettling flick, with an excellent performance by Hall.

Gaga disrobed for A Star Is Born, I believe. So 'brief full nudity' could be her.

Maybe the studios now think the multitudes of tinfoil-hatted crazies online equate to a large and lucrative target market? Coming soon ... Flat Earth, Australia's Not Real and Chemtrails!

The UK's terrestrial channels which are funded by advertising revenue (ITV, Channels 4 and 5) offer a 'premium' version of their on-demand platforms, meaning that you can watch their content ad-free if you're prepared to pay to do so. Otherwise, the programmes/movies will play with 'embedded' and unskippable ad breaks. It's all quite weird if you remember a time when these type of channels would've thought providing an ad-free way to watch was absolute madness.

I'm old enough to remember when it took about six months after its big-screen release for a movie to get a rental release, and 3/4/5 years after that before it was on TV. Probably why I still find it notable when 'terrestrial' TV has premieres of movies that really aren't that old ... Channel 4 had The Lost City on Sat night and Top Gun : Maverick on the previous one, both summer '22 releases.

Ha, I saw this on Facebook but didn't notice each of the era-relevant cartoon characters on the guy's tee before. Wasn't the discs-by-post thing the origins of Netflix? Names LoveFilm back then, if memory serves.

If that's a euphemism ... TMI, dude!

The Inglorious Bastards - not the Tarantino flick, rather an Italian-made 70s WW2 actioner in which a bunch of US soldiers in France who have been sentenced to death for various misdemeanours escape on the way to the prison camp where the sentence is to be carried out and head for neutral Switzerland, only to wind up becoming part of a plan to destroy a train carrying a prototype of the V2 rocket. Fun Saturday night watch, with a streak of Dirty Dozen/M*A*S*H cynicism to it. Starring Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson and Ian Bannen.

McCartney saying that Wings doing the LALD song meant that he'd forgiven Bond for the 'earmuffs' line from Goldfinger still makes me smile.

Something like 5000 live tarantulas used in the filming. Kudos to the cast ... there wouldn't be a fee high enough for me *shudders*.

Given the mention of the Shat in this thread, here's an enjoyable 'creature feature' with him that fits right in to it - Think Arachnophobia, but without the gags.

Disco 'bled into' the Spy, Moonraker and FYEO scores if memory serves.