Sweeping Strings

'For a song called 'Piano Man', that dude with the harmonica sure doesn't shut the fuck up'. Something on FB that amused me, hehehe.

Fish fingers and custard!

And maybe some jelly babies. Or lemon sherbets ... 'These should quench your thirst, Jamie!'. Erm ... sugary sweets tend to do exactly the opposite, Doctor. lol.

I'd say Temple Of Doom's opening is quite Bond-y (not least because it has Indy looking damn sharp in a tux) and has stuff like him using the giant gong as a bulletproof shield, but admittedly the movie becomes less so as it goes on. A footnote is that David Yip dies as an ally of Indy's in it, and the following year he dies as one of Bond's in AVTAK.

Yep, due on the iPlayer at midnight tonight UK time. Good luck to those choosing to watch then, I'm of an age where I choose sleep instead (plus watching Doctor Who late at night has never felt 'right' to me anyway).

From what I understand, parts of the story were updated (not surprising for a 21st century adap of a mid-50s novel), but the vast majority of it made it to the screen more or less intact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midwich_Cuckoos_(TV_series) This Sky TV series version from 2022 (under the novel's original title) gave me proper heebie-jeebies.

I sort of had a handle on what was happening during the first 3 episodes, but got lost during the remaining 3. There's that 15-minute explanation video that Chibnall posted on YouTube, but frankly I didn't and still don't care enough to watch it.

I don't know of many B-movies that run for 4 hours, but OK.

The Radio Times (not produced in-house by the Beeb any more, but still very much the most 'BBC-friendly' listings magazine) saying of the Rosa Parks episode (only Whittaker's 3rd, if memory serves) 'This is less teatime fun and more a lecture' has stayed with me. Things got to the stage during the Chinballs era of me being pleasantly surprised when the Villa Diodati and Spyfall eps didn't label Byron and Bond respectively as 'toxic males'.

New Who villain idea ... one who kills via the medium of dodgy puns .

First 2 eps are going out as a double-bill on Beeb 1 on Sat evening, for those in the UK who still like their first viewing to be when the show actually airs. And it's been announced that Ruby's bisexual ... not much of a surprise with modern-day Who I suppose, but here's hoping the 'messages' don't overwhelm the sci-fi adventuring.

That Machete double-bill is looking good for this Saturday night, in a kind of 'Eurovision can fuck off' stylee.

Remember reading that the idea behind 'Batfleck' was that he'd reached a sufficient level of jadedness and cynicism that he no longer cared about not seriously injuring/killing adversaries, and it's certainly evident in that clip.

I like the 2 Keatons, bits of the Kilmer, all of the Bales and the '66 West (taken in the spirit intended, it's great fun). The Clooney ... oh dear God. No interest in the 'Vs. Superman', Joker or the 3-hour Pattinson gloomfest.