And if you want to go back a staggering 15 years, here's my first ever media appearance (apart from a stint as a presenter on Isle of Wight Hospital Radio, a whole other lifetime ago!) - a Radio Four documentary about "Alan Smithee." - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I should be on BBC Radio Scotland's Sunday Show in a while, at around 11:50, talking about mummy movies. You can hear it online from anywhere in the UK if you fancy hearing me trying not to make a complete tit of myself on live radio... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
That's really kind of you to say so, thank you!
Ha! We were having very similar thoughts!
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Is that the sound of a hint being dropped?! 😁
As someone who's successfully losing his own paunch, I shouldn't really laugh but...
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Thank you Craig! And yes, I rewatched The Awakening recently too and it really hasn't improved with age at all!
True, but most things are!! 😂
We're back! But not, sadly, with anything good. How low are we going to rate this one do you reckon? Listen here (share.google/c7HbIC8hz6aP...) and at all the usual outlets. At least we're more entertaining than the film...
We didn't sadly - that felt like it was too ridiculous even for us!!
Absolutely!
Excellent! Startling them on the good stuff nice and young! I recently introduced the newest member of our 'tribe' (it's complicated!) to the joys of Black Sabbath. Just 9 months old and he was loving it!
Oh it gets worse - buckle up! And, unlike Help!, not even some great songs to save the day!
Not the best film for a "comeback" episode but those are the cards we were dealt! Hopefully the podcast will be better than the film! 😁
That's it exactly - it's hard work. It should be a masterpiece and I do admire it, but God it's a struggle...
Things to Come (1936) is undoubtedly a landmark of British cinema and science fiction on the big screen, but it can be a bit worthy and, dare we say it... dull. It looks magnificent of course, but the constant lecturing gets a bit wearying.
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UFOleul tagoon oegyein wangja (1984) is an extraordinarily derivative Korean animation that features a race of aliens lifted straight from Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-terrestrial (1982) and music cues from Dario Argento...
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Yes, the fall off in quality was depressing. By the time we got to Die Another Day I was ready to give up on Bond altogether.
Quite right, thank you!
Dalton's out, Brosnan's in and the Bond series gets a fresh lease of life in Martin Campbell's GoldenEye (1995) in which Bond is successfully dragged into the post-perestroika 90s.
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Midnight Offerings (1981) is an above average made for television horror about rival teen witches facing off at high school in what amounts to a war between Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons. Read the review, it'll make sense, sort of...
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Very nice! Love this sort of thing!
It's a beautiful film! I remember seeing it when it was first released and being amazed at some of the negative reviews.
Not a great fan of Exorcist II but Excalibur is magnificent!
Thanks for thinking of us but all is well - we'll be back next week! And trust me, you could do with an extra week before we dive into the next one (it's not great!)
John Boorman's Zardoz (1974) (yes, the one with Sean Connery in a nappy) is alternately baffling and beautiful, pretentious and hilarious. It might have meant something to Boorman but good luck working out what that meaning is.
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