www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4yN... @diamandahagan.bsky.social Another for your BBC exploitation films, Harold Pinter-directed play about slaves in the Congo

@terwillikerinst.bsky.social Looking at the cast of The Running Man remake. Is Debi Mazar UK-based now? Her credits recently feature a lot of Europe-shot stuff. She's currently in a recurring role in an RTE thing.

'Hey, kids, watch this 1955 Republic western with Sterling Hayden!'

Baby, that's American for boyfriend, right ... #totp

Is this Barney’s Plow King commercial? #totp

#totp Dear god, can only think of the Little and Large parody with Syd, Eddie, Eli Woods, Kenny Baker and Chris Greener, Britain's tallest man

#totp Linda Ronstadt, another one of those American celebs I learnt of via the Simpsons. Though it turned out my mam was a fan. @darach.bsky.social

I don't remember our Cilla doing a dance number? #totp

#totp Yes, Belfast got to Number 1 in Ireland.

Oh Christ it’s “Belfast” - I would urge people to read Peter Taylor’s trilogy about the Troubles rather than analyse Boney M’s take on it #totp

I was listening to the Father Ted commentary and there's a moment where Linehan reflects solemnly, that Ireland isn't entirely a friendly place 'just ask a black person'. And yet twenty years later... He's accusing black men of wearing blackface.

@jaycoyle.bsky.social playing the Vue in Liffey Valley this weekend.... @baloobas.bsky.social @padz1312.bsky.social retweet for Dublin movie massive.

youtu.be/4oDUFUcdvZ4?... Watching an ep of Three's Company only for the novelty of Bob 'Jeff Ross from the Sandbaggers' Sherman in something actually shot in LA. Katy, his character's sister says she is 25 years old. In reality, Lois Hamilton (Katy) was 37 at the time.

people often evolve in their understanding of trans people once they actually know some, and the girl gang of trans sex workers Francis had lunch with and supported financially after the pandemic wrecked their income knew him better than me; but that doesn’t render his bad takes immune to critique

this was obviously one of the first things we all zoomed to Google as soon as we had a name after the conclave, and I think the most anyone found was a yikes quote from 2012, which was pre-Francis, and I am willing to grant a lot of Catholics the grace that Francis sincerely changed their minds

When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/

What's even weirder is that the Ian McNeice role of Bert is played by John 'Bender' DiMaggio - who yes is a live action actor, too.

one of the complex legacies of Pope Francis is that he publicly said a lot of very ugly things about ‘gender ideology’, but had personal friendships with a lot of Catholic trans women who felt really supported by him. Leo welcoming them publicly feels like a promising sign. I am EYEING HIM CLOSELY

The significance here isn't that the Pope is groovy or progressive, but rather that the Pope sets the standard for mainstream conservative thought. Which is to say: if you are more right wing than the Pope, you are really very extreme.

When I did my BA there was a book in the Uni library, published late 80s, which argued that British media was trustworthy but European Newspapers always lied, and cited a series of French newspaper stories about Princess Diana attempting suicide and being trapped in a loveless marriage as proof...

Daniel Hannan was born in Peru, and has done more deep and lasting damage to the United Kingdom, and her people, than any individual asylum seeker ever could. #bbcpm #BrexitReality

#NowWatching #Noirvember

Crikey. A 17-year-old game show being deployed on a main channel? That’s dire straits and no mistake.

I see that from the 25th, BBC-2 has dredged-up 2008 Clive Anderson quiz show Brainbox Challenge for afternoons. I wonder if they'll alter the endboard, which has a long-gone URL on it.

RE:Spooky American shite shot on VT with Vincent Price - finally found a copy of the much talked about on Gilbert Gottfried special Joys! which is a parody of Jaws except it's actually an old dark house movie - hosted by Vincent Price www.facebook.com/watch/?v=845... @franticplanet.bsky.social

Isn't it the reverse because Kelly is actually married to DONALD SINDEN!?!?!

@danmckee.bsky.social @franticplanet.bsky.social pure club singer madness

www.imdb.com/title/tt1566... Unaired ABC pilot americanising Andy Capp. Starring Pat Henry, US club standup who played Vegas with Bernard Manning, adding a vestigial echo of Northernness. @danmckee.bsky.social @franticplanet.bsky.social

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender:

Cool character introduced in a Fulci movie only to be devoured inside-out by tarantulas 48 minutes in

I keep saying that Laura Loomer looks like Nic Cage in his Longlegs makeup. No one disagrees with me, not because they disagree but because it makes everyone feel bad.

Anyone having problems with ok.ru's history? Programmes listed as watched in their entirety you didn't even start...

Also saw a lib in the wild earnestly suggest we start a petition to get Gary Lineker as BBC's new Director General and it's so cute that they think the world works this way. I feel like there's a well-meaning section of the online electorate who are still in William Blake's Songs of Innocence mode.

I secretly think that about ALL the “classic” franchises clogging up the cultural broadband these days.

Once again, “protect the children” drives people quite insane, and rarely actually protects any children.

HEROES OF COMEDY (Channel 4) With Chris Diamond pod.link/1569929507 From 1995 to 2002 Heroes Of Comedy celebrated the finest comic talents Britain has ever produced (and Bernard Manning) and this week we're taking a look at three editions: The Goons, Terry-Thomas & Tommy Cooper

One of the great missed opportunities: Walt Disney was planning a Museum of the Weird for Disneyland that was scrapped when Walt died. Here are some of the designs by animator Rolly Crump.

We all know the most likely candidate as Egg Bond.

This is why the 1971-74 Hamilton/Mankiewicz Bonds were my faves as a kid. Cos they get this. "Kung fu! Christopher Lee! A funhouse! A little guy! A laser gun! A Chinese junk! Comedy sheriff! Robot gangsters and cowboys! A flying car! Britt Ekland in a bikini! A kid falling in a river! Belly dancer!"

Christ.

Ah yes, the intractable continuity of the James Bond franchise. Sometimes he has a dead wife and sometimes he doesn't. One minute he's at the start of his career and then almost immediately near the end of it. His 'death' feels like a minor inconvenience at best.

Step two: Find the most autistic of said daft wee boys. Ask him for his ten coolest facts. Omit anything with dinosaurs or comic books. That’s your plot. Pin it on something inoffensive but vaguely topical.

The more I think about the new V for Vendetta HBO series, the more I can only conclude that HBO have not thought about it. It's a story about a (trans) terrorist Dr Phibes-ing their way through mainstream right wing types who enabled mediocre fascists to take power.

If *i* was interviewing Anthony Horowitz I’d ask why his recent big budget BBC drama got buried and the publicity seemed to go out of his way to mention him as little as possible Well, that and Crime Traveller

Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.

As John Rain said, Bond relies on denial. You can get away with so much in Bond and we all accept it. It's all fine so please proceed with the nonsense.

Kidd Bandit is basically the femboys/anime loving t-girls' Exotic Adrian Street. And for that I love her.

Ngl, do want to see DiCaprio's slovenly cop who chases a criminal all over Malta.

Because of this, I keep wondering 'did Dalton play Jedburg in Edge of Darkness?'