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Tonight's ITVX detective show discover is Blue Murder from 2003 with Caroline Quentin, and 40 minutes into the first episode, rather good.

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Watching Contact for the first time on A-Prime and my hat, Matthew McConaughey's character is a self righteous copper bottomed prick huh.

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"The Red October Geoffrey? No, no I've not seen it about, where did you last put it?"

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Friends suspect he's kicked off a Due South DVD rewatch from the beginning again.

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Watching that cult Japanese horror movie about a kaiju monster battling an order of sisters in Godzilla Minus Nun. Also, watching the decolourised B&W version and visually it's just extraordinary.

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I bought a French duck I was going to cook in a Cantonese-style barbecue sauce; but the duck escaped, covered me in the glaze, and forced me into the oven. I was hoisined by my own canard

Trying this new Allan Hawco series Saint-Pierre on Now TV, good stuff so far.

Well, just had a look at HBO Max and rather whelming. Anyway, instead as I've never seen it now watching Apollo 13 on netflix.

And the Lord saw that the museum goers had grown arrogant, and godless, and so he beckoned to Benugo and said unto to him: “ye shall go down upon the museum goers and provide them bad wine, so that they will pray to me for better”.

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I realise that they're hardly the focal point of the The Martian but Benedict Wong and Donald Glover are just cool AF and I demand a detective duo tv show featuring them forthwith.

Anyway, watching The Martian for the first time in a while as I read Project Hail Mary only the other month and this will scratch that itch nicely.

Only one choice really

If they were still round the dark side of the moon the Artemis II crew would be able to hear Arsenal choking.

Watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon again and can't work out if it's actually very good or just a right load of jumping about cobblers.

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The talent most needed by ancient Mesopotamian and Canaanite footballers was strong baal control.

Definitely getting back in my groove, absolutely nailed airfryng a butcher's sirloin steak for supper earlier. Now watching Verdi's Nabucco on Blu-ray with a cup of tea and a flapjack.

Monterverdi's Vespers are always an interesting proposition, I mean what would an Italian renaissance composer know of 1960s tinned 'curry'?

Watching the Tinker, Tailor.. movie with Gary Oldman et al, lovely Friday night stuff.

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"No Geoffrey if you scrawl on a TV screen in yellow ink and press fast forward it won't scroll up off the screen like a Star Wars start."

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Anyway, now watching some Stargate SG-1 on netflix, which is all well and good but it don't half look like a transfer from someone's VHS collection

Watched the first episode of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. on Amazon earlier this evening, fun if a little basic and shockingly almost no McCallum - one scene then all Robert Vaughan and the innocent lass caught up in the whole shebang. Looked fine in B&W.

“And we now go over live to Budapest…”

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Having watched Carry on Abroad and more episodes of 'In Search of The Trojan War' - keeping up my intellectual energy watching Godzilla X Kong The New Empire.

In Jay McInerney's new book, a character appears gently pitying of his father because "it mattered to him, that he was a guy who could get a booth at Balthazar". In his recent Lunch with the FT, McInerney is proud of being a guy who could get a booth at Balthazar.

Brody King even throws Derby Allin in a bin when he's finished duffing him up

When was this Vader lives in a steaming fish tank on Space Mordor with camp Pete Postlethwaite as a monk in attendance business established as a SW thing? #RogueOne

Like how this implies that for instance Gregory XI was firing out less remarkable tweets at Catherine of Siena

Watching Rogue One this evening and well, Ben Mendelsohn plays a nasty greasy little prick so well doesn't he? Shame about fake Cushing mind you.

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Update - booked my Liverpool stay because dammit I'm going to have something to look forward to.

Just watched the first episode of the 1990 Bill and Ted cartoon that's now on A-Prime and well, there we are then. Saved I feel by the HB animation style of the time and Reeves, Carlin & Winters doing their voices for it.

Thinking about having a midweek break in Liverpool in late September and as they're having a sale, has anyone ever stayed at The Resident?

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Rewatching the Andor finale for SW urges and god it's so perfect in how the final pieces all fall into place ahead of R1.

But wither Neil DeConcretey Tyson?