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Watching the first Mission Impossible picture again, and it really is several worlds away from the huge swaggering beasts the franchise outputs became.

Carry On Ocean's 11 casting: Clooney & Pitt - Sid and Bernie Elliott Gould - Peter Butterworth Matt Damon - Charlie Hawtrey Andy Garcia - Ken W Scott Caan and Casey Affleck - Kenneth Cope and Peter Gilmore Carl Reiner - Frankie Howard Bernie Mack - Terry Scott

A certain poetry in Ocean's that the boxing match in the picture is Lennox/Vitali previewing a banger we got later when being distracted by filming this caused Lennox to get sparked by Hasim Rahman.

Watching Ocean's Eleven and it remains dripping in cool. Don Cheadle's accent is still a crime mind you.

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Phil Collins as a gay bathhouse owner is curious if entertaining casting decision.

Pride month so watching And the Band Played on on HBO Max.

Looking at mens face washes/cleansers on line and my hat you can pay a few bob for some of them can't you? Presumably those £40+ ones all involve carbon and charcoal from meteorites or Yeti tears.

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If the members of popular beat combo Fugazi were to open a surrealist French restaurant would it be called Steady Rillette of Nothing?

Of course the real hipster choice is Henry IV Part 3, but that was mostly just his socks.

2026 edition greying Adrian Lester? Blimey.

Giving Ponies on HBO Max/Now TV a go and it must be alright as it's opening with 'Second Hand News' by Fleetwood Mac playing over the top.

Presumably this soccer business with Egypt is some sort of pyramid scheme? (This joke copyright King Pepi I 2368 BC)

"It is I, LeClerc!"

And you tell the youth of today that you saw Lon Chaney walking with the queen and they just don't believe you. Night gang xx. youtu.be/mUR9z7dt4Lk?...

The fake Brlll is a fabulous little sideplot and no mistake Missus.

Rounding off the weekend with a watch of the electric Enemy Of The State, cracking little picture.

Ferrari winning and McLaren back up there? Just need Williams to be good again and proper F1 will be back.

Watching Michael Bay's masterpiece The Rock and I just wish everyone wasn't giving such lowkey understated performances.

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Been in Bristol so have a before and after haircut pic comparison, before pic from last week.

Anyway, night you beautiful bright sparkling things, keep looking busy and know that you're always inches on my reel to reel. xx youtu.be/sOEW1HkGpbM?...

Also one presumes that a buffalo stance would be 'on all fours in a field eating grass' so that's a worry too.

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Petition to establish a Govenment inquiry to establish just what Go West were going on about in 'We Close Our Eyes.'

Good news, Aldi's Bowler & Brolly 2024 English Bacchus White Wine is both delicious and going cheap in store (£5.99 a bottle.)

Every time I watch a live video of the Fleetwood Mac and it's a Stevie number, it feels like I'm intruding on a private couples therapy session.

Anyway, as ever as here we are again, night gang and happy Pride month gang. xx youtu.be/ghLk-BhT-P8?...

One can't help but note that none of his contemporaries ever pressed Cosimo De Medici on his favourite womble. A poor state of affairs imo.

Of course had the renaissance kicked off in Stockport then everything might be a little bit different.

Watching a best of the two Ronnies video on the youtubes just now and reflecting how much of English humour relies on authority figures reciting big words at speed. Also the master mind sketch is still fantastic.

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Having yet another watch of Hot Fuzz because it's just a wonderful thing.

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TV idea, the events of Nixon in China, but depicted in the style of a 1960s ITV thriller, Mao in a Suitcase.

Watching the first couple of episodes of The Devil's Hour on Prime after @atomcrowley.bsky.social recommended it on the snake boys and it's rather different and intriguing thus far.

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Watching Venom on ye olde BluRay and it remains a fun little time in a non big MCU sort of a way.

The shipwrecked MI6 HQ in Hong Kong harbour however, is one of those very cool pieces that I wish they'd bring back.

Watching The Man With The Golden Gun, a film that treats its setting and subjects with the dignity and seriousness of One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing but with less Bernard Bresslaw.

Anyway enough of such frippieries madam, they don't fit me anyway, night gang, be here, be queer or not, i'm not your mum xx. youtu.be/kwasvUv9fg4?...

"What's that Geoffrey, instead of an online therapy service you instead signed up for pictures of young dogs on facebook - I think you've subscribed to metawhelp by mistake."

"Excuse me sir but I can hear your Indian takeaway dish complaining quietly... Ah yes Constable, that's my mutter chicken."

Right, time then to watch movie number 2 for this evening, Logan Lucky, a corking heist picture and my favourite 'Daniel Craig does an absolutely hatstand accent' one. Also love to see him having more fun than in all the Bond pictures combined.