the narration style is growing on me.
I’ve always liked “Time Team”, but sometimes, the streams available through youtube and through amazon prime video looked like mushy peas in mud.
But for about four months now, somebody-- perthaps the original creator, has been making 1080p upscaled versions avaialble.
It’s nice to be able to see the “finds.”
Dodgy source:
Upscaled, official source:
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Ridiculous bike sports.
Uphill:
Downhill:
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The Secret of Dorian Gray (1970) Dir: Massimo Dallamano
A fun Euro-sleaze version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. (Producer Harry Allan Towers loved public domain works.) Not to be taken seriously as a Wilde adaptation or horror, and unlikely to be found all that titillating by modern viewers, but I enjoyed it as a portrait of its time. (It should be timeS, but despite the stretching over decades the whole thing seems to take place in the late ‘60s.) The fashions, check out Helmut Berger’s zebra patterned coat!, and rather quaint notions of scandalous behavior, a half-hearted spanking and some very chaste cottaging, are charming, and it’s got a great score from Peppino De Luca as well. With Herbert Lom (who gets a brief shower scene with Berger).
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It’s called Westworld now
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Blood Rage aka Slasher aka Nightmare at Shadow Woods
Filmed 1983 Released 1987
Dir: John Grissmer
Featuring Louise Lasser, Mark Soper, Julie Gordon (and Ted Raimi’s screen debut)
Two twin brothers sneak away while their mother makes out at the drive-in. One, Terry, chops up a guy involved in his own make-out session, while the other, Todd, takes the blame. That was ten years ago. Todd just escaped from his institution and he’s coming home…
Hilarious. At first, I thought this was accidental, but considering Lasser’s presence and the absurd way lines keep getting repeated, like the aforementioned “It’s not cranberry sauce,” I guess it was intentional. Mark Soper does a great job as the two twins, the gore is nicely over the top, and it’s worth it just to watch Lasser sit on the floor and eat leftovers.
Available on Kanopy, which has got so many obscure art films and documentaries, I could finally catch a Straub-Huillet feature or something from Trinh T. Minh-ha, but no, I’m watching Ted Raimi sell condoms in the men’s room.
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I’ve been binging this (and whatever else others will let me binge without entirely tying my viewing to their schedule) over the last few days.
Fair warning: I haven’t read/listened to the books or played the games. That said, the main character so far feels to me like a parody of every bland, uninvolved RPG main character I’ve ever seen, while the rest of the world tries to figure out what the heck is wrong with this person.
To be totally frank, that’s kinda what most of the first season of PoI felt like to me before it (very well, and totally sucking me in) hit its stride. So… there’s that. 
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The only review you need.
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Eh. I loved the Bruno Mattei show, but find the continual aggressive sarcasm of the Cinema Snob bits wearying. Plus this review does basically spoil the entire movie.
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I guess he is an acquired taste.
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So, what I seem to have ended up restricted on a schedule on instead of The Witcher is… Locke & Key .
(I link that instead of including that because of some minor spoilers in the wikipedia description)
Not a bad show. Decent enough acting. It steals from the greats (one actor seems to be trying hard to channel present-day Keanu Reaves, and at least one scene looks to be cribbed almost directly from The Shining). Has some pretty good puns as cover bands for real-world bands. Definitely a young adult story.
At the point I’m at, if I had one short sentence to yell at the characters, it would be: do not leave your body if your body is not in a secure place!!!
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spy who came in from the cold. (prime)
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A new adaptation, or the good one?
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Last night I watched the first episode of season 4 of Brockmire. Hank Azaria is one of my guilty pleasures. But… wow, this might not be the best week to have future society degenerating, I’m just sayin’. I hope they’ve already got the whole season in the can.
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One of the all time best episodes of dr who.
I have all the serials through the Horror of Fang Rock, and plan to watch them in order over the coming weeks. next up: The Masque of Mandragora.
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I remember all these titles, but at this point the stories are a little foggy.
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It’s the one where an eccentric millionaire cultivates an alien plant that eats humans.
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Also one where The Doctor gets to be much more of a smartass than usual.
Whole serial is full of stuff like that…
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