Not as politically pertinent, but I think this one is my favourite of theirs. (Never realised the video went full-on Caligari, but I didn't watch much TV in the 1980s, nor did I have MTV/cable until the 1990s)
Yes.
Yawning cat named Timothy
New cat update
That whole special (Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra) is full of wonderful moments, if you can find it… seems like only random pieces are online…
I love his Cockney version of the William Tell Overture…
HAHAHA this guy. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/h...
I don't think it drags at all.
I'm a Three Musketeers completist, so read it a while back. Obv none of the Dumas makes it into the film, which is fine by me since I find what is there vastly entertaining - it's a very different animal.
A sleepy ginger and white cat called Kevin
That's what I'm talking about, perfect name
Cat and dogs
I really like this.
A white tea town with a Tracey Emin painting of a slightly soft focus pink nude seen face on, with writing across the bits of tea towel the nude is occupying...
Well, we seem to have added a Tracey Emin tea towel to our collection. (Mostly, they're just agitprop or cats.)
He's one of the greats!
Perfect beginning (trigger warning!) to Roman Polanski's THE NINTH GATE (1999) with music by the great Wojciech Kilar. Depp was still tolerable back then, playing straight man in a cast of gloriously grandstanding ham. It's a very, very funny film (though maybe only if you're a sick puppy like me).
One of my favourite Alexandre Desplat scores - from Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION (2007) starring Tony Leung at peak hotness & Tang Wei, also great in LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT & DECISION TO LEAVE.
Love this.
my internic handle is JT16 and if you know what that is, you know how impressive that is
The Sistine Chapel. A lot of great artists worked there. But Michelangelo, IMHO, was the greatest of them, and today is his day.
When we went up to Scarborough we were walking along the front and a man came up to me and said would you like this and it was a Teddy-bear and I said thank-you and went back to the caravan.
4 Screenshots from the movie "Airplane II: The Sequel" (1982): First, a middle-aged lawyer in a brown suit and tie stands in a wood-paneled courtroom, addressing the judge and jury with a serious expression. The subtitle reads: "On March 5th, 1980, flight 209 into Chicago lost its crew in midair." Second, the same lawyer, now looking slightly more intense, continues speaking with the subtitle: "I'd like to call one of the passengers from that flight..." Third, the lawyer smirks slightly, raising his eyebrows and tilting his head as he finishes his statement with the subtitle: "...if it pleases the court." Fourth, a shot of the judge, an older man in black robes, sitting at the bench with large grins on their faces.
Mar 5th 1980 - Ted Striker, an ex-fighter pilot and traumatized war veteran, saved the lives of everyone on-board Flight 209 after the flight crew became sick with food poisoning. The date was mentioned in Airplane 2 (1982)
📽️📅 Airplane! (1980)
2 Screenshots from the movie "No Other Choice" (2025): First, a man in a blue shirt looks intently at a wooden stick, surrounded by a dimly lit room with a desk lamp illuminating the space. Second, a close-up of a resume on a table with a photo of a man in a suit, alongside additional photographs and documents, partially obscured by a hand holding a wooden stick.
Mar 6th 1970 - Man-su, an award-winning employee of Solar Paper, is born. Thirteen months after redundancy and unable to find work, with his savings depleted, he’s left with…
📽️📅 No Other Choice (2025)
No American need be dissuaded from disgust because we killed 175 schoolgirls in a wartime airstrike gone awry. But this isn't our worst in Iran. For those who don't remember, google Flight 655 and July 3, 1988. That was 290 innocent people. There was no war. And our president refused to apologize.
Yeah, but this isn't even pretending to be French, so it's a different issue.
3/3 Michelangelo's grocery list. Because even great artists have to eat! Especially on their birthday, and his is today.
This trend for prioritising the demands of fiction over the truthful representation of real people and their lives is something that I think is a real issue - I wrote a whole thread about this in regards to the Ed Gein series on Netflix
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Team Abertoir’s been taking a breather after our massive 20th edition and we’ve made a decision: we’re taking it down a notch for 2026. There won’t be a big 5-day festival in 2026, but we’re certainly not going to be dormant – far from it!
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I had, in fact, seen it, though agree it's not technically a remake of the first one. But the wording is ambiguous, so a marginal call... OTOH wouldn't have made much difference to my lamentable score.
Too right! (Not that a quiz equivalent of VAR would have made much difference to my embarrassingly pathetic score)
It's the International Women's Day Movie Quiz. (We have an ongoing Steward's Inquiry on question two by the way). www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
A great photographer (incidentally, director of the game-changing 1971 Blaxploitation film SHAFT as well); if I were in London I would visit this expo for sure.
Casting call! Looking for a woman voice actor, 50+ who is versatile and a vocal chameleon / can play many different bit parts in an audio comedy.
We’re recording in London on 13th & 14th April. This is a paid opportunity. Actor does not need to be autistic!
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