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Watching The Rivals Of Amziah King This is a wonderful: a shaggy dog bluegrass honey noir, with Matthew McConaughy as the beekeeping banjo player embroidered in stolen honey. He's great, the music fantastic and the turns it takes with co-lead Angelina LookingGlass are the definition of thrilling

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 22h

Crisis Is My Favourite Snack - winner of Best Film Bafta 2034

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching Forgotten Sweeties Not the most elegant of Charley Chase comedies but like most has a bravura sequence where he scares off the brutish jealous husband he's trapped with by drawing two ghosts on his feet. Also Anita Garvin one punches out said husband which is impressive

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching Young Washington In which it appears the entire American War Of Independence happened because some posh Brit wouldn't let George Washington be an officer in the British Army.

The poster for Young Washington yet again proving that Ben Kingsley will be in any old shit

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching A Season To Blossom A 'reconnecting with hometown ex' Hallmark where she inherits a failing bookstore and he runs a cider orchard. Sentimentally serious and filmed in February as the orchards look dead, but this becomes a plot point as climate crisis ruins the blossom season

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is basically how bubble tea was invented

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watching Sh! The Octopus Horror Of Fang Rock with an Octopus. Is the Octopus a nefarious super criminal gang leader, or an actual octi. Or both. Abbott And Costello level japery enhanced by not having Bud or Lou, its frenetic but has great effects and bonus points for using the one true plot

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watching The Moon And Back Sweet little griefer coming of age drama. After her Dad dies, Lydia discovers a schlocky sci-fi script he wrote and decides to make it for a school project. Pretty funny, hits the right notes and has a terrific central performance from Isabel May. Efficient at 74 minutes

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching A Little Park Music She is the city manager tasked with removing a gazebo He's a new cop who tickets her for jaywalking Pianos start turning up in the gazebo, every time she tries to knock it down. Apparently mystery pianos are agin the law so they team up to discover who did it. Romance?

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watched Sleepway Camp Pre Camp Miasma viewing since it is such a core text.Whilst basicallyally a Friday 13th rip,it's fascinating to see the quotidian summer camp horrors of kids being mean, the embedded camp within the lousy acting, and that ending: obliterating its final girl in a fascinating way

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Did Metric have an Imperial Phase?

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Watching Return To Silent Hill This is on me,I've not liked any Silent Hill movies and the director of the first is back for more incoherent stringing together of videogame set pieces (creepy kids,spidercreatures,mazes) with a thoroughly tedious lead character. Like a terrible old school game movie

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Watching In Gay Madrid Largely a rerun of Navarro's silent hit The Student Prince In Old Heidelberg, this has the quite gay Navarro as a philandering student sent to Santiago De Compostela where he won't get up to any mischief. He gets up to mischief

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Watching The Isolate Thief Decent calling card Western where Mackenzie Foy is alone in a Union outpost at the end of the civil war.Joey Pants turns up and hides some gold which she finds,then Sean Bean and his soldiers turn up and battle of wits becomes battle of guns. Nothing new but still gripping

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Watched Adventures In Love And Birding A Hobby Hallmark starring Hallmark's Sally Field: Rachel Boston. Based on a book so there's more plot than usual: divorced teacher facing an empty nest,meets a twitcher who is trying to beat his his ex at spotting. Overestimates how competitive birdwatching is

Poster for Adventures In Love And Birding

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Watched Deep Water Exactly the same plot as 24's No Way Up,plane crashes in the sea and gets bothered by sharks. Rennie Harlin has shark previous and does a great plane crash but then so-so survival.But again the moral is the US should make people retire younger. Ben Kingsley is an 82 year old pilot

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Watching Assistant Wives A top tier Charley Chase silent which is like huffing pure Terry And June. Asking for a raise he indicates that the burger flipper across the street is his wife (she's not).His boss says bring her up, so he bribes her to come up where she invites him to dinner. So Charley...

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm being blackmailed by my memory-foam mattress.

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watching The Gay Desperado Why wasn't this part of the Ritrovato Rouben Mamoulian season. A Mexican operatic musical gangster parody where the Mexican gang boss loves gangster films and wants to be more like them, plus opera loving. Daft as a brush, light as a feather and with a dazzling Ida Lupino

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Watching Gasbags The Crazy Gang use a barrage balloon to advertise their fish and chip stall but a gust of wind wafts them all off to Nazi Germany where they have fun in a concentration camp before getting embroiled in a secret weapon plot and impersonating Hitler. They also pretend to be trees

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today in BBC News trying to gaslight us, they try to suggest that the Ringo Starr narrated Thomas The Tank Engine was a BBC show, rather than ITV where it actually premiered. What with this and Mack-Le-More, they are slowly chipping away at my sanity this week youtu.be/bntQp6uDoKI?...

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CITV Children's ITV Terrahawks intro of the TV debut of Thomas the Tank Engine. 09/10/1984 Part 1.

YouTube video by MrBetamax

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Watching Man On The Run Sympathetic but forensic Paul McCartney in the 70's documentary which never wants you to believe that some of his output was rubbish, but you work that out for yourself. You're happy they're happy, and there is an arc. Sod's law that it's defined by Lennon's killing though

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Watching Romance Retreat Workaholic journo goes on a yoga retreat with her boyf but he dumps her because of the workaholisms. She falls for another yogi whilst solving a crime and mugging broad comedy. Such as "What's behind your back?" "My farts." made me laugh much more than I expected.

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Watching Blow Dry The other early 00's hairdresser competition film shoehorns as many subplots and talking points into its 95 mins: Natasha Richardson (who left Alan Rickman for Rachel Griffths) has terminal cancer but wants to compete in hairdressing competition. Ex-Husband Rickman, betrayed...

The US/ Miramax 'kids come see this movie' poster for Blow Dry

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Watching House By The River Fritz Lang makes a Republic potboiler, say it ain't so. Victorian curtains a-twitching in this not very psychological or thrilling thriller about the murder of a maid and the brother that covered it up. Nuance is for namby pambies, though it has a hell of a final scene

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Watching Rosebush Pruning Spoilt rich kids all lusting after each other (particularly Jamie Bell's eldest brother Jack) and hating on Jack's gf Elle Fanning.Mum was killed by wolves (or was she),incestuous hand and blow jobs to the Pet Shop Boys before it gets murdery. Sad to say,Saltburn is a genre

A poster of Rosebush Pruning, another addition to films I wish I hadn't seen with my Mum

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Watched Come September Odd comedy where Rock Hudson's millionaire finds his Italian mansion is being sublet by staff as a hotel, whilst wooing Lollobrigida and getting in a machismo competition with four twenty something yanks in a jeep.Believes in the CEO Ubermensch, though he is a dinosaur

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watched The Love Heist Hallmark written by regular Linklater writer Holly Gent,has Liz Taylor's 1970 Oscar dress as a McGuffin and New York Fashion Week in Chicago. movie quoting step above the norm,and has a brilliant response to the interrupted first kiss trope, they get back to the snog asap

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watched The Roses There's something deep in the filmmaking that makes this not work, the time it takes for the relationship to go sour, too many supporting characters played by funny people not being funny. The shape is wrong so the black humour falls apart despite C&C spitting the lines with relish

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watching Thin Ice Early Sonja Heine frippery unfortunately drably filmed in black and white. She's a skating instructor who falls for an early morning skier,but everyone thinks she's seeing the Prince.Complications and ice dances ensue before she realises her boyf and the prince are the same person!

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Watching Is God Is Good. Visceral twin revenge road movie as two girls who got burnt up with their mother by their Dad get sent to kill him. Deep style and rhythm to this piece and well earned violence which is at turns funny, shocking and poignant. One of the films of the year

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible Alphabeati Spaghetti

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Rob @rtypes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible Throwing Muesli

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: -Skylab falling on my head -The Thin Grey Man's gun in The Boy From Space (namely the complete destruction of matter due to the lack of special effects) -The Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Ruled from the Centre of the Ultraworld in the Blake's 7 episode

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Watching Not So Dumb Love, love, love Marion Davies, and here in this proto screwball she shows her verbal dexterity, but boy this script is a charmless stinker. Marion's Dulcy thinks she's a master manipulator but her non-stop gabbing messes it all up, but also means she's annoying to us too

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Watching The Shocking Miss Pilgrim The heart's in the right place for this typewriter / women's suffrage picture but the songs, who knew George and Ira Gershwin's scraping barrel had sub-basements. This poster appears to have Betty on the phone which does not appear in the film as it is set in 1874

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Watching Old Yeller This has been quoted as the gold standard tear jerker, the kids film that devastated a generation..I mean I'm not a dog person but it's just a long prelude to Kindergarten Cujo. Wasn't shown in the UK as it didn't make rabies look as scary as our Public Information Films did

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Watching 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Genuinely disconcerting to see someone who isn't John Wayne fighting a giant squid.Mason's Nemo is properly majestic and sinister, Douglas's Ned feels like he's from the 1940's navy. Episodic but impressive racism notwithstanding:Form stands up,content is shaky

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Watching The Odyssey Why Musk and the sadbois got nuts about Nolan's Odyssey, when The Asylum made an all white pisspoor version for them I don't know. The story is more or less there but imagine the whole thing done with a cast of 8 - one being a very chatty Athena. One suitor, three shipmates

A poster for the Asylums version of The Odyssey

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Watching De Gaulle: Resistance The first part of a De Gaulle diptych goes to just before D-Day, but has secret sauce:it is more than happy to show how silly its titular character could be. Simon Russell Beale does an effortlessly convincing Churchill,but Simon Abkarian's DG is a fascinating creation

Poster for De Gaulle Resistance, hinting at the comic potential of this pairing

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Watched Drum I should have stopped when I realised it was a sequel to Mandingo(I've not seen),though it's a fascinating exploitation film exploitating a more serious,if equally exploitative original.For all its crude moves and language it feels more honest about the South than more serious histories

Poster for Drum. It out-Mandingos Mandingo

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Watching Marry Harry Fascinating unapologetic chamber musical that makes a lot out of its single set, and chorus. Comes out of the blocks singing and feels like the right way to adapt a small off broadway show. Songs are fine though it's short a banger and the plot is inconsequential. But it works

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Watching Storm Rider: Legend Of Hammerhead Wet post apocalyptic sci fi nonsense that is Death Race 2000 meets Waterworld meets The Hunger Games. Marvel as semi rigid speedboats try to Mad Max this dystiopia (racers wear little capes). Croatian but dubbed and about 50% info dump, terrible yet awesome

The poster for Storm Rider: Legend Of Hammerhead

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Watching Mother's Pride My Mum, who knows absolutely nothing about beer,identified at least four things wrong with the brew a beer on Wednesday, win Champion Beer Of Britain on Friday(not least not letting the beer settle).Grab bag of trite family plots,violence solving problems and shit pubs.Abject

Poster for the shitehawk movie Mother's Pride

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Watching Love On Fire Nowhere near as sexy as the poster suggests, this is a sweet romance about a woman who works for the Parks department and a fireman with a kid with cerebral palsy. She sorts out a CP suitable play area, they bond over St Louis BBQ sauce, jobs a good'un. A cat gets rescued.

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There's only one letter difference between SkyBet and Skynet. #gamblingapocalypse

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Watching Evil Dead Burn They only burn at the beginning and the end and for the rest they are drably being evil and dead in six shades of grey. After the inventive joy of Evil Dead Rise, this goes back to a house in the countryside and a bickering unpleasant family who I wanted dead. Evil or not

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Watching My Best Friend's Wedding Planner/Her Best Friend's Wedding Well done The Asylum for releasing your MBFW soundalike twice and for making a basic but sweet enough romcom out of it with the sameplot. Due to the transitive nature of BFFing, the titular best friend in each poster is different

Poster for My Best Friend's Wedding Planner

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