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Robert Weaver

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Entertain me. Or not, whatever, I'm not the boss of you.

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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
John Jones (Joel McCrea) eavesdrops on the plotters inside a windmill, from Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent.
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I'll pick one of the creepiest versions of the Weird Sisters, from Rupert Goold's WWII styled TV adaptation in 2010:
The Weird Sisters from MacBeth depicted as bloodstained WWII army hospital nurses.
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This man has done his research.
Pages showing moonbase from "You Will Go to the Moon" by Ira & Mae Freeman (1959)
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Pshaw. The Daleks disdain your primitive technology.
A black and silver Dalek approaches a red and silver one in their control room. To the left in the foreground is a desk holding three lava lamps.
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Ahem.
An alien spacecraft lies destroyed off the coast of a very much intact Sydney, Australia, from the movie Independence Day.
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Doctor Who title: Peter Cushing convinces Nordic elves of the necessity for violent resistance (includes lava lamps)
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It was only this year that I bothered to identify the sponsors who own the logo at the end of OK Go's video for "The One Moment" (we don't usually de-ice roads in Oz), so I laughed when I spotted it again this week in Warlock (1980) where the brand helps Redfearn weaponise his witch-fighting whip.
Redfearn (Richard E. Grant), witchfinder transported to the present day in pursuit of the eponymous warlock (Julian Sands, RIP), pours a container of Morton Salt over, well, it's his whip but it's hidden by the dashboard. Later he'll chew the salt into the leather. Not much of a product placement given, when he tells the heroine (Lori Singer) that witches are repelled by salt, she replies: "Yeah, sulfites, salt, all that shit'll kill ya."
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Having only just seen "Dr Who and the Daleks" I was previously unaware of how terrifyingly advanced their technology was.
A black and siver dalek approaches a red and silver one in their control room. To the left in the foreground is a desk holding three lava lamps.
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/... Also released as a collection of videos, which I believe are on Youtube. Pictured: my favourite bit.
Page 24 of Protect and Survive, 1980s era British government guide to surviving nuclear war, which, immediately after explaining how to dispose of a body, advises that on hearing the all-clear "you may resume normal activities".
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Inside you there are two Santas.
A hard-faced man dressed as Santa Claus brandishes a gun. It appears to be a publicity still for The Silent Partner (1978) of Christopher Plummer as bank robber and violent psychopath Harry Reikle.A desolate man dressed as Santa Claus points a gun at his own head; Dan Ackroyd as Louis Winthorpe III in Trading Places (1983).
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas, y'all.
A sinister Santa in a wheelchair looms over an anxious man in a padded cell. Why yes, it's Mr Helpmann visiting Sam Lowry at the Department of Information Retrieval in Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Happy holidays!
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Just putting out the traditional Australian Halloween decorations for the kids.
The sign reads: That is an American holiday. Now go home or will CANCEL CHRISTMAS
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Yeah the owl is ... I dunno about the owl.
Screen cap from Duolingo seeking the Spanish translation of "my horses collect teeth".
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Robert Weaver @thisrobw.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Obviously I approve of the result, but was there any reason to crush seals?
Guardian headline reads"Labor rides anti-Trump wave to seal crushing win"
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