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Pual wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 10:08 pmThe circle of life

Get Elton John on the phone!

I went to see the testament of ann lee yesterday, which was about the woman who formed the shakers, some quakers offshoot who believed in dancing and absolutely no sex at all.

This is Ann Lee in the film



And this is Ann Lee on wikipedia

The erasure of the pangranised continues apace.

blombluss wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 3:53 pm Some company called Peacock have turned one of my favourite flims (The 'Burbs) into a telly show starring Jack Shitehall. I am appalled and disgusted and I will have to watch the programme so I can continue to be appalled and disgusted.

I've now watched the first three episodes.

It's watchable in a 'meh' kinda way, so I think I'll watch a couple more.

I've watched it all now.

I liked it, but they shouldn't bother making any more of them.

dng wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 8:59 pm I'm not sure I've watched a will ferrell movie

Oh no I accidentally watched a will ferrell movie yesterday (arco, a French cartoon that the cinema show in English for some reason, and apparently he was one of the voices)

Along with flea

Playing slap bass throughout the film.

I'm back on Letterboxd (had to make a new account)

hooray

I saw a trailer for that new Steven Spielberg film that's a kind of riff on Close Encounters. Said trailer gave away a lot of the plot because that's apparently the way it all works, but still it seems like an interesting story... but the actual look of it is horrible. The direction and all is fine as you'd imagine, but visually, in terms of the aesthetics and overall style, it's all been processed and shat up to the point where it looks more like an advert for a car or a bank or something than a feature film. For some reason loads of things all look like this and it makes me a bit queasy. There's no reason for shot-on-digital productions to look so shit, it's just down to the weird priorities of cinematographers, who all believe that making things look like an ad is the only way things should be done

And relax

The weird thing is that loads of relatively cheap films look really amazing these days, presumably because there's just an astonishing variety of ways to shoot a film and make it look however you want to make it look now if you actually want to.

but then they're all not-hollywood, not-netflix films, probably

This is clearly the best film ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNbmoVdirxw

My word! That is quite something!

isn't it.

Today I watched scarlet, an anime by the man who directed wolf children and a bunch of other stuff, which asks the question: what if, instead of being a bit of a whiny twat, hamlet was a pink haired warrior princess from fire emblem, and had to fight through hell to the gates of heaven to have their bloody revenge. And also falls in love with a paramedic from present day Japan along the way

4/5 (because there was a really big dragon)

Did it also have Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in it, as purple/pink haired animes?

dng wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 6:46 pm Today I watched scarlet, an anime by the man who directed wolf children and a bunch of other stuff, which asks the question: what if, instead of being a bit of a whiny twat, hamlet was a pink haired warrior princess from fire emblem, and had to fight through hell to the gates of heaven to have their bloody revenge. And also falls in love with a paramedic from present day Japan along the way

Ooh I didn't know he had a new one

It sounds fun

They were in it, but they were blonde (the ultimate sign of evil in anime hair colours i think). Anyway, theyre dead now

dng wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 12:25 pm I went to see the testament of ann lee yesterday, which was about the woman who formed the shakers, some quakers offshoot who believed in dancing and absolutely no sex at all.

This is Ann Lee in the film



And this is Ann Lee on wikipedia

I'm a little bit in love with Amanda Seyfried.

She exacllent
Also talented
With voice
And dulcimer
And animaals.
And acting.

i think i've only seen her in this and twin peaks (she's in a couple of episodes of the new one) but yes she's good

the new twin peaks being ten years old now

that talk show thing where she played the dulcimer was amazing

dng wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 7:20 pm They were in it, but they were blonde (the ultimate sign of evil in anime hair colours i think). Anyway, theyre dead now

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead??

vom wrote: Wed May 06, 2026 9:22 am that talk show thing where she played the dulcimer was amazing

I want a dulcimer now

But only if you can flawlessly sing California by Joni Mitchell.

i watched the new peaky blinders film. the plots even stupider than ever, every single character in it is a dismal moron, and it doesn't even seem to remember any of the previous serieses of the show or the characters or anything really, and makes the last series seem even more of a superfluous pointless waste of time than it already was anyway.

but cillian murphy's in it so its pretty good regardless (like every other episode of peaky blinders, i suppose)

tommy shelby's a psychic now

I watch the same romcom over and over again.

This one was called Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, and like all the rest it was a solid 6.5/10, but I enjoyed it.

Did they ever find the wedding dates?

the monkey ate them

ves

I know 'film reaction' YouTube vids are the devil's work, but watching the faces of youngsters (anyone under 30) as they 'first-time-watch' Monty Python and the Holy Grail, has pleased me. The combination of utter bafflement and amusement is a nice emotional combo.

I keep getting youtube recommendations of amelicans reacting to british things, whether it's comedy sketches, food, "freedom", roads, lack of racism in wartime pubs,

I've watched a video on the latter, and it also covered the Battle of Bamber Bridge between white and black American soldiers in the UK.

ves

I'd like to watch a film, but I'm too busy watching clips of Bob Newhart on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

Makes a change from Craig Ferguson I suppose

I watched some Craig Ferguson chat show clips, and he's okay... I guess?

Veah

I like how he's scottish and I never knew he existed until youtube started pushing clips of him on american tv into my face

The only american talk show host to appear in red dwarf

(probably)

I think Jay Leno was one of the skutters.

And Talkie Toaster has filled in for Conan O'Brien on many occasions without anyone noticing.

blombluss wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 9:10 pm I'd like to watch a film, but I'm too busy watching clips of Don Rickles on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

And! ^^^

I saw a film called COMBAT SHOCK at The Nickel cinema in Clerkenwell. It was the director's cut, I think. I really enjoyed it! According to Wikipedia the edited theatrical release came out to "a mixed to negative critical response, with many critics expressing discomfort with its bleak tone and graphic content".

There was a pre-recorded Q+A beforehand and the director explained that he was very inspired by Eraserhead, and you can very much see that in the film. In fact it's basically bits of Eraserhead mixed in with a post-Vietnam social commentary drama

Anyway it was very bleak and good, and I was particularly pleased that there were no adverts or anything before the film. Instead they played loads of music all by the proto-synth punk duo Suicide beforehand, which was fitting

Although I should warn everyone that there is a bit where someone's racist grandfather yells the N-word, and then the N-word is made to go all echoey

I quite like Legally Blonde, which has now been turned into a mediocre TV series prequel. It's not very good, and it undermines the backstory of Reese Witherspoon's character in the film, but I rather like it.

I have terrible taste.

I tried the new Masters of the Universe flop film vesterday, but I got bored after 20 minutes, so I ended up watching RLM's Half In The Bag review of it, instead, which was fun, and probably more fun than continuing with the film.