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Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 30 Jul 13 at 14:04
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Anyone else watch it last night? It's been quite heavily trailed on the BBC for a few weeks, and I was quite looking forward to it. We both watched last night's 90 mins opener, but although it looked good and seemed very worthy, it was a bit of a let down, didn't grab us at all. Seemed quite stilted at times.
We gave up after an hour and switched over to Dave to watch old 'Not going out's, which IMO were better written and a heck of a lot funnier.
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I quite enjoyed it as I am almost old enough to remember "Those Days"! I did think the sets and locations were amazing and the costumes too!
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Err indoors, a historical drama and Downton nut, watched it, and turned over after 15 minutes.
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>> Err indoors, a historical drama and Downton nut, watched it, and turned over after 15
>> minutes.
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Err indoors watched and watched. I went to bed.
(Fan of Home and Away, Neighbours - she is...)
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May I recommend the American House of Cards, the remake with Kevin Spacey that was launched on the 1st of February? An excellently acted political drama, with a nod or two to the English original. A bit raunchier than The West Wing but some sharp writing.
It's only currently available on Netflix though, so the audience (here anyway) might be limited at present.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Tue 5 Feb 13 at 09:56
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>> May I recommend the American House of Cards,
Is that the same House of Cards that brought us the phrase 'you might think that I couldn't possibly comment'?
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Indeed it is. It was excellent in the original incarnation too (which is also on Netflix, I might add).
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>> Indeed it is. It was excellent in the original incarnation too (which is also on
>> Netflix, I might add).
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It did gain a certain momentum from following on the heels of Mrs T's defenestration but excellent balck drama nonetheless.
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Never heard of it, but sounds great - definitely one to record. Cheers!
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>>definitely one to record<<
That's what I do with em now that I've given Lovefilm the big heave ho, I recorded and watched a weird Greek film with subtitles last week ... not a film that you'd want Auntie to see ;)
www.radiotimes.com/film/xxty/dogtooth
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Like a bit of Greek do you, Perro?
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"Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the hole".
Aristophanes
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Is that what you put in your Valentines card(s)?
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And what Valentines card(s) would they be then?
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Yes very enjoyable... Stereophonics & I Saw Her Standing There was nice and tight.
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Meant to record that. With luck it'll be repeated soon.
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>>>Meant to record that. With luck it'll be repeated soon.
You really should get an iplayer box thingy for the tv... its transformed programme availability here.
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I usually ff the adverts as I rarely watch anything live, but caught this the other evening and absolutely love it.
www.youtube.com/embed/Ekr05T9Iaio?wmode=opaque
You can also design your own one:-
www.youtube.com/user/three/theponymixer
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>>www.youtube.com/embed/Ekr05T9Iaio?wmode=opaque
Nice one!
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Just watched this, having recorded it earlier in the week. Written and presented by John Bly, a local antiques dealer and character, so it caught my eye.
I didn't expect it to be such a personal story. Well worth a watch if you have any interest at all in this sort of thing.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01r3n6m/Secret_Knowledge_The_Kimbolton_Cabinet/
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Well worth a watch - inspiring how tough and dedicated Mallory and Irvine were.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013pr15/The_Wildest_Dream_Conquest_of_Everest/
I read the book on Mallory by Audrey Salkeld and Tom Holzel a few years ago - reading it through again now.
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You can find all 4 series on 4oD.
Its bonkers rude violent and the language is dreadful.
Its described as a British science fiction comedy drama series, not sure how i'd describe it except that its different and enjoyable.
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ITV last night Perspectives - fronted by Warwick Davis - story of seven dwarfs imprisoned by the Germans and subjected to horrific medical experiments by Dr Mengle....
www.itv.com/itvplayer/perspectives/series-1/episode-1-perspectives-warwick-davis-the-seven-dwarves-of-auschwitz
Worth a watch, by any measure.
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I've just watched this on BBC iPlayer, having missed it on the schedule.
Good fun in the main, but at the end I had a a serious lump in my throat.
Do see it.
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Just started watching it whilst making the tea. Double helpings of soaps tonight so headphones on !
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What on earth is "man lab"?
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OK. Not TV, but radio.
I listened to bits of Desert Island Discs today - rather unusual for me.
The subject was a Sikh woman called Jasvinder Sanghera. Her parents were immigrants, she was born here. When she was 14 her mother showed her a photo of a man living in India and said 'this is the man you are going to marry'.
She refused to marry the man and said that she would choose the man she would marry. Eventually she ran away from home. Since then she has formed relationships with men of her own choosing and is married with three? children.
Her parents have disowned her, saying that she has brought shame on the family. She has formed a charity and written a number of books on the subject of womens' place in traditional Asian society.
I didn't hear all of the programme, but I wondered how her parents justified their attitude. Jasvinder has suffered abuse, threats and people smearing excrement on her charity's premises. Has there ever been a serious debate on the subject of forced marriage?
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It gets worse than abuse, threats and excrement. Kidnappings and murder, while not common have been known.
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Just because it doesn't fit our attitude doesn't mean it is wrong (well, excepting the criminal offences associated with it I suppose). Our own laws and rules would be as offensive/oppressive to others as theirs may be to us. There are two sides to everything.
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>> Just because it doesn't fit our attitude doesn't mean it is wrong (well, excepting the
>> criminal offences associated with it I suppose). Our own laws and rules would be as
>> offensive/oppressive to others as theirs may be to us. There are two sides to everything.
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Fully agree with that.
But...
On the whole, when living in another country, under their laws and customs one HAS to abide to said laws/customs or major issues will occur.
The problem with the UK is, that if immigrants find our laws and rules as offensive/oppressive those laws are ignored. That's where the real problems steam from...
Last edited by: swiss tony on Fri 29 Mar 13 at 18:26
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Arranged marriages are a pretty widespread practise globally, and has worked well for generations for many.
However, when cultures clash the younger generation tend to absorb new ways and dump the old. Its when women are forced to marry against their wishes with threats or acts of violence or blackmail that it becomes an abhorrent (and illegal) act.
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And then there is the barbaric act of Female Genital Mutilation.
Honour Based Violence and Forced Marriages revolve around the perception of shame and dishonour that is brought upon the family if (normally female) does not comply to the male dominated requirements of the culture. The Family and 'Community' spreads worldwide.
What we would see as normal behaviour is dealt with far more severely within the family.
Typical example:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6835301/Honour-killing-why-did-police-send-girl-home-to-die-by-her-violent-father.html
The male is seen as a bar of gold, the female a piece of silk. Drop both in a muddy puddle and the gold can be polished clean the silk is forever dirty.
When the family decide to rid themselves of the person it is a family affair with serious violence and rape. Younger members of the family made to watch as a warning.
It is only fairly recently that the authorities have realised the extent and factors around the issues.
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It's called multiculturalism.
Last edited by: Roger on Fri 29 Mar 13 at 20:52
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That's what the English probably said when Morris Dancing was imported from the Islamic Moores
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>> That's what the English probably said when Morris Dancing was imported from the Islamic Moores
Its a million miles away from guitar and flamenco....
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Bit like the old joke....Why have the Spanish got Flamenco and the English Morris Dancing ? Because the Spaianrds had the first choice !
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>> the barbaric act of Female Genital Mutilation.
In my Africa hacking days I fell out big time with one of my editors (employers!) at the time over this issue. Although his own people in Eastern Nigeria don't practise it, he insisted it was a valid cultural phenomenon. We became so heated that other people, secretaries and fellow hacks, started peering anxiously round the door.
I once asked a Central African girl, a sort of hotel tart, whether she had been 'cut down there'. Of course, she said. Without that she wouldn't be a Muslim - an Arab. She was a Zaghawa from the Chad/Sudan border, tall and black, not a person I would identify as an Arab on sight. And of course female circumcision of any sort is nothing to do with Islam, purely a local social thing.
She was a nice girl, ladylike and with a queenly bearing. You could buy her dinner without fear of embarrassment. They aren't all like that.
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something worth watching on the tv to date..i think it will be a classic if the writing and charachters are developed
a bit like black adder 1, then it matured
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p014vlw2/Bluestone_42_Episode_1/
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Pompous female Officer.
"Why do you call that (female) soldier 'Bird' - that sort of nickname is derogatory"
Officer
"That's her name"
I love the "off you f**k" thing as well.
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the padre is an absolute beauty...worth taking the kings shilling for ...phaauuw
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Just seen this. Still on iPlayer for a few days. Lovely little programme about following the Trent from source to mouth. A nice gentle quality BBC documentary of the kind I'll pay my licence fee for twice, happily.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00y6r6q
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tinyurl.com/96mxtxj
Cracking little programme.
Last edited by: R.P. on Wed 3 Apr 13 at 22:08
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They were discussing this on the wireless today (Radio 5 Live) poor Sophie Morgan is now paralysed from the chest down - she lost control of her car by driving too fast plus having had a few sherbets.
Most of us have done that at one time or another I'll wager, but have been luckier.
www.radiotimes.com/episode/wcb65/licence-to-kill
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Been on before, but it's good, so worth watching again:
www.radiotimes.com/film/wpxn/surrogates
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Watched it Monday night.
Looks like rip off of Thunder Races that was on a few years ago.
And that Jason Bradbury is just as annoying as he was on the Gadget Show.
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Director Zack Snyder brings Frank Miller's celebrated graphic novel to the big screen with this terrific re-creation of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC
www.radiotimes.com/film/2442/300
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Spectacularly silly film. Amazing underpants.
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Based on the career of welterweight boxing champ "Irish" Micky Ward.
Looks like it could be a good philm: www.radiotimes.com/film/cnttk/the-fighter
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A film about one of Lud's acquaintances: www.radiotimes.com/film/xsjq/mr-nice
:+)
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>> one of Lud's acquaintances
You used the right word Perro. I have met the amusing Welsh scapegrace (although I don't remember telling you so), but only because he was a university buddy of one or two people I know well. I don't know him personally at all. He certainly seemed clever enough to have rubbed shoulders with the spooks. How bad he is I don't know.
Are people wondering whether cannabis was being casually consumed on the occasion of this encounter or these encounters? To set their minds at rest: I don't remember specifically but it almost certainly was, you betcha.
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>>although I don't remember telling you so
hehe! - I larf.
Just my sense of humour Sire, it's a wonder how I've managed escape having my block knocked orf because of it,
so far.
:}
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Looks good - meant to mention that Deer Hunter was on ITV the other night. One of the best films ever....
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Many moons ago, we used to play "Beer Hunter" Basically, you get a can of beer for each person in the game. 6 is ideal. You shake one can and then shuffle them. Then you each choose a can. Then you take it in turns to open your can next to your own ear.
Yeah I know.
:-)
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Thanks Dog, set it on record.
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I quite enjoyed watching this mini series last week. Didn't get my full attention as I watched it in the kitchen preparing solids after a few beers en route home ( I walk in case anyone was wondering). I'm one of those saddo's who still enjoys air travel, especially long haul, when I can catch up with films and books.
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And me - The flight home from the US the other month must have been one of the best flights I've been on - very laid back - watched a couple of movies can't do the sleeping thing...
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This might be Würth a punt - for those with BIG tellies and sound bars.
www.radiotimes.com/film/mpg8y/starship-troopers
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To save trouble, all you have to do is say you slipped over the border from Tiajuana on a one-day visit and have been working illegally in a burger joint in Peoria ever since.
Then 18 years later they just hand you a US passport and make you a citizen.
I know this is true because I seen it on the telly, right? Got to be less hassle than getting a visa and going through immigration.
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I'll have what he's^ smoking.
:}
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This is strictly for sci-fi buffs (like moi) who'll watch any science fiction film, including crap like this:
www.radiotimes.com/film/rh2p/skyline
(*_*)
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Crikey Dog, I'll follow you down most of your cultural meanderings, but you're on your own with that one.
Having said that, I see that both the estimable "Them" and "Invaders from Mars" are now streamable from Lovefilm, if you like monsters.
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>> Crikey Dog, I'll follow you down most of your cultural meanderings, but you're on your
>> own with that one.
No you're not Dog. I just programmed it into the PVR. I hope the effects and "monster mania" are are good as they say. Thanks.
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I'm not overly interested in monsters from outer space, although I did actually enjoy Starship Troopers the other day.
I watched Avatar in Blu-ray on my 42" Plasma wired up to my Arcam Alpha 7 amp and a couple of cheapo Sony l/speakers, and it blu me away.
I can watch the original b/w The Day The Earth Stood Still over and over again, I almost believe it really!
:o)
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Horror meets Sci-fi, meets fantasy, meets soft-porn, meets utter carp= "Bad Biology"! (the Horror channel a few days ago)
Not quite as disgusting as "The Human Centipede", parts 1 & 2. Now that is GROSS. Will never be on TV.
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I'm sure I saw a promo for it somewhere.....
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Introduced an item this evening:
What is it a dog can do a hundred times better than a human?
Well I can't lick mine!
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You obviously don't practice Yoga then.
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What's good on television in the UK at the moment?
I like things like Lewis, Midsomer Murders, Sherlock, and all that sort of stuff.
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>>I like things like Lewis, Midsomer Murders, Sherlock, and all that sort of stuff.
There's plenty of that crap on, plus Miss Marple etc. etc. www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings
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Well we never liked Morse, probably cos John Thaw will always be Reagan to me and him doing posh somehow never fitted.
However we watched Endeavour (Young Morse) last night and throughly enjoyed it, when i have half an hour to spare i'll down something calming and trydesperately to persude the all but useless Humax thingy to series link it.
If you are a fan of some American series such as Hell on Wheels then we found a site where one can view lots of these series...www.couchtuner.eu/...one episode of HoW didn't play well but all the others did.
edit The Walking Dead was compelling.
Last edited by: gordonbennet on Sun 7 Jul 13 at 12:29
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>> However we watched Endeavour (Young Morse) last night and throughly enjoyed it, when i have
>> half an hour to spare i'll down something calming and trydesperately to persude the all
>> but useless Humax thingy to series link it.
Are you sure you have Humax? you haven't bought some looky likey Humlax thing have you?
press EPG button
left/right/up/down arrows to select prog
enter
series link yes/no
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Yes its the genuine thing Z, it was really playing up yesterday refusing to let us watch a program, preferring us to series link or watch later or whatever the other alternative was..the program was actually playing already.
SWM swithed it off for its countless umpteenth reboot, that finally sorted it...how it hasn't gone through the conservatory door at 50mph is a mystery.
I'm off to evensong to pray for the Sky sales geezer to phone and offer us half price for 12 months again, at least we'll get an easily useable reliable recorder again.
Our Father......
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Is your Humax a refurb, gord, or did you buy it gnu?
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No it was a brand spanker Dog.
I see the latest YouView Humax box now has 4oD installed, thats what we wanted but our frustration with this here thing has not endeard us, not fond of rewarding poor products with even more custom.
Unless someone else makes a YouView box with 4oD that anyone's aware of, not Samsung.
Last edited by: gordonbennet on Sun 7 Jul 13 at 14:38
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I have to say their customer service is good. Complain about a faulty one and they send you three in return...:-)
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They fetch good money on the bay, gord, if you wanted to out it, like.
I'm over-the-moon with our £130 refurb Freesat jobbie.
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Our Humax was a "refurb" direct from Humax.
Initially we had lots of rebooting necessary due to the program guide freezing up, but that seems to have been cured with an update.
The only quibbles I have is that moving between programs on the guide is very slow and that the remote is so sensitive in switching functions, that pressing a button too hard or long tends to reverse the selection just made.
Otherwise it's fine.
The "on demand" stuff is well catered for by the Samsung TV, which supports iPlayer, ITV Player, 4OD & 5OD.
Last edited by: Roger on Sun 7 Jul 13 at 15:54
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Thanks for the listings Doug, but that's not really my question.
I know what's on, but I don't get to hear what is "good". (although I shall now seek out Endeavour, so thanks for that).
You know, the pub / office / street conversations of "Oh, did you see xxxx last night?"
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Looks good all five episodes in the bank so to speak - started watching it last night, but stopped as I'm sure Mrs RP will appreciate the plot and soundtrack...
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No good asking me then Martin, I only really watch escape to the country and sci-fi films.
(*_*)
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A programme about the madness of London traffic.
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And about the traffic engineers who proudly make it worse.
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I was quite impressed by the size of the supercomputer* they used to run the traffic lights.
*As described in the programmed. Didn't look much like a Cray or whatever to me.
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One for the kyds maybe - especially the big ones ;)
www.radiotimes.com/film/tstr/wall-e
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Wall-e forever compressing waste - a parable for our times, continually processing re-cycling for the council to just chuck in a landfill ! :-)
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Coincidentally an interest was expressed in seeing this tonight, and I remembered it was on Lovefilm as well, so have just seen it. How good was that? Lovely little film, although perhaps a bit too much chasing about in the middle was the general opinion. But very enjoyable indeed.
Lump in throat will clear soon no doubt.
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There's another sci-fi film on in the early hours, poorly rated, but I shall give it a whirl anyway:
www.radiotimes.com/film/mn79q/the-final-cut
I'm just eating a bowl of golden Kiwi fruit, French blueberries, and pineapple, covered with Greek yoghurt and Cornish honey.
It's a hard life being a vegetarian ;)
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Saw this on a plane to the States some years ago, but it was on TV the other night and had forgotten how good/effective it is. Not gory like modern horrors seem to be (I believe - don't watch them); as the Radio Times piece says "creates a surprisingly effective sense of dread". Thursday ITV2 9pm (and other showings):
www.radiotimes.com/film/vkpm/paranormal-activity
We'll be recording it, and remembering not to turn off the recorder when we go to bed this time :)
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'Dancing on the Edge' Stephen Poliakoff - Focusless
