“Sorry we arrested you for doing nothing. We were trying to arrest the other people doing nothing and got confused.” Hardly surprising… Maybe just arrest everyone? Just to be on the safe side. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/12/police-apologise-after-detaining-royal-superfan-for-13-hours-coronation-just-stop-oil
Author Archives: Phil
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
I feel like this belongs in the 90s movie time capsule.
Could have been better. The end is pretty poor and just evokes Aliens on a much smaller budget. I like the central idea, though.
★★★
Screeching Weasel · Song · 1991
I Can See Clearly by Screeching Weasel
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Well, that was deeply unsettling. Who sits down and decides to make a film like that?
★★★★
Today I learned a new word: psephology – the study of elections and voting statistics
Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires.
People are pretty down on this and I’m not sure why. I think Kristy is a much better Buffy. And she did a lot of her own stunts.
★★
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Watched it with the kids (8/11). They’re verdict? “Was good but I wouldn’t watch it again.”
★★★
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
Nina Simone, Felix Da Housecat · Song · 2003
Sinnerman – Felix Da Housecat’s Heavenly House Mix by Nina Simone, Felix Da Housecat
Found this bit of nostalgia this morning. Some people remember the moon landing, I remember the introduction of live continuity presenters on the BBC. Surely a high point for the late, great Bill Turnbull too. Rest in peace, Bill.