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BiggieTembo 26th May 2015		TV Aeon Flux (1995)	You're spot on 23skidoo - Joan Severance - statuesque, athletic, steely looks... total spitting image of Æon. You should have been that Casting Agent! I remember her in the Richard Pryor/Gene Wilder See No Evil comedy. Mmm...yes. Although Carrie Ann Moss I think would not have been stylish enough. She's pretty hard-faced and too tough-looking.
BiggieTembo 26th May 2015		TV The Banana Splits (1968 - 1970)	Heard chanted on the terraces at many a Bristol City game - to the tune of The Banana Splits theme: West Country - la la la - la! West Country - la la la - la!
BiggieTembo 26th May 2015		TV Aeon Flux (1995)	Saw this in the UK when they showed it as the Liquid Television strand - a pot-pourri of experimental shorts (read: mostly irritating tosh - Dogboy for one was teeth-gratingly irksome); BBC2 I think it was. But Æon Flux blew me away - totally nihilistic bizarre futuristic auto-destructive minimalistic (at least the first episodes) meaningless chain-reaction-action style! There's a great DVD box set which comprises all three seasons, and loads of chatting and whatnots for the die-hards. But the first series made the most impression - almost totally devoid of any dialogue or explanation (just as we Europeans like it). The Charlize Theron vehicle was kinda doomed from the start - imagine trying to make a live-action film out of that! But it gave a good stab at the format and is quite enjoyable. Charlize Theron did a good turn at the character, though.
BiggieTembo 26th May 2015		Cinema Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	I was in Stevenage, You can ask me Mum.
BiggieTembo 26th May 2015		Cinema Rita, Sue And Bob Too! (1987)	Fancy a jump!
BiggieTembo 26th May 2015		TV Timewatch (1982 - 2011)	Memorable episode that concerned Trajan's Column and the Roman invasion of Dacia - fascinating stuff.
BiggieTembo 25th May 2015		TV Space: 1999 (1975 - 1977)	Whaat? Can't believe you guys sayin' there's no real memories of this! I watched this when they showed it every Saturday afternoons - it was the Close Encounters of its day! People talk about Arthur C. Clarke inventing the future, an' all that - in this show, the characters had these gadgets that were a walkie-talkie with skype, a scientific testing facility and a phaser all in one! We're bloody walking round with these today, in the guise of our smartphones! Except mine ain't got a phaser :( but the torch is pretty good. There was also a great episode where this ghost-space-ship had some kind of hairy monster in it that would drag its victims in via hypnosis and tentacles and kind of roast them and then eject them out all brown and crispy! Reminded me of me Nan's toad-in-the-hole. Probably tasted the same too :-s
BiggieTembo 25th May 2015		TV Kojak (1973 - 1990)	I got a Kojak-set for a birthday present when I was a kid. It had a plastic snub-nose 38, a NYPD badge (still got that), a notebook, a shoulder-holster, a pair of plastic handcuffs (that you could easily escape out of), a Kojak ID Card (like, I'm Kojak!), a sort-of light/telescope/microscope/ball-pen thing (never remember him using that in the show), a pair of plastic Ray-Ban-like dark glasses (Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards more like), and a fricken lollipop! All that was missing was a pink rubber swimming cap and a blummin' beige roll-neck sweater!
BiggieTembo 25th May 2015		TV Fingerbobs (1972)	This is almost a like a womb-memory for me. As a kid of 1 or 2, I used to be glued to the TV when this was on. I didn't realise that memories sank in at that age - I thought I was just living in the now... As far as I remember, they showed this in the UK just before the afternoon-TV close-down around 1pm in the afternoons. I think this was part of the Watch with Mother time-slot, along with other shows like Camberwick Green, Chigley and Trumpton. Ahh, the good old days when we were forced to do something else rather than chill out to stimulating TV. After close-down, I would usually take a nap, from all the bombardment-of-life stimulus like playing Lego, drinking milkshakes made from powdery chemicals, watching raindrops cascade down the window and trying to eat a Tunnock's Tea Cake whole. Thank God you can still get those - otherwise I'd be lost in a non-caring, anchorless world of post-modernism. I've just re-watched the You Tube clip, and have the following observations: 1) Yoffi and Arthur Brown - Separated at birth? 2) Yoffi's voice is post-synched, making his deliberately chilled actions even more chilled and deliberate. 3) "And a tortoise head peeps out..." Viz Comic gave this expression a whole new meaning in the coming years (read: touching cloth)
BiggieTembo 17th May 2015		TV Monkey (1978 - 1980)	MONKEY: I love to fight! There was an episode where Pigsy for some reason got his own cloud to fly around on, much to the annoyance of Monkey. They had this big chase on them, and whereas Monkey's cloud was powered by his, well, magic; Pigsy's cloud was powered by him blowing air out of his nose. The crescendo of the chase was the sudden appearance of a huge snot-bubble out of Pigsy's hooter - and that was the end of that. I only found out a few years after watching this in the 70s on BBC2, that Tripitaka was supposed to be a male character. Talk about Glam Rock Kung Fu!
BiggieTembo 17th May 2015		TV Eldorado (1992 - 1993)	Eastenders + Benidorm = Tripe
BiggieTembo 16th May 2015		TV Superstars (1973 - 2012)	Good one Schnozz. All we need uploaded now is Transworld Sport ;-)
BiggieTembo 16th May 2015		TV The World's Strongest Man (1977 - Now)	Amazing that this tripe is still running. I saw it when it first started. Once you've seen a guy pulling a dustbin lorry along with his teeth, you've seen it a 1000 times. Yep, there was Geoff Capes, and that Icelander/Faroese/Lundy Islander Jon Pal Sigmarsson - big guy - big ego. But the one with the gigantic, Space Bat Angel Dragon-sized ego that overshadowed the entire Universe was Brian Jacks. What a git. I remember there was one challenge with a bicyle sprint at the end. Jacks was so sure of himself, that he, ahead of the others, grinning a Cheshire Cat-like self-centered grin, decided to flex his muscles for the crowd just before the finish line, in some glorious display of his God-like genius, no doubt. As he tightened his bi's and his tri's, cycling none-handed - he suddenly went ass over tit over the handlebars - and the other contestants rode past! I don't think he ever got across the finish line. Me, me brother and me Dad laughed our nads off!
BiggieTembo 16th May 2015		TV Children Of The Stones (1977)	It's a scary series with that bloke out of Blake's 7 filmed in Avebury in Wiltshire (me old stomping ground, now Julian Cope seems to want to be self-proclaimed king of the place). I imagine a whole generation of 70s kids shatting their pants over this eerie HTV-made series. Weird/scary series to compare with this might be the über-gone King Of The Castle and the über-weird Chocky.
BiggieTembo 16th May 2015		Cinema Papillon (1973)	Where'd he hide that money, then?
BiggieTembo 16th May 2015		TV Eurotrash (1993 - 2007)	Perhaps a category called Euro-Trash might suffice. It would contain most of the dross that's coming out of Spain right now (exclaimed with tongue firmly in cheek)... But I guess it sounds a bit too British, though. Perhaps the "Europeans" (yeah I know a totally down-putting epithet) have a category called Brit-Crap, a general term used to describe the TV-manure that comes out of the UK these days.
BiggieTembo 16th May 2015		TV The Walking Dead (2010 - 2022)	That's cool nboldock. I was just expecting something a bit deeper. That's the dangerous thing about expectations - you might get disappointed. A similar experience happened with the Zappa Z-Movie, 200 Motels. I waited for years to see this, read so much about it, I guess I turned it into a brilliant film in my own mind. When I saw it on Moviedrome I thought it was the biggest pile of dogs-eggs I'd ever seen.
BiggieTembo 16th May 2015		TV Eurotrash (1993 - 2007)	Peepee and Popo!
BiggieTembo 16th May 2015		TV The Walking Dead (2010 - 2022)	Blah blah blah. So much hype about this series, and what do we get? Bunch of guys talking and talking. It's just a flippin' soap opera! Should have called it Dallas With Zombies. Very disappointing.
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema The Squid And The Whale (2005)	Ok guys - getting divorced? Got kids? Well, this film doubles as a divorce-manual about how NOT to do it. The parents in this great film are the most self-centered assholes you've ever seen. They show no interest in their kids' emotional welfare at all, and only think of themselves. Not a healing film at all, more of a coping-identifying film - especially for any kids out there whose parents have split up. Still getting divorced? Do it by all means - but listen to and be aware of your kids.
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)	Name three presidents...
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)	PETE HOGWALLOP (mouthing the words): Do... not... seek... the... treasure...!
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Nil By Mouth (1997)	I watched this with my Danish girlfriend, whilst living in London at the time of release. In the possession of a keen language-ear herself, she was nevetheless amazed that you could do that London thing of using the c-word with the ending -ing, as in "GET IN THE C**NTING CAR!". So she went round for a few weeks turning the air blue with that. It was quite amusing in Tesco's.
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Local Hero (1983)	Review Ahh another great film from Bill Forsyth. All the characters are totally upfront and honest to each other. Despite the subject matter, of a multimillion dollar oil refinery coming to a small isolated Scottish fishing village, all the townspeople want the bloody refinery to come! The main character is totally straight with everybody, and they are totally straight with him. Makes you want to get into a car, drive up to Scotland, sit in a pub and just talk to people. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema The Last Of The Mohicans (1992)	Saw this on the big screen when it was released. Thank God. Convinced now that it is the ONLY way to see this film, as all the viewing methods I've experienced since have never packed that punch as did the cinematic experience of this film. The photography was superb, and the way the audience gets sucked into the story is entertaining cinema at its best. The scene where the retreating English Army gets ambushed in the forest glade was so action-packed and atmospheric, I nearly flinched when Hawkeye runs at the screen and pummels the audience's face in with the stone axe. This experience is lost on the small screen, and every time I've see it, be it on flatscreen, led screen, plasma, ordinary TV... the transfer of the movie is appaling. It looks out of focus. Must buy meself that art-deco picture-palace so I can sit there on me todd and watch this one again!
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Gregory's Girl (1981)	Review Saw this on a double bill with Chariots Of Fire at The Astoria, Chippenham, in '81. Me Dad came too. He was being pretty vocal about the fact that watching a film about track-and field runners set in 1914 was on par with watching paint dry. They showed Chariots first, and by the end of it, he was gobsmacked about how moving it was. Regarding Gregory's Girl: Bit funny as an 8 year-old, sitting there in the cinema with me Dad, watching three Glasgow teens trying to use long-distance telekinesis to will a nurse to take her bra off in the opening sequence! He laughed his ass off though - and a great film it was. But Corrrr Mate! That Claire Grogan in a page-cut wig! Wish it was me on a date with her in that park! I always remembered that Gregory wanted to borrow Alan's white jacket for the date. Alan said no, but Gregory had it on anyway, come date-night ;-) 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Dark Star (1974)	Originally John Carpenters' student film project. His first directed feature, co-written with Dan O'Bannon, future screenwriter of Alien and the first Total Recall. In fact, the scene in Dark Star where Sgt. Pinback has to "feed the alien" inspired the story of Alien. This film is just great. A bunch of space hippies on a long voyage, going around space destroying unstable stars. Their captain is kept barely alive (frozen in the bowels of the ship) after an accident with his seat, and they consult him for advice, getting Stephen Hawking-like electronic voices in return. Sgt. Pinback, played by O'Bannon himself, has to be the most annoying man in space, but he's also very funny. Talby keeps himself to the upper part of the ship, never mixes with the others, and dreams of becoming one with the Crab Nebula. Doolittle, the second-in-command, misses his surfboard like hell. Boiler, is just like some kind of slob. To cap it all off there's the female-voiced ships' computer (inspiration for Mother in Alien), a giant beach ball-like alien mascot, no toilet paper and a talking bomb!
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Blow-Up (1966)	I read somewhere that Antonioni wanted The Who, but The Who wanted more money! [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Barry Lyndon (1975)	A very weird film. The acting style alone is worth mentioning. It's like a Brechtian experiment. The actors are like Replicants - they display very little real emotion or empathy toward each other whatsoever. When I saw this film, which by the way is one of the most sumptuously photographed films ever, it reminded me of the Danish director Carl Theyodor Dreyer's last film, Gertrud. This film is also mega strange. The actors also are like living shop-window dummies. Their faces are neutral throughout. It's actually quite fascinating. I was thinking how long these guys could keep up the facade without suddenly laughing their bollocks off mid-take.
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		Cinema Barfly (1987)	HENRY CHINASKI: I got the guts - but the guts need fuel!

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