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Category Archives: Entertainment
Owarimonogatari I
As we travel through life we tend to collect emotional baggage. The older we get, the more we will be able to look back on past friendships and other associations and wonder what we could have done differently. There will … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantasy, Monogatari, Owarimonogatari
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The Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Face of a Stranger
Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court, and it is now my duty to pass sentence… oh, sorry. Wrong series. This is far from being a comedy, but it does start off in … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime, Face of a Stranger, The Edgar Wallace Mysteries
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ted
What an extraordinary episode this is. It’s like the first half was written to make the viewers really, really angry, and boy does it work. Ted is immediately a character we hate. We’re with Buffy every step of the way, … Continue reading
The Twilight Zone: The Mighty Casey
Oh good… a baseball episode. I get more excited about going to work! But within no time at all, Serling has me seeing this as a comedy and it’s down to the audio effects. One thing The Twilight Zone did … Continue reading
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Tagged Baseball, The Mighty Casey
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Sherlock Holmes: Shoscombe Old Place
Anyone who enjoys Sherlock Holmes has undoubtedly seen the recent Robert Downey Jr. movies costarring Jude Law as Watson. He’s a good Watson but color me a surprised shade of that famously studied scarlet: I had no idea he was … Continue reading
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
We come now to what I consider the finest of the Trek movies. But to understand that, I need to rewind to 1991. I’m 19 and at this point in our lives, my friends and I start every weekend with … Continue reading
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Tagged Films, Racism, The Original Series, The Undiscovered Country
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Koyomimonogatari
At first this season feels like an odd backwards step for the Monogatari franchise. We begin with a prequel to Bakemonogatari, with Koyomi and Tsubasa investigating a minor mystery concerning a shrine in their school’s gardens. It all seems oddly … Continue reading
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Tagged Bakemonogatari, Fantasy, Koyomimonogatari, Monogatari
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The Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Who Was Maddox?
This is a rare treat: an Edgar Wallace Mystery that is actually a mystery. Writer Roger Marshall manages to pack a lot of story into 60 minutes, but I never found it difficult to follow, despite a complicated plot with … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Lee, Crime, The Edgar Wallace Mysteries, Who Was Maddox?
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What’s My Line (Parts 1 and 2)
Buffy has been complaining about not being able to be a normal girl right from the start, and that is reinforced again here. There is a “career week” at school, but she doesn’t see much of a future for herself. … Continue reading
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Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What's My Line
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The Twilight Zone: The After Hours
Marsha White is in search of a gold thimble that she saw advertised in the local department store. It’s a sign of the times as much as last week’s Mr. Bevis, who gets a raise to $10 a week! Did … Continue reading
Sherlock Holmes: The Problem of Thor Bridge
I love it when an episode is unintentionally funny. This episode opens up with a woman dressed in a pinkish-red dress standing ominously among flowers. She looks like she’s playing a particularly daunting game of Where’s Waldo (Wally, to you … Continue reading
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
The year is 1989; 10 years after Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Rumor is, this is the final Star Trek movie. I’m 17 and I have a brainwave. I thought, for the tenth anniversary, I should see if my grandfather … Continue reading
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Tagged Films, The Final Frontier, The Original Series
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Dive!!
I stumbled across this anime series on Amazon Prime, looking for something that was safe to watch with the children around. There is a lot of anime that’s free to watch if you have Amazon Prime, but their age guidance … Continue reading
The Edgar Wallace Mysteries: We Shall See
It’s strange that this series of B movies was promoted as mystery thrillers when they are almost always nothing of the sort. In We Shall See there isn’t even a crime committed until there are only four minutes of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime, The Edgar Wallace Mysteries, We Shall See
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Dark Age
Last week Buffy learned a tough lesson in life, summed up by Giles’ ironic speech at the end of the episode: there isn’t always going to be a clear line between the heroes and the villains. Sometimes that line will … Continue reading
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Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Dark Age
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The Twilight Zone: Mr. Bevis
Mr. James B. W. Bevis is a likable man who is perhaps a little too genuine for the modern world. He’s lost six jobs in a year and eleven in a year and a half. He’s just lost his car, … Continue reading
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Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
Good lord, is that not a long title? And every time I read it, I want to add “abbey” at the end, having read Dracula long before I’d ever read Sherlock Holmes. As titles go, this is one of my … Continue reading
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a lighthearted Trek movie and as a result, may be one of the very best. Another tubular Doomsday Machine is on a direct course to earth. This is taking ideas from the classic … Continue reading
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Tagged Films, The Original Series, The Voyage Home
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Citrus
For the benefit of newcomers to the world of anime, there is a fairly popular subgenre of anime known as yuri, which focus on lesbian relationships. These tend to be gentle affairs, but this 12 episode series from 2018 is … Continue reading
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Tagged Fanservice, Yuri, Lesbian, Citrus
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The Edgar Wallace Mysteries: The Verdict
We’ve been here before with the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series of B movies: a story of the battle between two groups of criminals. Previously this has tended to be big, organised crime vs small time crooks, but this time we … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime, The Edgar Wallace Mysteries, The Verdict
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