Category: Piffle

  • Mark Gatiss And His Massive Boiled Egg
    Mark Gatiss And His Massive Boiled Egg

    The characterisation of The Prince Regent by Mark Gatiss is Taboo is fantastic. I won’t be lazy and say ‘it’s like something out of The League of …” Because I’ve bought you here to marvel at Mark Gatiss and his massive boiled egg.

  • What To Watch? Something New Or Something Old?
    What To Watch? Something New Or Something Old?

    I live in a constant dilema as someone who watches a lot of TV and film. It’s one of my favourite things to do, other than see my friends and play board games. Oh, and cake. But there’s a constant conflict within me. A schism that’s hard to remedy. Do I watch something new, or…

  • When Can The Ewoks Dance?
    When Can The Ewoks Dance?

    Seriously, let’s just let the Ewoks dance already. Soon. Soon.

  • Keep Calm And Steadicam
    Keep Calm And Steadicam

    I have this running in a loop in my head today. You know, for reasons. When he ramps up into that sprint, Stallone runs nearly as elegantly as Tom Cruise. Rocky was the first film to really use the steadicam, and even used shots made for the rig’s initial showreel.

  • Saint David
    Saint David

    I watched The Saint last night. The 1997 movie one, starring Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue, which was directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick. And if you believe the comments under my tweet about having watched it, it’s both appalling AND the worst movie ever made. But it’s a…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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