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Decided to watch Farscape. Watched part of the first season when it first aired and then only the occasional episode after that. Didn't know that the actress who played the plant woman was the same one who played the warrior woman in Mad Max 2. Autumn is certainly here, although everyone is grumbling and claiming its winter already. Yeah right. What you going to do when the real bad weather arrives? Wasn't the finest example of a summer I've ever experienced, but I've seen a lot worse.

Poor Tony. He has started playing an online WW2 tank game and is discovering that early war German tanks are not very good against Soviet T34s and KV-2s. Right now his choices are between a Panzer III or a Stug 3. I've suggested the Stug, but either will struggle. Shame he can't take an 88 AA. He's decided to take my recommendation of switching sides and playing as the Soviets and is now sitting in a T-34/76.

Got the last of the plans in place for our next holiday. Going to visit a couple of places I've not been before. Got some other special stuff I am really looking forward too, but more of that later on.

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Entertainment / Books you read at a way too yo...

Last post by Trevor - October 11, 2024, 11:31:01 AM

For me, there's three.

Watership Down

Prisoner of Mao 😳

Chief!

The second one is the story of life and death in Mao Zong Ding Dong's forced labor camps.

Chief is the autobiography of Chief Albert Seedman's tour of duty as New York's Chief of Detectives.

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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by Rev. Powell - October 11, 2024, 10:22:53 AM

QUANTUM COWBOYS (2022): Two drifters from Yuma, Arizona seek a legendary musician who may (or may not have been) shot dead due to the rash actions of one of them; there are also time travelers, a modern camera crew recording certain scenes, and a puppet narrator who occasionally breaks in to lectures on "Intro to Quantum Mechanics." Done in styles ranging from live action to traditional animation to rotoscoping, sometimes mixed in the same frame, the film always looks great, but the script ate one too many peyote buttons: it can't focus, follow through, or distinguish its good ideas from its bad ones. With a pre-Oscar nom Lily Gladstone and cameos from director Alex Cox and alt-country stars Neko Case and John Doe. This near-miss cult film is free on Amazon Prime. 2.5/5.

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Entertainment / Re: Keep Running, Charlie

Last post by pacman000 - October 11, 2024, 10:15:05 AM

Keep Running, Charlie: https://krc.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/2191087/

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Entertainment / Re: Giants

Last post by pacman000 - October 11, 2024, 10:14:32 AM

Giants: https://giants.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/2148458/

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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by Trevor - October 11, 2024, 10:12:09 AM

Quote from: RCMerchant on October 09, 2024, 02:32:37 PMthe BLACK CAT (1966)

A drunk gets a gift of a black cat from his wife, and he ends up gouging the eye out of (which he is shown cupping in his bloody hand), then murdering . Another identical black cat with a bad eye appears, and while trying to kill that fuzzy little bastard (or "black demon!") his wife stops him, so he plants an axe in her noggin, and bricks her up in the basement. Cops show up, search the joint, and upon hearing a meowing from inside the wall, tear it down and find the cat perched on the rotting head of his lovey dovey. The end.
A low budget marvel of overacting by the lead and some nice black and white gore plus a bar band that wear eyepatches and lots of BAD dialouge made this an enjoyable chunk of mid '60's sleaze worth a look-see.
It's on Tubi if your curious.

I remember seeing that exact pic in Denis Gifford's book and going 😳😳

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Movie Reviews / Re: John Carpeneter's review o...

Last post by Trevor - October 11, 2024, 10:08:48 AM

Quote from: RCMerchant on October 11, 2024, 07:09:25 AMHALLOWEEN 2 was a waste of film. It just dragged out the first film. 3 was worthwhile. The last one with Jamie Lee Curtis is the best continuation of the series, if you ask me. The others in-between-run of the mill slasher garbage. (Never a big fan of the slasher genre.)

Agreed: I only liked the ending of Halloween 2, nothing else.

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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Rev. Powell - October 11, 2024, 08:08:27 AM

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