Curry Pervert wrote: Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:25 pm Yeah I watched the first two at the cinema but by the third one my butt just couldn't face the 3 hour numbing.

I like the first one a lot, and don't mind the others, but the very concept of the 'extended' versions was deranged.

Fictional ghosts: NC https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BBC-Ghosts-cast-series-5.jpg 'Real' ghosts, and their 'investigators': Kerrrrraaappppp https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/10/23/14/enfield%20poltergeist.jpg Yes, I'm talking to you Danny Robins. (Aside: if a set designer pr...

It's got some really great moments, but it's not a great film. Still liked it. The origin of the alliance is not really discussed and largely irrelevant, although it is mentioned that they will probably fall out later.

Civil War . Strange cut-and-shut movie: 3/4 is a sympathetic portrayal of the job of (war) reporting, using the neat device of switching the foreign for the domestic (although with the clunky device of introducing a naïve new reporter). The politics here is irrelevant, and it's basically a road mov...

The "spiced wine" mentioned ( Glühwein or glögg ) is the only one I know to be prevalent, and that as regional to Germany and Scandinavia. Also in the UK as mulled wine (or cider). Mulling got us through a case of otherwise undrinkable Bulgarian red wine one Christmas. Underrated, if you ...

Wood Goblin wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:42 pm Churros. A pretty good pastry topped with a ruinous amount of sugar.

The ones I've had were plain, or maybe lightly salted? You dip them in hot chocolate, and were great. However I've seen them in the UK sold as (basically) doughnuts, and I think they were dunked in sugar. Bleurgh.

Unreasonably excited about this.

Just watched Ghostwatch for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It didn't match what I had building in my head for so long, but it was scarier than Late Night with the Devil by a damn sight. Just watched Late Night with the Devil and the similarity is very superficial. Late Night with the Devil t...

Saw Late Night with the Devil and it wasn't nearly as scary as I needed it to be. Like, it'd get right to the edge of scary then cease to jump over it. It doesn't take much to frighten me. I like to think that it does, but, no, I go into movies with defense shields down praying to lose my shit. I l...

zorg wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:42 am But c'mon leg songs are like a blues staple, Rod is hardly breaking any ground here.

Oh! I meant the video. The lyrics are -- erm -- charmingly straightforward, but the video is mostly shot between the legs of the model. Less complicated times etc.