Songs for the Bewildered: Hungry Eyes
So there we were tonight watching (like the cool cats we are) the extras on the Dirty Dancing 20th Anniversary Special Edition DVD...
Film Category
Every Day is a Gif(t): Tumbley Hole Man
Formative experience recollection time.
It's a summer evening in, oh, 1979 (or thenabouts), and I'm standing – gob-smacked and...
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 2 – John Cronin
The "Campaign Poster Debaffler" next focuses its critical gaze on the kindly physog of Cllr. John Cronin. Here he be:
First impressions...
A Wiping We Will Go (a.k.a. Incongruous Baby Products)
In between trips back and forth to the hospital, bouts of shopping, spells of baby-room-readying, lengthy crying/laughing sessions...
Things I Saved From a Skip: 2 – Debbie For Girls 1981
Ever since the humourless, ancient overlords of patriarchy (Boo!) first set traditional gender roles in stone, there have been heroic...
Batmangled
Was in HMV the other day and noticed that Batman: The Movie (a full-length theatrical spin-off of the '60s series) has undergone something...
Naughty Boys, Lucky Bags, and Karl’s Lovely Wig
And so the brother (he who used to love jam sandwiches more than life itself) is married. Saturday's celebratory fancy dress part-tay...
Screen Grab Saturday
Bit of light, wholesome family fun for you all on this pissy, piddly Saturday afternoon. Having been laid up sick for the last week...
Lousy Human Bastards!
[Being the second, and final, part of the "I was home sick so I watched the Planet of the Apes Box-set" reflections]
Given that Star...
Beneath the Planet of the Apes: Damn Your Hypocrisies!
What, I ask, does one do when home for a few days with "the sickness"?
Huddle sobbing in the corner munching packets of paracetamol?...
It Came From the 1950s
News has reached me of a tremendously groovy conference being organised by the good people from The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror...
Twinkle Twirl… you’re wonderful…!!!!!
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As the "Dreadful Thoughts" club badges begin to wing their way around this wide world (i.e. Ireland) my thoughts have turned from...
I Defy You, Groot!!
The naming of those fantastic (and hideous) creatures that routinely crawl from the earth's dark chasms or slither from the depths...
Judgement Day: The Kickening
August 4, 1997: The computer defence-system "Skynet" is brought online for the first time.
August 29, 1997: Skynet, fearing threats...
Manky Toy Monday: Phantasms and Maniac Bellows
A Manky Toy double-bill for you on this glorious Monday (glorious because the sun has his/her hat on and I'm off work). Through no...
