Paul C. Dobbs
Living on Sydney Greenstreet
Haunted by Ida Lupino
Wants to be a Brontë
송강호는 내 부조종사다
- Beer does fill you up. If I have a couple of cans with lunch I can get away with eating a lot less. Whether this will help me lose weight remains to be seen
- Starmer out, now
- The Time and the Place is a great episode of The Persuaders! and quite prescient, involving an elite coup plot like the one against Wilson a few years later. Roger Moore directed it and did a bang up job, while Tony Curtis gets another chance to rock his Cary Grant accent. (It hadn't got any better)
- What’s a movie you think nobody but you and a handful of people have heard of, that you think is a fantastic film? The Long Day's Dying (1968). Ugly war, beautiful David Hemmings. Best war film ever?
- Charlie Chuck at Glastonbury, doing a thing about ten young ducks, a sort of non-singing ten green bottles. I couldn't believe he'd have the nerve to see it through, but he just kept going and it just kept getting funnier till I could hardly breathe
- I believed that if you swallowed chewing gum if would stick to your heart and you'd die. I just believed whatever I was told. Except for transubstantiation, original sin, and Hell. Even my tiny mind knew all that stuff was bollocks
- Peter Ibbetson reminded me a bit of The Ghost and Mrs Muir with its theme of ethereal love, but it's stranger and bolder than that film. It never feels ridiculous, but it's often on the edge, and is better for taking the risk. Features a dazzling turn from a teenage Ida Lupino
- Green Green Grass of Home on the radio. I love this. I know it's godawful but I can’t resist it, just a perfect thing of its kind. I'm always in pieces when he wakes up in his cell and realises that, yes, he was only dreaming. 😢
- The Guilt of Janet Ames promises some serious melodrama, but it devolves into an odd, finger-wagging message movie with Rosalind Russell undergoing a Scrooge-like ordeal fuelled by prescribed tranquilisers and a bit of tough love from Melvyn Douglas. War widows - get over yourselves!
