Late Reviewer

Monday again then, is it?

Little bump for the Saturday night crowd...

a man with a beard is laughing in front of a bbc sign Alt: David Mitchell is laughing in front of a bbc sign as if to say 'oh, you'.

Oh, you!

King Of Comedy (1982) Directed by Martin Scorsese. “I see the awful, terrible things in my life and turn them into something funny.”

I've had a lot of stuff going on recently, but finally got time to write the first Late Review of 2026.

Here's a few thoughts on King Of Comedy...

YouTube AI just offered to summarise (presumably the video and lyrics of), Birdhouse In Your Soul by They Might Be Giants.

Good luck with that, you daft cyber bastard.

YouTube video by Chicken Nug-Nugz Stewart Lee discusses UKIP, Immigration and Paul Nuttall

A good day to post this.
One of the best takedowns of small-minded ignorance & slack-jawed bigotry.
Funny, too.
youtu.be/tKEsyIuTrO8?...

Bottom Bench

Theatre Of Blood is one of my very favourite comfort films, and he's *SO* good in it.

Overdue a rewatch, now I think of it.

Great point, and I don't recall ever seeing a Vincent Price performance where he's not having fun.

So sorry to hear this Moose. Condolences to you and yours.

Been away for a few exhausting days and settled down tonight to binge the last few episodes of Small Prophets.

I sort of didn't want or expect that final caption. But this series was a lovely way to spend a few hours and now I'm curious to see where it goes.

Working my way through @smershpod.com's Tuesday Night Movie Club back catalogue and just got to Howard The Duck.

Having such a good time with the podcast (a better time than I had with the storybook!), that I'm considering rewatching the film, but I seem to remember it lasting half a day.

Best described to me as "not the film you think it is"...

"Discussing Casino Royale with a colleague, I ended a message with 'there's no way they'd finish the film with him lying in a hospital bed nursing his mangled knackers'. I don't think I'll write a more satisfying sentence than that this week."

I know it's bad form to laugh at your own writing, but I've just remembered this comment I made to a friend while chatting about Casino Royale and had a little chuckle to myself.

Just a lovely, daft, comfortable way to spend 90 minutes, and the soundtrack is genuinely good. Vine seems like the nicest guy too.

If it's showing near you with a Q&A, would definitely recommend taking a punt on it.

Passage to Marseille - Trailers From Hell Michael Curtiz’s wartime tale of Devil’s Island convict Humphrey Bogart fighting to get back and defend France has a still-controversial scene of violence. The convoluted storyline nests enough flashb...

2/16/44: Passage to Marseille
D Michael Curtiz/DP Mr. James Wong Howe
w/Bogie, Rains, Greenstreet & Lorre... & the triple flashback!!!
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The actual beating heart of everything he was ever in. A metronome of morals. Beautiful actor.

Either the hypnosis one or the one with the sports car, both of which feature terrific mugging and vamping from Frances de la Tour.

Gorillaz are back so time to resurrect the greatest of all music tweets. We're all out here tryna be The Quietus and she just walks up and zeroes in on the essence.

'We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.' - Beautifully put.

I didn't care for this first time round and am curious but cautious about revisiting it.

Didn't hate it as much as I hated the book, mind.

Oh, that's interesting, I'd love to read it! I have a very vague memory of that film too, seem to recall it didn't go well.

Ha! I imagine he'd have answered it in the thoughtful and measured way it deserves!

How was the interview?

Seem to remember the cast being the most impressive thing about it, but otherwise retained very little over those 2.5 viewings.

Did John C McGinley get a kicking in a lift?

First time I was working in a video shop at uni so it cost me nothing (financially, anyway). Couple of years later, revisited to see if it was as bad as I remembered.

Last time, I stumbled across it on late night telly and watched half while finishing a glass of something.

20p sounds fair, tbh.

Sadly, and for no reason I can possibly fathom, I have seen this remake more than twice.

Great review, this. Nails it.

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

Little Harold and Maude thread.

I’d never heard of it until a friend told me I reminded her a bit of Harold. I think I was being gloomy. I had no idea what she meant. So for years, I was looking for this film. And it didn’t seem to be anywhere. This was the mid 90s. Just a missing movie. >>