Peter B. Williams

"Brick love lamp!"

This week was a belter. I can't believe no one in the comments picked up on the Severance references. I was too late, so here goes:
Helly R Veronas
Seth Roger Milla-chick

"Shut up Dee, you big stupid bird!"

You are well shot of any guy who channels Dennis Reynolds, even in jest.

Though I do worry that some young men see the D.E.N.N.I.S. system as an instruction manual rather than a satire of deeply damaged masculinity and sociopathy.

I'm going for Blue Velvet; changed my ideas as an impressionable, sheltered teenager of what cinema could look like.
Mark might go for this too given recent sad loss.

Sexy Beast for me - I'm going to have to turn that opportunity YES!
Mark will pick Shape of Water

It does look good. But it's a CG chimp, not a monkey.

"They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extra, just for you." - Larkin

Wow, you are punching. But I know you know that. Happy Christmas Kermodes

Shame he didn't do that in 1982 vs Spain.

Geordie man! Divven feel the cold canny lad

Tubby bigot.

Sound of Metal for me, I recall seeing a HOH version by mistake and it just added to the experience, providing some further small insight into what hearing loss might be like. Also not many films that centre on avant-garde punk-metal drummers. Mark will choose The Quiet Girl.

See how he rides the clumsy tackles, with only an eye for goal, rather than collapsing screaming for a penalty. Lovely stuff.

@redlionbooks.bsky.social enjoying Civilised Saturday at RLB. Anyone near Colchester UK, get down there for a real bookshop and a glass of complimentary sherry!

Battle of the Frauds on 26 Dec when Plymouth arrive on Boxing Day. Evens bet on which one finds it harder to squeeze through the door, Shrek's post-Xmas gut or Lumpard's grossly over-inflated sense of self-importance.

Brian and Charles is a warm, funny and beautiful movie about a lonely man who seeks and gains solace in a friend. More people need to see it.

I was genuinely worried there for a second thank you for explaining it

Hi Mr Smiley, I'm sure you will be thrilled to know you remain my best and favourite namedrop, having done a pub quiz with you and Hannah Oldman in Balham way back in the day.

"What did you do to my dog, you a$shole??"

That. Was a goal!

I think they are more than capable of that on their own

Bluesky is my people.

RASSLING, I believe it's spelled