Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More

FILM LISTS… Retaking in the Sights with a Bird’s Eye View of Robert Redford’s Reels Remembering this multi talented filmmaker and star, and his winning ways with a double bill... About Redford's first-time Best Director winning role with some off-screen feathered peers and on screen, as the Condor, a CIA analyst who takes flight from some known and unknown predators.

FILM LISTS… Retaking in the Sights with a Bird’s Eye View of Robert Redford’s Reels

Remembering this multi talented filmmaker and star, and his winning ways with a double bill... About Redford's first-time Best Director winning role with some off-screen feathered peers and on screen, as the…

For Oct 6: Fave Exorcist movie for
#bales2025filmchallenge

Richard Burton signed up, so it can't be that bad can it?

For Oct 5 : Fave Godzilla movie for
#Bales2025FilmChallenge... heard this one is pretty good

TV… Hammer House of Horror (1980), Children of the Full Moon Ep8 The big screen British bombshell, Diana Dors is a telly matriarch, foster and stepmum to 8 feral like kids… A honeymooning couple’s car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, and then th…

For #Bales2025filmchallenge
#Filmsky
#Moviesky

Day 4
Favourite horror movie with more than one bad guy... you will find Diana Dors is not alone as the bad gal in this Hammer episode...

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2023/05/14/t...

FILMS… The Cannonball Run (1981) Burt Reynolds takes the driving seat as two Rat Packers race to the finishing line… A possible reboot plot for a Fast and Furious movie that hasn’t yet been written.

For #OctoberMovieChallenge for @omacolt.bsky.social by Day 5... someone runs a great distance, does the Cannonball Run count??
weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/t...

FILMS… Restless Natives (1985) The Clown, the Wolfman, warts and all… Spot the one time Taggart stars once again as we return to the 1980s and another Scottish film with a Big Country soundtrack.

For #OctoberMovieChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social Day 6... something other than a bank is robbed... In Restless Natives... the passengers of tour coaches in Scotland are robbed by the Wolfman and the Clown...
weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2022/05/31/r...

FILMS… Atonement (2007) Through the eyes of a child… A jealous teenage girl misunderstands her sister’s actions with her lover. This leads to events that will change their lives.

For #OctoberMovieChallenge catch up for @omacolt.bsky.social ... Day 4 someone is wrongly imprisoned... Robbie in Atonment, after his lover's wee sister gets jealous...
#Moviesky
#Filmsky
weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2021/06/17/a...

FILMS… The War of the Roses (1989) As two Roses go to war… Will it be a happy ever after from here to eternity for the Roses as played by my favourite 1980s on-screen couple (from another movie and it’s sequel)?

For #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025.. catch up

#Moviesky
#Filmsky

DAY 4... Has a pet cat... Barbara Rose in War of the Roses...

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2022/06/16/f...

FILMS… Always (1989) Before becoming old flames, Pete finds that his love still burns for Dorinda… Pete – a firefighter pilot who recently passed away – is asked by his guardian angel to mentor a new …

For #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025.. catch up

#Moviesky
#Filmsky

DAY 5... Fave character from a Spielberg film... Love Holly Hunter in Always, as Dorinda... her wee face when she gets a dress is a treasure when she sees these "girl clothes"...

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2022/03/01/f...

FILMS… Lost Horizon (1973) You’d think someone couldn’t make it up. Well, someone did in this 1970s guilty pleasure amalgam of film genres… An all-star cast in a Ross Hunter production and their (sadly, mos…

For #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025 Day 6.. wears something brown... it's brown sheepskin coats for the all star cast in Lost Horizon...
weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2024/06/13/f...

"I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement."
~ François Truffaut

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962, Robert Aldrich)

Neil Simon's Murder by Death (1976) Directed by Robert Moore. The all star cast that includes Truman Capote, Eileen Brennan, Maggie Smith, James Coco, Peter Falk and more.

The Wicker Man (1973) Directed by Robin Hardy starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland and Christopher Lee.

Keir Dullea, Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, and John Saxon in Black Christmas (1974)

Shelley Winters, Chloe Franks, Hugh Griffith, Lionel Jeffries, Mark Lester, and Ralph Richardson in Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)

ICYMI: Announcing the fifth(!) Hammer-Amicus Blogathon!

#filmsky #horrorsky

a man wearing a top hat and goggles is sitting in a car ALT: a man wearing a top hat and goggles is sitting in a car

Blake Edwards’ THE GREAT RACE (1965) starring Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood

Hope to hear from you soon x Thanks in advance xxx

Looking forward to seeing your pick.

FILMS… Ex Machina (2015) A sci-fi hot robot of some sorta Weird Science origins… A programmer is invited by his boss to assess a female android to evaluate how human like it is.

Happy Birthday, Alicia Vikander.. here in Ex Machina...

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/on-films-and...

FILMS… Closer (2004) The film foursome of Larry & Anna & Dan & Alice… These four talking love, relationships, sex and betrayal.

Happy Birthday Clive Owen, here in Closer...

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/c...

FILMS… Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) Buck Rogers gets girl trouble, goes into space battle and gets down in the 25th Century… It’s no fairytale, as we return to the 1970s as a charismatic astronaut from the then future is …

Happy Birthday to Pamela Hensley, here with the Dad dancing Gil Gerard in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2023/04/26/f...

FILMS… Going Back in Time to the Often On Screen Lascivious Leslie Phillips Leslie Phillips’ lothario proves where there is a will, there’s a way… This much loved actor joins an immortal British cast of British comedians in a very British comedy.

Remembering Michael Hordern on his birthday with Leslie Philips (below) in Some Will, Some Won’t (1970)...
weegiemidget.wordpress.com/remembrances...

FILMS… World War Z (2013) When daddy’s gotta work, he’s Pitt against the zombies… One family man. One last job for the United Nations. Mission to find a cure for a zombie pandemic.

For #Bales2025FilmChallenge

Day 3: Favourite Zombie Movie, as it was filmed in Glasgow... it's the one with Brad Pitt vs those Zombies...

… World War Z (2013)

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2016/12/26/w...

FILM LISTS… Great Movie Gems from the Director, Garry Marshall Reliving the great movies of Garry Marshall… Here are some of the movies I remembered him for as a director.

For #OctoberMovieChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social
#MovieSky

Day 3: Movie fictional or documentary with a podcast in it... with The Princess Diaries and a little help from @sassawards.bsky.social

Just one in this list from Garry Marshall....

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/remembrances...

FILMS… Grease (1978) It’s all about Eve Arden when Grease is the word… Eve Arden in a principal role at Rydell High, in the first of the Grease musical movies.

For #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025

Day 3: Graduates from High School... Has to be Grease...
with Danny, Sandy, Rizzo etc etc...

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2017/11/10/g...

FILMS… Dorian Gray / The Secret of Dorian Gray (1970) A stylishly seventies sexy spin on Dorian Gray… A handsome Helmut Berger stars as the man who traded his soul to never age, while his painting showed his corrupt lifestyle.

With lovely Helmut Berger as Dorian Gray in this memorable take,

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/d...

FILMS… The Karate Killers (1967) Joan Crawford has five minutes of Man from UNCLE film fame… A feature film made from a two parter TV episode, with the added bonus of this Golden Hollywood star.

Revisiting Joan Crawford in The Karate Killers, with those men from UNCLE,

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2019/05/10/t...

TV… The Scarlett O’Hara War (1980) (TV MOVIE) Studio head, David O. Selznick’s thinking goes in all directions while he decides on who to give the Southern belle, leading role in the Civil War movie epic… The search for Scarlett O&…

My latest post remembers the TV Movie, The Scarlett O’Hara War (1980) (TV MOVIE)...

weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/s...