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Everything Else / Re: what Film / TV are you watching RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Winterwulf on May 26, 2025, 08:32:21 PM »

Part of me thinks I ought to see it given bits were filmed near me (underground in Middleton stone mine) but I've not followed the series so I'd probably not get a lot of it!

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Everything Else / Re: what Film / TV are you watching RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Master Ray on May 26, 2025, 07:10:52 PM »

Watched the new Mission Impossible film at the cinema yesterday...  a mixed bag, I'm afraid.  When it's good it's great but damn there's a lot of dreary stuff to get through before you get to the good bits.  I have muchly liked this films series (certainly more than certain James Bond flicks recently!) but there's so much dreary and over-complicated exposition for the first hour (damn, it's nearly three hours long!) and it's rather grim in tone, lacking in the fun and humour that other entries had.

Yes, the great action scenes DO happen (eventually) and most certainly live up to the stuff that's gone before but I have to say that it's my second least favourite MI film (after the second one, widely regarded as the lowpoint) and, seeing as it's been touted as the concluding installment of the saga the last five minutes are, well... disappointingly inconclusive?

Again, it's not a stinker by any means but I'm not keen to watch it again anytime soon, unlike other entries which gave me such a buzz...   

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Everything Else / Re: what songs are you listening to RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Master Ray on May 26, 2025, 06:52:06 PM »

The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge. 

I remember the singer Mark Burgess supporting NMA at the London Astoria in a short lived band called Bird, they went down really well.  I'd never heard of the Chameleons at that point but I remember them playing a song with a recurrent lyrics that went 'the stuff that dreams are made of' and got a great response... some years later, as a new member of this fine Forum, I asked if anyone remembered this band and what the tune was and I was told it was 'Second Skin' from the aforementioned album.  It's been a personal favourite since then...   

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Everything Else / Re: what songs are you listening to RIGHT NOW

« Last post by lupus225 on May 25, 2025, 06:52:55 AM »

A Place to Bury Strangers: "We've come so far"

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Everything Else / Re: what songs are you listening to RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Master Ray on May 23, 2025, 07:33:18 PM »

Skunk Anansie - The Painful Truth, their first one in the best part of a decade.  Really liking it.  Been into them since just before the first album came out and saw them in a tiny venue in Stoke when Skin was practically singing right into my face.  One of the greatest live bands I've ever seen, saw them in Leeds a few weeks back, just magnificent.

Always great when a band you've been listening to for 30 years or so put out a new one and it's a belter!

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Everything Else / Re: So... tell us a joke!

« Last post by Master Ray on May 23, 2025, 07:29:36 PM »

OK, this one is a bit evil...

Do you know that Catholics have something called a 'reverse exorcism'?

It's when the Devil tells the priest to get out of the child...

(look, I utterly hate organized religion, especially Catholicism, so I think an angry joke is valid...  )

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Everything Else / Re: Michael Mann

« Last post by Guillaume on May 20, 2025, 08:45:35 PM »

Sounds great, jealous as heck!   

I hope you get a chance to see THE KEEP in a movie theater sooner or later, Master Ray!  Especially since the restored version is beautiful.

Nothing beats the experience of watching this film in a big theater, but at least you now have a great looking region A Blu Ray!:

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/the-keep

Carlotta, who released the film in french theaters, should announce the release of their Blu-ray in the coming weeks, I think.   

LAST OF THE MOHICANS... probably one of my top five films ever.  Just perfect on every level.

I was also lucky enough to see it on the big screen a few months ago, it was shown in a movie theater of my town so this time I didn't have to travel all the way to Paris! Like THE KEEP it's another film to see first in theaters if you want to better enjoy the beauty of the cinematography and the sets, and the wide shots! I would love to see MANHUNTER again on the big screen (it was re-released in french theaters a few years ago but I couldn't go) and also FERRARI which I still haven't seen, because unfortunately it wasn't released in french theaters, but only online, on Amazon...I hope one day to see it on the big screen, like all the others Mann films I've had the chance to see in theaters.

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Everything Else / Re: So... tell us a joke!

« Last post by Winterwulf on May 20, 2025, 08:12:07 PM »

If it hasn't been posted here before, I could add the Really Bad Christmas Joke that Rev Hammer came out with at a Red Sky Coven gig I was at many moons ago...

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Everything Else / Re: So... tell us a joke!

« Last post by Winterwulf on May 20, 2025, 08:10:15 PM »

That first one reminds me of a favourite of mine -

A little girl skips into a pet shop and asks the owner "Hello mister, do you sell little fluffy bunny wabbits?"
The owner, with heart melting, says "Of course, would you like a little brown rabbit, a little black rabbit, or a little white rabbit"
The little girl replied "I dont fink my pyfon gives a **** what colour they are!"

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Everything Else / Re: what songs are you listening to RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Winterwulf on May 20, 2025, 08:07:03 PM »

There was a comment on one of the HMHB fan sites recently musing whether the new American Pope would invite Slipknot for a visit, and if so, would they stick to the script defined in "Vatican Broadside"...