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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 13h

Rolling on with a slight twist on spooky season things with my review of Season One of Alien Earth: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/a...

#tv #television #scifi #horror #Alien #AlienEarth #TVreview #televisionreview

Alien Earth: Season One (2025)

Going into FX’s new TV series, Alien Earth, coming less than a year after the most recent movie in the franchise, Alien: Romulus, and with talk of that film’s sequel already on the horizon, I have …

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI my review of I Only Trust Rock ‘N’ Roll, the new album from The Living End… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/t...

#music #newmusic #punkrock #rockabilly #punkabilly #australia #thelivingend #ionlytrustrocknroll #musicreview #recordreview #albumreview

The Living End – I Only Trust Rock ‘N’ Roll

While they started out as a band combining elements of punk rock and rockabilly (‘punkabilly’, if you will), over the last 25 years stand-out Aussie trio The Living End have shifted their sound, on…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 2d

‘Do you like scary movies?’… ICYMI my look at the Scream film series from movies 1 to 6… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/t...

#film #movies #scream #scream2 #scream3 #scream4 #scream5 #scream6 #wescraven #horrormovies #slashermovie #filmreview #moviesreview #spookyseason #shocktober

The Scream Franchise

Do you like scary movies? Ghostface, Scream, 1996 After making his name with a series of previous iconic horror movies, Wes Craven reinvented the genre for at least a second time in 1996 alongside …

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 2d

My review of the new one from Aussie rockabilly-punks The Living End, I Only Trust Rock ‘N’ Roll: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/t...

#music
#newmusic
#thelivingend
#ionlytrustrocknroll
#punkrock
#rockabilly
#punkabilly
#musicreview
#recordreview
#albumreview

The Living End – I Only Trust Rock ‘N’ Roll

While they started out as a band combining elements of punk rock and rockabilly (‘punkabilly’, if you will), over the last 25 years stand-out Aussie trio The Living End have shifted their sound, on…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 3d

Continuing spooky season today with a look at the whole Scream series to date: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/t...

#films
#movies
#Scream
#horror
#slasher
#spookyseason
#Ghostface
#filmreview
#moviereview

The Scream Franchise

Do you like scary movies? Ghostface, Scream, 1996 After making his name with a series of previous iconic horror movies, Wes Craven reinvented the genre for at least a second time in 1996 alongside …

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 4d

ICYMI my review of A Place To Call Home, the new single from Faolán Griffin… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

#music #newmusic #faolangriffin #aplacetocallhome #singersongwriter #guermsey #musicreview #recordreview #singlereview

Faolán Griffin – A Place To Call Home

It might be something of a cliché to say good things come to those who wait but, in this case, it rings true as two years on from their debut single, One Day More, Faolán Griffin has dropped single…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 5d

My review of the new single from Faolán Griffin, A Place To Call Home: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f...

#music
#newmusic
#singersongwriter
#faolangriffin
#aplacetocallhome
#guernsey
#musicreview
#recordreview
#singlereview

Faolán Griffin – A Place To Call Home

It might be something of a cliché to say good things come to those who wait but, in this case, it rings true as two years on from their debut single, One Day More, Faolán Griffin has dropped single…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI my review of The Toxic Avenger Unrated… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/t...

#film #movie #thetoxicavenger #thetoxicavengerunrated #troma #horrormovies #spookyseason #shocktober #schlock #filmreview #moviereview

The Toxic Avenger Unrated (2023/2025)

Back in the heyday of VHS in the 1980s and 90s one studio stood above all in its apparent mission to pump out the crudest, most offensive and, in some cases, funniest, splatter and ‘schlock’ known …

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 7d

My review of the new(ish) remake of Troma’s top superhero, The Toxic Avenger Unrated: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/t...

#film
#movie
#troma
#thetoxicavenger
#thetoxicavengerunrated
#horrormovie
#spookyseason
#shocktober
#schlock
#filmreview
#moviereview

The Toxic Avenger Unrated (2023/2025)

Back in the heyday of VHS in the 1980s and 90s one studio stood above all in its apparent mission to pump out the crudest, most offensive and, in some cases, funniest, splatter and ‘schlock’ known …

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 8d

ICYMI my review of What Could Have Been (I Could Have Been More), the new EP from mountain peaks… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/m...

#music #newmusic #emo #screamo #altmetal #norwich #mountainpeaks #mountainpeaksband #musicreview #epreview #recordreview

Mountain Peaks – What Could Have Been (I Could Have Been More)

While the name of Norwich based trio Mountain Peaks (usually stylised in all lower case, along with all their song titles) is one that’s been vaguely familiar for a while as it has appeared on vari…

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 9d

Rik Mayall - Bigger Than Hitler, Better Than Christ

John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 9d

Best titles of autobiographies?

Starting with:

- Vic Reeves, Me: Moir
- Dennis Waterman, Reminder (thanks @whenisbirths.bsky.social)
- AA Gill, Pour Me
- Gene Simmons, Kiss and Make-Up
- Julian Clary, A Young Man's Passage

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 9d

My review of the new EP from mountain peaks, what could have been (i could have been more): tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/m...

#music
#newmusic
#mountainpeaks
#whatcouldhavebeenicouldhavebeenmore
#emo
#screamo
#altmetal
#musicreview
#EPreview
#recordreview

Mountain Peaks – What Could Have Been (I Could Have Been More)

While the name of Norwich based trio Mountain Peaks (usually stylised in all lower case, along with all their song titles) is one that’s been vaguely familiar for a while as it has appeared on vari…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 10d

Continuing my run of horror movies for October with the new 4K release of Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu The Vampyre from the BFI: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/n...

#film #movie #nosferatu #nosferatuthevampyre #wernerherzog #klauskinski #horrorfilm #horrormovie #filmreview #moviereview

Nosferatu The Vampyre, aka Nosferatu – Phantom Der Nacht (1979)

Back at the beginning of 2025 (or the end of 2024 depending where in the world you are) Robert Eggers released his version of the supposed original vampire movie, Nosferatu, but his wasn’t the firs…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 11d

ICYMI my review of last weekend’s Fête Des Bêtes at St James Guernsey celebrating a range of folk and roots music with a twist… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...

#music #livemusic #newmusic #folkmusic #neofolk #modernfolk #guernsey #lafetedesbetes #musicreview #livemusicreview #gigreview

La Fête des Bêtes – St James Guernsey – 27/09/25

Having originated as a two day Weekender in Sark back in 2021, La Fête Des Bêtes aimed to champion folk and traditional music with a modern twist but after that first happening seemed to disappear,…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 12d

My review of last weekend’s La Fête des Bêtes at St James Guernsey: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...

#music
#livemusic
#newmusic
#folkmusic
#neofolk
#modernfolk
#folkpop
#folkrock
#lafetedesbetes
#guernsey
#musicreview
#livemusicreview
#gigreview

La Fête des Bêtes – St James Guernsey – 27/09/25

Having originated as a two day Weekender in Sark back in 2021, La Fête Des Bêtes aimed to champion folk and traditional music with a modern twist but after that first happening seemed to disappear,…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 13d

A busy (and rather noisy) evening for the folk session at The Drunken Duck this evening - as ever lots of great songs and tunes from quieter pieces to full pub singalongs…
#music #livemusic #folkmusic #folksession #tradsession

TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 13d

Kicking off spooky season with Wes Craven’s classic post-modern millennial slasher, Scream… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/s...

#film #movie #scream #wescraven #horrorfilm #horrormovie #slasher #slashermovie #filmreview #moviereview

Scream (1996)

Back in the early 1970s Wes Craven first made his mark with The Last House On The Left, one of the defining films of the late Vietnam-era horror cycle that also gave us The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 13d

My first few of the Lego Spider-verse minifigures… not too bad getting Spider-Gwen!
#lego #spiderman #spiderverse #minifigures #spidergwen #webslinger #prowler

TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 14d

As ‘spooky season’ begins in earnest here’s my review of Wes Craven’s era-defining slasher, Scream: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/s...

#film
#movie
#horrormovie
#slasher
#scream
#wescraven
#filmreview
#moviereview
#spookyseason

Scream (1996)

Back in the early 1970s Wes Craven first made his mark with The Last House On The Left, one of the defining films of the late Vietnam-era horror cycle that also gave us The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 15d

ICYMI my review of Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/m...

#film #movie #masterandcommander #masterandcommanderthefarsideoftheworld #filmreview #moviereview

Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003)

After Waterworld largely ended the idea of large scale productions set at sea in the mid-90s (with the undeniable exception of James Cameron’s Titanic in 1997), it was 2003 where the idea of anythi…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 16d

ICYMI you can find all the info and how to listen to my latest BBC Introducing in the Channel Islands radio show with Apothis, Hollow Youth, Bloomfield, Calico, Dribbler, PAVÉ and more… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/b...

#music #newmusic #bbcintroducing #channelislands #radio

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 16d

My review of Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/m...

#film
#movie
#masterandcommander
#masterandcommanderthefarsideoftheworld
#thefarsideoftheworld
#filmreview
#moviereview

Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003)

After Waterworld largely ended the idea of large scale productions set at sea in the mid-90s (with the undeniable exception of James Cameron’s Titanic in 1997), it was 2003 where the idea of anythi…

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 17d

My ★★★½ review of Marvel Zombies on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/bbAh73

#marvel #marvelzombies #marvelcinematicuniverse #marvelanimation #tv #streamingtv #review #tvreview

A ★★★½ review of Marvel Zombies (2025)

Following an appearance in an episode of What If..?, Marvel Animation returned to its most horror leaning property yet just in time for ‘spooky season’ 2025 with a mini series of Marvel Zombie. Focuss...

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 17d

Another great night at St James Guernsey for the Fete Des Betes with The Button Pushers, Clameur De Haro, The Space Pirates Of Rocquaine, We Are The Monsters and more!
#music #livemusic #fetedesbetes #guernsey #musicphotography #livemusicphotography #folkmusic

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TommyGirard @tommygirard.bsky.social · 17d

Here’s where to listen and all the info on last night’s BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show featuring Apothis, track of the week from HOLLOW YOUTH and lots more: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/b...

#music #newmusic #bbcintroducing #radio #radioshow #guernsey #jersey

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Apothis and Hollow Youth – 27/09/25

With summer festival season well and truly behind us, and Autumn well and truly here, I was back on air for BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands on Saturday 27th September, and you can list…

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