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LesSmarberry

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Random movie reckons. Mostly genre pictures, Gialli, French and Italian crime movies, horror from '30s-'60s. Occasionally going overboard in the Alt Text

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · Apr 15

Going to make this an ongoing thread on old TV movies, a form which I think is ripe for resurrection in the age of streaming

Starting off with 2 favorites, Murder Once Removed(1971) & Murder By Natural Causes(1979)

Both twisty thrillers featuring rich husbands, adulterous wives, & murderous lovers

A poster/VHS cover for Murder By Natural Causes. It comprises an illustration of a partially completed jigsaw of two of the movies' stars Katherine Ross & Hal Holbrook. One of the missing jigsaw pieces is vaguely gun shaped & pointing at Holbrook's temple

A poster/VHS cover for Murder Once Removed. It features a black & white image of two of the movies' stars, Richard Kiley & John Forsythe, standing side by side against a white background. They are wearing golfing attire & Kiley smokes a pipe

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 16h

Citizen Smith would do numbers on here

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 18h

TBH I don't even think it will

When "We're in favour of nice things (self- defined) & not in favour of not nice things (also self-defined)" is the sum total of your politics you don't have to sweat the details

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 19h

Populists I agree with: Brave, honest, principled...

Populists I disagree with: [endless screaming]

There's a very weird idea that seems to be developing in real time of Presidency as a separate centre of power that exists to be captured

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 19h

My main concern re the current President & his potential successor though has always been that if, in 7 or 14 years time, a right-wing populist got in & tried to ignore constitutional limits, then they would have legitimate precedents they could point to for doing so

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 19h

I *think* Gov would try & take same tack as they have done to date, & just do their best to ignore some of the statements from the Áras. Whether that continues to be viable, yeah who knows

1st bit of controversial legislation that gets sent for signature? Again, not confident about the outcome

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 20h

I think that's fair in substance but at the same time I think the only reason Connolly is a viable candidate at all is because he decided to interpret the constitutional limits of the office to his own liking, & a lot of people were fine with that because he's a good leftie

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 20h

Think they think she's Michael D 2.0

Wait, wouldn't that mean that Michael D also.......

a pikachu with a surprised look on his face .

Alt: a pikachu with a surprised look on his face .

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d

I remain outraged 🤣

Yeah the footage of The Beatles playing in Dublin is 'how was no one killed?' levels of insane

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d

Post was circulating last week re a sports field being torn up due to complaints from householders, & responses included 'they should be publicly shamed!'

My brother in Christ, their names are public, as the applicants to tear up a kids' sports field. Why exactly do you think they *can* be shamed?

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d

And performative too.

So you think people lodging objections to housing are arseholes

Ok, but can we legislate our way out of them being arseholes, or should we focus on things like planning courts to speed up the process or expect applications that are arsehole proof (comply with planning rules)

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d

I was outraged when I found out (as a teenager) that The Stones regularly stayed in my locality when they were in Ireland

'Here? The Rolling Stones came here? Why is everything so boring here then?'

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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 2d

At the premiere of the restored version of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), I was on a panel discussion with Lucy Bolton, Wayne Drew, Melvyn Hayes, Mike Muncer and David Pirie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFcw...

Exclusive Q&A from The Curse of Frankenstein Premiere Behind the Scenes with Hammer Experts

YouTube video by Hammer

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 2d

Hard Times. And not the good Dusty Rhodes Hard Times

Fuck You Dickens

a man in a suit and tie is talking into a microphone with the words thats hard times above him

Alt: Dusty Rhodes delivers his iconic 'Hard Times' promo

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d

Love 'em

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d

All but 14 of the original 61 episodes appear lost, leaving just the 1st four of Series 1 & the 10 episodes from a truncated 3rd Series

Those 1st four form a multi-part story, but sometime between Series 1 & Series 3 the format switched to standalone episodes. They're not all classics, but some are

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d

As returns from Slow Horses continue to diminish, can I interest anyone in Spy Trap?

A BBC series from 1972-75, about a counter espionage outfit that goes only by 'The Department', it plays like an even less action-packed version of The Sandbaggers (complementary)

A black & white screen grab from Episode 1 of Spy Trap. Paul Daneman as counter-espionage chief Commander Ryan stands reading a file while Julian Glover as his colleague Commander Anderson stands looking at him

I like this show a lot but can't escape the feeling that all of the protagonists would have voted for Brexit

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d

PQ for Oral Answer

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 4d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d

"The chancellor approved it"

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 5d

*from around

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 5d

Same with his Maggie Moore(s) for around the same time

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 5d

Worth watching

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 5d

Me doing the Picard Four Lights thing, but it's about how X The Unknown counts as a Quatermass movie

a bald man with a beard is making a funny face in a dark room .

Alt: Captain Picard yells 'There Are Four Lights!'

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 5d

a man wearing a shirt that says schitts creek on the bottom

Alt: David Rose from Schitt's Creek tries his best to keep it together

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 5d

Yet to watch it

For me, Hamm has the air of someone who'd crack under pressure about him. Like he looks like he should be a tough guy, but isn't. Which is what makes him compelling

Holt McCallany, Frank Grillo or Jeffrey Donovan would all be good, but a) probably too old & b) not box-office enough

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 5d

Severe lack of Parker appropriate leading men these days

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 7d

They sold my philosophy course, in part, by saying that businesses wanted candidates who'd been taught how to think logically

Which, weirdly enough, was true

They didn't mention that after 4 years of philosophy you'd be bored to tears in business

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