Jamie
@vanjpes.bsky.social
Tired enthusiast. I write weird things. Mostly here to post about old television shows, films, comedy, books, and horror.
Rambles and tangents on culture here: https://arowofopengraves.co.uk/
Rambles and tangents on culture here: https://arowofopengraves.co.uk/
It's a musical, so doubtful. I suspect him meeting Ginger Rogers is going to be a real 'the two worst people you know are now dating' moment.
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It's a musical, so doubtful. I suspect him meeting Ginger Rogers is going to be a real 'the two worst people you know are now dating' moment.
Hope it helps today, stake those emotional suckers, just like their blood-loving cousins
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Hope it helps today, stake those emotional suckers, just like their blood-loving cousins
Separated from his developing Tramp character, Chaplin gets to act (and *overact*, it's a farce after all) and it's a course correction after the pretty miserable His Favorite Pastime.
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Separated from his developing Tramp character, Chaplin gets to act (and *overact*, it's a farce after all) and it's a course correction after the pretty miserable His Favorite Pastime.
Different W Boyd, nicknamed Stage and dead by 1935. A bit of a bounder by contemporary accounts, did himself no favours...
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Different W Boyd, nicknamed Stage and dead by 1935. A bit of a bounder by contemporary accounts, did himself no favours...
Certainly deserves much better than the crappy copy I could find. Pacing is off throughout and yet still, it's a great mix of outlandish (in one instance offensive, FYI) characters, straight murder mystery and arch, purposefully overwrought black comedy. Tashman lays it on beautifully. A good time.
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Certainly deserves much better than the crappy copy I could find. Pacing is off throughout and yet still, it's a great mix of outlandish (in one instance offensive, FYI) characters, straight murder mystery and arch, purposefully overwrought black comedy. Tashman lays it on beautifully. A good time.
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My other books, Concretopia on Britain’s postwar rebuilding, Iconicon, on the stuff built since the 80s, and Outskirts, on the green belt, make a loose trilogy about our weird and wonderful modern places www.johngrindrod.co.uk/books
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
My other books, Concretopia on Britain’s postwar rebuilding, Iconicon, on the stuff built since the 80s, and Outskirts, on the green belt, make a loose trilogy about our weird and wonderful modern places www.johngrindrod.co.uk/books
The attempts at AI 'restorations' of LAM on YouTube are genuine, unintended, horror films, if nothing else (and they are nothing else)
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The attempts at AI 'restorations' of LAM on YouTube are genuine, unintended, horror films, if nothing else (and they are nothing else)
Quite enjoyed the pre-codeness of this one, too: it's grim at times, black-hearted and some very near the knuckle verbal jokes
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Quite enjoyed the pre-codeness of this one, too: it's grim at times, black-hearted and some very near the knuckle verbal jokes
