This is like the start of a Doctor Who episode. Or The Twilight Zone…
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The Martian, 2015 – ★★★★
Watched on Thursday July 9, 2020.
Essential reading if you use Facebook. I deleted my profile!!
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The Jungle Book, 2016 – ★★★
It would have worked better as a musical instead of having basically only King Louie burst into song.
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Hamilton, 2020 – ★★★★★
This was incredible. Almost as good as seeing it live (I saw it in London), the original cast are spectacular. I will probably watch it a dozen more times!
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Zootopia, 2016 – ★★★★
Watched on Monday June 22, 2020.
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I love screening out emails knowing they can never email me again on hey.com
I was an early adopter of GMail and managed to get a short GMail address, [email protected]
This was great until I realised how many people would sign me up to things thinking it was THEIR address 😖
The email became unusable. Now for the first time I’m checking it again because it’s forwarding to [email protected] and I can screen what comes in! 👏
Oh dear the only women are basically to lust over, there are no PoC I don’t think, and Frodo and Sam should just kiss already. Gollum steals the show.
An amazing film, obviously, but it pains me that there are so few women and I don’t think any PoC in this film.
Watched on Tuesday June 16, 2020.
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Land of Hope and Glory, 2017 – ★★★★★
So horrific, yet so necessary.
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Edge of Tomorrow, 2014 – ★★★½
Watched on Tuesday June 9, 2020.
Watched on Thursday June 4, 2020.
I’m afraid I really did not enjoy this one. With Gwen possessed (and her storyline really not moved on at all since the first box set) and Jack AWOL through most of it, it hasn’t felt like proper Torchwood.
I wanted to rate this higher because I do love Torchwood but I found the last 2 stories were not great, and I don’t like that Gwen is mysteriously possessed for almost the whole thing.
Absolutely brilliant. Donna is my favourite companion.
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I watched the Special Edition, which had some really good effects. The story was good, very Terminator and timey-wimey. Daleks were a bit of an afterthought though and it all ended rather abruptly. One of the best of the third doctor so far.
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Doctor Who: The Dæmons, 1971 – ★★
Watched on Tuesday May 19, 2020.
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The Master comes along and turns what could have been an interesting story (First time the third Doctor visits another planet, interstellar politics) into a retread of all Master stories, and then they blow up a whole alien city and no-one cares. What?!
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The Ring, 2002 – ★★★★★
Probably my favourite horror movie!
Watched on Monday May 4, 2020.
The first story, “The Bekdel Test” was one of the best Big Finish audios I’ve heard so far!
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Lady Christina: Series 1 – ★★★
The first two stories are great, but the last two let it down. The premise is also so close to River Song’s Diary.
Watched on Monday April 20, 2020.
It wasn’t the best of the River Song boxsets, but the special guest in the last story was very fun!
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My Neighbor Totoro, 1988 – ★★★★
Watched on Monday April 13, 2020.
Watched on Friday April 10, 2020.
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Hot Fuzz, 2007 – ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday April 1, 2020.
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Seriously considering shaving my head now, as hair is getting too long and there’s going to be no chance of going to a barbers any time soon…
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It’s my birthday! But we can’t leave the house. 😑
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The worst Third Doctor episode so far. The monster was stupid, the Master was ineffectual and the Doctor was unkind.
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@manton I posted a haiku on my blog and when it shared to Twitter there were no line breaks or spaces: https://twitter.com/shauny/status/1240228622440574976
How can I prevent this happening again please? 😀
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Animal Crossing
The wait is almost over
Let packing commence
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Yes it’s an historic episode in that it first introduces us to The Master (although it would have been great if this was the same person as The War Chief in The Wargames), but there are a few issues with the story, the effects (green screening for a kitchen scene seemed strange), and some of the monsters (the ugly doll, killer inflatable chair & daffodils are rather strange choices). But it was very funny (although probably unintentionally) and we enjoyed watching it!
I miss Liz!