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You can't take the Scotland out of a girl... Reel entertainment reviews and more from that Darlin Husband's Scottish, square-eyed and film-mad wife living in Finland. Member of WFFC, OAFFC, OFTA and CMBA. weegiemidget.wordpress.com

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · Dec 4

For those who don't know me...

Do... review #movies, #TV and #books from any year and genre. These often with a mention of soaps #Dallas or #Dynasty or include their stars. Or #AlainDelon and #RomySchneider.

Don't... talk politics, Watership Down or the latest gossip..

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You can take the girl out of Glasgow. Entertainment Reviews from a Wee Scottish Wife and Stepmum living in Finland.

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One of the best of the guilty pleasures... The Swarm

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FILMS… The Swarm (1978)

Bees! bees! bees! It’s a swarm of killer African bees vs an amazing All-Star cast.

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What's your fave Aaron Spelling guest stars...? Here's Olivia De Havilland and Joseph Cotten in The Love Boat

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TV… The Love Boat (1981), The Duel / Two for Julie / Aunt Hilly Se4 Ep23

It’s a case of love and war for the passengers and crew of The Love Boat… It’s all relative, when Olivia de Havilland embarks with a familiar acting face, in their fourth on-scree…

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 19h

For #Bales2025FilmChallenge

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Day 9... Fave black and white horror movie... Psycho (1960)... where Marion is in hot water after she meets a mummy’s boy…

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FILMS… Psycho (1960)

Marion is in hot water after she meets a mummy’s boy… Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal movie villain leaves you with two minds about the plot.

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 19h

For #OctoberMovieChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social

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Day 9... someone is at the theatre... Natalie Portman finds her darker side as a ballet dancer who dances in Swan Lake

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FILMS… Black Swan (2010)

Dancing, and there’s fear in her eyes… A young girl appears increasingly stressed as she prepares for the dual leading role in the ballet Swan Lake.

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 19h

For #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025

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Day 9, Played by Dean Martin... as Vernon Demerest, a pilot and one of the all-star cast of Airport (1970)... who discovers his lover, an air hostess is pregnant just before take off...

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FILMS… Airport (1970)

The 1970s disaster film genre takes off to a flying start… Burt Lancaster picks the worst time for taking overtime in the first of the Airport movies.

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Happy Birthday Matt Damon, here in The Martian

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FILMS… The Martian (2015)

Matt Damon is in space again… An astronaut, Mark Watney is left for dead on Mars. But he’s alive.

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Happy Birthday, Sigourney Weaver... here in Dave with Kevin Kline... in a romantic comedy with a US President, his lookalike and a first lady....

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FILMS… Dave (1993)

You can call me Dave… A romantic comedy with a US President, his lookalike and a first lady.

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering Robert Redford as an actor and director...

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FILM LISTS… Retaking in the Sights with a Bird’s Eye View of Robert Redford’s Reels

Remembering this multi talented filmmaker and star, and his winning ways with a double bill… About Redford’s first-time Best Director winning role with some off-screen feathered peers a…

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 1d

Love you to join us, that's me and @barrycinematic.bsky.social ... in this blogathon celebrating Amicus and Hammer
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NEWS… Announcing the Hammer and Amicus Blogathon V with a little help from Hammer star, Judy Matheson

The time has come for a blogathon celebrating the filmmakers, movies and TV from those usual horror and non-horror suspects… I hope to see some of you lovely bloggers, readers, and writers fo…

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 1d

Love you to join us, that's me and @barrycinematic.bsky.social ... in this blogathon celebrating Amicus and Hammer @goregirlsdungeon.bsky.social @debbievee.bsky.social @magalhaesleticia.bsky.social @reallybethann.bsky.social @thelastdrivein.bsky.social weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/n...

NEWS… Announcing the Hammer and Amicus Blogathon V with a little help from Hammer star, Judy Matheson

The time has come for a blogathon celebrating the filmmakers, movies and TV from those usual horror and non-horror suspects… I hope to see some of you lovely bloggers, readers, and writers fo…

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 1d

For #Films #Movies, still time to join me and Cinematic Catharsis, AKA @barrycinematic.bsky.social in our 5th blogathon journey into the production houses of Hammer and Amicus

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NEWS… Announcing the Hammer and Amicus Blogathon V with a little help from Hammer star, Judy Matheson

The time has come for a blogathon celebrating the filmmakers, movies and TV from those usual horror and non-horror suspects… I hope to see some of you lovely bloggers, readers, and writers fo…

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 1d

For #Filmsky #Moviesky #Bales2025FilmChallenge.. Day 8.. Shark Horror .. Jaws IV... as found on this list

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FILM LISTS… My Three Favourite Films with Body Parts in the Title

Dissecting three 1980s movies with three different body parts in their titles… The first of my Wandering Through the Shelves for March posts with another three favourites.

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 1d

For Day 7. Favourite foreign horror movie. #FilmSky #MovieSky #Bales2025FilmChallenge ... Ghost of Love / Fantasma d’amore (1981)... with Romy Schneider as an old love returns from the grave and is reunited with her lover from 20 years previously... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2024/11/11/f...

FILMS… Ghost of Love / Fantasma d’amore / Fantome d’Amour (1981)

A hauntingly filmed love story between life and death… An old love returns from the grave and is reunited with her lover from 20 years previously, as she is haunted by her past.

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 1d

For #OctoberMovieChallenge
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Day 8... Something is on fire in a movie... back to Robert Vaughn's career with The Towering Infern...

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FILMS… Honouring The Magnificent Robert Vaughn in The Towering Inferno (1974)

The towering presence of Robert Vaughn… I’m really hating 2016, losing so many much-loved names and now sadly it was the turn of Robert Vaughn, one of my first crushes as a teen.

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 1d

For #OctoberMovieChallenge
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Day 7: Something assembled in a movie... The Men from UNCLE, Solo and Kuryakin join up and fight THRUSH in The Return of the Man from UNCLE : The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983) (TV MOVIE)

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TV… The Return of the Man from UNCLE : The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983) (TV MOVIE)

Another dose of THRUSH for the Men from UNCLE… 15 years later in Man from UNCLE years, Solo and Kuryakin are back for what becomes one last job until they continue their bromantic affair with…

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 1d

For Day 8... Brave attitude... The Walk... A true biopic is about Philippe Petit, a high-wire artist who walked between the Twin Towers in 1974.
#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025

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FILMS… The Walk (2015)

A high ambition for a little walk… This true biopic is about Philippe Petit, a highwire artist who walked between the Twin Towers in 1974.

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Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.bsky.social · 1d

For catch up for Day 7... and the
#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025

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Spends a vacation by the beach... Two 11 year old girls meet on a beach becoming firm friends for 30 years through good and bad times.... in Beaches

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FILMS… Beaches (1988)

Friends to the end… Two 11 year old girls meet on a beach becoming firm friends for 30 years through good and bad times.

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Emm Ledsam @emmledsam.bsky.social · 4d

I love this movie, for many reasons, not least is the Pleasence family... but it's mostly my spiritual Dad and my spiritual husband in a scene together

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Goregirl @goregirlsdungeon.bsky.social · 2d

Burnt Offerings (1976, Dan Curtis)

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The Running Man (1987) Directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso with Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura.

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Peter Falk and Lee Grant in, Columbo (TV Episode 1971)
Ransom for a Dead Man/

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 3d

Enter the Dragon (1973) Directed by Robert Clouse stars Bruce Lee, John Saxon and Jim Kelly.

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Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

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Steve Quick @stevequick.bsky.social · 12d

I joined and so can you! And, though you're joining an astute group of film aficionados, because I'm in the mix, you know your review won't be the embarrassing one.

Scary Barry 🎃💀👻 @barrycinematic.bsky.social · 12d

Announcing the Hammer-Amicus Blogathon V, hosted by Yours Truly and @realweegiemidget.bsky.social:
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Introducing The Hammer-Amicus Blogathon V

Where has the time gone? It only seems like yesterday when, I, along with my superb blogging partner in crime Gill from Realweegiemidget R...

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