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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.

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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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FILM LISTS… Realweegiemidget (and her Darlin Husband) Recommended Reels, The 2025 Holiday Special, Part II: Films

I can still recall our film summer, I can see it all...  Three wartime romances for a couple of crossovers with Realweegiemidget (and her Darlin Husband) Recommended Reels, and…
FILM LISTS… Realweegiemidget (and her Darlin Husband) Recommended Reels, The 2025 Holiday Special, Part II: Films
I can still recall our film summer, I can see it all...  Three wartime romances for a couple of crossovers with Realweegiemidget (and her Darlin Husband) Recommended Reels, and Speakeasy's challenges.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Did you spot birthday boy, Cyril Cusack in Harold and Maude?

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FILMS… Harold and Maude (1971)
For Harold, Maude is his first love and Maude, Harold is her last as these opposites attract… Harold, a twenty-year-old man obsessed with death meets the free spirited seventy nine year old M…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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For #NovemberMovieChallenge by
@omacolt.bsky.social

#Filmsky
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Day 26... Photographer in a movie... David Warner in The Omen (so one for @emmledsam.bsky.social )

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FILMS… The Omen (1976)
Warner’s camera never lies as it foreshadows things to come… The American Ambassador adopts a baby after his own child dies at birth, little realising this child is straight from hell. …
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November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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For #Bales2025FilmChallenge

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Day 26... A Movie with a snowy scene, seen in All that Heaven Allows...

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FILMS… All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Jane Wyman’s Cary is caught between a rock and a hard place… A wealthy widow in her early 40s dates a man of more modest means who is about 9 years younger than her and shocks the Stoni…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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For
#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025

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Day 26... Sportscaster... as heard when Sarah goes to the Olympics in International Velvet...

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FILMS… International Velvet (1978)
Telling you why… Oh, why does this girl love this film with horses?… May appear to be a horsey film but it’s also an underrated coming of age movie.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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The #1 movie on Thursday, November 25th 1982 was:
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial...

#Moviesky
#Filmsky

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FILMS… E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Home is a planet far, far, away for a wee homesick alien… A wee alien makes friends with a kid and his family but wants to return home.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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For #1 movie on Tuesday, November 25th 1975 was:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest....

#Films
#Movies

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FILMS… One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Feathers fly in the cuckoo’s nest… A criminal thinks he is taking the easy way out by serving his sentence in a mental health hospital.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Remembering Ricardo Montalbán on his birthday in this episode of Fantasy Island with Barbie Benton, Roddy McDowall, Dack Rambo and more...

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TV… Fantasy Island (1981), Devil and Mr. Roarke / Ziegfeld Girls / Kid Corey Rides Again Se5 Ep2
Two Ziegfeld Girls visit the island of make believe… Mr Roarke, Tattoo and Julie meet the plane with a wannabe cowboy, the devil and some one time Ziegfeld girls take a holiday.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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For #NovemberMovieChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social

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Day 25... John F Kennedy in a movie...

He is still mentioned as being alive in the alternate world of Quest for Love....

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FILMS… Quest For Love (1971)
Finding a time and place for love… A single physicist finds himself in a parallel timeline where he finds himself an unhappily married author, as he falls in love with his “wife”.…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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For #Bales2025FilmChallenge

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Day 25... a memorable dance scene with a movie...

Gotta be the Swizzle in Dirty Dancing....

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FILMS… Dirty Dancing (1987)
Remembering a film and a cinema trip as I go back to the 1980s… The year is 1987, the film is Dirty Dancing and the stars are Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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For
#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025

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Day 25... Car racer... street car race... check, the Rock... check, someone gone rogue... check... gotta be a Fast and Furious movie...

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FILMS… Furious 7 (2015)
The one with the Stat as a bad guy… Strap into your seat as Toretto and his Furious dudes take you for a spin in their cars (yet again).
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November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Happy 55th Birthday to former child actor #HarveyStephens, he played the role of devil child Damien Thorn in the 1976 film "THE OMEN", which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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L'Eclisse (1962) starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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A fine actor. Plenty of #NeoNoir titles in his work. Including The End of Violence (1997), The Third Generation (1979). #FilmNoir. #RIP.

Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81: variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
dir. John Hughes

𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺, 𝘐'𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦.
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Christopher Reeve in Deathtrap (1982)
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Christopher Atkins in The Blue Lagoon (1980)
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Oliver Reed, 1969
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November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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My latest review is a book from the very talented, @oldschoolevil.bsky.social ...

Old School Evil: Our Darkest Hour by Brian Cave (2025)

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FICTION BOOKS… Old School Evil: Our Darkest Hour by Brian Cave (2025)
Sometime werewolf, Jayce is on the prowl with the Rejects for his father, Max’s blood… Max the Menacing is no longer a lone (were)wolf; there is a twist to his tale, as others join him …
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November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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For #NovemberMovieChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social

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Day 24, Tractor in a movie... Footloose (just one here)

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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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November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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For #NovemberMovieChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social
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Day - 23 Life magazine in a movie
.... les choses de la vie

(thanks @guguss0074.bsky.social )

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TV / FILMS MUSIC LISTS… For Speakeasy’s Film Friday Challenge No 8 … Movie Songs
Three Really, Really Romantic Music Tracks from Romy Schneider Reels… Another from my never ending easy listening list of movie songs with tracks from three Romy Schneider movies from the 60s…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Day 22... Interracial kiss in a movie

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Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? (1967)

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FILMS… Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? (1967)
Spencer Tracy’s father of the bride (again)… A controversial film from the late 60s tells how after a whirlwind holiday romance, a white American woman brings home her African American …
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November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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For catch up for #Bales2025FilmChallenge

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Day 24... a film I'd show at a family gathering...

International Velvet... horsey story for one, Christopher Plummer for the rest of us...

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FILMS… International Velvet (1978)
Telling you why… Oh, why does this girl love this film with horses?… May appear to be a horsey film but it’s also an underrated coming of age movie.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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For catch up for #Bales2025FilmChallenge

#Filmsky
#Moviesky

Day 23... a seasonal soundtrack... lots of autumnal references in Fallen Leaves...

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FILMS… Fallen Leaves / Kuolleet Lehdet (2023)
An autumnal themed romance has a few false starts, but will always warm your heart… In Helsinki, two painfully shy, lonely middle-aged Finns, Ansa and Holappa fall in love, with a soundtrack …
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November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM