Allow me to sell you a very good value t-shirt (or a mug or a badge or all the usual stuff) with this design that uses a still from Moby Dick with that phrase from Jaws.

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I live in Britain and the railway companies here have always dealt with the risk of burns from hot beverages by serving them at about 15 degrees below boiling. Very few burns, very unsatisfactory coffee.

I also love the 1922 Fairbanks version, even sillier if that's actually possible. And how is it possible that this fabulous work of art was directed by the same guy who made The Walking Dead, Mildred Pierce, Angels with Dirty Faces and Casablanca (and 140 other films?)

Petrol stations - I seem to remember buying lots of weird, cut-out 45s in petrol stations. Or have I just halucinated that?

Yay! When my kids were young I used to get most of my reading done while waiting for them outside a dance/music/art class…

That's splendid! We have one and sometimes two foxes in a den down the garden. We've noticed they're not here so much these days - the camera will sometimes capture nothing for days. Kind of hard to figure out what they're up to! Elusive critters.

I'm using this as an index for the weakness of most film criticism - almost all the reviews just assume this information is present throughout. As if it's not material that it's withheld until the very end, in the weird, discontinuous Venice bit.

It is a kind of numbing thing isn't it. I wrote it all down here, in case you have nothing on for the next ten minutes lol
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Gave me weird feels around 'holocaust as plot twist'