Finn Nicolas
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Some recent baking. The cat for my little sister’s 15th birthday and the hedgehog looking Guinea pigs for my cousin’s 33rd
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Some recent baking. The cat for my little sister’s 15th birthday and the hedgehog looking Guinea pigs for my cousin’s 33rd
The Deadly Companions (1961)
Starting off with Sam Peckinpah’s first feature, something I’ve been meaning to watch for years now and have just never made the time for. Starring John Ford favourite Maureen O’Hara
Starting off with Sam Peckinpah’s first feature, something I’ve been meaning to watch for years now and have just never made the time for. Starring John Ford favourite Maureen O’Hara
October 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The Deadly Companions (1961)
Starting off with Sam Peckinpah’s first feature, something I’ve been meaning to watch for years now and have just never made the time for. Starring John Ford favourite Maureen O’Hara
Starting off with Sam Peckinpah’s first feature, something I’ve been meaning to watch for years now and have just never made the time for. Starring John Ford favourite Maureen O’Hara
Western Wednesday #39-43
My Blu-ray player has just decided to stop working and so I won’t be watching these Westerns I found in a DVD store in Nantes, and will instead just watch whatever shit I can find on Tubi
My Blu-ray player has just decided to stop working and so I won’t be watching these Westerns I found in a DVD store in Nantes, and will instead just watch whatever shit I can find on Tubi
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Western Wednesday #39-43
My Blu-ray player has just decided to stop working and so I won’t be watching these Westerns I found in a DVD store in Nantes, and will instead just watch whatever shit I can find on Tubi
My Blu-ray player has just decided to stop working and so I won’t be watching these Westerns I found in a DVD store in Nantes, and will instead just watch whatever shit I can find on Tubi
The Sword (1980)
Tam’s first feature, following several years of making social realist tv movies about the place of women in Hong Kong society (I need to get my hands on his Seven Women series). Beautiful, stately, modernist compositions with Tony Ching Siu-Tung’s King Hu on speed choreography
Tam’s first feature, following several years of making social realist tv movies about the place of women in Hong Kong society (I need to get my hands on his Seven Women series). Beautiful, stately, modernist compositions with Tony Ching Siu-Tung’s King Hu on speed choreography
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The Sword (1980)
Tam’s first feature, following several years of making social realist tv movies about the place of women in Hong Kong society (I need to get my hands on his Seven Women series). Beautiful, stately, modernist compositions with Tony Ching Siu-Tung’s King Hu on speed choreography
Tam’s first feature, following several years of making social realist tv movies about the place of women in Hong Kong society (I need to get my hands on his Seven Women series). Beautiful, stately, modernist compositions with Tony Ching Siu-Tung’s King Hu on speed choreography
The Magnificent Butcher (1979)
The second movie where Sammo Hung plays the student of Kwan Tak-Hing’s Wong Fei-Hung, although this is an out-and-out Sammo vehicle in a way that The Skyhawk wasn’t. Very few people have ever been as good at playing incredibly confident idiot blowhards as Sammo
The second movie where Sammo Hung plays the student of Kwan Tak-Hing’s Wong Fei-Hung, although this is an out-and-out Sammo vehicle in a way that The Skyhawk wasn’t. Very few people have ever been as good at playing incredibly confident idiot blowhards as Sammo
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The Magnificent Butcher (1979)
The second movie where Sammo Hung plays the student of Kwan Tak-Hing’s Wong Fei-Hung, although this is an out-and-out Sammo vehicle in a way that The Skyhawk wasn’t. Very few people have ever been as good at playing incredibly confident idiot blowhards as Sammo
The second movie where Sammo Hung plays the student of Kwan Tak-Hing’s Wong Fei-Hung, although this is an out-and-out Sammo vehicle in a way that The Skyhawk wasn’t. Very few people have ever been as good at playing incredibly confident idiot blowhards as Sammo
My favourite running gag is this guy who lives inside an urn and is summoned by the bad guy to do his bidding. He is able to pop all of his limbs back in and disappear, or move by rolling around, and he fights with a paper sword that acts like metal. Shu defeats him by convincing him he’s ugly
October 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
My favourite running gag is this guy who lives inside an urn and is summoned by the bad guy to do his bidding. He is able to pop all of his limbs back in and disappear, or move by rolling around, and he fights with a paper sword that acts like metal. Shu defeats him by convincing him he’s ugly
The Miracle Fighters (1982)
Shu (Yuen Yat-Choh) is mistaken for the young prince who was kidnapped years earlier. The royal sorcerer (Yuen Shun-Yi) decides to pass him off as the prince to advance his own position, so Shu must learn magic from two cranky Taoists in order to protect himself
Shu (Yuen Yat-Choh) is mistaken for the young prince who was kidnapped years earlier. The royal sorcerer (Yuen Shun-Yi) decides to pass him off as the prince to advance his own position, so Shu must learn magic from two cranky Taoists in order to protect himself
October 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Miracle Fighters (1982)
Shu (Yuen Yat-Choh) is mistaken for the young prince who was kidnapped years earlier. The royal sorcerer (Yuen Shun-Yi) decides to pass him off as the prince to advance his own position, so Shu must learn magic from two cranky Taoists in order to protect himself
Shu (Yuen Yat-Choh) is mistaken for the young prince who was kidnapped years earlier. The royal sorcerer (Yuen Shun-Yi) decides to pass him off as the prince to advance his own position, so Shu must learn magic from two cranky Taoists in order to protect himself
Knockabout (1979)
Yuen Biao’s first leading role after a decade of stunts and bit parts in Shaw and Golden Harvest films, directed by and costarring his Peking Opera School brother Sammo Hung, and a brilliant villain turn by actor/director/stuntman/action choreographer Lau Kar-Wing
Yuen Biao’s first leading role after a decade of stunts and bit parts in Shaw and Golden Harvest films, directed by and costarring his Peking Opera School brother Sammo Hung, and a brilliant villain turn by actor/director/stuntman/action choreographer Lau Kar-Wing
October 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Knockabout (1979)
Yuen Biao’s first leading role after a decade of stunts and bit parts in Shaw and Golden Harvest films, directed by and costarring his Peking Opera School brother Sammo Hung, and a brilliant villain turn by actor/director/stuntman/action choreographer Lau Kar-Wing
Yuen Biao’s first leading role after a decade of stunts and bit parts in Shaw and Golden Harvest films, directed by and costarring his Peking Opera School brother Sammo Hung, and a brilliant villain turn by actor/director/stuntman/action choreographer Lau Kar-Wing
Martial Arts Monday #38-42
The Skyhawk (1974), Knockabout (1979), The Miracle Fighters (1982), The Magnificent Butcher (1979), The Sword (1980)
Back in NZ now so I’m spending the day catching up with some classics. Patrick Tam has become a huge favourite this year, so I’m keeping his film til last
The Skyhawk (1974), Knockabout (1979), The Miracle Fighters (1982), The Magnificent Butcher (1979), The Sword (1980)
Back in NZ now so I’m spending the day catching up with some classics. Patrick Tam has become a huge favourite this year, so I’m keeping his film til last
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Martial Arts Monday #38-42
The Skyhawk (1974), Knockabout (1979), The Miracle Fighters (1982), The Magnificent Butcher (1979), The Sword (1980)
Back in NZ now so I’m spending the day catching up with some classics. Patrick Tam has become a huge favourite this year, so I’m keeping his film til last
The Skyhawk (1974), Knockabout (1979), The Miracle Fighters (1982), The Magnificent Butcher (1979), The Sword (1980)
Back in NZ now so I’m spending the day catching up with some classics. Patrick Tam has become a huge favourite this year, so I’m keeping his film til last
Silent Saturday #38 (belated)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
A short version of Poe’s story made the same year that Jean Epstein made his surprisingly proto-Peckinpah feature length adaptation
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
A short version of Poe’s story made the same year that Jean Epstein made his surprisingly proto-Peckinpah feature length adaptation
September 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Silent Saturday #38 (belated)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
A short version of Poe’s story made the same year that Jean Epstein made his surprisingly proto-Peckinpah feature length adaptation
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
A short version of Poe’s story made the same year that Jean Epstein made his surprisingly proto-Peckinpah feature length adaptation
Western Wednesday #38
The Thief’s Wife (1912)
Ending my 2nd day in Madrid and I only have my phone to watch movies on, so I’m going with a silent short by Allan Dwan. This is from the second year of Dwan’s 50 year career, and was apparently a huge influence on John Ford
The Thief’s Wife (1912)
Ending my 2nd day in Madrid and I only have my phone to watch movies on, so I’m going with a silent short by Allan Dwan. This is from the second year of Dwan’s 50 year career, and was apparently a huge influence on John Ford
September 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Western Wednesday #38
The Thief’s Wife (1912)
Ending my 2nd day in Madrid and I only have my phone to watch movies on, so I’m going with a silent short by Allan Dwan. This is from the second year of Dwan’s 50 year career, and was apparently a huge influence on John Ford
The Thief’s Wife (1912)
Ending my 2nd day in Madrid and I only have my phone to watch movies on, so I’m going with a silent short by Allan Dwan. This is from the second year of Dwan’s 50 year career, and was apparently a huge influence on John Ford
Martial Arts Monday #37
Ballerina (2025)
John Wick is one of the most consistently excellent action series ever made, so I can’t say I’m especially excited about the one where they finally said “What if we hired a back to botch this one?”
Ballerina (2025)
John Wick is one of the most consistently excellent action series ever made, so I can’t say I’m especially excited about the one where they finally said “What if we hired a back to botch this one?”
September 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Martial Arts Monday #37
Ballerina (2025)
John Wick is one of the most consistently excellent action series ever made, so I can’t say I’m especially excited about the one where they finally said “What if we hired a back to botch this one?”
Ballerina (2025)
John Wick is one of the most consistently excellent action series ever made, so I can’t say I’m especially excited about the one where they finally said “What if we hired a back to botch this one?”
Off to Europe for a month
September 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Off to Europe for a month
Silent Saturday #37 (belated)
Moods of the Sea (1942)
More Slavko Vorkapich this week!
I haven’t had much time for movies lately because tomorrow I’m going Europe for a month, so I’ve mainly just been incredibly stressed about that. And I’ve still got 100 pages of a library book to get through
Moods of the Sea (1942)
More Slavko Vorkapich this week!
I haven’t had much time for movies lately because tomorrow I’m going Europe for a month, so I’ve mainly just been incredibly stressed about that. And I’ve still got 100 pages of a library book to get through
September 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Silent Saturday #37 (belated)
Moods of the Sea (1942)
More Slavko Vorkapich this week!
I haven’t had much time for movies lately because tomorrow I’m going Europe for a month, so I’ve mainly just been incredibly stressed about that. And I’ve still got 100 pages of a library book to get through
Moods of the Sea (1942)
More Slavko Vorkapich this week!
I haven’t had much time for movies lately because tomorrow I’m going Europe for a month, so I’ve mainly just been incredibly stressed about that. And I’ve still got 100 pages of a library book to get through
The Day the Nazi Died - Chumbawamba
September 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The Day the Nazi Died - Chumbawamba
Western Wednesday #37
Frontier Pony Express (1939)
One of the eight Joseph Kane directed Singin’ Cowboy movies that Roy Rogers made in 1939. In this one he’s a Union loyalist pony express rider who goes up against a Confederate gang trying to use the pony express for their own means
Frontier Pony Express (1939)
One of the eight Joseph Kane directed Singin’ Cowboy movies that Roy Rogers made in 1939. In this one he’s a Union loyalist pony express rider who goes up against a Confederate gang trying to use the pony express for their own means
September 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Western Wednesday #37
Frontier Pony Express (1939)
One of the eight Joseph Kane directed Singin’ Cowboy movies that Roy Rogers made in 1939. In this one he’s a Union loyalist pony express rider who goes up against a Confederate gang trying to use the pony express for their own means
Frontier Pony Express (1939)
One of the eight Joseph Kane directed Singin’ Cowboy movies that Roy Rogers made in 1939. In this one he’s a Union loyalist pony express rider who goes up against a Confederate gang trying to use the pony express for their own means
Martial Arts Monday #36 (belated)
The Kid with the Golden Arm (1979)
More of the Venom Mob from Chang Cheh, this time asking the question “What if Lo Meng had golden arms?” Fight choreography by Lu Feng, Chiang Sheng, and Robert Tai (the guy who claimed Lau Kar-Leung couldn’t touch his fights)
The Kid with the Golden Arm (1979)
More of the Venom Mob from Chang Cheh, this time asking the question “What if Lo Meng had golden arms?” Fight choreography by Lu Feng, Chiang Sheng, and Robert Tai (the guy who claimed Lau Kar-Leung couldn’t touch his fights)
September 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Martial Arts Monday #36 (belated)
The Kid with the Golden Arm (1979)
More of the Venom Mob from Chang Cheh, this time asking the question “What if Lo Meng had golden arms?” Fight choreography by Lu Feng, Chiang Sheng, and Robert Tai (the guy who claimed Lau Kar-Leung couldn’t touch his fights)
The Kid with the Golden Arm (1979)
More of the Venom Mob from Chang Cheh, this time asking the question “What if Lo Meng had golden arms?” Fight choreography by Lu Feng, Chiang Sheng, and Robert Tai (the guy who claimed Lau Kar-Leung couldn’t touch his fights)
Silent Saturday #36 (extremely belated)
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)
An experimental short by director Robert Florey and cinematographer Greg Toland attacking the Hollywood system. Heard nothing but incredible things about this one
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)
An experimental short by director Robert Florey and cinematographer Greg Toland attacking the Hollywood system. Heard nothing but incredible things about this one
September 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Silent Saturday #36 (extremely belated)
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)
An experimental short by director Robert Florey and cinematographer Greg Toland attacking the Hollywood system. Heard nothing but incredible things about this one
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)
An experimental short by director Robert Florey and cinematographer Greg Toland attacking the Hollywood system. Heard nothing but incredible things about this one
Everyone here knew you and they were talking about you behind your back
September 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Everyone here knew you and they were talking about you behind your back
Western Wednesday #36
The Mercenary (1968)
The other movie that Sergio Corbucci made the same year as his masterpiece, The Great Silence. Reteaming with his Django star, Franco Nero, for a story about a cynical gun for hire during the Mexican revolution
The Mercenary (1968)
The other movie that Sergio Corbucci made the same year as his masterpiece, The Great Silence. Reteaming with his Django star, Franco Nero, for a story about a cynical gun for hire during the Mexican revolution
September 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Western Wednesday #36
The Mercenary (1968)
The other movie that Sergio Corbucci made the same year as his masterpiece, The Great Silence. Reteaming with his Django star, Franco Nero, for a story about a cynical gun for hire during the Mexican revolution
The Mercenary (1968)
The other movie that Sergio Corbucci made the same year as his masterpiece, The Great Silence. Reteaming with his Django star, Franco Nero, for a story about a cynical gun for hire during the Mexican revolution
Martial Arts Monday #35
Diablo (2025)
A two-hander from DTV action icons Scott Adkins and Marko Zaror. They both produced and have a story credit, and it was directed by longtime Zaror collaborator Ernesto Díaz Espinosa. I’ve been wanting to see Espinoza’s previous film Fist of the Condor forever
Diablo (2025)
A two-hander from DTV action icons Scott Adkins and Marko Zaror. They both produced and have a story credit, and it was directed by longtime Zaror collaborator Ernesto Díaz Espinosa. I’ve been wanting to see Espinoza’s previous film Fist of the Condor forever
September 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Martial Arts Monday #35
Diablo (2025)
A two-hander from DTV action icons Scott Adkins and Marko Zaror. They both produced and have a story credit, and it was directed by longtime Zaror collaborator Ernesto Díaz Espinosa. I’ve been wanting to see Espinoza’s previous film Fist of the Condor forever
Diablo (2025)
A two-hander from DTV action icons Scott Adkins and Marko Zaror. They both produced and have a story credit, and it was directed by longtime Zaror collaborator Ernesto Díaz Espinosa. I’ve been wanting to see Espinoza’s previous film Fist of the Condor forever
Silent Saturday #35
How A Mosquito Operates (1912)
I usually try and do a full feature, or at least a couple of shorts, but I’m pulling a bit of a copout this week and watching one 6-minute short. This is the film Windsor McCay made just before his revolutionary Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
How A Mosquito Operates (1912)
I usually try and do a full feature, or at least a couple of shorts, but I’m pulling a bit of a copout this week and watching one 6-minute short. This is the film Windsor McCay made just before his revolutionary Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
August 31, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Silent Saturday #35
How A Mosquito Operates (1912)
I usually try and do a full feature, or at least a couple of shorts, but I’m pulling a bit of a copout this week and watching one 6-minute short. This is the film Windsor McCay made just before his revolutionary Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
How A Mosquito Operates (1912)
I usually try and do a full feature, or at least a couple of shorts, but I’m pulling a bit of a copout this week and watching one 6-minute short. This is the film Windsor McCay made just before his revolutionary Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Western Wednesday #35
The Fighting Westerner (1935)
Charles Barton, best known for Abbott & Costello comedies, directing a young Randolph Scott in an adaptation of a pulp story by prolific Western novelist Zane Grey. The 2nd Western I’ve seen from 1935 about brigands trying to steal a radium mine
The Fighting Westerner (1935)
Charles Barton, best known for Abbott & Costello comedies, directing a young Randolph Scott in an adaptation of a pulp story by prolific Western novelist Zane Grey. The 2nd Western I’ve seen from 1935 about brigands trying to steal a radium mine
August 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Western Wednesday #35
The Fighting Westerner (1935)
Charles Barton, best known for Abbott & Costello comedies, directing a young Randolph Scott in an adaptation of a pulp story by prolific Western novelist Zane Grey. The 2nd Western I’ve seen from 1935 about brigands trying to steal a radium mine
The Fighting Westerner (1935)
Charles Barton, best known for Abbott & Costello comedies, directing a young Randolph Scott in an adaptation of a pulp story by prolific Western novelist Zane Grey. The 2nd Western I’ve seen from 1935 about brigands trying to steal a radium mine
My 2nd most listened to song of the year. That scene where they play it in Heard She Got Married is astonishing
August 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
My 2nd most listened to song of the year. That scene where they play it in Heard She Got Married is astonishing
Martial Arts Monday #34
Nobody 2 (2025)
I quite enjoyed Bob Odenkirk’s first “family man is actually a dangerous killer” film, and Timo Tjahjanto is one of my favourite action filmmakers. His last two films haven’t been totally my thing, but I’m interested to see what he does with this franchise
Nobody 2 (2025)
I quite enjoyed Bob Odenkirk’s first “family man is actually a dangerous killer” film, and Timo Tjahjanto is one of my favourite action filmmakers. His last two films haven’t been totally my thing, but I’m interested to see what he does with this franchise
August 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Martial Arts Monday #34
Nobody 2 (2025)
I quite enjoyed Bob Odenkirk’s first “family man is actually a dangerous killer” film, and Timo Tjahjanto is one of my favourite action filmmakers. His last two films haven’t been totally my thing, but I’m interested to see what he does with this franchise
Nobody 2 (2025)
I quite enjoyed Bob Odenkirk’s first “family man is actually a dangerous killer” film, and Timo Tjahjanto is one of my favourite action filmmakers. His last two films haven’t been totally my thing, but I’m interested to see what he does with this franchise