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LesSmarberry
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Random movie reckons. Mostly genre pictures, Gialli, French and Italian crime movies, horror from '30s-'60s. Occasionally going overboard in the Alt Text
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · Apr 15
Going to make this an ongoing thread on old TV movies, a form which I think is ripe for resurrection in the age of streaming

Starting off with 2 favorites, Murder Once Removed(1971) & Murder By Natural Causes(1979)

Both twisty thrillers featuring rich husbands, adulterous wives, & murderous lovers
A poster/VHS cover for Murder By Natural Causes. It comprises an illustration of a partially completed jigsaw of two of the movies' stars Katherine Ross & Hal Holbrook. One of the missing jigsaw pieces is vaguely gun shaped & pointing at Holbrook's temple A poster/VHS cover for Murder Once Removed. It features a black & white image of two of the movies' stars, Richard Kiley & John Forsythe, standing side by side against a white background. They are wearing golfing attire & Kiley smokes a pipe
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 14h
They sold my philosophy course, in part, by saying that businesses wanted candidates who'd been taught how to think logically

Which, weirdly enough, was true

They didn't mention that after 4 years of philosophy you'd be bored to tears in business
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 14h
Someone asked on here a while ago if the Monster had ever been portrayed as purely evil in any Frankenstein movie & I think the answer is yes, in Curse of Frankenstein

Cushing's Frankenstein being the true villain somewhat overshadows it, but Lee's Monster is almost exclusively destructive
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 15h
And a See No Evil, Hear No Evil one in relation to her MP's remarks
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 16h
Should also say I Saw The TV Glow is easily one for my "best of the 21st Century" list
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 16h
Maybe I just fundamentally misunderstand UK politics, but is there a surfeit of constituencies that actually want a new nuclear reactor built in their vicinity, as opposed to I dunno "somewhere else"?
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 16h
There's a couple of scenes in it that have taken up residence in my brain
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 16h
Do you know who else did? Hammer screenwriter Jimmy Sangster, because this is the 1st of like 6 movies where he puts his own spin on it 🤣
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 16h
Yeah I debated which of those two to include (could have been either one) but went for Mortal Sin because, IMO, even if the good stuff isn't as good, the ropey bits aren't as ropey
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 16h
Taste of Fear is among best things Hammer ever made, & a really good 'inspired by Les Diaboliques' movie
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d
My top 6 (shut up, it's my list) horrors that you might not have seen for Halloween:

Eye Of The Devil (1966)
I Saw The TV Glow (2024)
House of Mortal Sin (1976)
All You Need Is Death (2023)
The Dunwich Horror (1970)
Taste Of Fear (1961)
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d
Music teachers hate this one cool trick
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d
Is part of the issue re the Conservatives that (for many of them) their first preference, 're-warmed Thatcherism' isn't electorally viable in 2025, but they're still unable/unwilling to accept that & develop a new theory of gov, other than populism as displacement activity?
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d
In fairness, policymaking is actually quite simple if you remove people with unhelpful ideological priors or vested interests (or as they are more commonly known "the voting public")
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d
Equally though, my own experience as a parent is that there's plenty of self-selection for 'the right sort of school' in the non-fee paying sector as well, which is more insidious because it's with respect to schools where there's no nominal barrier to entry
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d
That was in the 90s and the fees then were at a level when it was just about feasible on a modest pair of incomes. Looking at fee inflation since then I doubt it would be possible for their modern day counterparts. So as I say, strong case for reducing taxpayer support
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d
For a lot of people, paying for their kid to receive what they saw as the best education involved making sacrifices, but they were sacrifices they were willing to make. That was certainly the case for my parents
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d
Fee-paying schools are obviously exclusionary based on ability to pay, & I think there's a strong argument that such schools shouldn't be in receipt of public funds. But it's overly dismissive to say it's not about quality of education
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d
Yesterday my felt hat, raincoat, moustache ensemble led to 2 separate instances of strangers telling me I looked like a) "an old timey movie director & b) republican socialist revolutionary James Connolly

I didn't object to either comparison. But some of us, it seems, have fogeyness thrust upon us
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d
'Look, once you have all your glass jars crammed on open shelving, behind a doorway, above a polished concrete floor, then pretending you don't own a TV is just putting a hat on a hat'
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d
It's really something when Jim O'Callaghan (who's not pitching his political brand in terms of being a milk & water liberal) can manage to articulate "an asylum/immigration system can't function absent some level of control, but racism is categorically wrong" in a way UK pols can't/won't
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d
I hear that's what drove Animal over the edge
a close up of a stuffed animal with a big mouth
Alt: a close up of Animal the muppet drummer looking around frantically
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 4d
Dumb as rocks
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 4d
Yeah I got some (equally hooky) posters for mine & she's turned them into a sort of shrine

Toy shop employees told me today that a) they get asked about it several times a day and b) there are none & won't be this side of Christmas
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 4d
Somewhere an executive is kicking themselves for not developing a licensed KPop Demon Hunters toy line
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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 4d
That's unpossible, because The Simpsons ended on February 22, 1998 after airing it's final episode "The Last Temptation of Krust"