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Okay, in this podcast we have the ur-global warming movie The Day The Earth Caught Fire, directed by Val Guest and starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro, the fifth person in my alt.Magnificent Seven, the movie that inspired a cosmological theory - the 1945 Ealing horror movie Dead of Night and talk about a place where you can get enough free movie and tv series downloads to last you a lifetime.

Link to an article in The Guardian about the links between the Steady State Theory and Dead of Night.

Internet Archive Links

The Archive.Org Archive of The Adventures of Robin Hood.

The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari

DOA (1949)

Panic In The Streets (1950)

The Day The Earth Caught Fire - trailer


Here's a link to watch all of "Dead of Night" on youtube

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The RSS Feed Link


Thanks to Cerpts, Weaverman and Nicky for their feedback and help, and as always, thanks to Sal for her constant support.

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The only rule is you can't use my answers.. Go!

Remember....if someone's answer is stupid...it's cause the person before them got the good answer....

1. Name something a claustrophobic person should not get into:
Politics

2-What one thing does a woman spend the most time on when getting ready to go on a date?
Speculation

3- What is a Spanish word that everyone knows the meaning of?
Madrid

4- Name something in your bathroom that you leave plugged in all the time?
The ceiling light.

5- Besides golfers, what is something you see on a golf course?

divots

6-Name a household chore you actually enjoy:

Making coffee

7-Name something you walk on:
by

8-Name a place where you see nervous people:
Orgies for beginners.

9-Name something that can be cherry flavored:
A cherry

10-Complete this phrase: "I’ll never forget my first _____":

Memory lapse.

11-Name another word for "Dad":

Sociopath

12-Name another word for "Mom"

Marie - pronounced the French way,

13-Name something a married couple might want to have 2 of:

Lovers

14-What is the first part of a person’s body to lose the war with gravity?

Which person?

15-Name something that is sold by the bunch:

henchmen

16-What age would you retire if you had enough money?

The age I was five minutes ago.

17-Name something you find on a kitchen table?

DVDs


18-Name something that rhymes with “dizzy”

Gillespie

19-Tell me how many people you kissed last New Year’s Eve?

Not enough.

20 -Name something you see in a jail cell:

Your next lover.

21-Name a month with 31 days:

January

22-Name an occupation where you might work all night:

vampire dentist.

Ain't It Cool News is reporting that Sir Ian McKellen may well be the new Number 2 in a proposed miniseries of the classic TV show. Good choice if it's true, but Jim Caviezel as Number 6? Surely someone who has a bit of charisma would be better. Yeah, the guy can do anguish well, but I'm not convinced he has the qualities we need to replace Patrick McGoohan.

Lemme see, who does have the chops? Any ideas?

Also, I saw Indy 4 this morning. Here are a few observations:

* Twenty six minutes of ads and trailers is way too much. It makes me grumpy.

* Shia LaBoeuf plays a JD about as well as I would Madame Butterfly.

* The CGI and effects? Yawn. Gimme a matte painting and matte lines if that's the best they can do.

* That scene in the temple with the action-figure aliens? It had about as much tension as the animatics in a second-rate PC game and less so than some I've seen.

* Who the fuck lead-lines a fridge?

* Ray Winstone, Karen Allen, John Hurt and Jim Broadbent were utterly wasted, and not in a good way.

* Harrison Ford looked grumpy and embarassed all the time.

* Cate Blanchett's role was a total rip off from an episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle. She seemed to be channeling Rosella Falk in the 1966 Modesty Blaise movie in the bit just before Terence Stamp says "Who's the bird with the beady eyes".

*The attempt at injecting some subtle digs at modern America into it were half-hearted at best.

* Shia LaBoeuf essays dangerousness about as well as Dean Venture does. (BTW, Venture Bros series 3 is starting to appear on the torrents, and they have a t-shirt of the week club that tempts me.)

* Iron Man kicked its arse in every respect.

* Make it an overnight rental.

Jean Dujardin from OSS 117 - Cairo Nest of Spies singing that old hit by Dalida - Bambino.