*contains spoilers and course strong language not recommended to readers under 15 years of age… Of course I trod in it big time with this three part article which was a three part joke used to defuse the seriousness of the three part article on The Pagans and the Wicker Tree and all that QAnon…
Read more Act Three: The Ritual of Wanking to Movies American Style!
*contains spoilers and strong course language not recommended for people under 15 years of age … as once more it was seen as rude… The actors in this story are over the age of sixteen and they participated in what was essentially a joke… I don’t think the issue really matters but once again my…
Read more Act Two: Understanding Your Homosexuality through Movies
*contains spoilers and strong course language not recommended for persons under 15 years old and comes with a warning. This article offended some people in the office I am associated with and it was removed, ahem, without my permission… and I was detained for four months… when really it is all just a joke! Some…
*contains spoilers The euthanasia debate is about to take place in Queensland Parliament in the next few weeks and it relates to a long-suppressed MGM movie Whose Life is it Anyway? (1981) … It stars Richard Dreyfuss, so memorable as Quint’s nerdy nemesis in Jaws (1976), who plays a man/artist who loses the use of…
Read more The Cult of Whose Life is it Anyway? (1981) as YOU were better than a mercy Killing!
*contains massive spoilers Well, here we have another long-winded summation – not as long as Lord of the Rings – of the mystery of Qanon and ‘ritual’ sexual abuse of children and its link to ‘self-abuse’ … and sexuality dealt by an everlasting secret and now not so secret family. Yes, I know some churches…
Read more The Cult of Pagan Ritual in The Wicker Man (1973) Part Three
*contains spoilers I’ll move over to the sequel to The Wicker Man and that is The Wicker Tree (2011) which was directed by the same man who was Robin Hardy (1929-2016). He is a man who perhaps piqued the interest of the barman as to what is under a Scotsman’s kilt with this movie while…
Read more The Cult of Pagan Ritual in The Wicker Man (1973) Part Two
*contains spoilers “We’ve been dealt their doomwatch/Doomwatch,” says a local villager on the Hebridean island of Summerisle off the coast of Scotland in The Wicker Man (1973) … On the surface there seems to be an unhappy conspiracy on this island (Earth!) as actor Edward Woodward (1930-2009 in Truro, Cornwall) is an incorruptible puritan virgin…
Read more The Cult of Pagan Ritual in The Wicker Man (1973) Part One
*contains spoilers Meanwhile the play The Tempest reminds us it’s all a dream as its actors tell us that “our little life is rounded with a sleep”. That’s it, baby, you wake and face the world is a mess or accept that just like in alcoholics anonymous that there are things we can and cannot…
Read more The Cult of Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet (1956) and others (Part Two)
*contains spoilers Forbidden Planet (1956) strikes at the heart of the climate change debate with a metaphor of angst being at the heart and its ‘sequel’ The Invisible Boy (1957) hints at drones, the internet and a supercomputer… and robots saving the innocence of children around the house. And time travel is in there too…
Read more The Cult of Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet (1956) and others (Part One)
In terms of the tontine of Gaslight and the revolution against the union of toxic ‘gas-lighters’ in your neighbourhood or otherwise and the survivor is Angela Lansbury (1925-). She turned up in Brisbane nearly a decade ago and gave us a rendition of Driving Miss Daisy with the voice of Darth Vader of Star Wars…
Read more David Bowie’s Revenge for Gaslight (1944) in the AC/DC war of The Prestige (Part Two)
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