Magnum Milano

Less than 48 hours to go on this.  

There's a few watchers but no bids as of yet.  Chance to snap up a bargain if you've been after it for a while.

Because Bobby Farrell was one cool dude.

Boney M - Painter Man (1978)

My copy

eBay link

Starting price is £30, so significantly less than what it would cost to order direct from Crowbar Press (which is where I brought this from over a decade ago).

After Hours (1985)

Martin Scorsese directed.  Paul Hackett (played by Griffin Dunne) gets chatting to a girl at a local coffee shop after work and it leads to the longest and worst night of his life.  Very dark, very funny and a very clever script.

Just now, SuperBacon said:

Scum.

Yup, watched it once and will never watch it all the way through again (as much as I enjoy seeing Ray Winstone twatting folk with pool ball loaded socks!).  The one scene (you know the one) is bad enough, and then knowing what happens after.  Nope, never again.

As much as I like Big Dave, unfollowing him on Twitter (and every other wrestling related account) was one of the best things I've ever done on that platform.

11 hours ago, PowerButchi said:

I don't think he ever had a bad theme.

Sade's Smooth Operator then The WWF Stripper one, then the Black Cat one in WCW at first, then this absolute banger. 

Also came out to Queen's 'We Will Rock You' when he teamed with Manny Fernandez in the NWA.  It's a bit cliched now, but it really works in that era, even when watching through modern eyes; Paul Jones leading Rude & Fernandez down the aisle just before they're about to destroy some jobbers on NWA Worldwide.

Looking to move on my collection of All Japan Women Classics DVDs.  

AJW New Classics #1 - #20 and then episodes #23, #24, #25, #26, #35, #36, #45, #46 (14 discs)

Listings for everything can be found here.

Price would be £10 total.

If anyone is interested drop me a PM.  My copies so would be able to ship asap.

Thanks

*EDIT* Classics and Premium discs been sold, just the New Classics remain.

A bunch from the past few days, including finishing my Friday the 13th exploits.

Death on the Tyne (2018)

Weak plot but quite funny, especially Georgie Glen and Doon Mackichan.  A strong cast and an easy way to pass ninety minutes. Not something I could ever see rewatching mind.

Hard Times (1975)

Where it all began for Walter Hill and some good music too, something which becomes a staple of Hill’s films.  James Coburn is superb as the smooth talking Speed.

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

Telekinetic nonsense dominates but it doesn’t bore like some of the earlier films. The ending puzzled me (was it a dream?) and there is one great kill involving a sleeping bag!

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

It wasn’t a dream! Despite an evidently bigger budget and finally moving away from Crystal Lake, the longest movie in the franchise isn’t one of the better ones.  Oh, Jason can teleport now too!  (Final rankings - 3, 6, 4, 7, 1, 8, 2, 5)

The Burning (1981)

Good slasher fare, even if it is a blatant Friday the 13th rip-off.  The murders are proper gory as our killer slices, stabs and snips with garden shears. A young Jason Alexander, with hair, stars.

Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2015)

I called time on this after an hour, with 45 minutes still to go.  A 2015 Nick Broomfield documentary about the 'Grim Sleeper', U.S. serial killer Lonnie Franklin, so named because of the belief he stopped killing for over a decade only to start again.  There's a story here to be told, however Broomfield wasn't up to it.  The entire documentary, that I watched, just seems to be Broomfield driving around the area where Franklin lived looking for people to speak to.  Rinse repeat.  I never thought I would find a documentary about a serial killer boring, Broomfield managed it though!

Add Rebecca Keatley to the Cbeebies list.  She does some show called "Let's Play" among other bits.

Because this happened to me this morning and I got stuck behind someone, people who use the self-service checkouts in supermarkets and shops, yet end up calling a member of staff over to help them because they don't know what they're doing or have made a mistake and don't know how to correct it.  Ends up taking you twice as long as it should have when the whole premise of self-service is to speed things up.

And once appeared on a Wrestlemania.

Just now, Mr Butternut Squash said:

Serena Deeb looks class. Mind boggling WWE let her go.

Says all you need to know about that company that they thought the best use of her would be training in the Performance Center and not as an actual wrestler.

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

Terrible film with some atrocious acting. Completely different to the previous four and more like a comedy than a horror at times.

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Despite the laughable opening with Jason being brought back to life it turns into one of the better films with a solid story and some trademark gruesome killings. (Current rankings of the films 3, 6, 4, 1, 2, 5)

Tales from the Lodge (2019)

A horror comedy that isn’t scary and is only mildly amusing. There’s also an absurd twist/revelation that comes out.  I expected much better from something involving Mackenzie Crook.

EDIT - wordsfromlee has just posted

Today I learned that Ellie Gibson, from Dara O'Briain's Go 8 Bit on Dave, is the daughter of Jim Barclay aka Jossy from Jossy's Giants.

James Broad, singer and guitarist with the band Silver Sun has lost his battle with cancer.  I was quite into Silver Sun in the late 90s but had no idea they were still going and continuing to release new stuff.

Kirsty MacColl - Days (1989)

Watching "Sellout" Smothers rile up the local hillbillies in IWA Mid-South claiming his good friend Jim Cornette had sent him (when Cornette and Rotten were constantly cutting promos on one another) was one of the highlights in the 2000/1 rewatch project I did.

I knew he had been plagued with illness from the updates in the Observer but still didn't expect him to pass away.

RIP

I saw the thread title and genuinely thought this was going to be all about Kiyoshi Tamura, Volk Han and obscure Soviet fighters with unpronounceable names. 

Just now, TheBurningRed said:

How do you mute or block someone on here? A certain person, currently being a div in the Raw thread, has been doing my head in with posts the past couple of days. 

Click on the drop down bar where your user name is in the top right hand corner, then you'll see Ignored Users under Settings, click on that and then add.  I presume that should still work.

6 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Yeah, the Friday the 13th series only starts getting interesting from 3 onwards.

I'll watch 3 tomorrow.  Finished 2 earlier this evening and it was pretty much a carbon copy of the first, although some good kills again like the wheelchair lad getting a machete in the face!  I found it more boring than the first and could've done with the overly long flashback/recap at the start too.

Friday the 13th (1980)

Had never seen this before last night.  Some of the murders are gruesome (notably Kevin Bacon's and the girl who gets an axe through the head), but overall it's fairly boring.  I was also getting particularly annoyed with Alice towards the end of the movie.

The Witches (2020) 

Decent enough, but not as good as the original and wasn't a fan of all the CGI animation.  Anne Hathaway is excellent mind plus there's an unexpected cameo from Morgana Robinson. Sadly not as Natalie Cassidy though!