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Vincent Cassel Cast As Quasimodo In Netflix Film Retelling Story Of Notre-Dame Bell-Ringer
#News #Netflix #VincentCasselhttps://deadline.com/2025/06/vincent-cassel-quasimodo-netflix-1236430785/
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Vincent Cassel to Star in Netflix’s Next Big French Movie, ‘Quasimodo,’ Directed by ‘Mesrine’ Helmer, Produced by Mediawan’s Radar Films
#Variety #Global #Netflix #VincentCasselhttps://variety.com/2025/film/global/vincent-cassel-netflix-quasimodo-mediawan-1236428240/
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Anche il carro armato tedesco Leopard è al centro di un attacco mediatico russo. La ritirata delle truppe ucraine lascia dietro di sé una scia di delusioni belliche da parte di chi aveva dipinto i carri armati #Nato #Leopard e #Abrams come la carta vincente della #controffensiva ucraina. Attualmente sono invece in grave difficoltà e vengono portati nelle retrovie per evitare che vengano distrutti o catturati per poi essere esibiti in piazza a Mosca.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=syv_EVB-CZE&si=cBE4HF7l6gZexzRB -
Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ByEBjf9ktY#amsterdam #netherlands #urban_planning #road_safety #crossing_the street #jaywalking #pedestrians #pedestrian_safety
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Daily old piece 128 (part B)!
Part of an art trade I did with @/nullb1rdbones on Tumblr! This piece is set on their Black Butler AU called The Dead, The Damned and the Devil, I'm not sure if it'll be finished because they haven't been active lately but it's still a great story, you can chek it out here!
From 2023
#eli's-art #art #digital-art #procreate #illustration #fanart #au #kuroshitsuji #black-butler #vincent-phantomhive #ciel-phantomhive #our-ciel #ociel #real-ciel #rciel #old-piece -
Raue Storys für glatte Zeiten
Die Sehnsucht nach dem Heroischen ist groß, gerade auch im Silicon Valley. Tech-Unternehmer hängen in ihren Fantasien allzu gerne ruhmreichen Königen und mächtigen Imperien nach. Dabei wird der Ruf nach Stärke immer dort laut, wo die Komplexe am größten sind.
Beim Anblick der die Hollywood-Version von Leonidas und seiner legendären „300“ überkommt mich die Lust nach einem Work-out. Und wenn König Théoden und der Waldläufer Aragorn, beides Charaktere aus „Herr der Ringe“, auf die feindliche Ork-Armee losstürmen, stellen sich Zuschauern die Nackenhaare auf.
Todesverachtenden Heldenmut zeigt auch Achilles in der amerikanischen Adaption der Troja-Sage, als er seinen Myrmidonen vor dem selbstmörderischen Angriff auf die Stadt die „Unsterblichkeit“ verspricht. Etwas feingeistiger, doch nicht weniger archaisch, nimmt Feldherr Julius Cäsar durch seinen viel zitierten Spruch „Ich kam, ich sah, ich siegte“ einen Platz in der Geschichte verwegener Männer ein.
„WARNING: watching this will increase your testosterone level by 300%”, lautet der Top-Kommentar für Leonidas auf YouTube. Auch im Silicon Valley, wo der Bedarf an Testosteronoffenbar besonders hoch ist, fallen die Heldenerzählungen auf überaus fruchtbaren Boden. Dort lassen sich Tech-Jünger von ihren Idolen gar zu neuen Unternehmen inspirieren.
Fantasy als Vorbild
Palmer Luckey ist Erfinder der Virtual-Reality-Brille Oculus Rift. Gemeinsam mit Trae Stephens, ehemals Mitarbeiter beim Überwachungsunternehmen Palantir, hat er 2017 das Verteidungs-Start-up „Anduril“ gegründet. Benannt ist es nach Aragorns Schwert Andúril. Übersetzt aus der fiktiven Quenya-Sprache bedeutet der Name „Flamme des Westens“.
Peter Thiel, Mitgründer von Palantir, dessen Name ebenfalls aus dem Herr-der-Ringe-Kosmos stammt, investiert in Technologie für „Unsterblichkeit“, sich selbst stilisiert er zum furchtlosen Kämpfer gegen den „Antichristen“. Curtis Yarvin, ein im Silicon Valley beliebter Blogger, wünscht sich gar einen „neuen Cäsar“ an der Spitze der USA.
Mark Zuckerberg, Leser und Bewunderer von Yarvin, hat seiner Frau Priscilla „nach römischem Brauch“ eine Statue im hauseigenen Garten gewidmet. Die Namen ihrer Kinder – Maxima, August, Aurelia – sind an römische Kaiser angelehnt.
Schwarz-weiße Welt
Fantasy-Epen wie 300 oder Herr der Ringe zeichnen sich durch eine verlässliche Einteilung der Welt in Gut und Böse aus. „Wir lieben die alten Geschichten wegen ihrer Unveränderlichkeit“, stellte die Fantasy-Autorin Ursula K. Le Guin einst fest. Hier finden Menschen Beständigkeit und alte Weisheiten – seltene Schätze in unserer flüchtigen Gegenwart.
Oft sind es gerade jüngere Menschen, die sich an der Vorstellung von glorreichen Königen oder unbezwingbaren Herrschern – und damit auch an antidemokratischen Erzählungen – ergötzen. Schließlich waren es Cäsar und sein Nachfolger Augustus, die das Ende der Republik besiegelten und den Weg zum römischen Kaiserreich ebneten. Und in Sparta, das im Film 300 als „freies Griechenland“ porträtiert wird, herrschte eine kleine Elite über den Großteil der Bevölkerung. Nachdem der Staat im Peloponnesischen Krieg seinen langjährigen Rivalen Athen besiegt, bricht dort umgehend die Oligarchie an.
Im zahlen- und umsatzgetriebenen Silicon Valley können die Unternehmer so ihre vergleichsweise kurze Kulturgeschichte erweitern und dabei etwaige Komplexe ausgleichen. Womöglich suchen sie auch einen passenden ideologischen Rahmen für ihre aggressiven Geschäftsmodelle – oder streben genau danach, was ihre Idole ihnen vorleben: Ruhm, Oligarchie, Sixpack.
Die glatte Tech-Welt sehnt sich offenbar nach den rauen Erfahrungen, die das analoge Leben noch bereithielt. Dafür muss sie „Kämpfe“ inszenieren, die eigentlich keine sind. Elon Musk etwa bekämpft die eigenen Komplexe mit Haartransplantationen, Botox und Wangenknochenverstärkung. Derweil hat Zuckerberg sich zum Kampfsportler hochpäppeln zu lassen. Beim Podcaster Joe Rogan spricht er betont „männlich“ über Jagd, Töten und Mixed Martial Arts.
Widersprüche und Allmachtsfantasien
Führen Heldensagen ins nächste Fitnessstudio, ist das erst mal keine schlechte Sache. Die Weltanschauung und das eigene Unternehmen rund um ambivalenzbefreite Allmachtsfantasien aufzubauen, ist hingegen brandgefährlich.
Dabei ist es Zuckerberg selbst, der mit seinen Unternehmen und „sozialen“ Medien unermüdlich das Fundament einer schönen Welt ruiniert und ihre Bewohner in die digitale Entfremdung treibt. Den Erfolg Zuckerbergs garantiert ein werbe- und effizienzorientiertes System, das sich durch die wachsende Unzufriedenheit seiner Mitglieder und den Ruf nach „alter“ Stärke schließlich gewaltsam selbst abschafft.
Und was passiert, wenn eine kleine Gruppe in Widersprüchen gefangener Männer die Macht übernimmt und die Wut der Menschen für ihre eigenen Zwecke instrumentalisiert, zeigt die Geschichte. Dass ebenjene nur als Karikaturen ihrer verherrlichten antiken Idealedienen, ist ein kleiner, überaus bitterer Witz. Denn das große Leid tragen später wie üblich die Schwächsten einer Gesellschaft und nicht die Profiteure an der Spitze.
Vincent Först arbeitet als Journalist und Autor. An der Universität der Künste lehrt er Texttheorie- und Textgestaltung. Wenn er nicht gerade an seinem Schreibtisch sitzt, organisiert er Kulturveranstaltungen in Berlin. Kontakt: Instagram, Mastodon, Bluesky. Dieser Beitrag ist eine Übernahme von netzpolitik, gemäss Lizenz Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Hören Sie ergänzend auch – Lesen geht ja nicht, dank Deutschlands dummen Ministerpräsident*inn*en – :
Markus Metz und Georg Seeßlen/DLF: “Technokratie: Renaissance einer politischen Bewegung – Wenn Krisen Demokratie und Markt erschüttern, feiern Technokratie-Visionen ihr Comeback. Zwischen TechBros, Elon Musk und Silicon-Valley-Utopien zeigt sich: Die Sehnsucht nach Expertenherrschaft ist so aktuell wie gefährlich.” (nur Audio, 30 min)
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Am 32. Spieltag der Bundesliga empfängt der FC Bayern den 1. FC Heidenheim. So sieht die Startelf von Trainer Vincent Kompany aus.#1FCHeidenheim #FCBayern
Sieben Neue gegen Heidenheim! Kompany überrascht mit Bayern-Startelf -
I wrote a version of this on Fedi a year ago, and thought I'd tighten it up a little and post it to my personal blog today.
CW: 9/11, gender, a bit of snark prompted by a bad joke.
https://robvincent.net/2025/09/11/the-twin-towers-and-gender/
#TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #September11th #Gender #OffensiveHumor #NYC #NYCHistory
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I wrote a version of this on Fedi a year ago, and thought I'd tighten it up a little and post it to my personal blog today.
CW: 9/11, gender, a bit of snark prompted by a bad joke.
https://robvincent.net/2025/09/11/the-twin-towers-and-gender/
#TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #September11th #Gender #OffensiveHumor #NYC #NYCHistory
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I wrote a version of this on Fedi a year ago, and thought I'd tighten it up a little and post it to my personal blog today.
CW: 9/11, gender, a bit of snark prompted by a bad joke.
https://robvincent.net/2025/09/11/the-twin-towers-and-gender/
#TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #September11th #Gender #OffensiveHumor #NYC #NYCHistory
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I wrote a version of this on Fedi a year ago, and thought I'd tighten it up a little and post it to my personal blog today.
CW: 9/11, gender, a bit of snark prompted by a bad joke.
https://robvincent.net/2025/09/11/the-twin-towers-and-gender/
#TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #September11th #Gender #OffensiveHumor #NYC #NYCHistory
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Ik zag net dat de zusjes morgen zeven jaar worden! Misschien is een nieuwe krabpaal een mooi cadeau 🎁 😻
Ik durf ze nog niet te vertellen dat ze nu aan het seniorenvoer mogen…
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Hey #NYC2600, I am at you. @[email protected] @[email protected] https://NYC2600.net
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Hey #NYC2600, we are at you! @[email protected] @[email protected] https://NYC2600.net
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Zacząłem oglądać film "Chłopi" i... nie mogę przyzwyczaić się do tego stylu animacji.
Gdzieś tam ginie mimika aktorów i cholernie mi to przeszkadza. Ich twarze zastygają na zbyt długo, żeby tego nie widzieć, a na zbyt krótko, żeby te kadry traktować jak pojedyncze obrazy.Winny temu chyba jest zbyt realistyczny styl malowania "Chłopów", bo w filmie "Twój Vincent" miałem zupełnie inny odbiór tego elementu. Wydaje mi się, że tam "gra" była nieco bardziej teatralna, bardziej przerysowana, a do tego sceny komponowane bardziej statycznie, co ostatecznie dało bardziej malarski styl filmu.
"Chłopi" wyglądają za bardzo tak, jakby ktoś na zwykły film nałożył filtr malarski z programu graficznego. Szkoda, bo to powoduje, że trudniej mi docenić pracę ludzi, którzy malowali obrazy do tego filmu.
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January 2026 Media Round-Up
Here’s my January round up of all the media I’ve read/watched/listened to this month! I’m going to try and keep this to the highlights, but I usually DNF things I’m not enjoying and they don’t get counted. Positivity only in this space! …Although the content itself may be not so positive.
As a bonus, I’m going to let you know my favourite song of the month too. I’ve just switched from Spotify to Qobuz, a music streaming service based in France, as Qobuz pays artists more per track while still costing the same, and also has a much better sound quality. Most of my playlist content has transferred over fine, but the one artist I was devastated is not fully on there yet is Felix Hagan.
There is one song of his on there currently though: Happy Songs (2025), from the brand new album of the same name which smashed its goal on Kickstarter. I’m really hopeful that the whole album will drop on Qobuz as well.
Happy Songs by Felix Hagan is definitely my favourite song from the start of the month. LISTEN ON QOBUZ
As I go on my Qobuz journey, I’ll be looking for new music to replace the tracks I loved to listen to on Spotify but that aren’t on Qobuz yet, and finding (I hope) new obsessions. I’ll be adding this into my media round-up just for fun!
On to the main event: books, shows, and films. This month I’m experimenting with highlighting my favourites, and listing everything else. I was off sick this month, so there’s a lot of them.
Books, Audiobooks, Story Podcasts
These are the highlights of what I’ve read/listened to this month. I’ve been really spoiled for ARCs! That’s one really lovely bonus of offering the author spotlights – the small presses that get in touch with me for their authors sometimes offer a reader copy for me to frame the interview questions around.
(I never ask for this and I do not expect it, and frankly, I couldn’t ever read one per author! But for the small presses, I know they’re going to be in genres I already like and would want to read, so I often accept these if offered.)
Best Friends Bury Bodies by C.M. Rosens.
You know what, I’m counting this. I read this cover-to-cover for the revisions and edits, and it’s a 78K novel, so this is on my round-up.
When their search for a missing music star leads to murder, how far will his old friends go?
Midsomer Murders meets The Forty Year Kiss. A contemporary mystery with middle-aged polyamorous bisexual second chance romance.
Sarah believes she’s happy with her life despite never really dealing with her partner’s sudden death six years ago; her job is fine, her friends are supportive, her girlfriend Sammie is amazing. But when her estranged soulmate, Bas, reaches out after a 12 year absence, Sarah’s carefully cultivated rut is thrown into chaos.
Her best friends are all for tracking down the prodigal member of their close-knit group, who drifted away from them when he got famous, spiralled into addiction, then disappeared. But finding a long-lost 1990s rock star is the least of their worries, when it catapaults them into the middle of a murder investigation in the sleepy Surrey village where he’s been recovering.
With skeletons falling out of every closet, and lives upended everywhere they turn, what will they do when another body shows up, and both Sarah and Bas are implicated?
I got an ARC of Dianna Gunn‘s Gothic Fantasy novel, Woman of Sorrow and Blood. This is a sensuous, bisexual, sapphic vampire tale, set in richly built world of pleasure, pain, and power. I really enjoyed it, and read it fairly quickly; poor Alma is not very quick on the uptake, bless her, but there’s a decent climax and I was very satisfied with the ending. This one squeaked in right at the end of the month; I just finished it in time for this post! Read my full review.
When 18-year-old Alma is invited to live with Nightfather and pursue the Pleasures of Power, she’s determined to win his affection and ultimate gift: eternal life.
Yet life in the House of Night is not what she expected. Nightfather spends all of his time alone with Nightmother, leaving his second wife to rule with an iron fist. The servants brought from Alma’s home are hollowed out versions of their former selves. Others—including Alma’s own mentor—have disappeared entirely.
Alma buries her suspicions and throws herself into attending to the Daughter of Night, an extraordinary woman who requires special care.
When Nightfather calls upon Alma at last, she begins to see that his eternity is not a reward but a trap—and that it is not him, but the woman he calls his daughter, that her heart longs for. But tragedy lurks in every corner, and sometimes the only escape is death.
Once Upon A Song by Nadine Bells – an ARC Read from Quill & Crow Publishing. I got into this book a lot more from the midpoint, and as it took off into the resolution and climax, I really enjoyed it. This Snow Queen retelling was fairly well done, although there were elements I personally didn’t vibe with. If you’re looking for a quick, lightweight and entertaining Gothic read, this is one to look out for and pre-order from your local store or library. Read my full review.
Welcome to the Hôtel de Neige. Let yourself be swept away by its grandeur and glamor, but beware…the cold may swallow you whole.
When lonely waitress Ana lands a job as a singer at the prestigious Hôtel de Neige, she believes it to be the beginning of her fairytale. Yet she soon finds that in those eerie halls, the line between Cinderella story and Gothic nightmare blurs. Sinister dreams cause her to sleepwalk, a ballerina makes ominous threats, and a phantom in white haunts the hotel—and Ana.
As Ana discovers that the hotel’s last singer lost his life under mysterious circumstances, she needs to decide if happily-ever-after is worth it. She knows she cannot trust her secretive colleagues or the charming but elusive hotel manager, Dimitri. All Ana ever wanted was to belong, but at the Hôtel de Neige, that may mean never leaving again…
The Dreaming of Man by Nikoline Kaiser. I got a copy from Neon Hemlock Press.
I love “Innsmouth” stories, and this is one of the better ones for sure. It has a trans man protagonist and plays with Shakespeare as well.
“An eerie, anxious read, crawling with tentacles of loss, regret, and uncanny coincidence. Nikoline Kaiser’s voice recalls the timbre of a rotting, bygone place and time while remaining fresh and crisp. A true joy for lovers of the weird!” —A.Z. Louise, author of Off-Time Jive
After receiving a letter telling him terrible news, Doctor Lawrence Cooper visits the small harbor-town Osmund in search of answers. Though something is clearly wrong there, Lawrence keeps finding reasons to stay: the sake of a young girl he meets, and to get to the bottom of his one-time lover’s suspicious death.
And the longer he stays, the more Lawrence is drawn into Osmund’s peculiar mysteries.
Cover Illustration by JJ Epping.
Death Valley Blooms by S.M. Mack is an interesting novella out with Neon Hemlock Press, a queer ecohorror about the inevitability of the landscape and the desert claiming its dues. It’s a tragic meditation on bodily autonomy and the survival of a landscape that uses humanity to thrive, but will outlast them.
“Death Valley Blooms is a breathtaking, atmospheric novella that explores hard-hitting topics such as gendered inheritance, mourning, and sacrifice with an impressively light touch. S.M. Mack’s writing is full of humor and sobriety, which held my attention from start to finish. If you enjoy stories that bridge meditative, slice-of-life scenes with fast-paced action, this book will not disappoint.” — Liza Wemakor, author of Loving Safoa
Every decade or so, vast quantities and varieties of wildflowers bloom all at once in Death Valley. But unbeknownst to the wider world, these super blooms are powered by a woman’s life. Mar Ramse lost her mother to Death Valley as a teenager and would give anything to break her family’s curse, but now the desert whispers its call to her. However, she still has a single ace up her sleeve: neither she nor her brother will ever have children. Is it enough for the desert to release its grip on her family?
Cover illustration by Rose Meyer. Cover design by dave ring.
Some classics in here, and new content by narrator Ian Gordon. This is a compilation of a number of stories, and Vol 1 is available on YouTube.
I have not finished this one yet.
The HorrorBabble podcast is one I’m listening to a lot, just to get a short story fix as that’s all I can really concentrate on currently. I don’t enjoy every classic story they read out, but I really like the range of tales I’m listening to and the classic authors I’m able to access via their podcast. I usually listen before bed for an hour or two, or while I’m doing housework or something.
Click for the list of HorrorBabble episodes I’ve listened to: short stories by classic horror and weird fiction authors, with their runtime (min:sec). I have highlighted my favourites.“Two Black Bottles” by H.P. Lovecraft & Wilfrid Branch Talman (29:51)
“The Dance of Death” by Algernon Blackwood (25:04)
“The House of Cards: A Thomas Chadwick Story” by Malcolm Ferguson (33:42)
“The Red Room” by H.G. Wells (26:06)
“The Spectre Priestess of Wrightstone” by Herman F. Wright (13:26)
“A Ghost/The Tale of a Haunted Chateau” by Guy de Maupassant (16:47)
“Mr. Hyde-and-Seek: A Thomas Chadwick Story” by Malcolm Ferguson (24:14)
“Stranger at Dusk” by Malcolm Murchie (42:16)
“The Mandrakes” by Clark Ashton Smith (17:13)
“The Lurking Fear” by H.P. Lovecraft (54:44)
“The Gateway of the Monster: A Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder Story” by William Hope Hodgson (51:20)
“The Horror from the Mound” by Robert E. Howard (45:19)
“The Thing from the Barrens” by Jim Kjelgaard (37:00)
“Chickamauga” by Ambrose Bierce (17:31)
“The Crawling Chaos” by H.P. Lovecraft (20:09)
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”, by M.R. James (45:57) – listened to x2 because it’s so funny.
“A Suspicious Gift” by Algernon Blackwood (26:38)
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (38:28)
“Catnip” by Robert Bloch (27:06)
“To Build a Fire” by Jack London (38:32)
“The Hound” by H.P. Lovecraft (21:55)
“An Unnatural Feud” by Norman Douglas (35:20)
“Caterpillars” by E.F. Benson (19:23)
“The Shining Pyramid” by Arthur Machen (52:30)TV Shows & Mini Series
I’ve highlighted the shows I’ve really enjoyed this month, and listed the other shows I watched below the highlights. The highlighted ones are my favourite watches. Expand the details of my other watches below these, so you can see the other shows & random Marple/Poirot episodes I watched.
Started the month catching up on Fallout (2024-), created by Geneva Robertson-Dworet
and Graham Wagner, which I loved.Absolutely amazing. One of my oldest friends has been a massive fan of the games for years, and when we were housemates he had a display cabinet of the figures in our living room – those were my introduction to the games and the world! I’m not fully caught up yet.
In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.
Year of the Rabbit (2019) an 8-part mini-series directed by Ben Taylor and written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley that got cancelled over funding issues. It is a rewatch and a comfort watch, as it makes me laugh out loud every episode.
Mabel (Susan Wokoma) demanding to be made a policewoman/Lady Fuzz: “When you adopted me you said you wanted the best for me!!”
Chief Inspector (Alun Armstrong): “I was mostly thinking about hats!”
Detective Inspector Rabbit, a dedicated, tough, thick, and oft-inebriated Victorian copper, sleuths his way across London with his two young partners: a doofy rookie and a brilliant Black policewoman no one ever believes.
Haunted Hotel (2025-) is a rewatch, another comfort show! I hope there’ll be another season soon. Just a really fun cartoon, with lots of family scares.
A single mom with two kids operates a haunted hotel, aided by her late brother’s ghost who believes they can have ingenious ideas despite his ethereal state.
West Country Tales (1982-1983). I loved the 9 available episodes I saw on YouTube, I think these are the only ones left out of the 14 that were aired.
This post, Remembering West Country Tales, has a full episode breakdown, including the missing episodes, courtesy of Steve Calvert.
I’ve listed the 9 episodes below, with each title linked to the YouTube video! Click to expand.The Poacher – I liked how slow this was, just like you were listening to an older man in the pub tell you a story from his younger days. It did keep me interested all the way to the end, and I really liked the idea of meeting Pan/the Devil in the woods.
The Breakdown – I switched my brain off for this one and didn’t try to guess where it was going, but just sort of let it carry me onwards. The twist is an obvious one, and it’s based on a fairly common/well-known urban legend (or rural legend?) but it’s one I liked. Not scary at all, just good company and a bit unsettling.
White Bird of Laughter Tor – this is a sad one, based on another fairly well-told folktale (I think, or ballad – but anyway I’ve heard a few variants of this one before) of a poor girl and her ill-fated romance. You have the sense of sad dread as you know where it’s going.
The Visitor – not a pleasant one, concerning two women and their competition for the life and love of a little toddler. A mother’s fear of usurpation, but also of the dangers posed by the people closest to you, regarding your child.
The Beast – I watched this one first, and really enjoyed it. It was a great episode. It’s much more folk horror in essence, and has the elements of the Beast of Bodmin Moor about it, much more of a Creature Feature than the others.
Miss Constantine – my personal favourite. This starts off with a dreamy vibe, where you meet an old lady who seems to be confused, perhaps has Alzheimers or dementia, and believes that she is being harrassed by ‘the young people from the Social’, who have moved into her home and refuse to leave. There is, of course, nobody there; at least, nobody the local vicar can see… or is there?
With Love, Belinda – a very sad one about the loss of a child, and its impact on the parents and surviving sister, Belinda. The ghostly return of the little boy heralds a series of strange happenings and a change in Belinda’s behaviour, causing the mother especially great distress. The ending, however, is not tragic, and rather sweet.
To Wit To Woo – a medieval tale of an unloved wife, who is tricked by a witch into various methods of making her husband love her. This one was sad and also funny, but I just felt really sorry for the poor woman.
Ring a Ring a Rosy – a feral autistic-coded girl who likes to kill things occasionally, out of curiosity, gets herself a boyfriend, and her mother starts worrying about the lad’s safety after they appear to have an argument and he disappears. But is she worried about the right thing? I didn’t know how to feel about this one, but it’s another sad one.
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials (2026), created/written for the screen by Chris Chibnall and directed by Chris Sweeney, is a 3-part drama that just got released on UK Netflix, and I really loved it. In fact, it’s given me some thoughts about parent/child dynamics I’d like to write, or at least think about. It’s very silly fun, which I’m fully on board with.
In 1925, a country house party prank turns deadly. Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent investigates the chilling murder plot. Lady Caterham and Superintendent Battle assist in solving the country house mystery that changes Bundle’s life.
Miss Scarlet and The Duke (2020-) created by Rachael New, is a fun Victorian-era detective show I like to both rewatch and catch up on. I really love the period lady detective genre, like Miss Fisher, and Miss Scarlet has a few seasons under its belt to go through. S06 came out in December; I’ve watched up to S05.
When Eliza Scarlet’s father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner – step forward a detective known as the Duke.
Other Episodes & Mini-Series watched (click the + sign to expand)
These aren’t all in the order I watched them; I’ve grouped the Marple and Poirot episodes together, bookending the list. It’s all a bit random but it made some weird sense to me when I was typing this up.
- Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984) dir. Silvio Narizzano, screenplay by T.R. Bowen. I do love the old Miss Marple series with Joan Hickson, and this is one I’ve seen so many times. This was originally a 3-part mini-series, but it’s available now in one single feature. It’s not my favourite book either, but it’s one I’ve re-read a lot.
- Agatha Christie’s Marple: The Body in the Library (2004) dir. Andy Wilson, dramatised by Kevin Elyot. They very bravely* changed the ending of this one, and departed from the original reveal to bring it up-to-date, but this just succeeds in falling into the ‘evil lesbians’ trope, preying on younger girls. Still, sapphics on screen in 2004… I don’t enjoy the Bantrys’ dynamics as much in this one, either. We can still be feminists looking for women to be their own people, and love our husbands very much. Overall, I think I prefer T.R. Bowen’s adaptation.
*I am British, this is not a compliment
- Miss Marple: The Moving Finger (1985) dir. Roy Boulting, dramatised by Julia Jones. I do enjoy this one because of the romantic subplots and who gets with whom. These definitely make me want to read Christie’s romance novels, published under her pen name Mary Westmacott. This was a 2-parter, which is now available as a single feature.
- Miss Marple: A Murder is Announced (1985) dir. David Giles, dramatised by Alan Plater. I prefer the way the book character Mitzi is treated in this dramatisation, name changed here to Hannah which makes her not only Eastern European but Jewish-coded, although she is not explicitly Jewish in the text or in the episode. Even so, there’s a lot of anti-Eastern European prejudice in evidence. It’s a good adaptation though, and has one of my favourite lesbian-coded couples as ‘companions’. Also, so many autistic-coded women in this one. A village full of them.
- Miss Marple: Pocket full of Rye (1985) dir. Guy Slater, dramatised by T.R. Bowen. The nursery rhyme one! Originally a 2-parter, and then shown as a single feature-length episode. It has one of my favourite character actors, Selina Cadell, as Mary Dove. Sadly, this one is really forgettable, except for the nursery rhyme killings.
- Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987) dir. David Tucker, dramatised by T.R. Bowen. This is a good story, and one I haven’t seen a lot. I really enjoyed it, and it has a good few twists and turns. I love the three sisters, the random bus tour of historic homes and gardens, the locations used, and also Miss Marple having a nap on a bench. She’s elderly, let her sleep in a garden and stop bothering her with ice cream cornets.
- Mrs Amworth (1975) dir. Alvin Rakoff. Based on the E.F. Benson short story, adapted by Hugh Whitemore. A good ’70s short, 29mins runtime. I really enjoyed this one! I do like the gnat plague heralding the vampire, which is a bit different to the usual vampire fare. I’m not sure what this was part of, I think it was part of a series or anthology originally, but it’s on YouTube as a standalone, courtesy of What the Folk‘s channel.
- The Lost Will of Dr Rant (1951) dir. Laurence Schwab Jr., based on M.R. James’s story, The Tractate Middoth, and dramatised by Doris Halman. 30mins runtime. This is a US production, and possibly the first time that an M.R. James story was adapted for the screen! It was for the “Lights Out” series, and it’s pretty good. I really liked it, and it still stands up against the 2013 Mark Gatiss adaptation.
- The Incredible Dr Baldick: Never Come Night (1972) dir. Cyril Coke. Another one courtesy of the What the Folk YouTube channel, this was the pilot of a series that never got aired/made, and is now a standalone feature. It seems that Terry Nation, its creator, wanted to replace Dr Who‘s Doctor with a folk horror version who went around the country in his steam train The Tzar, a mobile home and laboratory, solving paranormal mysteries. It stars Robert Hardy in the titular role, and I’m really sad this was never a series as planned. The pilot is really worth a watch.
- Stones (1976) dir. Graham Evans. An episode of The Mind Beyond (BBC2 Playhouse), focused on the weird properties and then-shadowy history of Stonehenge. Available on YouTube via What the Folk‘s channel. This one is a full hour. Lots of stuff around ancient languages and the connection between written langauge and druidic power. It’s a bit dry for me, centering on a Tory minister’s scheme to move Stonehenge to London’s Hyde Park, and the subsequent discovery of an ancient language hidden on the spines of a 3-volume 17thC set of books about the stone circle. It has some positive Welsh rep in it, which is a nice change, and picks up towards the end with the involvement of the children.
- A Place to Die (1973) dir. Peter Jefferies. This is a Thriller episode, Season 1 Episode 7, available on YouTube via What the Folk‘s channel. Creepy rural English village alert! This is a pre-Wicker Man folk horror, in which the lovely doctor’s wife, Tessa Nelson (Alexandra Hay), becomes the focus of the villagers’ obsession, and uncovers a sinister cult at work.
- Poirot: The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (1989) dir. Edward Bennett, adapted by Clive Exton. I had no idea these were 1980s, I had them in my head as all being 2000s! But no – this is one of the much earlier episodes, and Suchet ran as Poirot for a hugely long time, 1989-2013. I enjoy the early series, for sure. I liked Exton’s original ghost story for Ghost Stories for Christmas, Stigma (1977), and this adaptation manages to be domestic and fun, and held our attention. This was a birthday watch since we were too ill to go and celebrate as planned. We stayed in and watched Seven Dials on Netflix, and then some Poirot. NOTE: Some very dated casual racism (towards Chinese immigrants).
- Poirot: Triangle At Rhodes (1989) dir. Renny Rye, adapted by Stephen Wakelam. This plot reminds me of Evil Under the Sun, and I get it confused with that one all the time. That’s because, I guess, Evil Under the Sun is the full-length version, while this is a short story. There are the star-crossed couples and the domestic drama between husbands and wives in each, and so they are fairly easy to confuse!
- Poirot: Problem at Sea (1989) dir. Renny Rye, adapted by Clive Exton. Some thoroughly unpleasant people having a terrible time on a cruise, with Hastings and Poirot along for the ride. This is another of the short stories adapted for the first season, which has that glossy bigger budget feel. I did really enjoy the two girls, they were fun.
- Poirot: The Cornish Mystery (1990) dir. Edward Bennett, adapted by Clive Exton. I liked this one, it’s another short story adaptation, and it works well as a feature. Again, I really enjoy Exton’s scripts and the dynamics he writes, and how Christie’s characters come alive on screen. Poor Mrs Pengelley.
Films
My films of January 2026: the highlighted ones with posters are all my top rated watches. I’ve watched a total of 40 films this month, from 1933-2025, and a range of short films and feature-length ones. Letterboxd has counted the 5 Miss Marples I logged as films, but I’ve counted those in my TV show watches, so they don’t appear here.
Expand the details below this highlighted list to see the full list of films I’ve seen this month! I’ve enjoyed all of them in some way. They aren’t in any particular order.
Foxes (2011) dir. Lorcan Finnegan. 17mins runtime.
I loved this little short, on YouTube via the Screen Ireland channel. It’s really atmospheric and unsettling, and I did like the ending. Also: some cracking fox shots, and lovely, eerie shots of the housing estate and its uniformity.
A young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses and shrieking foxes are beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world – a world of the paranormal or perhaps insanity.
The Sacrifice Game (2023) dir. Jenn Wexler.
This is one of my favourite Christmas movies, which I didn’t actually watch over Christmas this year (boo to me), but was the first film I watched in 2026. I really love how it ends. If you want to know what I’m like as a person, this film contains most elements I enjoy to watch. Draw your own conclusions.
This Christmas, raise a little hell.
Christmas break, 1971. Samantha and Clara, two students who are staying behind for the holidays at their boarding school, must survive the night after the arrival of uninvited visitors.
Strange Harvest (2024) dir. Stuart Ortiz.
Mockumentary with interviews and found footage that I really enjoyed. Cosmic horror that is actually well done. New to me.
He isn’t hiding, he’s waiting.
Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for “Mr. Shiny”—a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a dark cosmic force.
Bring Her Back (2025) dirs. Michael Philippou, Danny Philippou
I really liked Talk To Me by the same directors, and this one was a real mind fuck as well. Deeply upsetting in places. I had to fast forward scenes, literally can’t watch some of that. Next level diabolical. New to me.
Family requires sacrifices.
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
Clown in a Cornfield (2025) dir. Eli Craig.
Based on the Adam Cesare novel. US-set Hot Fuzz with clowns and teen protagonists. Gay rep (yay). Only Black teen in the friend group is the first one to die (boo). Modern teens dying because they don’t know how to use a rotary phone or drive a manual (“stick”) vehicle is so funny to me. Teach your kids these basic life skills.
Are you a friend of Frendo?
Quinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times after the treasured Baypen Corn Syrup Factory burned down. As the locals bicker amongst themselves and tensions boil over, a sinister, grinning figure emerges from the cornfields to cleanse the town of its burdens, one bloody victim at a time.
Morgiana (1972) dir. Juraj Herz.
A rewatch for me – Morgiana is the name of the cat, whose fate is a major plot point. I really enjoy this one. We get a lot of cat-eye-view shots as well, moving around the house and seeing things from the cat’s POV.
Jealous of her vapidly “good” sister’s popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara’s tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed.
Dark Waters (1993) dir. Mariano Baino.
If you enjoyed Soavi’s The Church (1989), this is definitely one for the watchlist. It goes harder in a few places. One of the most disturbing family reunions I’ve seen. New to me, but I’ve rewatched it 3x this month, once with the director’s commentary.
A New Wave of Horror
After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.
O’r Ddaear Hen/From the Old Earth (1981) dir. Wil Aaron.
LEAVE THINGS ALONE school of horror, which deserves its place here for its place in Welsh cinema history, as much as for its addition to the 1980s weird films, like the Tales of the West Country series. New to me.
As William Jones digs in the garden of his council house he finds a strange looking stone head. During the night his wife has horrible dreams, forcing William to move the head out of the house. In turn, he takes the head to an archaeologist at Bangor University who is an expert on Celtic artefacts and trying to dig up the remains of the Celts elsewhere. In order to try and understand the head, he goes home with her but things start to go wrong at night there as well, bringing the horrors of a half-human half-animal creature to the housewives. One by one the archaeologist’s family is horrified leading to death and another sacrifice to the ancient gods of the Celts.
The Endless (2017) dirs. Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson.
I like this duo – I enjoyed Spring (2014), and I think this film is even better. It might be one of my favourite timey-wimey cosmic horror Sci-Fi films now. New to me.
Time is a prison.
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group’s beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) dir. Guy Ritchie.
This is a comfort rewatch of my favourite Arthurian film. It has everything I enjoy about Ritchie films, plus it’s an action-fantasy. Arthur’s basically a gangster, which is all kings really are. This is actually my (almost) perfect fantasy film. Himself reckons Guy Ritchie should do a version of Preiddeu Annwn/The Spoils of Annwn, which is literally a heist story. That would be amazing.
From nothing comes a King
When the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of his birthright and with no idea who he truly is, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword Excalibur from the stone, his life is turned upside down and he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy… whether he likes it or not.
Underwater (2020) dir. William Eubank.
Another comfort rewatch, which I really enjoy. This one did the deep sea walk across the seabed being attacked by monsters before Meg 2. This is a Cthulhu/Deep Ones mythos film, one of THE best entries into that subgenre made so far.
7 miles below the ocean surface something has awakened
After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
Crow Hollow (1952) dir. Michael McCarthy.
A new-to-me British Gothic thriller, with a blushing bride (she’s known him a week), and three batty old aunts to contend with. My favourite genre of British Gothic is three old women up to no good. Available on YouTube.
A new bride tries to survive multiple attempts on her life in a dark mansion, while her husband refuses to believe that she in danger.
Panna a Netvor/Beauty and the Beast (1978) dir. Juraj Herz.
A favourite comfort watch, and one I finally own on disc. I love it so much.
I have so much to say about this, but I won’t do that here, I’ll save that for a full post or something.
Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress his beastly urge to kill her.
The Bench (2024) dir. Sean Wilkie.
This is an indie Scottish film that took 17 years to make, and finally got snapped up by Amazon. I have to say, I really enjoyed it. It’s a good old-fashioned slasher, made by people who clearly like slashers, and there are lots of nice moments and meta nods in it.
The twist is fairly predictable, but I don’t need it to be clever, I just want a fun 75mins of people having relationship drama then running around and screaming. Both our killer (Gareth Hunter) and my hero Tommy (Chris Somerville) were very Ricky-coded to me. Any film where I say “That’s my son!” twice gets an extra star.
Over 300,000 people go missing in the UK every year. Most are never found.
A breakdown. A kind invitation. A cabin with a bloody past. Alex and her newfound friends face a nightmarish reality as they are picked off one by one, drawn to the sinister bench below. Inspired by low-budget horror films of the 1970s.
An Cailleach Bhéarra (2007) dir. Naomi Wilson. 8mins runtime. Available on YouTube via Screen Ireland’s channel.
A lovely 8min folklore short, with a large scale puppet and some great animation.
“The Cailleach was dependent on this one thing… every hundred years she must get back to the water and immerse herself so that she might become young again.”
This film is an interpretation of fragments of the ancient myth of the “cailleach”, old hag, otherworld female, mother earth, sovereignty queen, or witch. Told using a large scale puppet and actors moving through real landscape.
Other Films Watched
Films and standalone shorts watched in January (click to expand)- Until Dawn (2025) dir. David F. Sandberg. It’s based on a video game I haven’t played but can see the appeal of. I really liked the aesthetics of the house, the monster design, and the concept. I also enjoyed the dynamics between the characters, but I lost interest in the middle.
- It Feeds (2025) dir. Chad Archibald. This is like a darker, feature-length film version of the US show, Medium. It has a very strong mother/daughter relationship and a good ending, fine for an afternoon viewing, but I don’t think I’d watch this again.
- The Wyrm of Bwlch Pen Barras (2023) dir. Craig Williams. 17min runtime, a really good short film. We don’t see the wyrm herself, but hopefully we all know what a wyrm/really big fucking snake-dragon looks like. I would watch this short film again.
- The Innsmouth School for Girls (2023) dir. Joshua Kennedy. This is a rewatch, not a favourite or anything, but sometimes I get an urge to watch it again. It’s one of the better Deep Ones/Innsmouth entries, and I think it’s definitely worth a look.
- Dark Light (2019) dir. Padraig Reynolds. This is a rewatch – again, not a highlighted favourite, but one I occasionally feel in the mood for. It’s a pretty competent Sci-Fi-Horror, with monstrous humanoids rather than aliens, and I do enjoy the central mother-daughter drama.
- 東海道お化け道中 / Yokai Monsters: Along With Ghosts (1969) dirs. Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Yoshiyuki Kuroda. New to me, a good background one. Atmospheric, and with really fun 1960s effects! I think I’d rewatch this, I liked the little girl and the plot was entertaining enough. Available on YouTube.
- The Barbarians (1987) dir. Ruggero Deodato. A rewatch – accidental, I was doing stuff with the TV on in the background, this came on, and I didn’t turn it off and ended up watching the whole thing. As entertaining as the last time, not one I would ever dedicate my concentration to, but it’s ’80s Sword and Sorcery for comforting background company on a rainy day.
- The Spiritualist/The Amazing Mr. X (1948) dir. Bernard Vorhaus. I liked this one; I watched it for Turhan Bey and Lynn Bari. It’s a good psychological, Supernatural Explained noir, although for goodness sake her husband has only been dead for two years and everyone is pressuring her to move on and remarry, leave her alone. Westerners not knowing how to process grief is not a 21stC phenomenon. Available on YouTube.
- The Return (1973) dir. Sture Rydman. 30mins runtime, a made-for-TV British short; this is a pretty good Gothic ghost story, very atmospheric and melodramatic. It is based on stories by A.M. Burrage and Ambrose Bierce. A 2-person cast, which really works for the atmosphere and sense of claustrophobia in the house setting. Available on YouTube.
- Il mulino delle donne di pietra/Mill of the Stone Women (1960) dir. Giorgio Ferroni. Not as fun as I hoped, but pretty good. A bit of Mad Science and Italian Gothic. Available on YouTube. I actually think this might be a rewatch but it didn’t leave much of an impression on me the first time.
- The Ghoul (1933) dir. T. Hayes Hunter. This one made me laugh, I did enjoy it for 80mins of excitable young people shouting at each other. Is it culturally sensitive to anyone? No, not in the least. I really liked the enemies-to-partnership thing the cousins had going on, though; Betty was great. This is what 1930s feminism looked like.
- Moss Rose (1947) dir. Gregory Ratoff. An absolutely wild melodrama murder mystery/thriller, with Vincent Price as a policeman, and the worst faux-Cockney accents I have ever heard. Some fascinating class discussion though.
- Darklands (1996) dir. Julian Richards. I watched this again for a review I’m writing for Divination Hollow, and to see how the Director’s Cut (6min shorter) fares against the original version I watched in 2023, the year the Cut was released. This is… something. I have a whole post on it already, where I missed the antisemitism of the Lilith imagery of a character called Rebecca, on top of everything else it’s doing. Anyway, the new essay on this will be potentially cross-posted, but Divination Hollow will get it first.
- Deváté srdce/The Ninth Heart (1979) dir. Juraj Herz. The third Herz film I’ve seen this month, this is one I also own on disc (thanks to the Severin Films Folk Horror Compendium). I didn’t like this as much as Panna a Netvor, but the hair was amazing. I don’t think it was a highlighted watch for me, but I do think I’ll be watching it again, and maybe this will grow on me.
- The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) dir. Roger Corman. I’m not a massive Poe fan but I do like his work, and I do like a few of the adaptations of it. This is much more of a comfort rewatch for me just because of Vincent Price. I know there are loads of versions of it and I haven’t seen them all, but this is not a bad film. It was written by Richard Matheson, and I tend to enjoy his scripts.
- A Child’s Voice (1978) dir. Kieran Hickey. An Irish made-for-TV short, 29mins runtime. Very much in the vein of Ghost Stories for Christmas, and strongly reminiscent of Mark Gatiss’s original story, The Dead Room (2018) which has a very similar premise and main character. It was a one-off, not part of a series or anthology, and only shown on UK TV once in the 1980s.
- The Circle (2017) dir. Peter Callow. I’ve seen this one before and I vaguely remembered it was low budget and not awful, and I fancied the folk horror feels. It’s a Scottish set one, and I want to watch more Scottish horror where possible, like The Isle, Get Duked!, Dog Soldiers, Outcast, and Little Bone Lodge. The Irish horror scene is really flourishing, but Wales and Scotland are behind. A lot of that is budget and investment, so I’m on the lookout for more films by Scottish filmmakers. I don’t know if Callow is Scottish, but it does make some good use of the landscape and isolation of the islands!
- Tattiebogle (2017) dir. Douglas Kyle. Made for £101.99, this was the start of a rabbithole I fell into while looking for more Scottish Horror. Douglas Kyle seems to have a production company, ChaosBox Productions, which has a YouTube Channel. He has a 62-episode no-budget Sci-Fi series, The Pandora Men, and several features and shorts. This is one of the features, made over 8 days in the cast & crew’s spare time. I really appreciate no-budget / microbudget films made by people having a lot of fun, and this is absolutely that. It’s an ecohorror/folk horror slasher, made in Aberdeenshire.
- The Ghillie Dhu (2024) dir. Douglas Kyle. His latest short feature, roughly 37mins runtime. This attempts to be about anxiety disorder and, I guess, the horror of being consumed by your traumas and disorders, married with the Scottish folktale of the Ghillie Dhu.
- The Yird Swine (2020) dir. Douglas Kyle. This isn’t on Letterboxd yet, I need to add it. The link is to IMDB instead. This has the same core cast, with another cast member from The Pandora Men series, Myla Corvidae (he/they), originally from Cardiff! This was a fun one too. The pacing wasn’t as good as Tattiebogle, but I really liked it. Everyone was obviously really enjoying themselves making it. I think if you’re into this side of amateur indie filmmaking, you should check out these films.
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Guelfi Firenze inarrestabili, debutto amaro per i Pirates
I vicecampioni d’Italia non hanno lasciato spazio agli esordienti Pirates 1984 Albisola S., chiudendo la partita già nel primo quarto con un devastante 28-0. Protagonista assoluto di questa prima frazione Andrea Fimiani, autore di una spettacolare corsa da 80 yard in touchdown al secondo snap dell’incontro, oltre a 3 TD pass prima di cedere la cabina di regia a Eystin Salum, che ha guidato l’offense fino al 49-0 finale, lasciando campo e spazio anche ai giovani a roster. I marcatori per i fiorentini, oltre a Fimiani: 1 TD per lo stesso Salum, ben 3 per Stola, e poi Casati e Monti.
Battaglia a Legnano, i Frogs la spuntano nel finale
Partita combattutissima tra Frogs e Dolphins, con continui ribaltamenti di fronte. I marchigiani partono forte con la connessione Eaton-Terhark, ma i Frogs rispondono col duo Zahardka-Pulsinelli. Dopo il nuovo vantaggio Dolphins, ancora Pulsinelli pareggia i conti nella ripresa, prima che Zahardka chiuda il match con una corsa vincente nell’ultimo quarto, regalando ai Frogs la prima vittoria stagionale.
Rhinos perfetti, Warriors in difficoltà
Netto dominio milanese con i Rhinos che, dopo un primo quarto di studio, prendono il largo prima dell’intervallo con tre TD pass di McCray(Bouha e doppietta di Pooda). Nella ripresa, ancora gioco aereo protagonista con altre due segnature di Bouha ed Escobar per un eloquente 38-0 che evidenzia le difficoltà dei Warriors.
Panthers senza pietà, Lions sconfitti all’esordio
I campioni d’Italia partono forte a Bergamo con due TD pass di Patterson per Finadri e Bonvicini, seguiti da altri due lanci vincenti di Monardi per Tassan e Ghelfi. I Lions provano a rimanere in partita con un TD di Butterfield per Moro, chiudendo la prima metà sul 28-7. Nella ripresa, un field goal di Galbiati riduce il gap, ma i Panthers chiudono i conti con un altro TD di Tassan per il definitivo 35-10.
Giaguari straripanti, Marines senza risposte
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Skorpions-Aquile, una sfida da brividi
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Descriptions of the novels, repeated from the weekly posts. Footnotes have been removed, so some parts lack further explanation. For descriptions of the shorter works, see the weekly posts. Tag to mute: #BokBooks
●●●○○ The Secret of ZI - Kenneth Bulmer (nov) 1958
The Alishang took control of Earth almost three centuries ago, first coming as friends, then influencing government, then taking over. Humans had revolted several times, but never successfully. So plans for a more complete revolution were set in motion. They would take a while.Two years before the plans were due to come to fruition, we follow Rupert, an agent on the run. He knows too much, even though he doesn't know what he knows. We follow him as he escapes Alishang forces and Resistance forces alike. Adventures are had, then two revelations are made. One is so obvious it's on the cover, the other seems super unlikely.
●●●◐○ Times of Trouble {New John Connor Chronicles 3} - Russell Blackford (nov) 2003
The end of the trilogy sees 15-year-old John and his mother return from taking out the backup Skynet in Europe with 45yo General Connor and his team. They participate in some cleanup, taking out Skynet machines that were still attacking humans even after Skynet's destruction, then they have to deal with warlords in South America.Finally it was time for Jade, the sole surviving bio-enhanced Specialist from the third timeline, to return home. She went with the Connors and some other volunteers, plus a dozen reprogrammed Terminators and T-1000s, and hooked up with a local Resistance group. They conquered the local control node in Venezuela with the help of the T-1000s they had, who had been given the ability to reprogram Skynet machines.
Then the capstone of the fight in Colorado for the Skynet base, and the Connors returning to their timeline to monitor for any reprogrammed humans the government had missed, and to see that the Skynet program wasn't restarted. Not a bad trilogy, though a bit repetitive.
●●●○○ Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray Cummings (nva) 1931
Stories where people shrank and visited worlds within specks of matter were common in the 1930s, and this is one. A scientist invents two drugs, one which will shrink a person (seemingly indefinitely, depending upon dose), and one which will enlarge a person. Oh, and the story avoids always dealing with naked people:❝The myriad pores of my skin seemed thrilling with activity. I know now it was the exuding volatile gas of this disintegrating drug. Like an aura it enveloped me, acted upon my garments.”
Right, so logic is out the window. Polter (scientist Kent's assistant), fired when he attempted to force himself upon Babs (Kent's daughter), years later kidnaps her. Her brother Alan and his besotted-with-her friend George go to his castle, get drugs from the guards, and shrink down into the tiny realm. Alan ends up falling for a woman who lives in the infinitesimal, and George rescues Babs.
Apparently I read this years ago, but the only part I recalled were the lengthy sequences of shrinking, where one shrinks to a millimeter and climbs on the stone, then takes more drug and waits for the hand-size hole you're standing beside to relatively grow to basement- and then valley-size, climbs in, and repeats many more cycles.
●●●◐○ Case of the Murdered Mayor {Miles Grant 2} - Jack Dearborn
The minor case is the theft of a prize collie from his breeder. Miles easily tracks down the people who stole the dog. It was fairly obvious, given that the woman had just had a difficult separation from her husband. The major case is murder.The mayor of Seattle is shot dead, but two months later no killer has been arrested, so the mayor's widow hires Miles through a proxy. He can't interfere with the police investigation, which makes his job more difficult. Miles eventually comes to the conclusion that a member of the police force is the killer. Proving that means confronting the man. Where Miles got shot in his first case, he was merely shot at in this one. 1950s-set #mystery.
●●●○○ The Stock Car Race {Behold: Humanity! 15} - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) 2024
Atrekna continue to take over worlds, and the Terran Confederacy continues to take them back. Terran Descent Humans currently remain over 99% extinct from an Atrekna psychic attack that unedited their DNA, but steps are being taken to bring them back from the Sentience Upload Disaster Storage System, if that could be repaired.We also learn that Earthlings exist, a faction of humankind that set out in slowships after Earth was Glassed. They can sense when Atrekna sink a solar system to change its sun and time flow. They object, and stop by to nova the star.
Many more facets of this hundred-stranded story continue, sometimes with several books between appearances, so I'm stuck thinking "I know that name, but what species are they and what's their plot thread?". Still, it's an absorbing series, and I hope it gets completed. Supposedly the author has late-stage cancer.
●●●◐○ Army of the Undead {Invaders 3} - Rafe Bernard (nov) 1967
This novel is not split into multiple episodes, as the previous two books, but is a single story. It also is odd, in that it seems set late in the course of the TV series, when David Vincent had people in government and industry who believed that the Invaders existed, yet also seems set before the series, in that the Invaders portrayed are quite different from how they were shown on screen.These Invaders are primarily incorporeal, and can influence human minds. In this tale, they're pulling a trick like the #Mysterons did in Captain Scarlet, arranging accidents to kill people, and then reanimating the bodies to possess them. (The Mysterons create new bodies via "retrometabolism" and just leave the old bodies lying around.)
The Invaders have done this thousands of times, and control most of Auto City. Their plan is to destabilize the country by sabotaging all the new cars. David Vincent figures things out, and finds out that the Invaders have adapted Earth tech to broadcast lifeforce via a radio tower in Serenda Valley to control their reanimated slaves. Naturally he wins out in the end, though at this stage of the series, he needed dozens of helpers to do so. Yet somehow, a week afterward, only a few recalled what happened, it was so unreal to them.
●●◐○○ Case of the Sullied Songstress {Miles Grant 3} - Jack Dearborn (nov) 2016
The minor case in this book is PI Miles Grant surveilling a construction site for a company suffering thievery of building materials. As he watches from his seedy hotel, he listens to the radio and hears a report of a nude woman's body being found in a nearby county. After he wraps up the pilfering case, he reads in the newspaper a similar report from a different county.Then he's hired by a man whose niece was dumped in a vacant lot, nude and strangled (but not to death!), and Miles is soon chasing a serial murderer, since the girl fears the killer may return to finish the job if it's found out that she survives.
When Miles finds out the connection between the slain women, he learns that his wife Shirley is surely on the killer's list. Regrettably, the motivation of the killer (and his associates) is stupid beyond belief, and the story shudders to a mindless end.
●●●●◐ Head On {Lock In 2} - John Scalzi (nov) 2018
"Hadens" are people suffering "lock in" as a result of a rare side-effect of a flu-like disease that swept the world. Four and a half million Americans became Hadens in the initial pandemic, and thirty thousand more become Hadens each year. They participate in society by tele-operating robotic "threeps" using surgically-embedded neural networks.There's also a Haden-only sport, an ultra-violent game where one team of eleven tries to tear the head off a randomly chosen member of the opposing team, and make a goal with it. The game involves swords, crossbows, and specially built threeps. And for the first time ever, a player – whose physical body was in a different city – dies in the course of a game, when his head is torn off for the third time.
This book has a detective duo, one of them a Haden himself, investigate the event. It leads to murders, a suicide, revelations of money laundering and betrayal, sketchy drugs, international criminals organizations, more.
Also an oversized sport robot crashing into the building junior Agent Shane shares with five other Hadens, doing much damage while searching for a cat he picked up at the scene of a building fire set to cover up an earlier crime.
●●●○ The Empathetic Life of Rebecca Wright {Middle Falls 10} - Shawn Inmon (nov) 2019
Rebecca Wright was brought up by an unfeeling mother and a mostly-absent father (he was in the Navy), end never managed to make a real emotional connection with anyone but her little brother. She married a dentist, who ended up divorcing her for his hygienist, and raised her son alone, badly. She died poor and alone.But in Middle Falls, you get a second chance. If necessary, third, tenth, and fiftieth chances, until you fix your life. On her next twenty or so lives, Rebecca dropped back into her life when her husband was telling her he was leaving her. She knew what was going to happen, so she let him have custody of her son, took the money from the house and practice, and toured the world with her brother. When she got bored, she left her money it to her brother and killed herself to start the next loop.
Over time, she slowly changed, until she managed a life where she helped her gay brother fight AIDS (she knew what companies to invest in, so she was rich), she raised her son decently, and befriended her son's nanny and her out-of-wedlock daughter. Eventually she achieved true empathy, and finally moved on.
●●○○○ The Timothy File {Miles Grant 4} - Jack Dearborn (nov) 2017
Private Investigator Miles Grant arrives at his Seattle office from his suburban Bremerton home to find a request to call a local doctor. The pediatrician is being blackmailed with a nude photo of his four-year-old son sitting on a sofa. No parents of young children will want their kids associated with a seedy doctor, so he needs to find out who the blackmailer is.In the course of his investigation, Grant discovers the Doctor has lied to him multiple times and is involved in a nefarious business. Despite the obstacles the Doctor has put in his way, Grant solves the case and turns the tables on the Doctor.
This book has similar structural flaws to the last one, primarily "why would a criminal hire a detective?" Add in the nature of the criminality, and it rates even lower.
●●◐○○ The City {Aestus 01} - S. Z. Attwell (nov) 2020 #CliFi
This is an overlong, over-padded novel. The first thirty percent should have been cut. Half the remainder should also have been cut. It's been forever (well, November) since it took me a full week to read a novel, and I also couldn't get into that Star Trek: Enterprise novel.The story should have begun when Jossey and her Patrol group are searching the Outer Sector caverns for Onlar intruders. The tenth of the novel's first third that mattered (her brother Tark and his friend Gavin taking the ten-year-old Jossey to the surface to see the moon, with an Onlar attack resulting in Jossey getting a scarred face and a bum leg, and Tark going missing, and their father dying searching for him) should have been inserted as flashbacks.
Now grown, solar engineer Josey and her team face an Onlar attack on the way down the shaft to the post-climate-change underground City, in which she kills the attacker. That gets her moved to Patrol for a special project. Which leads to her being kidnapped by Onlar. Whom she finds are not the beasts that City propaganda claims.³
She learns that her City lies beneath India, that it displaced the natives from their ancient caverns to dig itself, and that the Onlar are those natives, still surviving, whereas the City maintains they're the only humans left. And despite the great heat of most of the year in the 2400s, the Onlar partially live on the surface, in sheltered valleys. Jossey becomes involved in the effort to stop the City's expansion, since that will entail the genocide of the remaining natives – who are led by her missing brother.
Add in the middle-school romance with three twenty-somethings – Gavin (now Patrol leader who didn't initially know the secrets revealed by Jossey's kidnapping) and Caspar (Delta Force / Gestapo agent, who knew the secrets and killed to keep them) both love Jossey, but won't admit it to themselves, while Jossey is oblivious to both men's feelings – and this book was a trial. But it's the first part of a duology, so I'll read the (blessedly shorter) sequel. Eventually.
●●●◐○ The Case of the Phantom Phaeton {Miles Grant 5} - Jack Dearborn (nov) 2018
Christmas Eve 1937: A car with its headlights off runs another car off the road. The 19-year-old driver survives, but his wife and infant son die. The other car doesn't stop. The police never even have a suspect.1959: The driver hires Miles Grant to find out who the hit-and-run driver was. He's hired three other private investigators over the years, and none have ever turned up anything.
Doggedly checking old newspaper files and interviewing everyone mentioned, Miles turns up some leads. Interviewing the woman who lives in the house closest to the accident turns up more. It becomes clear that the Powers That Be are covering up the crime⁴, which is why other detectives gave up. Miles manages to work around the obstacles and get an answer.
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