Back To The Future – Simon Dunn

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Back To The Fringe

Fringe, the conspiracy sci-fi show that aired on Fox from 2008 to 2013 is worth your time to watch, if you haven’t already done so. And if you do have a binge, be on the look out for all the little Easter eggs dotted throughout. Two of my favourites … The Fringe division is the…

August 16, 2020
Great Scott, It’s Michael Winslow

This clip from the 1986 Oscars has everything you wouldn’t expect to see. Sit back, and watch Back To The Future win a statue for Best Sound Effects Editing. BTTF seems timeless somehow, albeit being thoroughly rooted in the mid 1980s. So it’s odd to see someone from Police Academy here, let alone the Muppets.…

February 19, 2020
Can You Read Clocks In Movies?

I can’t read clocks in movies. Or on TV shows for that matter. I don’t mean the flipping ones like in Groundhog Day, or digital clocks, I mean yer bog standard analogue ticky tock type clock. (Not sure I ever noticed that picture of a man hanging from the clock hand before. Good foreshadowing is…

November 2, 2019

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Proctology: A Bottom Examination

For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…