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John 🎬 A Film Nerd 🍿
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Hello, I'm a self-confessed #film nerd who likes to watch, read about and review movies.

These reviews can be found at my blog, of which the address can be found […]

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Doorbell rings and Mrs Wife opens the door, it's the postman. "Blimey!", she cries, "I don't know where we're putting that!"

What?! Has my Dogma limited edition arrived from Australia?

No.

Work ordered a full set of safety gear for us all and I thought we […]

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Two very large bags filled with bright orange safety gear rust arrived in the post.
December 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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#newprofilepicture

Rather than a terrible selfie, Mrs Wife took this for me today. Fresh haircut and shave, this is default me. 😊
A middle-aged man with slight youthful looks. 😄 He has a receding hair line, but all the hair is shaved to a grade 2. He also has a shaved beard that isn't short enough to qualify as stubble. His also wearing rectangular glasses with very thin brown frames. It's me! Hello. He is standing next to a large river on a grey winter's day. A few buildings and cranes can be seen on the shores of the other side.
December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I've got these two books on my shelf. I might give them a quick re read but these are made to help promote the film and don't usually say anything negative for obvious reasons.

The art book is literally only good for pictures as all the text is the shooting […]

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Two books sitting on top of my bed. The art of Judge Dredd featuring a comic book representation of the character. Next to that is the book of The Making of Judge Dredd featuring a photo of Stallone on the red, black and gold Dredd helmet.
December 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Fellow UK film nerds, get down to your local Asda, now!

This glorious "making of" book about Del Toro's Frankenstein, judging by the Amazon reviews, I haven't opened mine yet 😄, can be grabbed for an utter steal.

The RRP is £55, Amazon and Forbidden Planet […]

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A huge beautiful book about the making of Del Toro's Frankenstein who features on the cover. My copy of the book with an Asda shopping receipt on top.
December 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Stolen from Reddit. Me right now -> 😂😂😂
A picture of Princess Leia consuming Luke just after they saw Obi Wan Kenobi killed by Darth Vader in the film Star Wars. The text underneath reads, after losing her family and her entire planet, princess Leia consoles Luke over the loss of his marital arts teacher that he's been hanging out with for 1 day.
December 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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[Photo of a little blood on my arm.]

My cat loves having his worming tablet and flea treatment. 🥰
The back of my arm by my hand. Two feet scratches which ooze with a little blood.
December 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Look! Look at them! Bloody foreigners coming here in their small (space) ships stealing our jobs!

That's it! I'm supporting Reform! 😂
The inside of a UK supermarket by the checkouts. Someone dressed as Chewbacca is walking through the store. This is a very good cosplay costume. They are the right height and must be wearing stilts.
December 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Omg! It's on the way! Now I paid Aus $40 for shipping. If I've read the Australian postal service right, that could be up to 7 working days? Will the Christmas post interrupt that? Am I too excited? Should I post a cheesy unboxing video when I receive it? (With my autism, you'd be lucky! 😂)
A copy of my order of the limited edition Dogma 4K set from Umbrella Entertainment which is based in Australia. There are lots of goodies including a t-shirt, beanie hat, badge pins and more.
December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Stolen from Dark Horizons news feed,

"Brazil’s Comic-Con style event, CCXP, gets underway tomorrow with multiple trailers and first looks at upcoming works expected to debut in the next few days."

Ooh, exciting. I remember several years ago, this is when we […]

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The frosted glass door with a wooden frame, like those old detective films from the 1930s. Behind the door is a black silhouette of a man in a hat but he has large white eyes in the style of Spiderman. On the door in gold lettering, it reads, "B.Reilly - private Investigator". Overlaid in white text, the title reads, "Nicholas Cage, Spider-Noir"
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Tron: Ares - UK release January 12th. Blu-ray £15, 4K £25, 4K Steel book £35.

I know it has a lot of hate but I quite enjoyed it and it will look awesome in 4K blasting out of my "it's enough for our small house" 2.1 sound bar.

I'm quite hopeful because the […]

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The front cover of the Tron: Ares 4K release. A red and black light cycle speeds along a wet road (orientated vertically on the cover) and half the picture is the reflection on the wet road.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Sigh. Thanks, LEGO! Another set to buy New Year's Day!
A small rendition in LEGO of an arcade machine. Mostly purple. A small PC rendered in LEGO. The main build of this LEGO 3in1 set. A handheld gaming console with two cartridges.
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I knew it! Get fucked Zavvi!

OK, the other day, Zavvi announced Beta-Axe, a new label offering physical media. I had my reservations, and today they made their first announcement.

In partnership with Paramount, you can buy The Untouchables, the 4K disc […]

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December 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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@itsolive Thank you for the tip, these are brilliant!
A white basic Amazon Kindle showing a page of text. At the bottom of the screen, there is a comic image of Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory overlaid on top of the text. It's basically an image where everything that would be white is set to transparent.
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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[Ace Ventura - slightly disturbing deleted scene.]

Having watched Ace Ventura this evening, it reminded me of a deleted scene that was randomly unveiled by Morgan Creek (films production company) via Facebook in 2015.

After his car is flipped while chasing […]

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Jim Carey as Ace Ventura lies on the grass in a profile shot. He is covered by pigeons and has a bit very good prosthetic that looks like his eye is popping out.
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Oh thanks Rarewaves. When was this announced? The official retrospective "making of" book on Dogma. Yes, I need it. It's not released until August though...
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Arrow Video announced their titles for February. Nothing that interests me, so thats some money saved until next time! 😁
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Coming home from the Film Stories live event celebrating the 500th episode. The special guest was the comedian Romesh Ranganathan.

Such a funny interview that if I remember (I'll explain in a mo) I'll post here when it goes live. Hopefully there's a video […]

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November 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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WTF has happened to my blog today?! Have the AI training bots found me?
A graph showing daily visits to my blog. It usually receives 35-40 visits a day. Today, it's almost hit 100!
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Kate Beckinsale...why?
A recent picture of actor Kate Beckinsale. She has had too much plastic surgery with high cheekbones, thin nose and large lips.
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I haven't done this for a long time at work. Currently surveying a major airport runway. 😁
A blurry picture of a runway taken at night. The view from a van driving down the centre of the runway.
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Ooh. Remember that Hasbro Pulse (crowdfunded toy production) set of lovely looking Tron figures and light cycles? It was pricey, about £250 I think. It just needed a minimum of 10,000 backers to go into production.

It got 1386.

Oh.
A screenshot of the Hasbro Pulse website. There is a 3D render (in black and white) of 3½ inch figures from the film Tron along with two light cycles.
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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With regard to my earlier post about possible AI trickery in relation to the Avengers: Doomsday set photo, here is another.

In this picture is Famke Janssen who has stated she is not in this film. She doesn't want to return for a few scenes and a handful of […]

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November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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A rain day at work so I raided the charity shops of Kidderminster, Worcester and Evesham and came away with nostalgic memories and a single Blu-ray. 😀

Kids, before DVDs, bonus features were basically non-existent unless you had access to US laserdiscs.

So […]

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A bluray copy of Luc Besson's film, The Valerian. Two UK VHS tapes in plastic boxes. One contains the widescreen copy of the film Twelve Monkeys. The other is for The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys (A great making of documentary). They both have simple colours but primarily, they are almost inverse copies of each other. The film is white text and art on a red background, the other, the opposite.
November 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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This image, purportedly from the set of Avengers: Doomsday, has appeared, and it's being suggested it's a bit of AI fakery.

I counted fingers and that didn't work, so I started to analyse the background.

It's like they've tried to incorporate a bit of […]

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The image (from left to right) features James Marsden as Cyclops, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, Channing Tatum as Gambit, Teyonah Paris as Monica Rambeau, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier, and Ian McKellen as Magneto. Everyone is decked out in their X-Men finery, though, as many people are pointing out, the image is a little too perfect to be real. Plus, to my knowledge, Monica Rambeau is not a member of the X-Men, nor is Paris confirmed to be part of the Doomsday cast.
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Despite being about 12 and 14 years old respectively, Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends look absolutely stunning on the Steam deck OLED screen (or a fancy high powered gaming monitor!).

It also tickles my annoying autistic gaming sense where I have to keep […]

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A scene from the intro of Rayman Legends. A forest scene at night illuminated by soft moonlight. There are homes carved into the trees at different levels. Warm fires emit soft yellow light. A blue flying crocodile carries a cage containing small yellow people things.
November 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM