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poliphiloWhenever the Telegraph puts a picture of Boris Johnson on its front page (something it does frequently- perhaps as often as every other day) I think of Aaron pointing to the Golden Calf and going, "These be thy gods, O Israel, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt."
Yesterday's i-player treat was The Babadook. The opening scenes- with the unhappy mother struggling to cope with her unhappy child- distressed me so much I nearly switched off. It was really quite a relief when the ugly-wuglies showed up.
Later I watched bits of Dead of Night- a movie that influenced everything from The Twilight Zone to Fred Hoyle's steady state theory of the universe. It's not very good- stiff, stagey, silly- with the exception of the episode with the ventriloquist's dummy- which is (a) well written (b) lifted onto a different plane by Michael Redgrave's performance and (c) queer as fuck.
Yesterday's i-player treat was The Babadook. The opening scenes- with the unhappy mother struggling to cope with her unhappy child- distressed me so much I nearly switched off. It was really quite a relief when the ugly-wuglies showed up.
Later I watched bits of Dead of Night- a movie that influenced everything from The Twilight Zone to Fred Hoyle's steady state theory of the universe. It's not very good- stiff, stagey, silly- with the exception of the episode with the ventriloquist's dummy- which is (a) well written (b) lifted onto a different plane by Michael Redgrave's performance and (c) queer as fuck.
