The "edge-of-your-seat thriller"  !!!!!!!!!!!!! No. The edge of your seat cringe. It was terrible. Kept watching - aided by the 'fast forward' dynamic in places - just to see how much worse it could become. Ridiculous story. Wooden acting. Super amateur bad 'am-dram' in places that was truly cringe worthy ... but, at least the actors - some good at playing themselves - made some money to pay their bills.  Absolutely shocking. Sorry, Gareth (Tunley) the Writer, but 2/10 for this one.    

Reservations?  Sherlock's inner demons maybe over played (we do like Henry Lloyd-Hughes as SH) but Dr Watson didn't quite hit it with us: he must have a loveable core. somewhere, surely! OK - we saw a hint at the very end. As for the Man in White, well, it was obvious from the start that he was luciferian. We don't normally watch this genre, so nothing to compare it with. Hope Tom Bidwell, the writer, can keep the standard in a second run.

'Wont go into the reason why I watched it ... but I did. It was certainly a Welsh horror, because it was made in Wales and it was so terrible. One word stands out, 'PREDICTABLE.' In football parlance everything about it was telegraphed, ie when a player telegraphs a pass it means that their opponents - us, the viewer -  can see what they intend to do! Know nothing about the director Will Jewell, but there was plenty of derivative 'hard hitting' scenes. Karen Woodham refers to it as "nicely made," whatever that means. 
Two of my favourite Welsh comic actors took part - Steve Speirs and William Thomas - good to see them in work.

Amber Rose Revah has the most beautiful eyes. Best part of the film. Fascinating parental history: her mother is from a Polish-Jewish family, and her father is from a Kenyan-Indian ancestry. Remember her now in The Punisher and she has also played  Mary Magdala. Once again, good to see actors in work.

I had looked forward to seeing him in ITV's 'GRACE.' Still a big fan of him, but 'Grace' !!!!! Can't even be bothered to say what was bad about it! Maybe a few words: 'soapy,' wooden, no heart to it ..... No! Enough said! But it does give John S an income . A big fan of Peter James and most of the book series. Disappointing., to say the least.

KEPT THE FAITH FIRST TIME ROUND - 'GOOD, and liked the scenery.' The second time kept no faith after two episodes. Needless to say, not keeping the faith for the final - thank goodness - series. 

Kristen Stewart went on to star in the Twilight Saga (2008-12) - didn't know that - as well as Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). Described as Hollywood’s most high-profile LGBT actor.

Damian Holbrook: Syfy’s delightful, demented Resident Alien just wrapped its freshman season with some bonkers developments and life-changing twists for the folks of Patience, Colorado. Instead of eradicating humanity with his device, the alien inhabiting the body of Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle (the fabulous Alan Tudyk) decided to just head for the exits and fled the planet.

Unbeknownst to him until the final seconds, young Max (Judah Prehn) had stowed away on the ship while Harry’s bestie Asta (the equally awesome Sara Tomko) fought off the government goons trying to catch him. At the same time, another one of the town’s docs fell prey to a misguided alien hunter and Mayor Ben (Levi Fiehler) and his wife (Meredith Garrettson) showed two pesky agents what was up in a Mr. & Mrs. Smith-level smackdown.

The Gift of Trauma Transformed - Held within the symptoms of trauma are the very energies, potentials and resources necessary for their constructive transformation. 
Western medicine and culture typically block our innate healing process – by using drugs to suppress symptoms, by over-emphasizing adjustment or control, or by denial or invalidation of emotions, feelings and sensations.

Silentium! (1830)

Speak not, lie hidden, and conceal
the way you dream, the things you feel.
Deep in your spirits let them rise
akin to stars in crystal skies
that set before the night is blurred:
delight in them and speak no word.
–
How can a heart expression find?
How should another know your mind?
Will he discern what quickens you?
A thought once uttered is untrue.
Dimmed is the fountainhead when stirred:
drink at the source and speak no word.
–
Live in your inner self alone
within your soul a world has grown,
the magic of veiled thoughts that might
be blinded by the outer light,
drowned in the noise of day, unheard…
take in their song and speak no word.

Fyodor Tyutchev (1803 -73)
translated by Vladimir Nabokov

(Note the exclamation mark!)

Silentium – Osip Mandelstam (1910)

She has not yet been born:
she is music and word,
and therefore the un-torn,
fabric of what is stirred.

Silent the ocean breathes.
Madly day’s glitter roams.
Spray of pale lilac foams,
in a bowl of grey-blue leaves.

May my lips rehearse
the primordial silence,
like a note of crystal clearness,
sounding, pure from birth!

Stay as foam Aphrodite – Art –
and return, Word, where music begins:
and, fused with life’s origins,
be ashamed heart, of heart!


(Died 1938 in the Russian Gulag, aged 47)

Enjoyed watching this film again - with Ann ap this time - came out the year I took up my first and only incumbency. Gregory Peck joined the film in July. Olivier had recently been ill and was taking as many well paying movie jobs as he could get in order to provide for his wife and children after his death. Peck agreed to portray Mengele only because he had wanted to work with Olivier. Mum was a big GP fan.

Jim Knipfel writes -  The Boys From Brazil is Weirder Than Any Horror Movie. What has Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, and 92 Hitlers? Give up? The Boys From Brazil! Yes, weird, but still entertaining.