Bristle's Blog from the BunKRS

Okay, so it’s been a while. Life impinges, etc. But I feel like tossing the old titfer back into the ring. Finally I have been getting A Week In Film back on track after an extended period of l...

https://bristle.wordpress.com/2024/01/28/catching-up-slowly-the-2024-reboot/

No one told me there were free, legit (but ad-supported) movies on YouTube! Here’s what’s currently on offer, arbitrarily split into categories: Action & Adventure The Adventurers (2017) Ame...

https://bristle.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/free-movies-on-youtube/

It’s been a long time coming, but at last the Undercover Policing Inquiry has opened its evidentiary phase. Given COVID measures, a stacked deck and the interests of the state taking precedence...

https://bristle.wordpress.com/2020/11/03/the-spycops-inquiry-proper-opens/

A fun reminder of why Edgar Wright is such a strongly visual director – including a nice throwback to the days of Spaced, with a very young-looking Lee Ingleby partaking in a Peckinpah-esque sl...

https://bristle.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/finding-amusement-in-the-entering-into-of-and-leaving-from-frames-matching-scene-transitions-jumping-over-fences-and-more-edgar-wrights-visual-comedy/

What a great resource: an index of all the Ladybird books put out by Wills & Hepworth from the 1940s through to the 1980s – including classic series like Talkabout (721 and 734), How-it-Works (...

https://bristle.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/doing-ladybird/