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Couchzone Movieclub: 1974, We’re not in Kansas anymore
Yes, I’ve gone back to 74 in search of Infinity Stones and to snap my figures so that 2020 NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED. It’s fascinating going back to 1974 and looking how different the movie world was...
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Couchzone Movie Club: 1973
It was indeed the year I was born. Apparently the first words I ever spoke were: “Dad, what’s that?” To which he replied “Son, that’s a cinema.” Not that there would have been any chance of popping...
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The Piledriver
An ear worm: the well-known phenomenon wherein one has a song or melody stuck in their head. I’ve no idea if the term for its visual analogue is eye worm, one would hope not, but a rose by any other...
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Couchzone Movie Club: Totally messed up movies I watched during Lockdown
On March 23rd 2020, a man with floppy hair called Boris went on TV and said he’d squared it with my bosses that I didn’t have to go to work for a couple of months but that I’d still get paid 80% of my...
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Couchzone Movie Club: 1972: Silently Running Towards Deliverance
One of the interesting things about going through the film releases of years long ago, is discovering what were the top box office draws. Compared to today’s dominance of the blockbusters, it’s...
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Couchzone Movie Club: 1971
Forever Just to demonstrate how whacky and ultimately more interesting the movie going experience was back in the early 70’s, the number one box office film of 1971 was a musical about the persecution...
View ArticleThe Red
Spotify offered itself to new users for $.99/month for three months. I never subscribed to the service and have mostly been content to get my music via YouTube or random black dudes on street corners...
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Marvel had diversity in the 80’s and no one freaked out.
(Yeah, who says I can’t come up with a catchy title?) It was 1968, a time when some newspapers cancelled the popular Peanuts comic strip when it introduced a black character and when NBC were freaking...
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“BITCHES LEAVE”
Detroit I saw a story recently about Thundercats and people were upset about something being done to it. I have no idea what it’s about, nor do I care, as I don’t think I ever watched or bought...
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Couchzone Fightclub: My Top Ten Favourite Fights With Weapons.
Let’s up the ante shall we? For this edition of Couchzone Fightclub we’re inviting our combatants to bring whatever blunt and sharp instruments they want to stick into their opponents, as I present my...
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Dazza’s Top 11 Movies of 2020.
2020 interfered with all the things we loved to do. I personally went from seeing over 110 movies at the cinema in both 2018 and 2019 to 38 in the five months of 2020 that my local cineworld was open....
View ArticleWE ARE THEIR HOPEFUL FUTURE: Disco 2000
This is another song I heard on spotify and that means it is in my head and on this page and beamed to you! But what is it about, according to Wikipedia? Disco 2000” is a hit single by British band...
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Couchzone Fightclub: Dazza’s Favourite Animated Fights
Was there a reason why I wouldn’t allow animated battles in my previous instalments of Couchzone Fightclub? Absolutely, it’s so I could devote a whole article on the fights that animators have toiled...
View ArticleTHE SUPER BOWL SHUFFLES YOU DOWN MEMORY LANE
January, 1986, Chicago @HalfGuarded What’s happening with the Super Bowl when you watch it? I’m first writing this post for Super Bowl 52. Pats v Eagles was then, what’s now? I wonder if I do meta...
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“Yes, we’ve got a video!” Couchzone memories of the video rental stores.
They were heavy and bulky. They took ages to rewind and made an absolute screeching racket while doing so. And if you watched a film on one on an evening you may have to cope with scratchy bars of...
View ArticleAnd Now, A Scene From Robocop
Detroit Mike’s Twitter The post And Now, A Scene From Robocop appeared first on HalfGuarded.
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A Very Special Couchzone: Remembering the Weirder TV Tropes
A family patiently awaits the invention of the internet to complain about this shit tv show. Spoiler, the way we watch television has changed. The mixed (sometimes angry) reaction that has greeted...
View ArticleWho’s gon’ give it to ya? X
The Awkward Moment When You Have to Turn Down the Volume at the Street Light @HalfGuarded D. M. X. Who doesn’t love X? Assholes, that’s who. I was watching Deadpool the other day and as a result have...
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Hallelujah as Covered by Jeff Buckley
Heaven Above Mike’s Twitter A song that was sung and ignored, covered and ignored except for one man who covered it again, only for it to be ignored. Until there was a death. Who knows when anyone...
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Why Star Wars Ruined Filmmaking
Taking a glance at the highest grossing films of 1970 shows you just how much the motion picture industry has changed over the last 45 years. Of the top ten highest grossing U.S. movies, three were...
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