PLEASE NOTE: If someone else has plans for today, feel free to override this and do them!

Failing that, in the absence of anybody else doing anything, and given that I’m not going to be around myself between about 3pm and mid-late evening, I’ve banged together a cheap & cheerful afternoon & evening of some of the films I’ve shown this year, with their commentary tracks turned on (and the subtitles for the original dialogue likewise)… plus one Blu-Ray extra. Sorry if this is nobody’s idea of New Year’s Day fun.

14:00 – Intro music.

14:05 – The Medusa Touch (1978) – commentary by Kim Newman & Stephen Jones with the film’s director and co-producer Jack Gold.

15:54 – The Shout (1978) – commentary by Kim Newman & Stephen Jones only (they joke at the beginning that nobody else wanted to do it!).

17:20 – The Appointment (1982) – commentary by Vic Pratt of the BFI with the writer & director of the film, Lindsay Vickers.

18:49 – I Start Counting (1970) – commentary by film historian Samm Deighan.…

right then…

crap film – check!
old regional tv comedy that’s probably aged like a fine milk – check!
new year tradition – check!
half an hour to fill before the thing i intend to go out just after midnight – check!

Another Fuckabout to fill in for Damo, starting at 4.

Join me at 4pm for some funky ephemera, moving onto gaming in the evening.

12:00 – 1978 NZ Music Industry documentary
Self explanatory

12:50 – Penn & Teller Home Invasion special
more mental magic based shenannigans

13:30 – SCTV Christmas Special 1982
Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, and John Candy (AKA: Johnny Sweets) star

14:35 – Royal Canadian Air Farce Video Yearbook Vol 3
Canadian Sketch Comedy

scheduled to end at 15:45, may add a 5min extra in if anything springs to mind

12:00 – The Wrestler 1974
The Wrestler is a 1974 independent film directed by Jim Westman, produced by professional wrestler Verne Gagne and W.R. Frank, starring Ed Asner as Frank Bass, a wrestling promoter. Verne Gagne also stars in the film as Mike Bullard, the current wrestling champion of his “league”. After a long reign as champion, Bullard is getting older and feeling pressure from all sides, including his wife and wrestling promoters, to pass the championship to Billy Taylor and retire. Bullard’s resistance to their requests that he step aside is the central conflict in the film. The film presents professional wrestling as a truly competitive sport, always maintaining the illusion that matches are a result of athletic combat and not pre-determined outcomes decided before the matches.

At one point during the film, a number of wrestlers who had either died during a match or as a result of in-ring injuries are mentioned. That list of names was not fictional, but taken from the history of professional wrestling.

13:40 – Hot Properties With Richard Belzer, Hulk Hogan And Mr. T
The full programme that “the clip” came from.…