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Tim Worthington

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Writer. Occasional Broadcaster. TV's 'Clangers Expert'.

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X-Men '97 seems to have gone down exceptionally well indeed, which makes this that that I had with Mic about the decidedly odd Christmas episode of the original X-Men animated series all the more... decidedly odd.

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I always forget to mention my Patreon, so here it is. Exclusive reviews of albums and magazine ads, rarities from the archives, Looks Unfamiliar early access and more. Top tier gets downloads of all my Kindle books for free. No, really. Bargain!

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I don't want to see former Tory MPs on Strictly, in the Jungle, playing Traitors, hosting panel shows, or making travelogues or documentaries. I never want to see their smug, shiny faces again. I want them all to fuck permanently off.

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It may have been the worst-kept secret in history, but how thrilling was it to see the three big screen Spider-Men all together, swinging off to fight a bunch of villains who were just too good to recast? In short, how it should be done.

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New! It's 1976, and Doctor Who is heading ever further down the creaky corridor towards Classic Horror - but certain other terrifying figures are not particularly impressed...

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The Wrong Box - a 1966 historical crime caper movie starring pretty much anyone who was anyone in British comedy at the time, ancient and modern - is one of my absolute favorite movies, and here's a chat about exactly how much I love it...

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Plug Comic, John Inman's album and Big Terror Movie Themes by Geoff Love And His Orchestra - we're descending to the absolute depths of the seventies that nobody asked for in this one...

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I would genuinely love to know what was actually on at the Reform Club that night. And believe me, I've tried to find out.

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One of the all time great TV moments - the conclusion of Around The World In 80 Days, where Michael Palin arrives in London in mid-December, and finds that a smattering of decorations are up but that nobody's in the mood for Christmas - or for him...

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New Looks Unfamiliar! Adam S. Leslie joins me for a chat about Maths-In-A-Box, I Heard Your Name by Martin Rev, Noble And Silver: Get Off Me!, The Great Reality TV Swindle, Codename MAT, 1, 2, 3 And Away! and more...

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever feels like a LOT of brilliant ideas that don't quite hang together properly, but two of the very best of those ideas are Namor and Ironheart, and it really is a little frustrating that we've not seen either again yet.

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It's off to college for Peter Parker and a literally lukewarm on-off romance between his flatmates Iceman and Firestar as Garreth Hirons joins me for a chat about Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends.

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Considering that the first two Blade movies were so good, it's actually something of an achievement of sorts that they managed to make Blade: Trinity so... well it's not even really *bad*, it's more like nobody involved could be bothered at all.

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Sorry to put the The Red Hand Gang theme tune in your head, but if you want to hear me and Toby Hadoke talking about that plus Einstein A Go-Go by Landscape, Golden Wonder Odduns and tons more besides, step right this way...

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I saw Scala!!!, a thrillingly hilarious documentary about the wild story of London's Scala cinema, and loved it so much that I had to write my own love letter to my own much-missed offbeat arthouse cultural and spiritual home...

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Top Of The Box Vol. 2 - the story behind every album released by BBC Records And Tapes. No, genuinely. I listened to them all. Even the one that's just bells.

Paperback or Kindle from here.

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'Horror Weebles' were an actual thing.

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You have to say, Loki is a remarkable screen villain. No matter how no good the no good that's he's up to, the audience always end up sort of rooting for him... and sometimes he's actually... arguably... in the right?

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From eye and ear-infurating ventriloquist puppet Googi The Liverpool Duck to the 'scouse translation' of Shaddup You Face and the shabbiness of children's shows at the Liverpool Empire, it's fair to say we have some regional scores to settle in this...

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Why stick with it? It’s not like anything else David Cameron bullied the country into had merit, is it? Who cares? I think about politics most hours & I don’t. It’s part of the facile parade of sound bite & gotcha nonsense where policy should be. Like watching the half time chat but not the match.

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The questions are deliberately oafish. The answers deliberately opaque. Nobody enjoys doing them. Nobody enjoys watching them. Nobody learns anything from them. They’re vapid nonsense. Get rid.

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I absolutely do not see the value of prime ministerial debates. We only have them because David Cameron is a tiresome public schoolboy debate me type and he thought they’d be to his advantage in 2010, so bullied people into accepting the idea. (He then wimped out of them himself in 2015.)

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💯 agree. Awful format. Pointlessly combative, unenlightening, trivial and boring. You can try to game it as Sunak did last night by endlessly repeating empty attack soundbites, most of which are misleading or outright lies. It’s just a contest of who can shout bullshit loudest and quickest.

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Five To Eleven, Barcode Battler, the Bullseye Christmas Special, Matchbox Fighting Furies, O.T.T. and a mysterious clown that leaned into a television and waved... they're all in this collection of highlights from Looks Unfamiliar! And so is Rachel...

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Frankly quite belief-beggaring that there was once an actual literal celeb-festooned ad campaign for cream cakes - not an actual brand, just 'fresh cream cakes' - which were, crucially, 'naughty - but nice'.

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For a late nineties superhero cartoon, Silver Surfer really is surprisingly haunting and existentially troubling, and there's some early CGI that still looks impressive even now. Anyway I had much more to say about it here...

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