Emperor of The North is a very fine film. Lee Marvin conveys so much non-verbally when schooling young punk Keith Carridine how to grease the rails. The duel between Borgnine and Marvin is reminiscent of Peckinpah. For my money it's Aldrich's best movie.

Anyone else getting a Natalie Dormer vibe from her? Or do I need to bump the dosage again?

So when The Sopranos showed gangsters fucking strippers nearly every other week but wasn't criticised for objectification what do you think the difference was?

It's a work of fiction innit? There's no obligation for it to be naturalistic, much less realistic. But when people are saying that there's a problem with objectification of women in the show it isn't that the situations in the show wouldn't happen it's whether the show itself is objectifying women. All the shots of…

There is definitely an issue with women being objectified on this show but seeing this is what passes for a professional tv review here I'd have liked the reviewer to be taking enough notice of the plot, and it isn't like there's an over-preponderance of same, to notice that the significance of Spencer saying he knows…

Manson sure preferred other people to do his killing for him but if push came to shove he would certainly lash out. He cut Gary Hinman's ear and face with a cutlass, shot Bernard Crowe and left him for dead and was in the car when the gang scooped up Shorty Shea and took him off to kill him.

Karina has been doing a good job of condensing down the various accounts on this although I did find the inaccuracies irritating, for example she says that in England a Helter Skelter is a roller coaster when it's a spiral fairground slide, not perhaps a major mistake but when the sentence ends, "but Charlie didn't…

I reckon that the problem was that the series was counting on people knowing the Manson story in depth before watching and at the same time not knowing how that pans out. The moment this came into focus for me was the very episode we discuss here. When Sadie gains access to Emma's house using her real name, Susan…

Right, far as that scene goes I think his motivation was a mixture of randiness and fear and and one then the other then the first was coming out on top again. The creepiness of the other guy knowing that he wanted to be "made" to do it is unfolding his sexual motivation, as much as we can say that Manson is…

Even better imagine a time-shifted Venus Van Damme in that setting.

It gets a load of stuff about the Sixties badly wrong, it's as if it has the Sixties mixed up with the early seventies revival that happened in the nineties. However it's the only series on tv even talking about Manson, about the illegal war in Cambodia and Laos, about the Panthers and COINTELPRO and any amount of…

It's not that you're wrong with all this but there is something else as well that's revealed later in the series.