Yes, it does keep shifting, from at times almost farce, such as the con trick involving the oven, to some pretty tough violence. I remember how heavily Hoodlum was being marketed, and it was being promoted, at least in the UK, like a period gangster Young Guns. Haven’t seen it for a long while, will have to track it…

Ah! CRT, not CTR.... Those days when your TV was deeper than it was wide! The only advantage of those was that you could put a bowl of fruit on top of them and it would ripen nicely because of the heat coming out of the back. Can’t do that with something 3cm deep.

I saw it at the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna.

Although to be fair The Boner Pill Hour With Ed Asner and America’s Funniest Sex Toys are terrific shows....

Have to say that Project Swiss Cheese produced some of the most entertaining articles I’ve read in years. Just brilliant, and so much work. Thanks, David.

Saw the restored version of Out Of The Past at a festival a couple of years ago. Jeez, what a great film, and superb performances from Mitchum and Douglas. Seeing it how it was meant to look, rather than an over-saturated, soft-processed TV print, makes you realise just how important the b/w grading was as a visual…

I saw this the same week as Ricochet, an entertaining piece of serial killer jollies with Denzel Washington and John Lithgow. There were a surprising amount of solid, relatively intelligent thrillers during that decade.

I always associate him with directing A Rage In Harlem, a not entirely successful but quite entertaining comedy version of a Chester Himes crime novel with a cracking cast, including Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines and Danny Glover. It also has a killer soundtrack and I was listening to one of the tracks, Heaven Is In…

A friend of mine, very drunk, once confessed he lost his virginity to the strains of Remember You’re A Womble. That’s one that’s been kept in the armoury...

One good sneeze and it’s every man for himself....

‘If you’re looking for some pizza that’s from Detroit
Hit up Little Caesars for a pie that’s toit’ 

So would he.

I can link two stories, in that I want to watch a livestream of babies eating 72 oz. steaks.

Seeing the title Eleven Sooty Dreams by Manuela Dreager listed, makes me feel it won’t be about who I immediately thought of...

And Alistair McLean, who amazingly found all these ‘unfinished’ books being completed by an author called, amazingly, ‘Alistair MacNeill’. What are the odds on that?!

At least it was unwittingly. 

If course 20-ounce cups filled with espresso made her verbally aggressive. She’d ordered an apple Danish.

Well, they’ve told him it’s a diamond worth $24m. It’s probably a boiled sweet.

Sorry, dumb joke appeared three times for some reason. Obviously need more coffee with lasagna creamer.

Lasagna.