If you think treasure is buried at a certain site, take a black chicken or a black cat, and make it walk over the spot. If it suddenly disappears, that’s a sure sign the loot is there. Not such a lucky thing for the chicken or the cat, of course. #FolkloreThursday

HERE COMES SCISSOR CLAUS. I review new French extremity movement Christmas movie INSIDE (aka A l'intérieur) right here... nuts4r2.blogspot.com/2024/12/inside…

KASHYYK AND CARRIE. I review the legendary THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL (1978) right here... nuts4r2.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-st…

logging on. cartoon by Albert Magarian from Amazing Stories, December 1941

BALLOON BUDDIES. I review Hammer film's Dennis Wheatley movie THE LOST CONTINENT right here... nuts4r2.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-lo…

CUPPY TEA AND A BOOK SAT IN YOUR LAP. I review RUNNING UP THAT HILL - 50 VISIONS OF KATE BUSH right here... nuts4r2.blogspot.com/2025/01/runnin…

HAX MED ROOM. I review the recent Radiance films edition of HAXAN (aka WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES) right here... nuts4r2.blogspot.com/2025/01/haxan.…

Ein riesen-Tröööööt zum 50. Geburtstag, lieber #Elefant!🐘🎉 Deine Abenteuerlust und dein großes Elefantenherz inspirieren uns alle. Als #Maustronaut hast du mit mir gemeinsam bereits die Internationale Weltraumstation erkundet – und wer weiß, vielleicht heben wir bald wieder ab.

Today's Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats. "Contains no poison" is a pretty memorable selling point.

Happy (late) New Year! In 2025 I hope to release the full version of my #ttrpg Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep w/ Exalted Funeral. In the meantime, I am going to post new playtestable game stuff as folks sign up to the Dreamland Discord and FB! 🎲🧵

Death Elects A Govenor. Detective Fiction Weekly, 21 September 1940.

Chester E Macduffee and his amazing aluminium diving suit (1911).

SHANTIES INFERNO. I review FISHERMAN'S FRIENDS and FISHERMAN'S FRIENDS 2 - ONE AND ALL right here... nuts4r2.blogspot.com/2025/01/fisher…

Jon Pertwee just having the time of his life in Planet of the Spiders. A whole episode that's basically a bonkers chase scene just so Pertwee can ride a hovercraft? Sure, why not! I love that Barry Letts did that for him ❤️

An audience enjoying William Castle's "House On Haunted Hill " with the Emergo skeleton flying overhead 1959

Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 is a brushstroke of rebellion, painting a world where books are contraband and thought is a fire to be extinguished. Yet, it's the human spirit's defiance that truly ignites the screen. On set with Oskar Werner n Julie Christie.

Farewell Marianne...

Today I Learned… This Fur Bikini Raquel Welch wore in the cave woman pin-up poster from ‘One Million Years B.C.’, 1966, has its own Wikipedia page. That is all. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_bikin…

DEPTH COLLECTOR. I review Harryhausen's IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA right here... nuts4r2.blogspot.com/2025/02/it-cam…

HUES AND CRY. I review COLOURS OF FILM - THE STORY OF CINEMA IN 50 PALETTES right here... nuts4r2.blogspot.com/2025/02/colour…