Mark Ayling
@markayling.bsky.social
Science fiction scribbling, horror loving, fantasy and crime consuming NHS herbivore bloke. Wrote a bit of film and book review guff over the years.
‘Oh, she was a rare thing Fine as a bee’s wing So fine a breath of wind might blow her away.’ Fantastic Richard Thompson set yesterday… one love
Post music festival film viewing is low, low brow… and all the better for it…
Quite the provocativeand periodically vicious anthology of noir ish crime vignettes. MIchel Simon as Maigret is the standout for sure…
Nice, I just rewatched that one for the first time since it's premiere. Now I remember why, certainly a time capsule.
Mark Ayling@markayling.bsky.social · 2w agoMay qualify as the most spectacularly awful musical I have ever seen… a traumatic experience I wont easily forget
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Matty Budrewicz@mattybudrewicz.bsky.social · last wk.The awful news keeps coming too: RIP filmmaker and Schlock Pit pal John Lechago 💔 Lovely, lovely bloke and one helluva talented director and artist. He helped me and @snipsmovies.bsky.social so much over the years. Will never, ever forget it. Thoughts with his family.
Apparently they’ve been filming the new Batman film on the Runcorn Bridge, (Silver Jubilee Bridge) over the Mersey nearby these last couple of days… no sign of the Bat signal tonight though on my way home… Alas.
I showed THE APPLE to a group of about 50 HS students in 2007 and they had a glorious time. "Hey, hey, hey! BIM's on the way!"
Mark Ayling@markayling.bsky.social · 2w agoMay qualify as the most spectacularly awful musical I have ever seen… a traumatic experience I wont easily forget
was just looking at this earlier today because it’s playing at the academy museum next month, so interesting Brando directed after Kubrick stepped away last minute?
One-Eyed Jacks in 4K
Marlon Brando's only feature directing effort is a character-driven Western about a bank robber tracking the friend who betrayed him (Karl Malden). Oscar-nominated cinematography. Screening in 4K at t...
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Nice to finally see a tidied up version of this earlier today. Enjoyed it thoroughly…
May qualify as the most spectacularly awful musical I have ever seen… a traumatic experience I wont easily forget
Another interstellar travelogue in which it is made apparent that Martians invented the mini-skirt…
It's Friday, so once more unto the breach of Snips Movies for the latest episode of Inside The Video Store. This week there's a look at a shiny new quartet from Radiance, a delivery from TerrorVision, and a peek at some classic TV sci-fi. youtu.be/3mc26LCmA8E
Inside The Video Store: Episode 117 (The Shelves are Set! Radiance Quartet! TV Sci-fi!)
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New Schlock Pit review! 🚨 A Die Hard copycat? Set in a recycling plant? With Jeff Wincott? And Patrick Kilpatrick?! Sign. Me. Up. My notes on OPEN FIRE (1994): 🔗 theschlockpit.com/2026/07/22/o...
Open Fire (1994): Welcome to the Party, Jeff
Matty gets a kick out of Jeff Wincott’s sturdy Die Hard knock-off.
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"Get away from her, you bitch!" #Aliens turns 40! #JamesCameron's balls-out #scifi sequel upped the action while maintaining the spine-tingling #horror elements of #Alien A bona fide masterwork that refuses to date in its ability to leave you breathless vhsrevival.com/2019/11/11/h...
Hear Them Scream: Aliens & the Rise of the Xenomorph
A sequel that lives up to an original picture is a rare thing indeed. Even rarer is one that in some ways surpasses it, but director James Cameron managed to produce two of the most astonishing of …
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Kick started the 50s science fiction cinema boom in the US and I’ve never seen it. Bonus feature. It has Woody Woodpecker in it and the very same technicolour spacesuits that would feature in Herge’s Tintin. Hard science fiction storytelling done right. great stuff.
Back to the Arrow Shaw Brothers boxsets with this un… Shaw Brothers training montages have never been bettered…
1sr rewatch since its release at the cinema… gearing up for The Odyssey. Whenever I can find a free IMAX seat…
Started the day off with this un… and it was just the saddest film…
Ah, I do love the sweet smell of murderous whodunnit’s in the morning…
