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Gordon Gale
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Ken Annakin RIP

Ken Annakin director of most of the Huggetts films and Swiss Family Robinson has gone from this section of the time space continuum.

Here's Petula Clark from a couple of Huggets films:





Here's part One of Swiss Family Robinson (I can't post a friggin' thing to YouTube that has been seen anywhere before ever but this schmuck gets to post the whole movie - go figure)



Here's a link to the whole (damn) playlist

RIP Ken!

Dead Set

Just watched it. The imagery is painterly, the idea is clever, the violence appropriately disgusting - no boring gaps, limited preposterous, putting-oneself-in-danger moments- and like his Nathan Barley, atmospherically apt, like umami for the eyes.

Here's Charlie Brooker unnecessarily apologizing for it. Podcast.

Trailer:


Another (clearer) trailer here

Simon Pegg in a very complimentary review, centered on his disagreement with the concept of running zombies. Article.

The E4 site

BTW, zombies run.