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  • Barnaby Ridge - the escarpment in the County of Midsomer where the evil Inspector hides the bodies of his victims...
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    The E Files
    The conspiracy runs deep and wide...
  • The Beagle has Landed - nothing to do with German soldiers occupying a Norfolk Village during WW2; rather, a space mission to Mars (remember?) which ultimately disappoints.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    A Fistful of Collars
    A nameless wanderer intervenes in a feud between two ministry teams.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    edited February 8
    Popgun
    A cocky fighter pilot finds that the military hardware budget has been seriously curtailed.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    The Fast Chronicle of Barset - the Readers Digest abridgement of the well known work by Anthony Trollope.

  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    The Last Temptation of Chris

    Chris is desperate for the last custard cream but etiquette demands he refrain. He is deeply conflicted..
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Persuant...

    Zorba The Geek

    Nerdy, uptight Englishman meets his psychological doppelganger in Crete, thus failing to immerse himself in free-wheeling Mediterranean culture.
  • RockyRoger wrote: »
    Sipech wrote: »
    Having Private Ryan

    This one is only available from.... specialist stores.

    Shaving Private Ryan ..... etc .... oh dear!

    Shaving Ryan’s Privates!
  • stetson wrote: »
    Luther's Thesis

    "Indulgences are bad. You can all figure out where it goes from there, right?"

    Luthor’s Thesis

    “This paper will examine the best methods of destroying that accursed Kryptonian…”
  • Lizard of Oz - a gecko with magic shoes leads a band of misfits through a strange land in search of Home.
  • Where the Red Tern Grows - a boy's beloved dogs are buried near a strange shore-bird's nest.
  • The Tern of the Screw ... & etc ......
  • Muddlemarch

    'Nuff said.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    A Handful of Lust - Brenda Last's response to Evelyn Waugh's book about her husband. Her fancy man hawked his idea for his version of the story, A Handful of Bust around a number of publishers but no one would give him and advance.

  • Seven Bribes for Seven Brothers - make of that what you will!
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    edited February 9
    The Trill. A soprano finds her attempt to sing the aria gets bound up in an increasingly illogical bureaucracy, by Kafka.
  • The House of Birth - the history of the first midwife-led maternity centre.
  • The Cull of Cthulhu - the Great Old One decides to thin out the ranks of His followers...

    ...or, alternatively, the Elder Gods decide they've had enough of Him.
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Spacewalls
    Rick Moranis stars in this spoof satire where a mad autocrat decides that to stop an invasion of Martians, he's going to build a massive wall between Earth and Mars, which Mars is going to pay for.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited February 9
    :lol:
  • Kilvert's Dairy

    - rural enterprise in 19th Century Clyro
  • [That would have been rather lovely. He could have taken a little churn of milk up to The Solitary at Llanthony, although it's a long walk].
  • Though he would probably have been distracted by the dairymaids...
  • Indeed so.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    To Kill a Mocking Bard - a politician dreams about getting their own back on a late night show's singer of satirical songs.

  • Hard Tomes

    - a cheat's guide to nineteenth century novels
  • AravisAravis Shipmate
    How about some Narnia for the well-to-do retired?
    The Horse and his Box
    The Silver Choir
    The Last Bottle
    (Not a lot I can do with “magician” or “nephew”. What an odd word “nephew” is.)
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    The Lion, the Titch and the Wardrobe, where the villainess is rather short
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    edited February 9
    Broadway revivals:

    Sunday In The Dark With George (one man's quest to create art in low light conditions)
    DENT (The auto body shop musical we've all been waiting for)
    City of Angles (a truly obtuse comedy)
    Wicker (the multi-generational story of a family of basket weavers)
    The Zion King (A new musical about a new heaven and a new earth)
    Moulin Rough (A love story that hurts, but that ain't all bad)
    Kinky Coots (Two senior citizens open a brothel in a nursing home)
    SEX: The Musical (Not to be confused with the pottery classic Fifty Shades of Clay)
    Jersey Toys (A gunrunner's tale from just across the river)
    The Look of Mormon (Threads with a message -- watch what happens when a group of kids on Mission ditch their dark pants and short-sleeved white dress shirts for something more)

    80's movie remakes Part I:

    Ghostdusters -- a variety of residents wake to find their houses strangely clean
    The Breakfast Chub -- NSFW documentary about men who are aroused by waffles
    Daddyshack -- a divorced father of three renovates his parents' pool house
    Red Lawn -- the runaway home gardening how-to hit from North Korea
    First Flood -- The Epic of Gilgamesh in IMAX grandeur
    The Germinator -- a post-apocalyptic tale in which RFK, Jr. travels back in time to carry forward bubonic plague
    The Big Child -- The First Trump Presidency
    Raging Bulk -- The Second Trump Presidency
    Glade Runner -- set in Afghanistan's poppy fields, one man attempts to run to freedom
    Stir Wars -- adding cream to your tea wasn't always legal... one shop's vanguard story
    Full Metal Racket -- the story behind the greatest tech revolution in tennis
    Died Hard -- dark medical thriller about men who overdose on Viagra
    The Fast Emperor -- they'd crown him, if they could catch him (with subtitles)
    The Princess Bribe -- she's desperate to flee her arranged marriage, but will he help her?
    A Christmas Stork -- it was just one singles' ski weekend in February...
    Polterheist -- ghosts rob banks
    This is Spinal Rap -- a Chiropractor enters a Poetry Out Loud competition
    Back to the Suture -- a medical comedy that cuts to the bone
    Pain Man -- we always hurt the one we love, and this guy loves everybody
    When Harry Wet Sally -- an old man, the yippy dog next door, and a garden hose
    The Right Snuff -- Sir Walter Raleigh's New World Gamble
    The Colon Purple -- A blackberry pie-eating contest goes horribly wrong





  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Gentle Hostly Oink

    The usual practice in these games is one answer per post.

    Thank you.

    Piglet, Circus host
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    Nicked The Witch is arrested.

    A grand Guignol tale of dogs who get their meat by ghastly means: Sweeney Todd the Barker



  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    The wife of a vegetarian baronet discovers the benefits of a red meat diet: Lady Chatterley's Liver.
  • The Salt Bath

    shenanigans at the spa!
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Run Zola Run

    This could either be Emile's fleeing the country after J'Accuse or Gianfranco's sprinting down the wings at Chelsea.
  • Good to see you, @The_Riv!

    Continuing on a Broadway route:

    Rater for Elephants—The challenges of a judge in a pachydermatous beauty pageant


  • Pickwick Paupers.
    Charles Dickens on his particular hobbyhorse, the impoverished underclass of the Victorian era.
  • Votes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky's thrilling tale of registering voters in the New York subway.
  • The Magnificent Semen - A group of cosplaying cowboys protects a sperm bank containing samples from famous rich and genius men from marauding IVF detractors.
  • Seven Rides for Seven Brothers - tales from a car salesman
  • In Which we Swerve - hot action on an icy road
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    And Justice For Al

    I think that's kinda meta?
  • Even Brides For Seven Brothers - Dating Agency specialising in "family pack" introductions (genuine families only)
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Twelve Ungry Men
    A film about the queue at a McDonald's in East London.
  • The Food Companions

    - a gourmet tour round the Yorkshire Dales
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Fats - a musical about the famous jazz musician Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (1904-1943)
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Pyrites of the Caribbean

    Treasure chest not all it's cracked up to be.
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    edited February 10
    *sigh*

    The Dilling Fields -- the food war that put everyone in a pickle.

    And, hi @Nick Tamen.
  • [Mega-groan]
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    Glowy

    Set during the American Civil War, a Union regiment uses bioluminescent algae to conduct special operations as ghosts in and around Charleston, SC.
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