Silent Sunday: Remembrance

Silent Sunday: Watch What You Say

Silent Sunday: Statement of Fact

You CANNESnot Improve On Perfection

Cannes has rightly come under fire for their official poster artwork for the annual Film Festival next month. The image they use is an archive photograph of the legendary and beautiful actress Claudia Cardinale. Can you see what they've done?

That's right - they've airbrushed Cardinale's thighs and legs to make them appear thinner as well as bringing in her waist to be more in keeping with what is ludicrously considered attractive today.

Don't they know its impossible to improve upon perfection? This is like trying to photoshop the Mona Lisa.

The silly CANNEsts

Solidarity in the Labour Party

It was High Noon for Jeremy Corbyn on Saturday, but he needn't have been afraid. Jezza triumphed for the second time in a year, increasing his mandate with a bigger margin than that of 2015 and proving, hopefully once and for all, that he is the right man for the job.

But wait, predictably the likes of Hilary Benn and Angela Eagle were out in force yesterday claiming that they must stand together, and 'stay and fight' for what they believe in in the party, with Eagle announcing that she believed people were trying to force them out.

It's funny isn't it how the Blairites (I'm aware that Labour now view that term as abusive - seriously, I'm not making that up - so let me be clear, I'm using it in its traditional meaning; ie those MP's of the New Labour ideal, but was there ever another meaning? No. So get over yourselves and stop trying to claim you're being bullied when people use a term to sum up your ideals and position - you keep calling us trots, after all) saw nothing wrong with pushing out anyone who believed that socialism wasn't a dirty word back in the mid '90s, yet claim they are being victimised now when finding it is them who are currently out of step.

I don't know about you but I'm getting a little sick and tired of this battle from within for the spirit of Labour. I am sick of seeing Blairites take to social media to claim that anyone pro-Corbyn isn't really Labour at heart, and I am sick of this not just because its the kind of sneering snobbish bullying they claim Momentum and the Corbynistas do, but because it is primarily just a stupid notion. Pardon me, but I actually think any member who wishes to reinstate Clause 4 is a damn sight more Labour than anyone who saw no problem with removing it twenty years ago.

So here's the thing; we're all paid up Labour members. We don't agree on everything, but then do we really expect complete universal agreement? We should unite behind the things we are in complete accord over, which should be to oust the Tories from government and to end the austerity measures that is crippling this country. So it's actually really very simple, if you agree with the Tory austerity policies, and if you voted for them, then you are I am sorry to say not a Labour supporter and there ought to be no place for you in the party. There, I've said it. That's the only true way to measure it. The rest of us should band together and stop this detrimental internal snobbery and bickering. Now.

Red Hot Cassette

A pre-stardom Geena Davis

No One Is Beach Body Ready!

Yet another unrealistic body image is being forced down our throats by ad men to make people feel inferior 

Now don't get me wrong; I admire and enjoy the female frame as much as anyone (as you can probably see with some of this blog's content) but I draw the line at it being used to suggest one is superior to another, because that is just plain body fascism. In using this poster campaign, Protein World is directly targeting individuals with the aim to make them feel inferior when compared to the unrealistic body image of the bronzed model chosen to front the ads, and all in order to sell their product from 'the weight loss collection'

This is just another way of making impressionable people, specifically young teenage girls, feel awkward, inferior and ugly. And I do not agree with that at all.

Like Caitlin Moran says, not enough is being done to tell these kids that no one really looks like that. We need to start a conversation that reminds the young in our society to look around and ask themselves, do they really know anyone who looks like that, to keep them happy and confident in how they look themselves.

Stopping this kind of advertisement is a start. So please sign this petition here

What the fuck is 'beach body ready' anyway??

World Book Day

Today is World Book Day

Happy Reading!

Silent Sunday : ¡No Pasarán!

The Reckless Club

I don't know who is responsible for this wonderful mock up/art work so apologies that I haven't credited. But rest assured, it's superb!

Nunday

Taste of the 70s; Blue Nun.

Goes down lovely with a Vesta curry! ;)

Breakin' Away

Gary Holton posing alongside the rather iconic early 80s Tory campaign poster 'Labour Isn't Working' for the opening titles of Auf Wiedersehen Pet series one.

That's The Way It Crumbles

I'm currently reading Emily Lloyd's autobiography, Wish I Was There. 

It's a brilliant and honest read about her sudden fame at the age of just 16 (catapulted to fame thanks to David Leland's Wish You Were Here)and her troubled life plagued by mental health problems and a history of sexual abuse that eventually damaged her career.

As a child of the 80s, Emily Lloyd was HUGE to my generation and reading the book (I'm just under half way through having started it yesterday evening) I was reminded of her second movie, her first in the US, 1989's Cookie, a comedy in which Lloyd plays mobster Peter Falk's daughter, It was directed by Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan - similar poster yes?) 

In her book Lloyd describes her working relationship with Falk as difficult. A method actor, the Columbo star was very hard to engage with and seemed frustrated by the then 17 year old Lloyd's energy (as well as perhaps her then undiagnosed OCD and mental health issues) In one scene he snatched at her head and slapped her across the face, completely unscripted and for real. Lloyd retaliated in kind, slapping him back with a firm rebuke that 'You do not hit an actress!'

So 80s - Emily Lloyd, a trad. trailer voice over man and Kylie's 'I Should Be So Lucky'!

Photo Op

Photo Op was created by KennardPhillips the artist duo Peter Kennard and Cat Phillips in 2005. It was chosen by The Imperial War Museum North in Manchester to promote their new exhibition, 'Catalyst', about modern art and war.

However, JCDecaux and CBS Outdoor don't see the joke. They refuse to carry the image and will not advertise the exhibition on billboards, of which they control 50%-70% of the market.

The artists have called it 'political censorship'.

It seems Tony's people still have a stranglehold where it matters. But on the bright side, it's good to see that us up in the north still have an irreverent and subversive sense of humour in selecting it.

Autumn Nights

Here we are at the start of another October. Autumn creeping upon us.

Amen to that.

However, I was at the dentists yesterday following a week of wisdom tooth ache and swollen gums. The pain's gone but the swelling is still there. The dentist prescribed me antibiotics. So I'm without beer for at least a week. 

Sad times.

Sad times indeed.

Rochelle, Rochelle

Rochelle, Rochelle; 'A young girl's strange erotic journey from Milan to Minsk' was a fictional film (and later Broadway musical) and recurring joke in Seinfeld. 

Now those clever people at Next Movie have released a collection of fake movie posters based on the fictitious films referenced through Seinfeld's nine season run. They're the work of freelance artist who goes by the name Old Red Jalopy

Check out the full gallery here seinfeld-movie-posters

Italian For Beginners

Ah the confidence of a redneck American! Brad Pitt, Inglorious Basterds

Solidarity

High Noon, June 4th 1989

Utterly iconic poster for Solidarity Citizen's Committee

by Tomasz Sarnecki 

Treat Your Face With Respect, Baby

Good old Kojak himself, Telly Savalas flogging Gilette in the 70s

In at the Deep End

Spotting another ode to Deep End one of my all time favourite films on a blog I enjoy dipping in and out of reminded me that I haven't posted some more pictures I've accumulated from the film. Starting with that poster, a genuine family planning poster from the late 60s/early 70s and a couple of lovely pics of Jane Asher at her loveliest.