• @ibmobl my Wall-E fridge magnet has got to be the first bit of movie-tie-in merchandise i’ve bought since i was a child #
• http://tinyurl.com/6o3fga #

• watching ‘Touch of Evil’ - the re-edited version #
• @goggans t.o.e. is a friggin’ masterpiece - worth watching just to see how welles cuts together disparate fragments to form a whole #
• @The_Monarch don’t worry, latest TFT is almost 90mins of Bat ranting so it’s like you’re getting 2 episodes! (we review ALL the bat films) #
• http://www.12glowingmen.com/ #
• disqus.com seems to be down #

• accidentally saw the new X-Files movie instead of The Dark Knight - yikes. #
• @ibmobl The X files pic will get a ‘cameo’ appearance on the Dark Knight show - I’m afraid the experience wasn’t a pretty one #
• @hiddenloop The sold-out audience i sat with was silent / numbed by the ‘IMax Experience’ at 9 in the morning #
• groovin’ on the W. trailer! http://tinyurl.com/6xprvy #
• setting up to record Part 30 - The Dark Knight of the Soul #
• just recorded 90minute Dark Knight Special #

• back in the U.S. and watching Eyes Wide Shut again #
• off to rent ALL the batman films for our big BATACULAR part 30 of TFT #

• watching ‘The New Guy’ dubbed in Spanish…one good ‘Pearl Harbor’ joke - that’s about it #

• Finally finished How to Steal a Million, awful movie, archaic even by the standards of its time, you watch it and see Hollywood dying #

• Eating a beautiful breakfast and watching monkeys, tonight the film is “How to Steal a Million” with Peter O´Toole and Audrey Hepburn #
• @ibmobl Dark Knight review is next week (when I get ‘accredited’ in the States re: preview = then film reviewed before they come out #
• @hiddenloop The Shining is a fantastic picture - most folks don’t know that the UK version is 1/2 hour shorter! + scarier #
• @ibmobl Heath Ledger is not impersonating Cagney - afraid you’ll have to wait till next Thursday for the answer! #
• @ jarndt I can’t speak for the Prof. Dr.but my review of Dark Knight will not be gushing - other than to discuss who Ledger is impersonating #

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Which I saw at the Belfast press preview last night. When I got home, it was near midnight, and the Maestro and I were due to record our thoughts. But sadly the power grid in Paraguay had been de-activated to save energy in advance of this weekend’s national ‘Herbie Goes Bananas’ 28th anniversary fiesta, and so my genial co-host was unable to make himself heard. We shall, in due course return to the sixth Batman film in nineteen years, but for now, here are the words and phrases that came to mind as I watched ‘The Dark Knight’, and which I wrote down on the back of an envelope (literally) in prepping my part of the show that never was

Scape-goating

‘Heat’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’

Brutality

Not cathartic

No music

Great production design

Heath caricature

One of the most believably redemptive acts in blockbuster cinema

Will be a great comfort to George W Bush in his retirement

We’ll surely expand on these thoughts, Dear Listener, and more, when the dynamo gets up and running again in Asuncion.