Robert Pepler

10^th/ May/ 2oo6

 This musical comedy horror tells the story of an orphaned is not geeky florist’s assistant called Seymour Krelborn whose life changes after finding a strange plant with an odd taste in food. Set in a area named Skid Row Seymour krelborn lives and works in a florist shop owned by Mr Musknik who has had enough of Seymour’s bumbling and is about to kick him out until Seymour’s love interest Audrey tells Musnik that Seymour is breeding a rare and strange new plant which turns out to the a man eating Venus fly trap.

things get much darker when Audrey two(The fly trap) starts asking Seymour for meat which leads him into chopping up Audrey’s demented drill happy dentist( wonderful Steve Martin) and Seymour’s boss Mr Musknik ( Played by Vincent Gardenia)

When Audrey two stars eying up Seymour’s would be girlfriend Audrey the first Seymour must stop the plant before Audrey ends up as being the plants dinner.

Little shop has been done three times first in 1960 as a black and white film than as Broadway musical and finals as a Horror Musical in the 1980’s.

I really enjoyed this film and I think that this is the best performance of Steve Martin.    

I would really recommend this film as it is funny as well as signing and dancing.

Robert Pepler
18th/Mar/06

One of my favourite carry on film apart from Cowboy, Khyber, and Spying. Screaming is a spoof of the Hammer Horror films. When Jim Dale’s girlfriend goes missing at Hokum woods Harry H Corbett bumbling Detective Sergeant Bung and his Constable Slowbottom (Played by Peter Butterworth) Investigates. Soon they stumble on to a sinister plot involving Mannequins and the Evil Scientist Dr Watt (A wonderfully funny turn by Kenneth Williams)

Along the way there are Performances from Fenella Fielding, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Blesswell, Joan Sims, Angela Douglas. There is also a brilliant cameo from John Pertwee as the short lived Dr Fettle. Pertwee my favourite Dr who of all time also cameos in Cleo, Cowboy and Columbus. Screaming is wonderfully take on the Horror movies I really enjoy the film every time I watch it. I would really recommend this film to every one who likes the Carry on films as much as me. 

Robert Pepler
17th/March/2006

 Monk is an American Detective series with a difference. Tony Shalhoub plays Adrian Monk a former homicide Detective who suffers from a compulsive disorder in which he has a fear of everything from Dentists to bees. Struggling with his disorder and the death of his wife Monk’s powers of detection is not matched as he is brought back on a case by his former watch commander SottleMeyer. Helped by his former nurse Shronana Monk is trying to solve the murder of his wife as well trying to get back on the force.

But he is always thwarted in doing so by his disorder of everything. Monk has already solved many problems that have baffled the police. Monk is one of my favourite American TV Series and I always watch an episode when I can. 

Robert Pepler
15th/ Feb/ 2006

Filmed and co-written in 1968 by George Romero, Night of the living dead tells the story of seven people trapped in a lonely farm house trying to survive a horde of flesh eating zombies but in the end they begin to turn on each other. 

Set in one night the film begins off very normally when Johnny and Barbra arrive in a grave yard to put flowers on their father’s headstone but then it turns sour as a stranger kills Johnny and Barbra runs to an abandoned farmhouse where the whole film is set. During the course of the film other characters arrive including the films hero Ben who takes charge but then locks heads with another survivor in the shape of a cowardly weasel called Harry who moans all the way through the film, much to Ben’s despair as he is trying his best to make the farmhouse secure from the zombies 

 These two don’t get on from the word go and even when the survivors begin to die Ben and Harry will not work together. The end of the film is quite depressing as all the characters die. It was very oringnal that nearly all the survivors die by the consequences of their actions while a few get killed by the Zombies. I really enjoyed this film and it remains my favourite out of the George Romero zombie films. 

Robert Pepler

8^th/ Feb/ 06

Created by Dame Agatha Christie Miss Marple the sharp eyed yet fluffy old lady of st Mary mead started her crime solving in murder at the vicarage when an unpopular colonel is shot dead in a vicars study. Miss Marple features in twelve novels and dozen short stories which takes her solving mysteries in all sorts of places from Dill mouth to even the Caribbean. Miss Marple has been adapted for the radio, TV and even the stage. On the TV miss Marple has been played by Margaret Rutherford, Joan Hickson and now in an ITV version Geraldine McEwen plays the sleuth while on radio Comedy actress June Whitfield portrayed Miss Marple. Miss marple remains my favourite Agatha Christie creation and I have read them about a hundred times.

 Chief Inspector Endeavor Morse was the creation of writer Colin Dexter. Dexter’s beer swilling, crossword solving, opera loving police officer with a mind for solving a series of grisly murders which takes place in his home area of Oxford.
Morse has appeared in thirteen books from The Last Bus to Woodstock to his final case the Remorseful Day.

Morse’s Irascible yet inspiring behaviour in the Oxford CID meant that not many other officers wanted to work with him nor he had many friends. The only officer he was close with was a quiet Family man called Sergeant Lewis, who’s down to earth, no nonsense approach to problems offsets Morse’s wandering brain. This made them a perfect crime solving partner-ship.

Chief Inspector Morse was also brought to TV with the late John Thaw playing the grumpy police officer and Kevin Whatley
Playing his long suffering partner Sergeant Lewis. I have always been a fan of Colin Dexter and I love watching the Tv series.  
Morse is my one of my faveroite Police Detectives next to Inspector Frost.

The only problem is that English thinks he is the number one spy but in reality he is accident prone and he soon leaves a lot of chaos after him. Helping him not to making a fool of himself are his side kick Bough and Interpole agent Lorna Campbell English must pull him self together and save England before it is to late......

I really enjoyed this film not only because I'am a massive Rowan Atkinson Fan but I also love spy stories and this I loved from beinging to end. Johnny English is like Inspector Clousou but as a secret agent. Atkinson was great as the bumbling arrogant fool with a heart. I loved it how he did his best to save the world but made the situations he crossed far more worse and the sheer pigheadedness of English makes it a joy to watch.        

All the themes in the film from the car chase and fights are all taken out of a spy-thriller movie but mixed with a slapstick twist. If you are big fans of Bean you are sure to love watching this nitwit of a secret agent trying to save the world without causing mayhem in his wake and damging his beloved Astin Martin.

He has the best scene ever when vera attacks two bikers in the grave yard and turns them into zombies but before they get Lionel who was digging her up. Father Mcgruder dressed in his Pjams, Slippers and dressing gown states that the devil is walking among them and it is time for some Divine intervention. So he springs into action and on the words I kick arse for the lord he unleases he kung-fu skills on to  the living dead before he is bitten on the neck by a falling head and impaled on a angel.  this is the most over the sillest  horror movies I have ever seen, the sheer over the top gore and humour did not scare me at all. I really loved the characters including the film's timid hero Lionel who starts off as this shy mother's boy and at the end of it he becomes the true hero that he is.    

My only fault with this movie is that there is not much Father mcgruder in it, It would have been nice to see him and Lionel take on the zombies together but apart from that I loved it.
  
  

On the 12th of March 1999 as part of the Comic Relief night. A special four part story of Doctor who entiled the Curse of Fatal Death. Blackadder and Mr Bean funny man Rowan Atkinson portrayed a Blackadderish Ninth Doctor, Julia Sawala from abbsotly fablous was Emma whilie stage and film Jonathan Pryce played the Master with Richard E Grant. Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Jonna Lumley appearing as the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelth, and Thirteenth Doctors. 

During the course of this spoof story the Doctor lands on the planet Tersurus with Emma but finds the master already there with some deadly traps. But after some showing off that he the doctor has already been back in time to stop these traps the Doctor tells the master that he is going to retire from saving the galaxy and settle down with his companion Emma, The Master is outraged and tries to get rid off the doctor down a trap door but this backfires and he falls down it. The doctor makes a run for it but now a older master with the daleks now it tow captures him.

Now in a dalek ship Emma wonders why there chairs, But the Doctor is now concerned of stopping the daleks using a energy beam to control the universe. on trying to talking the master, the engery beam goes crasy and kills the doctor. Emma is upset but the Doctor regenerates into his tenth form who tries to rewire the engery beam which blows up on in resulting in his changing again and again until the Doctor now in his twelth form being shot by the engery beam spare engery. The Master and the Daleks both decided to turn good in the doctor's memory but against all the laws in the universe the Doctor regenerates into a woman who walks off hand in hand with the master.