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1987 horror comedy, dir. Joel Schumacher, Jason Patric, Corey Haim: IMDb / allmovie. You're a creature of the night, Michael. You wait 'till mom finds out!| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
2019 comedy, dir. Taika Waititi, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie: IMDb / allmovie. A young boy learns about life from his good buddy Imaginary Hitler… in late-war Germany.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
2022 romantic fantasy. Princess Marra's eldest sister went off to marry the prince of the Northern Kingdom, and died. Her second sister went off too, and isn't doing well. What can she do about it?| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
2015 comedy, dir. David Wnendt, Oliver Masucci, Fabian Busch' IMDb / allmovie. Hitler appears in the present day, and an unemployed TV producer makes him a star.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
2007 romance/SF/mystery; fourth of its series but effectively stand-alone. Celinda Ingram is a matchmaker, now trying to rebuild her career after a scandal. Davis Oakes is a security consultant with his own murky past. When they meet in the course of business they fall instantly in lust with each other thanks to psychic resonance, but will that be enough?| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
1967 comedy, dir. Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder: IMDb / allmovie. How to make a fortune on Broadway? Oversell the shares, keep the money and put on a show that flops. Unless it doesn't…| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array pairs and accumulation. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
2015 fantasy anthology: six stories of Ile-Rien and Cineth.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
1940 comedy, dir. and starring Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard: IMDb / allmovie. A hapless Jewish barber happens to be the exact double of don't-call-him-Hitler.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
More gaming with nearby friends.| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array analysis and matrix incrementing. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
There's a new offline mapping program for smartphones, so I thought I'd see how it stacks up against the one I'm already using.| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array slicing and point filtering. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
1923 mystery. A young barrister catching the last train home shares his compartment with two strangers having an unusual conversation. THen one of them drops dead, and the other runs away…| RogerBW's Blog
High Wycombe's in-town shopping centre is called Eden. This offends me, but perhaps not in the obvious way.| RogerBW's Blog
Notes on Mongoose's Bayern 6: Derelict| blog.firedrake.org
1991 mystery. Sheila Malory has returned to Oxford to do some research at the Bodleian. Her godson, working there, found the victim of a shelf collapse, who turns out to have been a thoroughly bad thing and probably a blackmailer. But the police were quite happy to say it was an accident…| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string manipulation. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
1994 mystery. Sheila Malory regularly visits some of the residents at the local nursing home, and one of them has a daughter who's rather too keen on getting a power of attorney. Then the mother disappears…| RogerBW's Blog
2011 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, seventh in the Logan McRae series. The most popular contestants on Britain's Next Big Star have been kidnapped – but is it all a hoax by the promoter? Meanwhile the target of a drugs bust seems to think he can get Logan to get him the drugs back…| RogerBW's Blog
2012 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, eighth in the Logan McRae series. A man turns up burned to death, gangland style; someone's beating up Asian drug dealers; oh, and two teenage lovers haven't been seen for a few days. Logan McRae will, ultimately, solve all of these cases…| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved sets and combinations. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a date calculation and run-length encoding. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
2024 non-fiction. Zinoviev introduces the core functions of seven programming languages that are now, for various reasons, little-known.| RogerBW's Blog
1978 comedy anthology, consisting of Mortimer's adaptations of his own scripts from the first season of the television series. Rumpole is an ageing barrister who somehow prevails over everything life can throw at him.| RogerBW's Blog
1945 Napoleonic naval fiction, fourth written but ninth by internal chronology. Hornblower is settling uncomfortably into rural life when he's given a squadron and sent on a diplomatic and military mission to the Baltic.| RogerBW's Blog
1946 Napoleonic naval fiction, fifth written but tenth by internal chronology. Hornblower is summoned to deal with a mutinous crew on the French blockade.| RogerBW's Blog
2024 romance/SF/mystery; 59th novel of Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). At a hen party, one of the prospective brides slips away… and is murdered.| RogerBW's Blog
2012 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, first in the Ash Henderson series. A serial killer takes girls just before their thirteenth birthdays, kills them, and sends a photograph of the process every subsequent year. DC Ash Henderson is really not the man to crack the case.| RogerBW's Blog
2016 fantasy, fourth volume of its series. Cathy seeks allies in her reform of Neither society; Max finds himself showing disconcerting initiative given what's happened to his soul; Sam finds out what the Elemental Court is really up to.| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved counting digits and matching bit-counts. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array analysis and string merging. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a lot of counting. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved lots of combinatorial searches. (Note that this closes today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved prime counting and list selections. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog