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That said, it’s another gorgeous transfer from Arrow, with the film’s thick layer of grain successfully brought across. And still looking forward to the third film, which I have never seen. #teenagemutantNinjaturtles #tmnt #secretoftheooze

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Watched Secret of the Ooze tonight, the second of @ArrowFilmsVideo 4K Turtles set. Haven’t seen for twenty years but always had an affection for it. Even as a child I recognised it wasn’t on the same level as the first but thought there was lots to like about it.

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The whole film is far more geared towards the cartoon than the first’s successful fusion of both the cartoon and the comic’s tone. This viewer’s patience had already worn thin before the nightclub scene, which was as unbearable as I remember.

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As it is, this isn’t one that will stick in the memory. Plot 5 Characters 4 Setting 6 Solution 5 Enjoyment 4. #bookaweek #amreading

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Finished #murderiseasy My hunch the entire book was obviously wrong, but that aside this is a curious #agathachristie very much mid-to-lower-tier but in its way quite an interesting failure.

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I’ve already noted the distaste the treatment of Ellsworthy leaves in the mouth. In the end the book would have been far more interesting had she leaned far more into the supernatural overtures, really brought out the “wych” of Wychwood.

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@ArrowFilmsVideo have done a suitably bodacious job with the package, well worth the money. Looking forward now to the second film, as big a step down as it was from the first.

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Watched @ArrowFilmsVideo new 4K release of the original #teenagemutantninjaturtles tonight. Gorgeous transfer, and reaffirmed my belief it’s one of the best comic movie adaptations ever made.

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The turtle costumes and animatronic heads still astound today - the faces are so expressive you forget what they are, and the fight choreography underlines how flexible they were. Raph and co have never looked better. Judith Hoag @Heyjude629 still the definitive April.

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Chapter 14 ends with Luke hoping for another murder. As the plot is running on empty a bit this reader hopes for something similar, or at least some twist. #amreading #agathachristie #bookaweek

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Fourteen chapters down in #murderiseasy and still convinced B is the killer. The repeated insistence the killer is a male, based on nothing, feels like a classic Christie trick as is the main-ally-is-the-killer tactic.

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The tennis court scene, and general love “triangle”, is by some distance the most interesting thing in the book, and it seems to be the main reason it exists. Outside of that dimension both Luke and the suspects are paper thin and have no hook.

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Still convinced B is the killer, everything is pointing that way - or is that just what she wants me to think? #amreading #agathachristie #bookaweek

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Ten chapters into #murderiseasy and two things stand out. First the overt homophobia directed towards one character is unpalatable, and the worst example by I can recall in my Christie marathon so far of the author leaning into such prejudice.

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Secondly, the undercurrent of paganism is a novelty for Christie in these kinds of novels - no sinister rites in #whydidnttheyaskevans - and is adding a bit of colour to what is otherwise a pretty drab book so far with no hook to it and a very undeveloped lead character.