Wednesday 30 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 12


This is the 12th day of my summer posts with 22-year-old Demi Rose Mawby from Sutton Coldfield. Once more, she poses for the camera in faraway Mexico. What I mean is, it's far from Sutton Coldfield, which is less sunny but just as beautiful. It's all a matter of taste. I'm currently enjoying the beach in Corfu, but it's not somewhere I'd like to be all year round. It doesn't feel like home. Can you understand that?



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Tuesday 29 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 11


This is the 11th day of my summer posts with 22-year-old Demi Rose Mawby from Sutton Coldfield. She's a real globetrotter, travelling from one side of the Atlantic to the other to spread summer and happiness. The photos of the last two days were taken in Cape Verde, while today's photos were taken in Mexico. The world's too big for only one Demi Rose.



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Monday 28 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 10


This is the tenth day of my summer posts with 22-year-old Demi Rose Mawby. These photos were taken in Cape Verde, far away from her home town of Sutton Coldfield. You won't see her walking around Sutton Park dressed like this, unfortunately.




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Sunday 27 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 9


This is the ninth day of my summer posts with 22-year-old Demi Rose Mawby from Sutton Coldfield. There are horses on the beach? I've never seen that happen before. Maybe it's common in Cape Verde, where these photos were taken.




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Saturday 26 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 8


This is the eighth day of my summer photos with Demi Rose Mawby from Sutton Coldfield. Why do I emphasise the town of her birth in every post? It's because I feel sentimental about that town, which used to be independent, but has now been amalgamated into Birmingham. It's probably because of the town that I noticed her in the first place. Articles about her are frequently written on the Daily Mail's web site, and they usually mention her place of birth. That's where I first saw her photos, and I subscribed to her Instagram channel later.




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Friday 25 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 7


This is the seventh day of my summer photos with Demi Rose Mawby from Sutton Coldfield. She's 25 years old, but all the photos so far were taken in Ibiza when she was 22. When you're looking at a beautiful girl, it's summer all year long.



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Thursday 24 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 6


This is the sixth day of my summer posts with beautiful Demi Rose Mawby from Sutton Coldfield. I've received some feedback on my posts from my friends asking why I'm only posting glamour photos at the moment. That's because I'm currently on holiday in Greece, and I don't have much time to write lengthy film reviews. Well, I do have the time, but I'd rather be doing other things. It's not a holiday I would have picked for myself. One of my family members had booked a holiday and was unable to go. The money would have been lost if she had cancelled, so I'm going in her place. I have nothing against a free holiday. I'm glad that it's late in the season, because the beaches aren't very crowded. I'm still very cautious with the Coronavirus.

I might stop the Demi Rose posts when I return from holiday and get into my usual blogging routine, or I might let them overlap with my next film posts. I don't know yet. I feel that my summer posts are therapeutic. I want my readers to feel better, as I pointed out on the first day of the summer posts.



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Wednesday 23 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 5


This is the fifth day of my summer posts with beautiful Demi Rose Mawby from Sutton Coldfield. Some people might ask why I've picked her out of all the women in the world. I have two answers to that question. First, I consider her to be the most beautiful woman in England. If you wish to argue about that, please leave a comment, but you'll have difficulty changing my mind. The second reason is that her modelling photos are non-nude. I have nothing against nude photos, but nudity isn't what my blog is about.




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Tuesday 22 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 4


This is the fourth day of my summer posts with beautiful Demi Rose Mawby from Sutton Coldfield. Many of my readers might not know her. I consider her to be the first and greatest model of the Selfie Generation. When she was 17 she began to post photos of herself on Instagram. At first they were sporadic, but within a year they appeared almost daily. She attracted attention through her natural unenhanced beauty, and modelling agencies were in a hurry to hire her.

This gives teenage girls hope that they can become famous with nothing more than a mobile phone and a mirror, but let's be honest: Demi Rose is exceptional. Her critics claim that she's had a boob job and other artificial surgery, but I've seen her amateurish first photos, and she already had great natural beauty. Her only body enhancements are the result of rigorous daily exercise and strict dieting.




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Monday 21 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 3


This is the third day of my summer posts with beautiful Demi Rose Mawby from Sutton Coldfield. Summer is officially over. Today is September 21st, the autumn equinox, which has been celebrated for thousands of years as the first day of autumn. Some European countries have dubbed the last Sunday of September as the first day of autumn, but that's arbitrary and is against the old traditions.




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Sunday 20 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 2

This is the second day of my summer photos with Demi Rose Mawby. In case you're wondering, she was born on 27th March 1995 in Sutton Coldfield. As far as I know, she's now moved to America because of her modelling career. That's a shame. Who would want to move away from Sutton Coldfield?

I know Sutton Coldfield well. I was born in Little Aston, and the boundary of Sutton Coldfield was less than 200 yards away. In fact, there was a shop just the other side of the boundary which sold excellent ice cream, so I often walked there.

The photos in this post were taken in Ibiza in June 2017 when she was 22.

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Saturday 19 September 2020

Summer with Demi Rose, Day 1


Summer is almost over. Children have gone back to school. The days are getting cooler, and the autumn equinox is only a few days away. This year we haven't had much of a summer. The Coronavirus has forced many of us to stay at home. The word staycation amuses me, although most of my friends use it with disdain. To make up for the lost summer I've decided to publish a few photos of the beautiful model Demi Rose Mawby for the next few days. I haven't decided how many days yet, it depends on the feedback I get from my readers.



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Thursday 17 September 2020

The Champion (4½ Stars)


This film, made in 1973, has undergone so many title changes over the years that I hardly know what to call it. The name on the label of my Blu-ray is "Karate King", but I've decided to stick with "The Champion", because that's the title in the film's opening credits. Over the years the film has also been called "Shanghai Lil" and "Shanghai Lil and the Sun Luck Kid". Those titles seem false, because the woman pictured above isn't called Lil, and there are no indications that she comes from Shanghai. The film takes place in North-Eastern China, 2000 miles from Shanghai, and we can assume that she's a local girl. So what's her name? In the English subtitles she's called Ah Chu, but that's not what I hear when her name is spoken in the original Mandarin dialogue. It sounds like her name is Chin.

That's a trivial problem that doesn't detract from the enjoyment of the film, so I'll jump into the review.

The film takes place in the early 1930's. Lu Fu and Lu Te Piao are two brothers. Their father runs a martial arts school, and the two brothers become skilled fighters. Lu Te Piao commits some sort of crime, which isn't specified, but Lu Fu takes the responsibility out of love for his older brother and is sent to prison for five years. During this time their father dies, so Lu Te Piao closes the school and takes charge of the town's coal mine. He allies himself with the Russians, who make him the town's leader.

When Lu Fu is released, Lu Te Piao sends assassins to kill him. He hates his brother, because he was his father's favourite. This is where Ah Chu (or whatever her name is) comes in. She was the school's best student, and she swore to the father on his death bed that she would defend his heir, Lu Te Piao, from harm. She knows that Lu Te Piao is evil, but her promise has bound her all these years. When Lu Fu is released from prison she feels that she's free from her promise, because Lu Fu's honesty and integrity makes him the rightful heir.

Even with Ah Chu's help, Lu Fu can't defeat his brother, so Yung Tien, a Japanese businessman, offers his assistance. He says that he'll send his best fighters to defeat Lu Te Piao, as long as Lu Fu agrees to sell 10% of the mine's coal to Japan. That's a deal with the Devil. Yung Tien intends to kill Lu Fu as well, take control of the mine himself and make the townspeople his slaves.


This is a very good film with the non-stop fighting that I enjoy so much in the Shaw Brothers films of the early 1970's. The film's premise is explained as briefly as possible, and then the fights begin. More than half of the film is taken up with extended fights. Both Lu Fu and Ah Chu are able to defeat 20 warriors at a time. In one of the scenes Ah Chu, unarmed, fights her way through 40 Japanese swordsmen, and she leaves their bodies scattered on the floor. That's the sort of girl I like!

I strongly recommend this film to fans of the classic martial arts films. It's been released in Germany on Blu-ray with both German and English subtitles.


Here's the film's title screen. I'm curious to know what the Chinese title means. Can any of my Chinese readers please leave a message in the comments box below?

Wednesday 16 September 2020

Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (3 Stars)


I don't often buy films at random, based on the cover. I often browse the Blu-ray collection at Saturn while I'm waiting for a film to start in the cinema opposite, but it's only to inform myself on what's new. Today was a rare exception. I found "Blood Night", a film I'd never heard of, in the horror section. It had a naked woman on the cover, which immediately got me interested. But what clinched the deal was the price: only 2.99 Euros ($3.50, £2.70). At that price there's nothing to lose.

The story begins in 1978. A twelve-year-old girl called Mary Mattock has her first period. This traumatises her so much that she stabs her mother to death and cuts off her father's head. She's committed to a lunatic asylum.

Fast forward to 1989. Mary is still in the asylum. She has a baby after being raped by a nurse. The baby is stillborn, which puts her into her second big state of trauma. She gets up off her hospital bed and kills the midwife, the doctor, the nurses, the security guards; everyone she can get her hands on. She staggers out of the hospital naked, and she's shot dead by the police who are waiting.

The end? No, those are just the pre-credits scenes.

While the opening credits run, we see in a series of newspaper articles that Mary Hatchet, as she's now called, has become a local hero. Every year the anniversary of her death is celebrated as Blood Night. Young people get drunk and tell one another stories about Mary Hatchet returning from the grave. New stories are invented every year, adding to the folklore, but is it possible that some of the stories could be true? Now it's 2009, the 20th anniversary of her death, so the parties will be the biggest ever.

At this point it's obvious that the film is going to be a teen slasher movie. Someone is killing the kids at a party and cutting their heads off. In true teen slasher form, the first victims are the ones who have sex. There's a plot twist near the end that was totally unexpected.

The film has some very good ideas, but it has two major faults. The first is the slow pacing in the first half of the film. For half an hour after the opening credits nothing important happens. The teenagers meet, they buy drinks, they make out. An occasional jump scare would have increased the suspense, but as it was, the film was turning in circles. All the time I was thinking to myself, "When is someone finally going to die?" The other fault is that there any many scenes which are too dark to see exactly what's happening. Yes, the film takes place at night, but the scenes could still be lit enough to make the action clear. Look at the old Hammer Horror films for comparison; night is never completely dark.


This is the Blu-ray cover that attracted my attention. A naked girl with an axe is sexy, even though the film's title censors the picture. I don't regret buying the film. It's definitely worth 2.99 Euros, but I doubt I'll watch it again soon. If anything, it's given me a taste to rewatch the classic teen slasher films like the Scream trilogy.

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Tuesday 15 September 2020

The Nightingale (2 Stars)


This is a film that takes places in Tasmania in the early 1820's. The island was being used as a penal colony for people who had committed crimes in England or Ireland. The convicts were used as slaves by the army, but the native Tasmanians (called Blacks) weren't considered reliable enough to be slaves, so they were either left alone or killed. It wasn't considered a crime to kill a Black.

Clare Carroll, an Irish convict, has worked for the British army for years, and she repeatedly requests freedom for herself and her family. Promises are made and broken. Lieutenant Hawkins rapes her, but gives her small gifts, pretending she's a willing prostitute. She doesn't tell her husband about this. The evening before Hawkins leaves to seek promotion in Launceton, several days walk away, he rapes her in front of her husband. The soldiers kill her husband and her young baby.

The next day Clare sets out to follow Hawkins, accompanied by the aborigine tracker Billy, who intensely hates white people. This isn't empty racism, he hates the Whites because they've stolen his land and killed his people. As they travel together he realises that Clare isn't as bad as the white soldiers, and a friendship develops.


The film is a rape'n'revenge road movie, which isn't bad in itself, but I found it very unpleasant. The rape scenes were so ugly that I felt tempted to turn the film off after half an hour. I made an effort to continue. The problem with the film, as far as I was concerned, was that there was too much rape and not enough revenge. There were rapes going on until the middle of the film, not to mention random murders. When the revenge finally came – that's not a spoiler because it was inevitable – it was all over very quickly, as if it were tagged on as an afterthought.

I might have given "The Nightingale" only one star, if not for the excellent cinematography. The film ratio of 4:3 is unusual nowadays, but it suited the film. The acting is also first rate by all of the main characters.

This is a film that divides people; some love it, some hate it. My objections to the film are of a personal nature. I despise rape and violence towards women in general. It was too much for me to bear, even though I knew that it's only a film. I absolutely abhor rape. If you're less sensitive than me you might like the film. I don't.

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