Netflix release Stranger Things Season 2 teaser trailer!

It's true! Here is Netflix have released a trailer announcing that Stranger Things season two will be happening in 2017! Hopefully, we won't have wait too long into 2017 to watch it! And I'm sure there will be plenty of actual trailers to keep us going until then!

Here's some info about the new season I got from the Mary Sue website...

• Season two will take place over 9 episodes (compared to the first season’s 8) set in the fall of 1984, only a short while after season one, and series creators/writers Matt and Ross Duffer will return.
• None of the cast has been announced as returning, but many of them have expressed interest in keeping the story going.
• The Duffers told Entertainment Weekly that they’re going to continue the same story, so all the major players should be back.
• There will also be four new characters!
• The nine episode titles are: “Madmax,” “The Boy Who Came Back to Life,” “The Pumpkin Patch,” “The Palace,” “The Storm,” “The Pollywog,” “The Secret Cabin,” “The Brain,” and “The Lost Brother”.

I will keep ya'all updated as soon as I found out any info!

Stranger Things - Dream 80's Cast

I love Stranger Things, you love Stranger Things...we all love Stranger Things...especially Barb.
I've been thinking about who would play the different characters if it had actually been made in the 80's. It's set in 1983 but I will be using people from the whole decade.

Chief Hooper

The first person I thought of was Clancy Brown as Chief Hooper.

And speaking of Winona's role as Joyce the mom...it would be so easy to choose Dee Wallace from E.T. or JoBeth Williams from Poltergeist. I'm gonna keep thinking about this and hopefully I'll have a good choice by the end of the article.

Nancy

Phoebe Cates would be Nancy, she's had experience kicking ass in Gremlins.

Barb

 Of course Martha Plimpton is Barb!

Steve

I thought about Steve a lot...
he's would need to be a charming
jerk with good hair...
so Robert Downey Jr.!

Dustin

Now for the boys...I feel like their should be at least one Corey.

I know a lot of people are comparing Dustin 

to Chunk but I see him as more of a Corey Feldman.

Mike

And that would mean Mike 

would have to be Corey Haim.

Lucas

Lucas would be played by Stefen DeSalle, 

which according to IMDB only acted in two movies...

but I think he was the inspiration for Lucas

wearing a bandana in Stranger Things.

Dustin

I changed my mind! Dustin should be Jason Presson!

Will

Lucas Haas would be Will.

Dr. Brenner

Evil Doctor Brenner has to be David Cronenberg...yes, the director, he's done some acting too.

And now for Joyce...since she was the inspiration for Joyce's hair and is a good crier and is a tough woman too...I have finally decided on Meryl Streep.

Joyce

If you disagree and/or have your own suggestions please leave them in the comments.

Going For The Gold...in Binge Watching!

So there's some kind of sports thing happening right now in Brazil...and like me you aren't that bothered with all that. Here's some television you can watch/stream whilst you try to avoid the official version of Fun With Flags.
All viewing platforms are for the UK.

Preacher (Amazon Prime)
Developed for AMC by Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen and Sam Catlin, based on the comic book/graphic novel (whatever) by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. The whole first series, which is actually more of a prequel to the comics, is available on Amazon Prime.
It's darkly funny, disturbing, violent, controversial, thought-provoking and kicks a lot of ass.
Though set in Texas it seems like half the cast is British. Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!) is Jesse Custer the Preacher. Joe Gilgun (This Is England) is the manic vampire Cassidy. Ruth Negga (12 Years A Slave) is the kick-ass Tulip.

Lucifer (Amazon Prime)
Another comic/graphic novel adaption with a British lead. Lucifer is based on characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith and Mike Dringenberg. Lucifer Morningstar, as played by Tom Ellis (Miranda), is bored and unhappy in Hell and decides to spend some time in Los Angeles. He owns a club called 'Lux' but ends up being a consultant to the police, usually using his powers of persuasion and seduction to get the answers they need to solve crimes. It's more light-hearted than Preacher but there are some darker bits involving police detective Chloe Decker.
Tom Ellis has always been an attractive man but as Lucifer he is SEXY!

Stranger Things (Netflix)
Stranger Things is as good and probably even better than what the whole internet is saying. The perfect 80's nostalgia/homage. Taking inspiration from Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter and many many more, this is the story of how a gang of kids try and find their friend who has disappeared into thin air. It's mysterious, weird, funny and a little bit scary.
In the ultimate 80's casting is stars Winona Ryder!
And the soundtrack is spot on too.
I will be writing a whole blog post, or two, about Stranger Things soon.



Dont Trust The B- in Apt 23 (Netflix)
I was just checking Netflix to see what I can recommend when I saw that Dont Trust The B- has been added to the website!
Starring  Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones) as Chloe, the bitch in apt 23, she is an immoral, amoral, scheming, lying, unscrupulous con artist...and you can't help loving her. Sadly, it only lasted two seasons before getting cancelled. It also stars James Van Der Beek as himself.

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Friday the 13th: The Series - A Cup of Time

This is one of my favorite episodes!

A homeless kid asleep on a bench in a park is given some tea by a 'nice' old lady in a black cloak...and faster then they can say 'thanks for the cuppa' the leaves on the tea cup sprout and wind their way up the kid's arm and strangles them. (cool special effects by the way. no cgi here)
Cut to a recording studio and the most 80's singer ever! Lady Die! Huge crimped hair! Latex outfit! Synths on the backing track...which she hates by the way. She's a nightmare, of course, total rock bitch. She storms off to her dressing room and can't stop checking for wrinkles in the mirror. She wants to do a benefit concert for the homeless...coincidence? Probably not.
Back at 'Curious Goods...a little old lady neighbor, Bertie, drops by with their curtains. She's got a crush on Jack...who is developing a protein drink that's 'healthy and organic'...way ahead of his time there Jack. Bertie is a social worker and had to identify the body of the homeless teen that died in the opening scene. They also mention an old homeless woman had disappeared earlier that year...coincidence? Probably not.
Ryan and Micki head off to the morturary to talk to the police about the homeless deaths...and they totally just walk in on the autopsy, Ryan looks a bit peaky. The pathologist discovers some 'greenish' paint on the dead girls neck, as him and the detective go in for a better look an ivy leaf falls on the floor, which Ryan quickly picks up for a clue. Sneaky.
Apparently, it's 'swapper's' ivy, which in Ireland was considered to be evil...and of course there's a cursed tea cup in the book! Ryan and Micki go to see the guy who bought it, 'Fat' Eddie Burell. Whose skeleton they find in his creepy apartment...Ryan makes a joke about not calling him 'Fat' Eddie anymore.
Sound check at the homeless charity concert. Lady Die is freaking out again over looking old. A homeless girl is partaking of the craft services table and even pick pokets Lady Die's agent's wallet. She runs off and hides in a bush.

Not to be confused with Princess Diana

The not so nice lady in a black cloak with the tea cup is trying to give it to a homeless guy when the little girl runs up. She gives the girl a bracelet to split...the 'swapper's' ivy kills the guy and we see the lady in the cloak is Lady Die...OMG! Yeah, we kinda guessed that.
It turns out that the old lady that's missing, Sarah, is 'Fat' Eddie's sister...coincidence? Probably not.
The Scooby gang figure out that Sarah Burell and Lady Die are the same person after hearing one of her songs on the radio which is about 'I'm a little tea pot..." Subtle.
Ryan and Micki confront her at the local radio station and she runs off but not before getting pick pocketed by the little homeless girl and running into Bertie, her old social worker. Aging quite quickly Lady Die/Sarah tries to swap lives with a homeless person but discovers that the tea cup is missing.

Ryan and Micki go looking for her in the park where all the murders have happened, Bertie is following them for some reason. They find the homeless girl's camp in the park...they get it back from her by promising her a hot meal and a warm bed. As per usual, they take the homeless girl, Kristen, back to 'Curious Goods'. As they look for potato chips for young Kristen, someone break into the shop and steals the tea cup. Turns out the thief is Bertie, no Bertie no, what are you doing!?! She goes to the park to use the tea cup on someone...it's very sad cuz Bertie is kinda awesome. Yay, she can't go through with it and gets comforted by a homeless guy.
Ryan, Micki and Jack think it was Lady Die/Sarah not Bertie who stole the tea cup. We see Bertie in the park with the tea cup...and so does Lady Die/Sarah! Oh No! The Scooby gang rush to the park as Bertie gets chased by Lady Die/Sarah and falls down a hill and then killed by her. The police, for some reason, think Ryan and Micki have tried to kill Bertie, she's actually alive after all.
Lady Die/Sarah is on the look out for another victim...psych! It's Jack in a wig! He grabs the tea from her and runs off. Weirdly, Lady Die turns up for her benefit concert and dies as she falls out of her dressing room/RV.
Kristen ends up going to live with Bertie in the end and everyone lives happily ever after.
Note: Jakc's protein drink is made from bugs...gross.
Cursed Object: Tea Cup decorated with 'Swapper's' Ivy
Number of Deaths: 7?

Friday the 13th: The Series - The Poisoned Pen

Yeah, that's not very convincing,

Episode two takes place inside a monastery where people keep dying after a monk 'predicts' their deaths. Jack realises that it is actually a 'poisoned' pen that makes whatever is written come true. But the only way for them to get the 'poisoned' pen back is for Ryan and Micki to disguise themselves as monks to enter the monastery. Jack forges the paperwork that allows them to join the monastery. The monks must all be blind because there's no way that Micki looks like a man in anyway whatsoever!
So it turns out that the 'psychic' monk is a puppet for an evil monk who just wants to sell the monastery for millions of dollars to a property developer, who will turn it into luxury flats...somethings never change. Ryan and Micki are a bit out of their depth and Jack turns up as an Irish monk to help them out. He also made a copy of the poison pen so they can switch it out with the real one.

The Poisoned Pen

The evil monk kills the 'psychic' monk and also tries to kill Ryan and Micki but as they are not actually brothers the real ones in England die instead.
They finally confront the evil monk and defeat him with his own poison pen...he gets killed by an axe.
Cursed Object: A Quill
Number of Deaths: 7?

Friday The 13th: The Series - Episode 1: The Inheritance

One of my favorite 80's TV shows was the the American/Canadian horror classic 'Friday the 13th: The Series'. It has no real connection the movie series, though producer Frank Mancuso Jr. also produced a seven of the films from number two to number eight.

Evil Doll. Perfect Eyebrows.

I originally watched it when it was first on between 1987 to 1990, I mostly watched it when I was babysitting, I was a bad babysitter. I've rewatched it a couple times since then and have recently started to watch it again, as it's geting close to Halloween. After watching the first episode again I realized I had to blog about this awesomely cheesy show, and I mean that in all the best ways!
The first episode does not pull any punches...creepy old man - check, Satan - check, evil doll - check, evil child - check.
Uncle Lewis has made a deal with the Devil but gets dragged into hell by him for breaking the deal. Cousins Micki, (Robey) and Ryan end up inheriting his antique shop, not knowing that all the items are cursed, they sell some off so they can sell the shop and part ways. They accidently sell an evil doll to a father, don't know how they could accidently sell it as it's creepy as hell.

Very young Sarah Polley.
She was also Ramona Quimby.

The evil child is Sarah Polley, who has gone on to be a successful actress and director. She is a unhappy, spoiled daughter of a hen pecked man and his second wife. The evil doll basically seduces Mary telling her they can get rid of her 'evil step-mother'. The doll pushes the stepmother down the stairs when she tries to take her away from Mary...luckily(?) she doesn't die but ends up in hospital where the evil doll finishes the job.
Mary is left at home with a babysitter, whom she tries to kill with her evil animated toys. Ryan and

Give me that doll!

Micki rush to the house to retrieve the doll and end up fighting them on one of those playground merry-go-round things...yes, two adults fight a child for a doll.
Micki and Ryan realize that they need to search for and retrieve all the cursed items...with the help of Jack Marshak, who was a friend of Lewis, a world traveller and an occultist, he collected many of the antiques for Lewis before they were cursed.
Mode of death: Doll
Death count: 4?

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F is for...The Facts of Life

'The Facts of Life' was a spin-off of 'Diff'rent Strokes'. Mrs. Garrett, who was the housekeeper for Mr. Drummond in 'Diff'rent Strokes' is now the housemother at an all girl boarding school, Eastland School. It ran for almost 10 years, from 1979 til 1988.
I loved 'The Facts of Life'! It was so cheesy and 80's! It was the master of the 'very special' episodes...dieting, homosexuality, shop lifting, suicide, censorship, date rape, racism, alcoholism, drug addiction, breast cancer, abortion, etc.
After the first season, which included a very young Molly Ringwald, the show cast of characters was cut back to the four girls we know and love...Tootie, Jo, Blair and Natalie.
Tootie was my favorite...I think it was the roller skates.

I loved all the 'crazy shenanigans' the girls got into. I wanted Mrs. Garrett to be my chaperone/advice giver/surrogate auntie. I wanted to live above a shop...which I have done and it's not that exciting.
'The Facts of Life' also introduced me and the rest of the world to George Clooney! Though most of the rest of the world didn't jump on that band wagon until 'Sisters'. Check out that sweater! Amaze at the mullet. Le swoon...
'The Facts of Life' ended when the viewing audience tired of their safe, sexless shenanigans...come on, they were in their 20's and still sharing a room!

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Today on Murder, She Wrote...'Christopher Bundy - Died on Sunday'

One of Jessica's short stories was going to be print in 'Leopard' magazine, a 'Playboy/Penthouse kinda nudie mag, and she was not happy about it! She goes with her nephew Grady to talk with the publisher, Mr. Bundy as played by Bert Convey of'Win, Lose or Draw' fame, at his Playboy-esque mansion.

It's the typical Agatha Christie several people stuck in one location cliche.
Robert Stack from 'Unsolved Mysteries' was the main suspect. He was the publisher of this magazine 'Literary Lines' that was bought by Mr. Bundy.
For once Grady is not actually a suspect but Jessica is a suspect. No, she's doesn't suspect herself silly! Detective Lt. Greco does!

Favorite line:
Jessica - 'No need to get all Russian miserablist.'