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Circus: Red Letter Ay
Amanda B Reckondwyth
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The game: List a movie or book title but remove one letter ONLY from one word ONLY. Then give a brief one-sentence synopsis of the movie or book that reflects the change.
Example: One With the Wind: The life of a petulant Southern belle takes a tragic turn when she is afflicted with uncontrollable flatulence.
Example: One With the Wind: The life of a petulant Southern belle takes a tragic turn when she is afflicted with uncontrollable flatulence.
Comments
Intrepid cat lovers are overwhelmed by too many pictures of lovable felines on the internet: "we're gonna need a bigger emoticon."
Intrepid astronaut Dave Bowman repurposes Hal as a FitBit as he runs round the inside of Discovery One.
Intrepid astronauts pelt each other with bitumen in an inter-galactic trade war for the contract to build the hyperspace bypass at the beginning of the Hitchhikers' Guide..
A man accidentally marries a small group of trees.
OCD is solved by large helpings of molasses.
After a Chernobyl-style disaster has devastated the landscape, the son of an atomic engineer is plucked from his carefree teenage existence to re-establish order and harmony.
A Skandi-Noir film in which Professor Henrik Hygge and his gay lover are on a hiking tour of the remote pine forests of northern Sweden when they come upon a wild girl, who offers them some flowers and a bottle of some strange brew made from berries. His friend bets the Professor that he cannot turn the wild girl into a good Social Democrat Scandinavian whose greatest aspiration in life is to own a nice house kitted out entirely from IKEA.
At the end of the story, she is married and has a job at IKEA, but the Professor and his lover are living in naked and drunken squalor in a hut in the forest.
There is no music. In stead, the film is full of long, strange, haunting silences, in which people stare at each other.
A new arrival manages to chip the eternal plaster and see what is underneath
A heartwarming tale of the long quest through the supermarket to grab the last remaining item in the 'Asian Products' aisle.
Robert Redford stars in this gripping thriller about an interminable HOA meeting.
Environmental activists stage a protest by pouring huge quantities of harmless food colouring into the waters round the Isle of Wight, just in time to spoil the look of Cowes Week.
A bitter, childless old man finally attains upper-class status after buying a Nancy Mitford book from a persevering boy scout.
A very mundane young man tries to get some school children to repair his bicycle so that he can get home.
If successful, there may be a prequel, E. It will be a bit Art House and consist entirely of abandoned cuts from T.
Some people might criticise parts of the Torah for being just that!
I'm glad someone else is playing!
Simba's distant and evil cousin spoils everything.
Mowgli jumps out from behind a tree and frightens the wildlife.
A documentary about the growth of moss in the lanes of a Welsh town.
You are not a Victorian gentleman! You are a toy!
You cannot fly or strike better independent trade deals.
And do they have to be spelt properly?
No? That's a pity, because Tax (sitcom in an HMRC/IRS/whatever office) seems like quite a good idea, and I was really quite proud of Fraser (elderly Scottish undertaker moves to Seattle from Warmington-on-Sea to look after his lovable father and dole out advice on his radio show) but the spelling doesn't quite work.
A rip-off of the best and worst Indiana Jones films, but featuring slightly weird puppets that will give you nightmares for several years.
The absence of Christmas presents presages terrible things to come for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.
Existentialist analysis of Going My Way.
Many fur coats are mangled inside a fine old wooden armoire as the trapped king of beasts scratches himself desperately.
Exactly like its counterpart with one letter more, except that when the little girl emerges at the end to lure Mowgli away from his new friends, the entire cinema audience protests loudly.
(based on a true-life experience)
A Roman soldier eats fish eggs at the foot of the Cross
A farce that orbits around the idea of family when one cannot have children of one's own.
Dancing penguins have no qualms about paying for the privilege
A disgruntled rank-and-file player in a village brass band kills off the rest of the players in ingenious ways so that he can be the Solo Cornet.
For his latest heist, the incorrigible bandit is joined by a bunch of renegade Fair Folk from the darker corners of Mirkwood.
A heroic saga of how ordinary folk achieve their quest to restore the gerund to its rightful place in the language.
Down with Skol!
An of-age Molesworth trashes foreign lager chiz.
This cookbook offers a fascinating collection of offal recipes.
Babette's Fast
On a remote Danish island, a psychotic anorexic forces simple country people to diet against their wishes.
Jan de Florette
Janet will not even stop at murder to win the village's annual competition to produce the biggest cauliflower.
John Wimber's latest plan to supply Holy Spirit Electricity to a West London suburb.
Robust communication not required.
Will young but talented golfer Fanny Price succeed in her struggle to win the Ladies Trophy at the snobbish country club? Her rival Mary Crawford has taken four at the last hole. If Fanny can just get down in regulation...
The Old Curiosity Sop -- A shopkeeper's granddaughter tries to cheer up her lonely existence by eating bread soaked in gravy.