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  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    edited February 14
    Nora! Nora! Nora - Mixed martial arts interpretation of the Ibsen classic.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited February 14
    A tearjerker about two of our feathered friends:

    Dove Story
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    The Beer Hunter

    After the Vietnam war, a group of former soldiers turn to drink.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    edited February 14
    Platon Biopic in which the Greek philosopher as a young man experiences the reality of war.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Piglet wrote: »
    A tearjerker about two of our feathered friends:

    Dove Story

    With Ali MacCraw and Ryan O'Trill
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    Done in Sixty Seconds -- A group of ne'er-do-wells eating stolen microwave meals.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    The Quack And The Dead

    Untrained amateur physician gets predictable results.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Bog Soldiers - somewhat dull oeuvre about the challenges facing workers in the nation's sewerage network.
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    In The Loo
    An hour of half of Peter Capaldi swearing while he's having a dump.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Apocalypse Nowt

    Yorkshire short film about t'end of t'world that isn't nigh at all.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Intergalactic version of Top Gear:

    Star Cars
  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate
    don't ask for whom the bell tolls - it is The Sound of Death
  • Gill HGill H Shipmate
    If I could extend this to songs, today's weather would be summed up by the classic disco number...

    It's Raining, Meh
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Or perhaps by I'm Sinking In The Rain...
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Quatermass and the Nit
    A demonic alien invasion of headlice spreads through post-war London.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Waddington - documentary about the British board games company
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Gene Simmons and his glam rock group fight for their lives in the undergrowth of their back garden in...

    Honey, I Shrunk The Kiss
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Jurassic Bark - the unfortunate result of crossing dinosaurs with dogs.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Friday the 12th - a rather dull day: overcast, light breezes with scattered showers and occasional sleet.
  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate
    Scone Diaries - baked goods for every day of the year.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Roseofsharon wrote: »
    Scone Diaries - baked goods for every day of the year.

    What's the original?

    [For the record, the previously suggested method of googling the parody name to get directed to the original doesn't always work.]
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    At a guess:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_Diaries
  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate
    That's the one.
    I read it 30 years ago. I wouldn't say it was a favourite book, but it must have made some impression for me to recall the title after all these years.
  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate
    I apologise for omitting the definite article - it does not have one in my memory :(
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    At a guess:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_Diaries

    Thanks! Google brought me to The Sloane Ranger Diaries, which I gather was the British version of one of those "How To Be A Valley Girl" books in the 1980s.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    The Princess Dairies - a girl eschews the formality of royal life for the challenges of farming
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Have we had 'The Big Sheep'?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Have we had 'The Big Sheep'?

    Well, I haven't, but to each his own ... :mrgreen:
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    To be found in

    The Pig Country?
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    Petty in Pink

    As the cool girl, she doesn't have to say it, but she always does.
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    A group of extremely socially awkward, yet virtually mute, young women bully one another while getting into ridiculous slapstick situation.

    Bean Girls
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Picnc at Banging Rock
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    Frocky

    The story of a boxer who makes it big in couture.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    The Mousetrip - amusing play on the effect of hallucinogenics on rodents
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    A Christmas Carob

    A slightly less sweet Holiday tale of transformation.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Bleak Horse - the story of an equine with a gloomy outlook on life.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    edited February 17
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    Bleak Horse - the story of an equine with a gloomy outlook on life.

    Why the long face?
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    Infinite Pest

    David Foster Wallace's inimitable exposition on the German Cockroach.
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    The Man In The Ron Mask
    A political prisoner is condemned to wear a Ron Weasley mask for the rest of his life in incarceration.
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    The Interpretation of Drams

    Freud's ground-breaking disquisition on the way our primitive sexual instincts influence our desire for single malts
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    Lord of the Files
    Historical Fiction: J. Edgar Hoover builds cases against progressive Americans.

    Lord of the Sings
    The Bryn Terfel Story: From local Eisteddfods to the World Stage
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    edited February 18
    Lost Tango in Paris - one man's search for a former dance partner
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    How Green Was My Volley

    Inexperienced tennis player botches his swings.
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    Haricots of Fire

    - the painful consequence of over-indulging in bean casserole!
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    The previously unknown biblical writing, authored by a childlike extra terrestrial

    The Gospel According To Mork
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Lone with the Wind - a sad tale of social isolation due to excessive and incurable flatulence
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    The Code of the Roosters by G.P. Wodehouse

    In this comic masterpiece, daily life in the barnyard is tightly regimented, and all is well, or at least that's what the Cock of the Walk believes...
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    A group of children neglected by their father get a dog that teaches them to sing in The Hound of Music.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    The Quiet Mam - unusual tale of a Welsh mother afflicted with permament laryngitis
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    March Hare wrote: »
    The Interpretation of Drams

    Freud's ground-breaking disquisition on the way our primitive sexual instincts influence our desire for single malts

    Mosses And Monotheism

    The contribution of bryophytes to the development of Jewish religion is examined.
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