The View From Lower Down

Longtime readers might remember the Viewies as the awards I give out for movies every year (I did it badly, exactly once). This is a hard reboot of the Viewies. This time, there are four major awards available (Best Original Score; Best One Liner, Best Trailer and, of course, The Dick Van Dyke award for Worst fake accent). All other awards are very specific so no other movie would have a chance of beating them. Every movie is capable of winning one. So what are the rules? 1. I have watched it between 1 January and 31 December 2024 2. The movie does not  have to be released during that time 3. I have to be watching it for the first time  during that period 4. For Best Trailer, the quality of the movie itself is irrelevant and I only have to see the trailer for the first time during the year 5. ALL movies must win at least one award 6. The four major awards are attainable by any movie and the winner will be crowned in January 2025 The original awards: Shortest Training Montage: Boys in t

 I'm trying to reclaim that acronym. Back in my day, BTS wasn't a Kpop band; it stood for Behind The Scenes. So, I thought you might want to see some of the work that goes into making Tangents: The Game , starting with the poster that Deirdre saw in the London Underground waiting room  (In case you were wondering, that idea of the London Underground comes from the following clip from A Fish Called Wanda (relevant line at 1:10): The poster used was this: You may have noticed that something looks a little off about Frankie. maybe it's the strange green spot next to her neck? The red patterned dress with white outline? The fact that she's got 

At the start of January, I sent out a survey for people to make suggestions to improve my Christmas quiz. I got seven responses, and I'd like to share some of the results: Most people chose to keep the signup notification on the first of November  Four people preferred clues on Monday-Friday, but three people preferred Monday-Saturday Most people preferred clues to be released at 11 (one person said 11:04 to be awkward - joke's on them; I'm asking them to help me automate it) Most people wanted to let people join partway through the quiz The rest of the survey was casting a dream version of A Christmas Carol. Special mention should be made to Teanbame, who said for every answer that they wanted to know the real identities of the other teams, but these are my favourite actual answers for each character (unfortunately only one person gave an answer for every character so most of the answers will be from Looks Like Rain Dear): Ebenezer Scrooge: Boris Johnson Bob Cratchit: Davi