#David St. James

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Aliens Autopsy Part 3 – Alien Resurrection

In today's a review, I find that even 200 years on a final sacrifice might be in order. As I attempt a #positive review of the 1997 film: Alien Resurrection #SigourneyWeaver #NicoleFellows #WinonaRyder #DominiquePinon #RonPerlman #GaryDourdan

A good ending can be just as hard as a good beginning, even with the stigma of the blank page. Even if you’ve taken the final bow, there might just be a valuable and, in some cases, profitable means to give it one more try. But with great reward comes great risk, and sometimes it is a gamble not for the faint of heart. In 1997, the saga of Ripley finally ended, almost twenty years after it…

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SCREAM THERAPY (2023) Comedy horror - trailer and premiere news

Scream Therapy is a 2023 American comedy horror film about a group of young women being terrorised by demon-worshipping incels. Written, directed and co-produced by Cassie Keet. Also produced by Jess Olsen, Mandie Cheung, Claire Dellamar and Benjamin Dunn. Executive produced by Joshua Bangle, Brian Flaccus and Chadwick Hopson. The Knights Young Productions-Treehouse Productions movie stars David…

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Final version of their St James Park bench

Now including some of the scribbles and little tokens of fandom love because those make the bench what it is

I might craft a few more miniatures before I move onto other projects, because they are just so much fun! (Sans the arsing with the glue gun.)

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Trouble in the 1800's - Good Omens

The next time we see them together Crowley asks for holy water. What did they do to the poor dear?

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...at the bench.

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Poster for 'The Survival of St. Joan', a medieval rock opera by American rock band, Smoke Rise, from an original concept and libretto by playwright and screenwriter James Lineberger (1971). Artwork by David Edward Byrd.

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My little collection of photos from when I finally visited THE bench in St James’ Park (please excuse the poor quality, phone camera angles are not my friend!).

These were taken the day after the S3 finale got announced, so it felt quite poignant to me. It’s somewhere I’ve been meaning to visit for ages, and to get to see it at last was so special. It was almost impossible to capture the sheer number of messages and quotes that had been left - we are truly an incredible fandom! Although I heard recently that the bench has now been sanded down, the heart lock is still very much there, and I’m sure it won’t take long for new text to be added ❤️

I saw David Tennant in Macbeth the night before these pics were taken (it was phenomenal!) and then was lucky enough to see him again the next day doing a talk on Shakespeare with Greg Doran. To top it off, I got to meet many fellow GO fans while I was there as well, including @phoen1xr0se who was very lovely!

It was an incredible 48hrs to say the least 🥰

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The Round House, St Davids, Pembrokeshire.

James Gowan c.1967

Sept 23

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As much as I 100% agree with everyone who argues that we should have gotten more screentime for the women of TOS (Commanders Chapel and Rand) or for Saavik and David, I feel the character who got done dirtiest by the movies was Dr. Marcus.

She was such an interesting character, both in terms of her relation to Kirk and her goals with Project Genesis. She absolutely could have grown and been one of the best TOS era characters ever if given more development in future films, but no. We don't even see her in Search for Spock. The movie where her damn son dies. And she didn't even come back in Undiscovered Country?? The movie where David's death is a pivotal piece of Kirk's character arc??

Apparently she was supposed to appear in Search for Spock, but they snipped her out of the movie seemingly for budget cuts, and because she was "extraneous" which feels like such a shitty thing to do to the character, in a movie with a plotline set on Genesis (which she created) that features the death of her son. Her actress, Bibi Besch apparently was very disappointed that we never got any sort of closure with Marcus, and she's damn right! Apparently she was supposed to be in Generations but was cut out because... idk we can't have nice things?? (Also not the movie's fault, but the fact she passed on only two years after being cut from Generations feels so unfair to Besch. Rest in peace.) Also nobody bring up Into Darkness. I haven't seen it, but I already know they did her real dirty in that one.

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Good Omens London Trip 🐍💞🪽

It's my Birthday today and I treated myself to a trip to London last weekend to see my favourite actor Michael Sheen in Nye at the National Theatre. I made the most of my weekend by combining it with a Good Omens filming location self-tour and I'd love to share it with you all. So, are you ready for the tour?

Here we go!

Starting off with Soho, and the inspiration for Whickber Street, where Aziraphale's bookshop, Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death, The Small Back Room, and the Dirty Donkey are located.

It’s Berwick Street and a record shop that is very similar in shape to A.Z Fell & Co. Bonus points for spotting Duck Lane!

Next is Berkeley Square, a short walk from Soho. The first two photos are of the real Berkeley Square gardens in Mayfair, and the last two photos were taken in the filming location of Tavistock Square across the other side of central London near Kings Cross. I’m sitting on their ‘body swap’ bench in the last photo!

As you can see, the benches are turned around facing inwards now but are the other way, facing outwards in Good Omens.

Oh, and I can confirm that there were no nightingales singing in either location 😭

Heading up the road a few minutes from Tavistock Square to The Enterprise pub where I met a fellow fan who kindly took photos of me posing (I bet the staff thought we were off our rockers!). This is where Crowley drowns his sorrows in Talisker Whisky whilst waiting for the world to end after thinking he'd lost Aziraphale. Omg that poor poor demon, he was really just gonna die along with the world.

Also, one of my favourite moments of season 1 is Crolwey's line: "I heard that. It was the wiggle-on..." then shrugs. 😆 So many emotions in such short a time.

Onto the Ritz. The first two photos are of the real Ritz (a stone's throw from Berkeley Square) and the last one is inside Masala Zone in Piccadilly Circus where the ‘Quite extraordinary amounts of alcohol’ and ‘To the World’ scenes were filmed.

I ate in here alone to get the photo and was so lucky with the table I was given! Perfect discreet snap whilst eating my curry! Haha!

Next up is Battersea Park and the Bandstand. It was a bit of a faff to get there, it's an 8-minute walk from the Battersea Power Station underground and we walked the full length of the park to find the Bandstand, but it was so worth it.

Also filmed here was Gabriel and Aziraphale’s run/jog. Poor Angel is soft scene.

The trees were a little leafier with it being mid-May and the park was very busy because the weather was glorious. They also have a beautiful lake here with herons!

The Heaven & Hell staircase escalators are right over the east side of London in Broadgate Tower, Bishopsgate. I got the overground to Liverpool Street station to get there. It is in a private business building so I politely/awkwardly asked the receptionist if I could take a photo and had to explain about the scene from Good Omens… eek! But he kindly let me snap a photo anyway! (Phew)

The Windmill Theatre was three minutes away from my hotel in Piccadilly Circus, so I wandered up the road to take a photo of where Aziraphale ‘performed on the West End stage’ as Fell the Marvelous. And wasn’t he just?

The scenes weren't filmed here but it was fun to find it anyway.

St James’s Park is up next! I sat on their bench and got my friend to take photos of me posing and had fun editing the first photo. Haha! We enjoyed walking through the park, watching the ducks on the lake and had a nosey at Buckingham Palace while we were there.

The Duke of York Statue steps are at the other end of St James's Park and were fun to walk up. I smiled to myself as I thought of the scene where Crowley says ‘Well let's have lunch? Hmm,’ and Aziraphale turns around, as it was the first time I realised that these two were more than just friends.

Heaven’s top floor, the Sky Garden in Fenchurch Street near Monument is a very tall building with a botanical garden on the top floor. You can visit the sky garden for free, but you do need to book in advance so it’s best to plan ahead for this one. The views of London are breathtaking from the 35th floor and the tropical plants are fun.

My last stop for this visit was Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. I booked a tour on the morning I was due to go home. The first tour is 10 am and lasts an hour, so I dashed off as soon as the tour guide was uttering his last words about the gift shop, across London back to Kings Cross to pick up my suitcase from luggage storage and get the 11:48 am train home!

One I missed and could have easily gone to is St Margaret Street where Newton and Shadwell meet, and Shadwell fleeces Newton for a cup of tea with nine sugars and pockets the change. A bit gutted I missed it to be honest – I love Jack Whitehall (I’m back in London with the family in June so I’ll swing by and update then!)

There are also some other locations a little further afield that I might try to visit on a later date, such as Shadwell's and Madam Tracy's flat down Hornsey Road in Islington, Crowley's Flat exterior in Eastfields Avenue, Best Cafe on Garratt Lane where Crowley meets Shadwell, Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park where the ineffable husbands watch Warlock defacing a dinosaur sign and Antonella's Cafe and Bistro where Crowley and Aziraphale are thinking of ideas to track down the antichrist whist Aziraphale eats cake.

Okay, I’m gonna finish up with the man himself. The very kind, very charming, and VERY patient Michael Sheen The reason for my London visit in the first place. Nye was spectacular OBviOUsLy, but he was super generous with his time at stage door for us all. I got a hug and asked him to pass it on to Aziraphale (that angel really needs a hug) and it made him laugh, which made my night!

Check out my reblog for extra locations when I visited London again a month later, and for a hilarious bonus photo of.... Gabriel??!

Here’s the wonderful map I used -

from this website:

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Everyone knows the best place for a clandestine meeting in London is, and always has been, St James’s Park. They say the ducks are so used to being fed by secret agents that they’ve developed Pavlovian reactions to them. -God, Good Omens

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Their South Downs bench will be the one from St James Park!

Today I headcanonned that the bois (gn) will miracle their St James Park bench to the South Downs cottage.

Imagine:

(Art by @idkchatie, South Downs collage made by me and @0xlilith)

(This also means that all the scribbles you vandals put on the bench every time you visit London (I know who you are and I love you) will go to the South Downs as well. Scribble wisely!)

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The Last House On The Left (1972)

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Disney Adventures, March 2001

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Wargames of D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the Normandy breakout, Operations Cobra and Goodwood

Cobra: Game of the Normandy Breakout, TSR, 1984, Larry Elmore credited as illustrator (designed by BE Hessel and updated by David James Ritchie, originally published by SPI in Strategy & Tactics magazine #65, 1977, then as an SPI boxed game in 1978; the TSR edition expands the scope by including the D-Day landings and the battles of Cherbourg and Caen)

Breakout: Normandy, Avalon Hill, 1993, Michael Reis box art with text recolored for ad in The General V29 N2 (designed by Don Greenwood and James Stahler; republished in 2011 by L2 Design Group)

St Lo: Normandy 1944: The Breakout Begins, West End Games, 1986, with Robert Berran box art (designed by Joseph M. Balkoski; republished in 2021 by War Drum Games/Quarterdeck International)