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Video Village

Civilisation is under assault from all sides. Join us (Sam and Jordan of Jordan and Sam fame) as we self-deploy to the battleground for which we were uniquely trained - film and television.You are now entering Video Village, a podcast on which we scale the heights of praise, plumb the depths of disgust and walk wobbly on all terrains betwixt.

tv & film film reviews

All Episodes

177:12

Funfiltered Episode #040 - "Astoundingly Evitable"

Video Village ·

2021/01/04

The government put my friend in the hospital.I have been a devoted Tory my whole life and, now having renounced that allegiance, I feel “safe” admitting to it. The infobahn is not the natural habitat of the Conservative. So I trust that your embrace will be warm as I turn coats. Though the evidence is somewhat contrary.This past year, we have been inundated with a novel lexicon - one whose terms are familiar to our ears but shrill with the pitch of catastrophising re-contextualisation. Lockdown

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151:24

Funfiltered Episode #039 - "The Inert Constant"

Video Village ·

2020/12/25

It’s Christmas. Whoopee. What do you want from me? Seriously. What do you want? If you deigned to communicate, I might have a target at which to aim. As it is, I discharge my arrows blindly into the murky yonder, awaiting the Word. A yelp to announce a misfire. Co-ordinates for adjustment. A “hip hip hooray” for a bullseye. Be there even souls proximate? This Archer knows not. All He can say for certain is that He is here, with quiver, projectiles and a website in development. So throw Him a bone

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101:27

Funfiltered Episode #038 - "How Smart I'm Kind of Not...

Video Village ·

2020/11/27

Ed-Bo. Edders. Steady. It was by these names and more that I never referred to Eddie Boylett. As a sobriquet, “Eddie” is perfectly effective and the suggestion that I adopt any variants to forge a frivolous fraternity is one at which I hiss. HISS, I say! Eddie has elected to move on from the Funfiltered podcast. And so one has been compelled to cogitate: what morphemes can one offer by way of farewell or, at most, fare-okay? Has he voided his contract? Yes, of course. But the open is no place for

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151:48

Funfiltered Episode #037 - "A Condescension Waiting...

Video Village ·

2020/11/09

Since the commission of this podcast in late 2019, I have wasted an ungodly number of ticks and tocks apologising for it. In that unrelenting carcinogenic spirit, welcome to this, FunFil’s nominally Halloween expulsion #2, accruing a week+ worth of obsolescence and containing, as per, little attendant relevance. Then again, if October is now to be nauseatingly accepted as “Spook Month”, I’m sure you can grant a nine-day amnesty. This is by no means by way of defending the Funfiltered ninnies, but I

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31:30

Another Fun-Off with Sam

Video Village ·

2020/10/26

Oh, for God's sake. My repeated warnings have fallen on deaf ears. Granting you operational leeway has produced nothing but dung in my lap. And my abusive e-mails have clearly gone unheeded (or otherwise docked undeclared in your spam folder, adding a cherry gob of spit to the caking dung). CONSIDER THIS YOUR FIRST OFFICIAL WARNING. I shan't clarify how many steps constitute this disciplinary procedure. Could be two. Could be five. You must dwell in t'unknown. Sweat. Panic. Develop an ulcer. Perhaps

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26:45

A Fun-Off with Sam

Video Village ·

2020/10/19

Here it is. The final panel in the tript(d)ych. The jet nary touches the runway before the first gaffe. You and your cohorts in claptrap need to get your act together. COMMUNICATE. The last discharge was NOT the “canonical 37th episode”, you loser. I gave you fellas the benefit of the doubt. Yes, you held the fort. But now the commander has returned from a battle of sorts. Maybe it's time he (I) put his goddamn foot down. Maybe even feet. Shine your shoes. Clean your rifles. SMARTEN UP!

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128:30

Fundivided w/ Eddie and Jordan

Video Village ·

2020/10/17

‘Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.’ So insisted Charlie Kaufman, penner of such populism-renouncing flicks as Synecdoche, New York and I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Tell that to the orphans and widows of the Challenger disaster, Chuck. Go scream that at the rabble queueing up outside Jobcentre Plus*. At best, your aphorism is birdbrained and callous. At worst, it legitimises and indeed glamourises wanton sloth. Call yourself a writer? Berk. Failure now hath made his

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172:04

Funfiltered Episode #036 - "The Good Time Mafia"

Video Village ·

2020/10/12

They've been doing this podcast for a year. If there were a listenership with whom to share a sense of ceremony, 't'would be an occasion worthy of observance. As such, it has been acknowledged. And now move on from it with haste do we.So Halloween “Month”, is it? So social media (YOU) would have me believe. “Christmas Month”, one has made one’s peace with. Though commercialism, pluralism and abyssal cynicism hath mugged Noël of its riches, there is still nestled within its pocket, corroded and

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117:26

Funfiltered Episode #035 - "Sentient Slugs"

Video Village ·

2020/10/11

I never ask how YOU’RE doing*. How ARE you? Keeping WELL?Good, good.I attended a funeral last week. Nobody of particular personal significance, you needn’t send your sympathies†. H’was a business associate from the years of yester. Pitiful service. One gladdens in the plausibility of the family’s denial in insisting that the meagre turnout was a result not of Penguill’s odiousness but of the travel strains imposed by the Sinovirus.Penguill Penfold was not a likeable man. And until one of his

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180:01

Funfiltered Episode #034 - "Vanilla Dreamer"

Video Village ·

2020/09/28

Chop the powder. Clear the decks. Brace your metaphysical vulva.Your head a-spin after that gloriously mongrel triplet, I dance toward you, a fuzzy apparition in the whirling panorama. As your inner ears re-acclimate to terra firma, I take thy wrist and guide thee away from the meta-go-round. We migrate t’the underpass, not for anything predatory or anything if you’re a woman or anything scandalous if you’re a bloke, where I gaze into thy eyes (you still quite ashen) and whisper, ‘I am returned. I

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149:22

Funfiltered Episode #033 - "Something Is Only...

Video Village ·

2020/09/20

Hi hi hi, draugai. Pfidze in presence. Because Mr Kettle is in quote, pursuit of sedentary rapture, unquote, he asks me to go through his archive and choose poems and memories and reflectives for blurb-stuffing. So this is such. ---------- July 29, 1999 - Stephen Wu (Free-Form Absurdist Verse with Northern Stylings): ‘How many legs would a Woodlouse have if a Woodlouse could have legs?’‘Six,’ he says, ‘it's not rocket science.... it's entomology.’Looks at me, he does, his stare penetrating

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162:26

Funfiltered Episode #032 - "Probably Alchemical"

Video Village ·

2020/09/13

Hi hi hi, draugai. Pfidze in presence. Because Mr Kettle is in quote, pursuit of sedentary rapture, unquote, he asks me to go through his archive and choose poems and memories and reflectives for blurb-stuffing. So this is such. ---------- April 14, 2012 - Paltry (Poultry) - A Poem: ‘T’was a vulgar lassWho in front didst passIn a most unwelcome fashion,Her hair in a Croydon,Her squirt with a toy gun,She aroused an invidious passion. Her window descended,Her digit extended,Her mouth spewing lingua

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126:15

Funfiltered Episode #031 - "A Florid, Pointless...

Video Village ·

2020/09/02

Hi hi hi, draugai. Pfidze in presence. Because Mr Kettle is in quote, pursuit of sedentary rapture, unquote, he asks me to go through his archive and choose poems and memories and reflectives for blurb-stuffing. So this is such.----------March 27, 1983Mabel has gone home. In vain were my efforts to keep buoyant the honeymoon weekend. I will be the first - in this case, second - to admit that Wolverhampton is not Paris. But the deal needed closing and who needs the damn French anyway?I have composed

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158:40

Funfiltered Episode #030 - "Everything Now Is Just...

Video Village ·

2020/08/23

Hi hi hi, draugai. Pfidze in presence. Because Mr Kettle is in quote, pursuit of sedentary rapture, unquote, he asks me to go through his archive and choose poems and memories and reflectives for blurb-stuffing. So this is such. ---------- November 15, 2012 - Post-Modern Haiku: Pathos, a prowler,Swiping the crown of rigour,Bathos is shiter. ---------- Thank you for this week. Hear from us again next.

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144:46

Funfiltered Episode #029 - "Was That a Homophobic...

Video Village ·

2020/08/16

“Strange”. “Uncertain”. “Unprecedented”. In these touch-and-go times, such adjectives run rampant in the Tweets and tracts of twats and hacks. The cliché is nauseating. Yet one is assuaged by a conceptual anti-emetic - the cliché (like most) carries a crumb of veracity. Most arresting for moi has been the protuberance of Pfidze (not a fat thing). Where once she was a mere detail, an accessory, an after-thought, an atom, a fart, a nothing nothing nothing, she now has a monopoly on my life. One cannot

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157:57

Funfiltered Episode #028 - "The Cellist Is on Mescaline"

Video Village ·

2020/08/09

A solitudinal shalom. At 11:14 a.m. on this Thursday which did just path, I was subverting gender expectations and multi-tasking*. My continuing foray into all things ‘Netty has eroded my capacity for mono-tasking. To simply sit down and be is, I fear, a praxis now forever lost to me. So, I simultaneously found (lost) myself completing a jigsaw puzzle on Facebook, listening to a podcast the subject of which one fails to recall and contemplating securing a “VPN” to buy a gun off the dark web†. The

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162:44

Funfiltered Episode #027 - "The Mosques Will Help"

Video Village ·

2020/07/31

As I belatedly quaff the wonders of t’Internet, I find myself invariably ensnared in the videographic concatenations of YouTube.I have just watched an ostensible “symposium” of nominally “liberal” women repeatedly and unapologetically excoriate the “male gays”.Given the demographic of the coven and the particularity of their homophobia, one can only surmise a bitter caucus of Sapphic bigots.Whence art thine outrage? The comments section ‘neath this atrocity is a potpourri of the wickedly blithe,

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233:05

Funfiltered Episode #026 - "The Algorithms Are...

Video Village ·

2020/07/21

The lights are dimmed. A hush descends. The drums roll. The spotlight pivots. A stage. A man upon it. He is returned. He is I - I, Jeremy Gage Kettle, CEO, CFO, CMO and Upload Technician of Funlimited Entertainment. The transfer of power is executed. When last we spoke*, I was “self-isolating” at the Hope High Castle hostel just off the Billham junction in Bracknell. My pet raven Bassett had snuffed it. That may sound thoughtless but I’ve found callous casualisation to be a wonderful coping

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158:28

Funfiltered Episode #025 - "Stupid or Deliberately...

Video Village ·

2020/07/06

My name is Sam Rees. I'm one of three contributors to the Funfiltered podcast, the others being Eddie Boylett and Jordan Criddle. For the past two months, we have also functioned as the caretakers, cheerleaders, emissaries and vaguely assorted synonyms of the Funlimited Entertainment brand. We have presided over the company in a time of unprecedented human stupidity and global carnage (it’s almost like Monsieur Kettle knew… lucky break, J). It has sometimes been difficult to maintain a sense of

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125:51

Funfiltered Episode #024 - "A Throwaway Nag"

Video Village ·

2020/06/23

Yo yo yo, hombres and wombres. Sam here. We could theoretically be possibly approaching the hypothetical end of lockdown perchance! Prohibition is almost at an end, perhaps! There’s a light at the end of the tunnel… although you’re unsure whether that light is real or just your birdshot chorioretinopathy playing up again. You don’t know. You never know.The pubs will soon be flooded with those who were flouting governmental dictates anyway but will nonetheless express their relief that “things are

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