Last Train to Christmas - 2021

Can you believe my luck lately? Another new Robin movie! Shown in the UK this Christmas season, but by Christmas Eve I found it on YouTube here in the US! Truly is a Christmas miracle! 😄

Looked low-budget, but Husband and I actually really enjoyed it. I'm always a fan of time travel movies, and this was a clever one...kept the characters on a train, but each car would take the main character back and forth through his life by a span of 10 years. All the way back to 1945, and then up to what I guess was 2015 at the end. Telling his story and him trying to figure out how to make the change that will fix the problem that gets revealed. So good! Robin played the director of an ad the main character was making on the train in 1985, and played his role with his usual exuberance.

Look it up before it gets taken off! And enjoy!

Madame Blanc Mysteries: Episode 1 - 2021

Oddly enough, right after I posted a few days ago, I watched yet another new thing Robin is in! I saw that the Acorn streaming channel was offering a 99 cent a month deal for 3 months subscription with the code "HappyHoliday". And they carry "The Madame Blanc Mysteries" which I've been reading about on Twitter. (Updated update: just found out today that DailyMotion also has it, but for free. Oh well, I wanted to check out Acorn anyway...)

I watched the first episode last night. It's okay, an interesting enough British murder mystery. There's this British antique dealer woman, Jean White, whose husband is killed in a car accident while buying antiques in France (filmed in Gozo, though!) She goes to the village to investigate and gets involved with the locals while doing so. Steve Edge plays the local British handyman who helps her out. I recognized him from a few other things he's been in that I've watched lately, including a really interesting series called "Starlings" which unfortunately only lasted a couple seasons. I like him. Robin really only (so far) has a small role as another British local, "Jeremy Lloyd James" who makes a couple of appearances with his...wife? I think. Sorry, too lazy to go back and re-watch to see how they are first introduced.

After watching it I was thinking to myself, "I wonder why they call it the 'Madame Blanc Mysteries'? Who is Madame Blanc?" I was assuming beforehand she was going to be a French investigator who went around solving crimes. Then I put two and two together and realized Mrs. White in French would be Madame Blanc, ha ha. Takes me awhile! But she only had her own mystery to solve. Looking forward to seeing if she's going to give up antique dealing for mystery solving!

Conjuring: The Book of the Dead - 2019

Well, hello! It's been awhile, hasn't it? I know I've been neglecting this blog terribly, but it's been a busy couple years for me. I do see that Robin's been in a few things lately and hopefully I can get to see those soon.

One thing I just watched is "Conjuring: The Book of the Dead" from 2019.... and unfortunately part of the "Evil Calls: The Raven" series that I reviewed HERE a LONG time ago.

It is currently on the free Tubi Channel, the home of tons of bad low-budget films. If you want to go watch it for yourself, go on over now because - WARNING! - this review will have major spoilers.

Robin again has a very small part in it, again plays Vincent Carney, brother of George Carney, whose wife he was having an affair with.

George Carney is the star of this one. In "Evil Calls" he had descended into madness after learning of the affair and (I think) killed his family? Can't fully remember. But now he's a writer who is writing a screenplay about the event (So...does this mean the events in the first movie didn't happen?)

BUT weird things are going to happen to him in this one as well anyway. His editor sends him off to New Orleans to find out info about a rare book she had just bought which was supposedly a secret book Aleister Crowley had written just before his death. There he meets occultists in a strip club/whorehouse type place who explain things and take advantage of him so as to suit their own agenda. Which turns out to be (here's the spoiler alert!) that he is actually the grandson of Aleister Crowley himself and everyone is in on the plot (even Robin!) to get him to conceive a child with one of the occultists. One amusing fact that comes out is that he shares a birthday with his grandfather -- which is October 12....which if you're a Robin fan you know that it is also HIS birthday. Now, I never knew that! Pretty funny!