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!

Happy 70th Birthday!

Time again to celebrate our favorite actor! Here's a little birthday surprise!

666: Salem Calling

I recently signed up for a subscription to Amazon Prime Video. Of course, I looked up Robin movies, see if there was anything new I'd never seen. I almost got excited to see something called "666: Salem Calling", supposedly from 2017! Had Robin done another movie recently?? Why hadn't I heard about it? Unfortunately, it turned out to be just another re-title of "Evil Calls: The Raven" from 2007 that I had reviewed here back in 2011. Sigh. So funny how this rather bad movie keeps resurfacing under different titles. But anyway, since now it is no longer hard to find, this is your chance to watch it. They also have "Horror Hospital", "Queen Kong", "Four Dimensions of Greta" and "Bartleby".

Pointless Celebrities - S11E27 - 09 Feb 2019

Finally! Something new!

Actually, I first heard about this after it aired, looked it up on YouTube, and made a mental note to come back to it. Time flies by so quickly these days that by the time I remembered it again, it was over 6 months later, ha ha.

Never heard of this British game show before. I've been watching a lot of weird British game shows lately, as I've ventured down another path, having become a little infatuated with yet another interesting British guy named Noel Fielding. And he's on a LOT of game shows. And what I've found is that they ALL seem to be pointless. Scoring never makes sense, no one ever seems to win anything huge, but then no one takes them very seriously either. Using them more as a vehicle for doing comedy, which is fun.

This one also has a very confusing scoring system which I was trying to comprehend as I went along. The goal was to score the lowest points while answering trivia questions. But not just answering, trying to answer as a bunch of polled people did not answer. Or something like that.

Well, anyway. Robin looked great. It was wonderful to see his happy face! The only other contestant I recognized was Les McKeown of the Bay City Rollers! The band I was embarrassingly a huge fan of when I was about 8-11.

Spoiler alert ahead!!!!



Les and partner were eliminated pretty early on. Robin and partner WON! Robin really is very smart about knowing what's what, that's for sure. Only there was a weird twist at the end where they didn't win the full prize for their charities because on the last question they didn't guess the answer which no one had not guessed. That's a lot of negatives for one sentence, so I'm sure I didn't say it correctly.

Anyway, it was a fun watch. He should do more of the game show / panel show type programs! There's so many of them and he is a likeable personality that would fit right in on any of them.

Happy 68th Birthday, Robin!

Another year flown by! Best wishes (again) to my favorite actor!

This year he has finally gotten his own Twitter account and is very active about posting! Love the rare photos he posts that I've never seen before, and the updates on what he's doing now!

I haven't been very active in going back and seeing if anything of his that wasn't available when I was doing this blog regularly is now out there...so if anyone knows anything, please send me a message. I've been busy discovering some other hilarious British stuff via Hulu. Namely, "Horrible Histories" and "Mighty Boosh". Ahhhh the genius that comes out of Britain is neverending!

Happy 67th birthday, Robin!

Another year gone by! And I haven't posted at all since last year, ahhh! This nice current photo of Robin I took off Twitter, so whoever took it, my apologies for copying it and I will credit you if you want to leave a message. (Or if you want me to remove it I'll do that.) I just thought it was a great pic of him looking still wonderful and happy and active, and of course, wearing a super cool Brian Jones shirt, who is another of my idols.

And, good news, speaking of Twitter, Robin IS now (sortof) on Twitter, so we can keep up with his latest projects and appearances. It's actually his girlfriend Tracy's account @T_JCrocker but it looks like he comes on it every now and then to answer questions. And she definitely posts a lot of old and new stuff about him! So happy she's brought him into the internet age!

I do miss the days when I was actively seeking out films to watch and review, someday I will have to get back into "search" mode and see if any of the stuff I was never able to find has surfaced.

So, anyway, Robin, if you secretly read this, have a happy day, and here's to at least 67 more!

Happy 66th Birthday, Robin!

Casualty “Step Right Up” Season 30, Episode 22 – February 6, 2016

Another one I’ve been waiting for to come on YouTube and now it finally has! Step right up and watch Robin start taking “grandpa” roles.

This is a super boring medical drama series with really bad acting. Robin was good in his role, though. He plays “Ron Kleinman”, 65 year old grandpa to a mentally disabled teenaged girl who loves going to the local carnival. Her mom (supposedly his daughter, although they could have gotten an actress that looks at least a tiny bit like him) is estranged from him due to his not being around a lot when she was younger and warns him he’s forbidden to get close to the girl. But he’s changed his hard-drinking ways and wants the chance to prove it to her and be the loving devoted grandpa he now wants to be. And the girl adores him (not that I can blame her ;) )

Anyway, the mom finds them at the carnival about to go on a ride and is furious. Robin tries to calm her down and is about to go get the girl off the moving ride but is thrown off, hurting his arm. The girl is also hurt. They all must be taken to the hospital where this show’s stories take place.

So, they get patched up but the girl is proving difficult and can only be calmed down by Grandpa Robin and his singing Elvis tunes to her.

Mom tries to put an end to all of this but the doctors wisk HER away because of a bloody coughing fit. She is found to have some kind of Pleurisy type ailment and is confined to a bed. Meanwhile, the girl makes her escape.

When Robin and the gang from the hospital realize she must be at the carnival, they race to find her. And of course, they find her at the top of the empty Ferris Wheel.

How did she get up there? Why would someone let JUST an obviously disabled girl on a Ferris Wheel all alone and start the ride without anyone else in any other seat? Usually they wait until a line has formed before starting up a ride and letting people on. And why would it conveniently stall right when she was at the very top? All is left for the viewer to ponder. Because of course it makes for very suspenseful drama for an anxiety-ridden, nerdy hospital worker to climb up to keep her company so she doesn’t fall out.

If only Robin was a little younger and didn’t have his arm in a sling perhaps he could have been the brave one!

Sappy ending of course with all turning out all right and mom forgiving Robin and everyone happy that all is well.