Well thanks to Dom for pointing out that I hadn’t listed every brilliant film ever and possibly forgot a few. It isn’t that I have a list next to my bed and add to it every few weeks/months/years. It was just a list that sprung to mind as my fingers typed. So I forgot some. I’m human. In some ways…

So I thank him for the Blues Brothers, without which my life indeed would be far from complete. Similarly One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest. Amazing. The Godfather(s) were brilliant but far from my own personal top 10 (of 395 and counting). Though I did omit Taxi Driver, by accident, and also Dog Day Afternoon and Midnight Cowboy. Even The Witches of Eastwick. Firstly because Jack Nicholson was so brilliant that not for one moment did you suspect that his character was anything but the devil himself, and secondly because ‘we’ NEED Michelle Pfeiffer in this list. Just NEED her. Might have thought for a bit about The Usual Suspects but you’re not allowed to talk about K*v*n Sp*c*y any longer in case someone comes round and changes all YOUR vowels to asterisks!!

But movies can only take you so far. I’m expecting a whole batch of Coronavirus movies to come out soon. Keanu Reeves fighting off microbes in bullet time. Just ducking them. Tom Cruise (but he looks much bigger) fighting them off with machine guns and booby traps. Alec Baldwin starring as Donald Trump in ‘Death of a President’ about a man who refused to believe. Hattie Jacques will play Melania. Sid James as Boris Johnson.

But it turns out that Covid 19 is racist. Deeply racist. Like, KKK levels of racism. As it appears the darker your skin, the greater the chance you have of dying from it. Which is horrible. Yet statistically borne out. Whites lose 23 people out of every 100,000 of population to the virus, whereas for black people it 43! People from India and environs run at about 27, unless they’re from Bangladesh in which case it drops to just 20.

That is pure fucking racism. They should outlaw the virus on those grounds alone. I’m not sure how that stats rate for gays, lesbians and bisexuals and can see that ‘trans’ people might possible confuse the statisticians. Men are more likely to die than women from the virus. Not sure about Jews but we ain’t doing too well.

So I’m moving to Bangladesh tomorrow. I’ll keep in touch. Without touching, obvs.

Happy Next Day

A xxxx