Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 29-8-2019: Cash

29th August, 2019.

Yes: we have a prorogued Parliament*.

Boris Johnson has taken the step of proroguing — suspending, in other words — Parliament yesterday.

Something that’s usually done during an election, or over Parliament’s Summer Recess.

And that the Johnson administration say is to prepare for a Queen’s Speech on 14th October, this year.

But many — myself included — feel is an attempt to block attempts to stop a no-deal Brexit.

And the day after opposition leaders had agreed a way of doing just that.

It’s also something that’s — apparently — entirely legal.

Personally?

I want my country back.

But am very aware Boris has tied us face down over a barrel, and taken his trousers off.

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Cash: entertainment, with the possibility of Whippets.

You know, I’ve got to admit, right at the moment … ?

Right at the moment, I’m watching the BBC’s film version of Rupert Goold’s cut of MacBe …

MacB …

The Scottish play, in other words: I’ll a little superstitious about naming it.

Beautiful thing to be distracted by, given that Patrick Stewart’s in the title role.

Remind me to tell you about it, sometime …

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At any rate, I actually meant to tell you about the movie Movie Night Adrian and I watched, last night.

The problem with that … ?

Is that we ended up nattering happily about all sorts of things.

After we found that the movie we’d been planning to watch, the Christopher Nolan directed Inception, was a damp squib.

I think me and Adrian both decided — after some 17 minutes — that we’d rather do anything else.

Wrestling alligators could’ve been interesting, but Adrian, bless ’im, is coming down with a case of flu.

At any rate, I do know that he, Kevin, and I all got together with a DVD copy of the 2010 independent crime thriller, Ca$h on Thursday night.

And I’m thinking we all agreed it was money well spent.

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Hang on, back in a sec, the Wyrd Sisters are back on …

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Whoops, sorry, it’s the big banqueting scene …

Amazing what you can down with East European comedy records and half a dozen Shakespearean actors …

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Let’s move on to the matter at hand, shall we … ?

Ca$h sees Sean Bean as Pyke Kubic, who’s looking for the fruit of a bank heist originally stolen by his identical twin brother.

And that’s landed up with happily married — but unemployed — couple, Sam and Leslie Phelan: played by Chris Hemsworth and Victoria Profeta.

Pyke … ?

Wants the money back.

And goes about it in a very reasonable way.

Ahem …

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Now …

I think I’m going to leave this post here: after all, Patrick Stewart is just warming up.

But speaking of the films I’ve had the chance to see over the past few days … ?

Given the choice of the big budget — and seemingly badly plotted, going by what we saw — Inception, or Ca$h, the little indie movie made with Inception’s tea club money … ?

I’d go for the bone dry humour of Ca$h, any day … !