Here are nine photos of the wildly sexy Eva Birthistle holding things

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A damn fine pair of films

This film is one of the pillars of the Australian 'new wave' of films. It's based on a Thomas Keneally novel, which I tried to read back when I was a teenager but I couldn't get into for whatever reason. When I saw the film was going off Netflix instant next week I decided to watch it yesterday. Boy, am I glad I did.

The film is about a half white/half aborigine man named Jimmie Blacksmith. He's raised by a white minister and his wife and he wants nothing more to fit in the white world of turn of the century Australia. However, there one huge problem, turn of the century white Australia wanted nothing to do with him. He managed to scrape by on some odd jobs and to even marry a white woman after it was obvious she was pregnant, possibly with his child. After indignity after indignity and being given the shaft by employer after employer, Blacksmith goes on a rampage with first his uncle and then his brother. They murder, steal, and loot their way across the country. Driven by blind rage the white authorities throw all their resources after Blacksmith and his kin. Finally they catch and kill them all.

This is a tough film to watch because of the violence and the racism. But it's an important film to watch because of those reasons. I imagine that this film helped Australia come to grips with it's treatment of it's native population like many films of this nature did for the USA. Tommy Lewis shines as the put upon Jimmie Blacksmith who's main crimes were to want to be like whites and marrying a white woman. There are many fine performances in this film and it's definitely worth your time.

Highly recommended.


A couple loses their child to a horrific dog mauling accident. Afterwards they move to a small creepy little close knit town. One night the wife stumbles upon a secret ritual where the dead are being brought back to life. Sick with grief over the death of her daughter she pleads and begs until her husband relents and allows the locals to raise their kid from the ground. Told they have only three days with their risen child they enjoy their time with her but then on the third day, things start to go wrong. Very wrong. Very, very, wrong.

I loved this creepy atmospheric horror film. It's full of eerie locals, misty rainy nights, skullduggery, secrets, buried secrets, unburied bodies, and chilling effects. Eva Birthistle, one of my adopted actors, shines as the grief stricken, yet still super hot mother and Aidan Gillen is very good as her father. Timothy Spall is creepy good as the head local in charge of the resurrections.

I loved this film from start to finish. It never tries to be anything more than an entertaining little horror film. It sucked me right in and it held me right up through it's shocker surprise ending. I loved the use of children as objects of horror and terror and the use of animals in the story as well. It's all very creepy and eerie and very very entertaining. This one should become a cult classic in my opinion. I know I'll see it again sometime, I liked it that much.

Very highly recommended. And I'd say that even if the film didn't contain a lovemaking scene with Ms. Birthistle, hubba hubba.

Mark your calendars

My Thanksgiving special will air on the Spuzz Channel at 10:30 PM on Thanksgiving night. This year's show is going to be the bestest one ever!

My co hostSigourney Weaver and I will sing many duets, engage in cheesy comedic banter, make out a bit, and do Tarot card readings for Phylis Schlafly and Christine O'Donnell.

Then we'll track down the ever elusive Julianne Moore
and shave her muff so that we can weave a shirt out of her pubic hair. And we'll give that pubic hair shirt to Sofia Coppola.
Next I'll welcome on Eva Birthistle
and she and I will grease each other up in a mixture of turkey fat, pumpkin pie filling, and Vitalis and we'll tag team wrestle an international contingent of actresses that include Catherine Deneuve
Diane Kruger and Alex Kingston.

And finally Mena Suvrai will drop in to help us kick off the official war on Christmas.

This year, with the help of the liberal media, the labor unions, George Soros, and Barbra Bush's miscarried fetus in a jar, we're going to kick Jesus's ass in the war on Christmas!So don't forget to mark your calendars for this year's show, it's going to be super monkey-tastic!

It's Adopt an Actor Day!

Happy Adopt an Actor day everybody! For those of you who do not know, Adopt an Actor was started by Splotchy on his blog and it soon spread like wildfire to other blogs. It's a way to celebrate the work of some great actors and, in my case, it's another reason to post pictures of pretty women.

I'm going to use today's holiday to adopt another actor. And since I have one each from Britain, Ireland, and Scotland, it's time to jump across the pond and adopt an actor from our neighbor to the north, Canada. I had a tough time deciding between Leslie Nielsen, Molly Parker, and Sarah Polley. But in the end I chose...
actor, writer, and filmmaker Sarah Polley! I chose Ms. Polley because I've been a long time fan of her work. She's been in some of my favorite films, The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (which I'm due to watch again soon because it's been over a year since I last saw it), Go, eXistenZ, Dawn of the Dead, and The Claim. She was also in the recent HBO mini series about John Adams, the scene where she gets her cancerous breast removed is gut and heart wrenching. She's not only a damn fine actor, she's also a very well regarded screenwriter and recently she's added directorto her long list of show biz accomplishments. And she recently got to meet my blog buddy K-Line.
Please welcome Miss Sarah Polley to my stable of adopted actors and be sure to catch one of her films or TV shows real soon!

Has the cold and the snow got you down?

Maybe a look at my adopted Irish actor will snap you out of it. Here's Ms. Eva Birthistle smiling away the gloom of a winters day for you:
Haven't seen any of her movies yet? Why shame on you! Rectify that by watching A Fond Kiss and Breakfast on Pluto right away.

Another adoption

Since I have already adopted an a female actor from Britain, Archie Panjabi, and a female actor from Scotland, Shirley Henderson, I needed a female actor from Ireland to round out my adoptees, so I decided to adopt the small in stature (she's 5'4") but big in talent Irish female actor Eva Birthistle.

I first became aware of Ms. Birthistle from her star turn in the film A Fond Kiss, which is a new favorite here at Monkey Central.  She's also been in another favorite film of mine Breakfast on Pluto.  She's been in a slew of Brit made TV shows and is in some new films too.  Please welcome Eva to the Monkey Muck family of adopted actors!