Grant Watson

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Rotten Tomatoes-accredited film critic. Award-winning playwright. Noted international education analyst. Serviceable theatre director. Has multiple sclerosis. www.fictionmachine.com

Nanshin Shi, a middle-aged Chinese woman with cropped black hair.
Sam Neill in The Omen III.
Sam Neill as Colin in Rams.
Sam Neill as Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park.
Sam Neill in a naval uniform as Cpt. Boradin in The Hunt for Red October.
Actor Sam Neill, a white man with grey-white hair and beard and a smile that reassures you that everything is going to be okay.
A list of bands on a poster.
Louise Lasser in 1976. A dark-haired white woman sitting on a brick floor wearing a dark skivvy and bell-bottom jeans.
A cinema theatre. On the screen is an advertisement for the film Moana.
Four photographs on English actor Michael Byrne, dressed in each photograph as a Nazi. Text reads: "RIP actor Michael Byrne, who was not a Nazi but sure as hell played a lot of them on screen. As Ernst Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989; as Karl in The Eagle Has Landed, 1976; as Shroeder in Force 10 From Navarone, 1978; as a Nazi interrogator in Rogue Male, 1976.)
A meme reads "Why be a Snyder-Bros when you can be... A SALKINDISTA". The top half is accompanied by a photograph of Henry Cavill as Superman: dark, dour, in brownish muted colours. A small crowd of people are laying hands on his shoulders like he is a religious icon, but honestly he looks miserable. The bottom half is filled with two portrait photographs. The first shows Christopher Reeve as Superman and the second Helen Slater as Supergirl. Their costumes are bright. Reeve looks charming and confident, and very happy to be Superman. Slater looks bright and hopeful. A light breeze is tousling her hair a bit.
A stack of 28 music CDs, all by Sting.
An orange Garfield themed lasagne shop in a shopping mall.
A cat watches a television, on which there is another cat.
Actor David Daker as Irongron, a character in the Doctor Who serial "The Time Warrior". A bearded man in medieval garb.
Insectoid alien toy figures from the 1980s.
The cover to the comic book The Invisibles No. 5. Printed on brown paper in orange and black, it reads: "The Invisibles. Arcadia Part One. New World Disorder".
A pack of the pain killer Mersynofen.
Actor Patrick Godfrey as Leonardo da Vinci in the film Ever After (1998): a white haired man with a large beard.
John Blanche's painted cover to the book The Crown of Kings by Steve Jackson. A wizard with black-green hair and purple robes holds up an elaborate golden crown.
Actor Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz. He is wearing a bright green costume.
A Lego set titled "Ancient Moon Gazing Inn".
Three Japanese men bow their heads after planting a Japanese flag on Antarctica.
A frame taken from The Mandalorian and Grogu: X-Wing fighters fly towards the camera, backlit by a setting sun. A caption credits actor Pedro Pascal.
Actor Michael Keating. A brown haired white man in cream trousers and a grey tunic.
A book cover titled "Evil Serial Killers".
Gold robot C3PO with an inexplicable red arm.
Theatrical poster for the film New Religion, directed by Keishi Kondo.
Actor Michael Pennington, a white man in a dark grey military uniform. A still from the film Return of the Jedi.
A black and white photograph of a young David Attenborough holding up an armadillo in a television studio.
A poster advertising King of the Hill, an animated Disney series. A cartoon image of four men standing behind a backyard fence holding beer cans.
Graphic on a cinema screen of two people walking horse in silhouette with a rider. Slide reads "Welcome to a special Q&A screening of Wolfram. In cinemas April 30."
Actor Rik Mayall with orange hair in a green suit. A still from the film Drop Dead Fred.
The cast of television series Robin of Sherwood: Ray Winstone, Clive Mantle, Judy Trott, Peter Llewelyn Williams, Michael Praed, Jeremy Bulloch, Phil Rose.
Actor Lee Do You in a grey suit.
Mary Beth Hurt, an actress with wavy light brown hair, light blue eyes, Caucasian skin, and back-lit by the sun.
An illustration of a humanoid lizard in a cloak, sneaking through a forest. The cover of interactive gamebook The Forest of Doom.
"Watched in while high in a university film class. Had a panic attack and I hate this movie" A Letterboxd review of Blade Runner by ZenSnipes.
An anime image of three teenage girls holding electric guitars. A still from the television series K-On!.
An image from anime series Made in Abyss (2017): two children dance in front of a massive pit, around the lip of which stands a town.
The cast of Red Dwarf Season 5: Robert Llewelyn (Kryten), Danny John-Jules (Cat), Chris Barrie (Rimmer), and Craig Charles (Lister). They are in the cockpit of a spaceship looking forwards.
Theatrical poster promoting The Great Wall. Tagline is "1,700 years to build. 5,500 miles long. What were they trying to keep out? Matt Damon. The Great Wall."
A simple map of China's Qinghai province.
Three samurai stand off against one another. A still from the film Sword of Doom.