The thing about the NOW YOU SEE ME movies is that I haven't seen any of them.

Going on past evidence I'm pretty sure Nolan isn't going to be using stop-motion with massive generational loss of image quality, but I'm keeping an open mind

Had a dream in which Ed Harris delivered an hour-long monologue on comedic theory while I drove around a deserted Mid-Western city. Niche stuff

*smashes that like button* Like button is now broken.

Not sure this is the ideal position for someone to assume when their own daughter will turn, er, 15 next year...

Gotta be said that this whole generation of robot walking algorithms trained on footage of humans is startlingly effective, at least when it comes to recreating the gait and elegance of the stereotypical vodka-soused middle-aged Russian feller

Does NO TIME TO DIE show James Bond's broken, burnt-to-a-crisp, unequivocally-dead corpse? It does not. Stop. Overthinking. This.

Speaking as someone who bounces right off Edgar Wright movies more often than not, these reviews of THE RUNNING MAN are really not compelling me to spend money on seeing it at this time.

I was at the world premiere of NO TIME TO DIE at the Royal Albert Hall and damn right everybody stayed in their seats until "James Bond Will Return" came up on the screen. Amazon is deeply overthinking this. #007

If only a previous writer of the Bond franchise had not only surmounted this exact problem but done so in such a way as to also lay the ground for a soft reboot

Incoming...

Not me noting that only one of the Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World is still standing, albeit with all its casing stolen by the proles in antiquity to build houses and stuff

The YouTube ads begging people to visit the USA are indicative of the reality of the current regime having wider effects. Also lol, fuck no.

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Baby's first hit skeet still doing numbers 24hrs later: time to mute the thread

The Frankenstein reviews are falling into two camps. 1) adoration 2) disappointment it is not more true to Shelley's vision. I have thoughts. The first of which is that Frankenstein will not truly capture the essence of Shelley's feminism unless it's done by a woman. But there's an asterisk here.

Watching high-quality 1968 SF movie THE BAMBOO SAUCER. One suspects the saucer in question is not in fact made from bamboo.

And “prompt engineer” isn’t a thing either.

Watched THE ASSESSMENT, which sidesteps the worst instincts of social dystopia movies while affording Alicia Vikander an outstanding opportunity to indulge both in pure acting workshop theatrics and a spot of dancing. Good, chilling high concept SF. Easily clears that pesky Bechdel-Wallace test too!

Newsflash, dipshit: the novel doesn't pass it either.

This is exactly the kind of thing you need to be spunking that Netflix money on

Anybody want to talk about gender-affirming drug treatments? Anybody? Anybody?

Gerard Butler HDGTM debut confirmed!

The only thing I really want from PREDATOR movies is warriors going up against a technologically advanced enemy and outsmarting them. All this other lore and home planet stuff is of zero interest to me. Predator vs Mediaeval Knights? Vikings? Pirates? Cossacks? Belgium? Neanderthals? That's the shit

Put it this way: I read Erica Jong's Fear Of Flying at 15. Only good things have come of this.

As GdT's FRANKENSTEIN begins streaming, we consider just who among us has NOT brought to life a monster man upon being denied by our brother's fiancée the opportunity to cuck him

To mark Lee Tamahori's passing, I'm on a first-time watch of his 1996 '50s-set neo-noir MULHOLLAND FALLS, which is doing a pretty good job of underlining just how hard this specific genre is to crack: L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) this is not, although it was clearly reference material for L.A. NOIRE

Dangerous confession: I think TRUE LIES is genuinely a bad movie.

Damn, Lee Tamahori died. He never made a film which wasn't interesting and stylish, and while it didn't feel like his Hollywood career gave him the kind of success and acclaim his talents deserved he made some of the very best of New Zealand cinema. Moe mai rā.

Watching one of those mumblecore movies that has an absolutely STACKED cast combined with a meandering narrative that may not ultimately add up to anything and a bunch of shots which are actually out of focus

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

November 5th, when we celebrate ineptitude in the field of domestic terrorism and religiously-motivated regime change by blowing shit up and burning effigies of the ringleader

Watching the girlbands doc GIRLBANDS FOREVER but taking breaks to listen to Peaches, Monie Love, The Yeastie Girls, Mira Calix and Queen Latifa for balance/sanity purposes

Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday? Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat? If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇

So this year I have watched two movies starring Sydney Sweeney and yesterday at the cinema I saw trailers for two more movies both starring and produced by Sydney Sweeney which are releasing this year and my main takeaway is, damn girl, take a breath

Quickly (as in, it's 86m long) polishing off the other horror in my MUBI queue, which turns out to have boobs in the opening shot, 5 stars

38m into THE DRILLER KILLER and not a single driller killing thus far, even if Peter Gunn has been pretty comprehensively murdered.

One thing about Colin Farrell's story of boozy shenanigans on the set of MINORITY REPORT: in the finished film it's impossible to identify a single scene (and he only has four or five) in which he is conclusively neither three sheets to the wind nor absolutely fucking hanging.

I guess Marge also saw BUGONIA

This reads suspiciously like the words of someone soft-launching a future divorce which dodges any pesky anti-divorce Catholic teachings prior to taking a nice pliable blonde white woman as new wife. The widow Kirk, for instance.

At a gig tonight for the first time in, er, a couple of years and the assembled crowd perfectly reflects the extreme nerdery of the music to come, which is to say dub for white people

Shout out to the couple I had to shoo out of their seats earlier: not only were they in the wrong theatre, they were in the entire wrong cinema for their 20th anniversary screening of CORPSE BRIDE. I suspect they might not have enjoyed BUGONIA quite as much as I did.

And we all know how the Roaring ‘20s ended, right?

Turned down a hug yesterday, because it was in a professional setting where it would have been inappropriate. Feeling pretty comfortable with that choice.

Alright, ONE more Frankenstein movie

Evidently Kim Kardashian never saw the video where Buzz Aldrin lamped a Moon landing conspiracist, so sure, she should get him on her show and see how it goes. Dumbass.

So help me, imma watch another FRANKENSTEIN

Today in Emails You Get When You're Still On The Mailing List For An Oceanographic Institute You Visited A Couple Of Years Ago That Now Finds Itself In The Way Of A Hurricane

Okay, which of you perverts gave the COVID monkeys your STDs?

If growing a beard means I'll never have to meet this flopsweating asswipe with his clear penis envy problems, that's a hit I'm prepared to take