Watching Missile To The Moon It's a rocket not a missile, crewed by two blackmailed escaped convicts, a moon man who's been undercover on earth and a science couple. He wants to get back to the moon as it is exclusively inhabited by shit papier maché monsters and Miss World contestants

6. I'm working my way through the Assassin's Creed games backwards, enjoying how the games get smaller as I get used to them.I'm on Syndicate where as well as Assassination, I'm running organised crime from a train in 1860's London. The good thing?The enemy gang are called The Blighters! #agoodthing

So what you're telling me is that the operation in Venezuela was just a viral marketing stunt for this film being released on Friday?

Watching The Carpenter's Son Nic Cage is Joseph. FKA Twigs is Mary. And Noah Jupe's Jesus is a teenage boy living on the run and being tempted by the weirdo girl who is straight out of devil girl central casting. Lots of good ideas here,but it tends to quite obvious symbolism is a bit religion shy

Got a new copy of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold at Christmas, and was surprised that at the end now Liz gets a bucket of blood dumped on her and then destroys part of the Berlin Wall with hitherto unhinted at telekinetic powers. Made a bit more sense when I rechecked the cover

5. The recent Finn Wolfhard album reminded me so much of Sparklehorse, and particularly Sparklehorse when they rocked, that I pulled out Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot for the first time in years and it still bangs! #agoodthing

Watching The Silver Horde 1930, trying to invent the capitalist romance, this is ripped from what I assume is a more complex book. The human melodrama is overblown and doesn't quite work (and doesn't explain what sledge fisted means) but its five minute 'how a salmon cannery works' section is great

Watching Anaconda Jack Black is at his most likeable in this spoof of reboots, reimagining that is actually a friends reunited comedy. They have the rights to the IP,and go to film it whilst being menaced by a real anaconda and mixing it up with illegal gold mining. It's 12A, any horror is long gone

Watching Fackham Hall What is nice about Fackham Hall (which sadly probably comes from Jimmy Carr) is that it really does throw every kind of comedy into the mix, and its background gags are excellent. Downton is an easy target, but this isn't lazy and Thomasin McKenzie uses naif deadpan brilliantly

Watching Link Wears it's Britishness and 80'sness like a neon sign and swamped by an inappropriately awful Jerry Goldsmith score, this Elizabeth Shue being chased by a chimpanzee being played by an orangutan thriller is rather good fun,if you look past nearly everything that makes it terrible.

4. Having seen Sentimental Value earlier today it reminded me how much I liked Trier's earlier, moody psychic romance Thelma. Eili Harboe dazzles as Thelma in a gothic, lesbian, supernatural cautionary tale: perfectly plotted and teeters between scary and beautifully revelatory #agoodthing

Watching Sentimental Value Joachim Trier builds a mini family epic, generations told through the story of their house. Skarsgård is the absent Dad, Reinsve the damaged daughter, though the film is stolen by Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas as the other sister. Beautifully constructed, chewy lo-key saga

Watching Happily Tom(McHale) and Janet(Bishe) have been married 14 years and never argue, and are still having sex twice a day. Their friends hate them, and one day a man turns up at their door apologizing that they are deficient and he can make them normal with a shot. Is it real? Is it a prank?

Blimey, can't get a ticket for Timmy Ping-Pong for love or money in London this afternoon

Watching The Automat Lovely exercise in nostalgia shaped by Mel Brooks being the lead interviewee.His unabashed love for Horn & Hardart and his jibes at the interview process make the film.A wide range of interviewees and good story helps, but there's a glorious,lost democracy in them little windows

3. I'm sorry, I know this is going to upset a number of people but reading in the bath is a very good thing. Locked in, hot and steamy with no distractions, a few bubbles and maybe a candle. But there's nothing better than devouring the last 100 pages of a novel #agoodthing

Watching It Was An Accident Finally caught up with this, another of Pahani's chewy moral dilemmas gussied up with an almost Ealingesque comedy despite being about torture. Share's with Bugonia a problem with resolving it's mystery, but is a lot more graceful in doing it and with a killer final scene

Watching Kdo chce zabít Jessii? / Who Wants To Kill Jessie? Czech comedy where a scientist invents a machine that makes bad dreams go away, not realising they go into reality, then uses it on her husband's sexy dream about a comic heroine Jessie. She and her pursuers (cowboy/superman) wreck havoc

Went to play Super Mario World on the SNES Online thing, turned the crt filter on, and a big sign appeared saying that "while Mario is working class, he is still acting as a colonising force over the Goombas and Koopas due to structural power imbalances"

Watching After Jackie I don't follow baseball at all so I don't know why I like baseball docs so much. Maybe it's the passion from all involved particularly about the history of race in the game, it takes on a national dimension.This is great on the next gen of black players after Jackie Robinson

Watching Scarecrow Looks great and has a fantastic opening shot, but whilst both Hackman and Pacino are great, their chemistry doesn't quite rub. Part of the issue is the largely loose plotlessness of its picaresque storytelling, Hackman comes out top though. One of the last not historic hobo films

Anyone know of a film logging service that can count above 1000?

Watching A Kind Of Murder Based on Highsmith's The Blunderer, which is a much better name for it,Patrick Wilson gets obsessed with a murder and then his wife dies in the same wayas he keeps changing his story and getting embroiled with the previous case. But it's so slow,should be called the Plodder

2. Curried Parsnip Soup Post Xmas Parsnip glut, this is such an easy meal to make. I use the recipe in Lindsay Bareham's A Celebration Of Soup, though all you really need is parsnips and curry powder. I veganised it with veg stock and no cream and it's just as nice #agoodthing

Watched We Are Still Here Extremely good haunted house horror where bereaved couple move into an old house, feel a presence and think it might be their dead son.They invite their sensitive friends up to help, only to discover it might be something else. Really effective, nasty effects when required

Going to post a thing I liked here every day, because sharing joy should be more common than spreading viruses. #agoodthing 1. When There Are Wolves Again - E.J. Smith Inspiring future history of UK eco activism, rewilding and antifash action. Rollicking read too

Watched The Housemaid Preposterous and it knows it, which means it should also know to be half an hour shorter. Still Seyfried is having a ball and if she's in line for big gongs this year it's always nice to have something like this on your CV in the same calendar year

Watching Zootropolis 2 2ootropolis was just there guys... (Or 2ootropia if you're that way inclined) Are any human cities named after prisons?

Watching One Hundred And One Dalmatians It's a fun thing, looks great in a mid period before all the backgrounds became impressionistic but with a more loose animation style, but does it ever really get better than its playful op art and jazz credit sequence?

When's my TFL Unwrapped dropping? I expect a lot of Jubilee and Windrush activity

Watching Gazer Mumblecore Noir, hell yeah!

Watching Fixed What I didn't expect in Genndy Tartakovsky raunchy'dog having one last night on the tiles before getting neutered'cartoon film was an homage to the snowball scene from Abel Gance's Napoleon. Really nice traditional animation notwithstanding,this is a one joke film stretched too thin

Watching Christmas Beneath The Stars She's a secret Christmas venue reviewer sent to the sad resort of Christmasland He's the son of the depressed owner of Christmasland and likes her so much they decide to try to bring it back to life This is a film where everyone lies to each other constantly

All six people mentioned by name in St Etienne's Popular are still alive.

I did a test to see if I could remember all the Roman numerals, but I forgot 1, 1000, 51, 6 and 500. IM LIVID!

Watching Five Nights At Freddy's 2 Taking place over a maximum of two nights, this spends about an hour rewriting its own mythology, and re-engaging the same characters who have learnt nothing from the first film, not least that there is nothing inherently scary about grubby animatronics

Watching The Choral Exceedingly worthy WWI home fires choir movie which smooshes together small town parochialism, conscription and quite how German most classical music was at the time. Ralph Fiennes can do this stuff in his sleep and it relies too much on the scenario for its drama, but it works

Watching Christmas Joy Ugh, she's called Joy and isn't it Easter yet? (Actually belay that thought as Hallmark Easter films, happily rare, are the WORST as they feel they have to contain some form of religion which has thoroughly been obliterated from Christmas)

Watched Groove A studiously accurate recreation of the rave scene in the early 00's San Francisco,which means its lots of people dancing badly in poorly lit warehouses and grubby politics about finding venues,breaking in and trying not to mention drugs that often.John Digweed plays himself

Watching Eternity Nice idea that gets that it is a high concept screwball metaphysical comedy. Miles Teller is remarkably well cast as an 85 year old man in his now dead younger body, and Lizzie Olsen carries her dilemma,but she solves her problem half hour before the end and we watch her fuck it up

Watching Big Business Unusual for a Laurel & Hardy where they are in unison in their feud against a vindictive homeowner who, annoyed by them, destroys the Xmas tree they want to sell. It's a riot of destruction, with wonderful supporting roles of their enemy, and a droll copper.

Make A Bond movie more casual: A View To A Kiln (I know there is nothing casual about pottery but nevertheless....)

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Watched The Legend Of Hell House The joy of finding a sample in the wild "I don't know you people..." this is an enjoyably disreputable ghost busting story with supernatural bonafides, the expert is more comfused by the dynamic between the ghosts than the hauntings itself.

Watching Troll 2 Because nothing says Xmas Day than a film that is not a sequel to Troll, and has not trolls in it, and is full of the dumbest people in the world being trolled by the dumbest creatures in the world (goblins). Visually lots of fun, loads of gonzo energy, making it enjoyably terrible

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Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

The Fantasy: Santa came, he left us presents and goodwill The Reality: Santa came, he bricked my phone

Watching Spirited The two big stars in it clearly wanted to be in a proper musical but also have to service the personas that made this possible. So the staging of the big numbers are just great, but the storyline is complicated, and bitty and gets in its own way. But the dancing made me smile

Watching The Santa Squad As a member of the Xmas themed job agency She ends up at a rich dudes house to decorate.Before you can say Edelweiss she's befriended the kids, got the snobby girlfriend dumped and snared the dude. Now I ain't saying she's a gold-digger, but she ain't going with no broke...