daily stream: a marginalized rapper goes home and goes big
2020’s Mogul Mowgli is on HBO Max in the US, BBC iPlayer in the UK.
Month: April 2023
daily stream: undercover, without a clue
2012’s 21 Jump Street leaves US Netflix very soon; on MGM in the UK.
daily stream: meet the most extreme tourists on Earth
2020’s Stalking Chernobyl is streaming free worldwide on YouTube.
loaded question (revisited): what cool stuff are you watching / reading / listening to / playing/ enjoying right now?
TV or movies, games, comic books or novels, magazines, web sites, music, whatever. If you’re loving it right now and want to evangelize about it, this is the place!
behind the scenes: I’ve never been so low
tl;dr: Everything at the moment is just so difficult, and requires so much effort, mental and physical. I’m so exhausted. My mood just decays a little more each day.
loaded question: what’s the best-ever pop-culture product placement?
I’m going with FedEx in 2000’s Cast Away, which works on multiple levels.
daily stream: a sister act in the smartest sort of chick flick
2005’s In Her Shoes is on Hulu in the US, Disney+ in the UK.
daily stream: it’s unholy how much I love this movie
2014’s What We Do in the Shadows is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic.
Renfield movie review: it mostly sucks
Nicholas Hoult is lovely. Hammy Nicolas Cage is amusing. But everyone in this movie is in a different movie; the tonal mismatches are baffling. Was it the first draft of this script that was greenlit?
Rare Objects movie review: broken things, on the mend
It’s overstuffed and often jarring. But it’s also honest and unassuming, never insipid or sentimental, with a rough power, a generous spirit, and performances that are warm, wise, and perceptive.
