daily stream: in case you need more dramatic Robert Downey Jr., post ‘Oppenheimer’
2014’s The Judge is available to rent or buy on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic.
Month: August 2023
daily stream: girls just wanna slay (emotional) monsters
2018’s I Kill Giants is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK.
Scrapper movie review: girlhood interrupted
A singular portrait of a girl full of verve and personality. An astonishing feature debut from Charlotte Regan, with a film as cheeky and imaginative, as pleasantly messy and chaotic, as its heroine.
loaded question: what bit of pop culture (movies, TV, books, comics, games, whatever) best captures the feeling of being disconnected with the larger world?
I’m thinking about Cory Doctorow’s 2004 novel Eastern Standard Tribe, which speaks to me as an American ex-pat (from the US Eastern time zone) who still has not fully settled into UK time…
daily stream: attend a delightfully nasty little soiree with Cillian Murphy (and others)
2017’s The Party is on Kanopy in the US, Curzon Home Cinema in the UK.
daily stream: the ethics of war on a nuclear-armed planet
2003’s The Fog of War is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic.
Oppenheimer movie review: a particle of concern, a wave of complicity
With human paradoxes at its nucleus, this is a riveting portrait, both intimate and epic, of the self-involved men who think they make the world go round… and too often, tragically, do.
loaded question: what location-specific cultural event would you love to travel to?
I’ll get to the Edinburgh Fringe someday. Maybe you’re burning to attend Burning Man in Nevada, hopped up for Oktoberfest in Germany, or down to boogie at Carnival in Rio?
daily stream: crime as just another form of capitalism
2020’s The Gentlemen is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK.
daily stream: when you hit the gym and the gym hits back
2015’s Results is streaming on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK.
