daily stream: it’s never too late to get busy living
2007’s The Bucket List is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic (and other services, too).
Month: January 2024
daily stream: when a brave new life is forced upon you…
2013’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is on Prime in the US, Disney+ in the UK.
loaded question: what’s a notion you hold about pop culture (movies, TV, comics, whatev) that you know is unreasonable but can’t shake?
Mine is a dark earworm about actors and the characters they (sometimes) portray that I know is absurd, and I can’t not hear it.
daily stream: Reese Witherspoon hits the hiking trail to redeem herself
2014’s Wild is on Direct TV in the US, Disney+ in the UK (and other services as well).
daily stream: Will Smith pulls himself up by his bootstraps
2006’s The Pursuit of Happyness is on Peacock in the US, Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
OFCS 2023 awards nominees announced (updated with winners)
Oppenheimer takes eight awards, Barbie four…
loaded question: are the Razzies — or any discussion about the worst films in any given year — worth our time?
Punching down is totally uncalled for, but I do think there is value in talking about movie worsts, if they focus on the excesses of the big-budget movie machine.
my ranking of 2024’s movies has begun!
There are only a few films on it so far, but the year is young…
I.S.S. movie review: burns up on reentry
It looks amazing and the cast is fab, but while this could-happen-tomorrow story wants to appropriate the magic of science fiction, it fails to think imaginatively about longstanding human problems.
loaded question: what 2023 movie was the worst you saw?
For me, this was School of Magical Animals, a desperately terrible Harry Potter family-fantasy knockoff out of Germany…
