loaded question: what are your memories of ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’ as we approach its 25th anniversary?
It’s almost impossible to convey the level of excitement and anticipation if you didn’t experience it that spring and summer of 1999…
Year: 2024
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Argylle movie review: just *argh*
A vacuous multitentacled exercise in pop-culture marketing, and a crass, confused, charmless showcase for Matthew Vaughn’s goes-to-11 hyperactive “style” of unconvincing CGI and frenetic fight scenes.
loaded question: what’s an article of clothing from movies/TV that you covet?
And would you actually wear it?
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).
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…
