Madame Web movie review: absurdly tangled
A travesty of corporate cynicism. Its desperation to ride Spider-Man’s coattails is pathetic, but its convoluted, coincidence-laden nonsense is duller than you’d imagine: it’s not even so bad it’s fun.
Stopmotion movie review: bleed for your art
Unusually psychologically astute and utterly unnerving as it digs into the enigmas and anxieties of artistic creation. Style is substance in this challenge to the very concept of an “animated movie.”
loaded question: what location, specific or general, inevitably makes you think of a line of movie dialogue?
Like you’re constitutionally incapable of not muttering a line of dialogue to yourself when you’re in that particular place?
curated cinema: flip Putin the bird by watching this fantastic doc about Alexei Navalny
2022 doc Navalny is on Max in the US, Dogwoof on Demand in the UK.
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…
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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.
