daily stream: smashing bigotry and creating solidarity
2014’s Pride is on Paramount+ in the US, Disney+ in the UK.
loaded question: what are some great movies about unions and the fight for workers’ rights?
Industrial action on a scale unseen in perhaps decades is remaking economic landscapes on both sides of the Atlantic, and such events are rife with the personal and cultural drama movies love…
daily stream: tastes like chicken…
2000’s Chicken Run is on Prime in the US, and streaming on Prime (leaving soon!) and Disney+ in the UK.
daily stream: hey, Adrian!
1976’s Rocky is streaming on Prime in the US and Netflix in the UK, but leaves both services at the end of September.
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.
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.
