weekend watchlist: when the ghosts won’t shut up
Plus sci-fi noir, sun-fueled madness, and more. (First published August 12th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)
Danny Boyle
Yesterday movie review: imagine there’s no Beatles…
It’s not interested in a world absent the incalculably enormous impact of the Beatles. It’s just a lazy comedy of one running joke, a regular schmoe enjoying unwarranted success, and a blah romance.
T2 Trainspotting movie review: GenX running out of steam but chugging on
The sparse, cold satisfaction that could be wrung from Trainspotting’s punk insolence has been replaced by an exhausted cynicism. Which is exactly right.
Steve Jobs movie review: insanely great (LFF 2015)
You’ve never seen such a compelling, entertaining movie about a genius jerk. As smart and as sleek as a Macbook Pro, and a compulsory bit of modern history.
Trance (review)
Deliciously preposterous, with misdirections and red herrings scattered about like enigmatic confetti…
QOTD: Which iconic (or imaginary) actor pairings would be fun to reverse?
Like how Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman could have swapped roles in Les Misérables and it would have worked just as well…
Trance (trailer)
Danny Boyle has a new movie, and it looks like fun! Art theft and hypnosis…
get yer official 50 Shades of Grey branded bondage merch (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Will you watch the Olympics opening ceremony?
If so, what do you expect to see? Will you watch out of genuine interest, or in a roadside-accident-rubbernecking sort of way? (I confess that this is mostly my motivation for watching.)
Colin Firth and Natalie Portman are Oscar shoo-ins; everything else up for grabs: Oscar predictions
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for Sunday night’s Academy Awards — projected winners are Xed. Keep in mind: this isn’t a list of whom I think should win Oscars but whom I think will win…
