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Danny Boyle

weekend watchlist: when the ghosts won’t shut up

Mon, Sep 12, 2022
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Plus sci-fi noir, sun-fueled madness, and more. (First published August 12th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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Yesterday movie review: imagine there’s no Beatles…

Mon, Jun 24, 2019
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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.

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T2 Trainspotting movie review: GenX running out of steam but chugging on

Wed, Mar 22, 2017
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The sparse, cold satisfaction that could be wrung from Trainspotting’s punk insolence has been replaced by an exhausted cynicism. Which is exactly right.

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Steve Jobs movie review: insanely great (LFF 2015)

Mon, Oct 19, 2015
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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.

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Trance (review)

Thu, Mar 28, 2013
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Deliciously preposterous, with misdirections and red herrings scattered about like enigmatic confetti…

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QOTD: Which iconic (or imaginary) actor pairings would be fun to reverse?

Wed, Feb 06, 2013
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Like how Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman could have swapped roles in Les Misérables and it would have worked just as well…

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Trance (trailer)

Fri, Jan 11, 2013
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Danny Boyle has a new movie, and it looks like fun! Art theft and hypnosis…

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get yer official 50 Shades of Grey branded bondage merch (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Nov 06, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: Will you watch the Olympics opening ceremony?

Fri, Jul 27, 2012
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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.)

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Colin Firth and Natalie Portman are Oscar shoo-ins; everything else up for grabs: Oscar predictions

Sat, Feb 26, 2011
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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…

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