🎬 Not sure if this one has been hiding or if it just arrived on Netflix. But - added to queue and on the cards for tonight.


No plans to go - zero interest and the other two choices are ‘Project Hail Mary’ and ‘Devil 2’.

BUT - I was taken by the Silky Otter’s plot summary.

That’s got to be AI - No❓

The other summaries do seem more considered, so perhaps the summary writer is as inspired by ‘Michael’ as I am.


Inspired by @derekpeden I recently started to rate movies, shows and books on a consistent scale - with real rules and bit by bit visiting the archives and updating accordingly. Posted my 🎬🖇️ Peaky Blinders review this morning and even I was shocked how low it came out - in the old days it would have hit 3 1/2 for sure.


Not yet finished the series - which is telling even of itself - but my review is likely going to lean towards 🎬🔗 Andrei’s


At first blush, the German heist strikes me as less Oceans 11 and more Sexy Beast.


Rewatched 🎬🔗 The Thursday Murder Club last night. Turns out the first time I watched it I didn’t log it.

🔗 Fixed

At the time I remember I gave it 3 stars - because being a big fan of the books - expectations high.

Now I give it 4 - Because I wasn’t expecting much.

I guess the truth sits at around 3 1/2.


TIL that Glen Close has been nominated for an Oscar eight times. 🎬🤯


I know how he feels. 🖇️🎬 My Review 😂


I did watch 🎬 One Battle After Another - and it was absolutely marvelous. I do my reviews on Lettrboxd which get pulled to my blog - not sure yet how top connect all that with all this new stuff on micro.blog to create a seamless experience - so until then .. you can get to the review here.

One Battle After Another, 2025 - ★★★★½: john.philpin.com


Just rewatched: Red Notice 🎬

🖇️ ‘Full’ Review


🎬 Watched: Black Bag and it was so good.


Addendum 25-10-10

This post was also a test of new @manton functionality on micro.blog. Usual review here .. next job is how to efficiently merge these two worlds


🎬 Wait … Foundation 3 is on the way? Haven’t even started Foundation 2


🎬 I watched ‘Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning’ over the weekend. From beginning to end.

Popped over to Letterboxd to review - to discover 🔗 I had already done that! - and that story says all you need to know about how memorable it was!

So Dave Barry’s 🔗 Mission: Highly Improbable

😂😂😂


🎬 Seriously? The Accountant 2?


Updated my 🔗🎬 Mythic Quest review to include the 4th series .. watched the final episode last night.


📺 The Residence ★★★★½


🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 24, 2025

Peter O’Toole starred in 🔗🎬The Ruling Class, a favorite when I was younger. The 🎵📼 last song in the movie is pretty freaking great.

💬 Dave Winer

I agree with Dave - ‘The Ruling Class’ was a good movie (not great - but good). ‘Favorite’? Not so sure, definitely not ‘in general- since it was pretty much panned at the time only time turning it into what we now call a ‘cult classic’. (But do watch the song - it has all the expected cheesiness of its time!)

Four years earlier was 🔗🎬 If - now THAT was a film and arguably did for McDowell what Layer Cake did for Craig.


🎬 Cordelia Cupp is my new hero. Absolutely F A N T A S T I C stuff.

The writer Paul William Davies is masterfully channeling David Hare’s ‘rapid exchange’ in the dialogue and Uzo Aduba is brilliant in the role.

I have only watched episode 1 - but I am IN!


🎬 I thought that was a typo for a minute there .. but no … #OnTheList


🔗 📼 A Minecraft Movie | Official Trailer

No plans to see it - but was reminded that around 15 months ago we were looking for a place to live in Auckland and everywhere we tried was gone before we got there - apparently three movies were in town filming (end of 2023) - but the biggest ‘secret’ was a ‘Moma film about a video game’. And here we are 18 months later …