🎬 Film Refs
🎬 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
Rewatched 🎬🔗 The Thursday Murder Club last night. Turns out the first time I watched it I didn’t log it.
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.
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 🎬
🎬 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
🎬 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 ❓
😂😂😂
Updated my 🔗🎬 Mythic Quest review to include the 4th series .. watched the final episode last night.
🔗 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!
🔗 📼 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 …