Happy Star Wars day!
I thought it was about time to write something about the new Star Wars stuff I’ve been watching on Disney Plus and what better time than on May the 4th? For once I will try and make this post spoiler free.
Category: Watching
Film Roundup from April 2020
The Gentlemen | Mary Poppins Returns | Beauty and the Beast | Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot | Monsters University | Beast | Muppets Most Wanted | Ingrid Goes West | The Spy Who Dumped Me | Wild Card
Tales from the Loop: Episodes 1-4
My thoughts on the first half of Amazon’s new art-inspired science fiction show.
My lockdown story so far…
A ramble about a wobbly desk and the pros and cons of living in a lockdown.
Money Heist: Season 4
What follows is a ramble about Season 4 of the hit Spanish Netflix series Money Heist aka La Casa de Papel…
Altered Carbon Season 1, Season 2 and Resleeved
While Altered Carbon is an adaptation of the 2002 cyberpunk novel by Richard K. Morgan it visually seems to owe a hell of a lot to Ridley Scott’s neo-noire interpretation of Philip K Dick’s work in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049…
Film Roundup from March 2020
Spirits in the Forest | Horse Girl | Night is Short, Walk on Girl | The Hustle | Dolemite Is My Name | Shaft | Knives Out | Christopher Robin | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Wild | Incredibles 2 | Aladdin
Film roundup from February 2020
Fighting With My Family – Mile 22 – Seoul Station – Train to Busan – Death Wish – The Laundromat – The Handmaiden – Long Shot – Terminator Dark Fate – My Cousin Rachel
Takashi Miike’s First Love
The last Takashi Miike film I saw was his 2015 slice of bizarre comedy violence Yakuza Apocalypse and having enjoyed that a lot it was great to get a chance to go and see one of his films on the big screen. First Love is a humorous and uninhibitedly violent Yakuza tale…
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
“Kevin who?”
“Kevin Smith, the American comedy film director. He had a heart attack.”
‘He did? Never heard of him.” If you haven’t either, then please move along quietly, nothing to see here…
