What I’ve Been Watching: 26/02/21 – 05/03/21
Daft punks, street gangs, amateur spies, and hot messes.
Daft punks, street gangs, amateur spies, and hot messes.
Some loosely-structured thoughts sos my brain doesn’t try to guilt me over having spent the past fortnight almost solely playing one video game.
There will never be another film like Endgame and there never should be.
The boy has cried wolf too many times for it to mean anything anymore.
These films say that a hero can save us…
Taking advantage of being out of their usual time slot, Screen 1 delivers a packed and rather extended show, rather the opposite of punk. The bumper news segment covers the Doctor Strange fiasco, Dredd rumours, and X-Men time-wasting, Meanwhile, the reviews get intellectual with Captain America: Civil War, grim with Anomalisa, ranty with Demolition, fanboyish… Read More Screen 1 (03/05/2016)
Winking self-acknowledgment is not an acceptable substitute for actual self-improvement.
Ant-Man is a heist movie AND a father-daughter relationship movie, so it’s alright in my book.
Second verse same as the first, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 makes all of the exact same mistakes the original did, burying the nugget of a great film deeper and deeper the longer it goes on for.
Thor: The Dark World is another solo Marvel movie, with the usual caveats that entails, but The Marvel Movie has not been done this well before.