So far, an ingenious crime thriller – I don’t know what Deaf/deaf or hard of hearing people will make of it. Rose Ayling-Ellis plays the lead, as Alison, ( Read more... )

Killjoys 1.6 - One Blood

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I rewatched Black Widow in prep, and as Yelena and Alexei are funny and entertaining in it (and I followed who and what Taskmaster was better in this rewatch), it was probably worth it. ( Brief review. )

About fifteen people in my showing, with less than half leaving early, but the rest of us stayed until the post-credits scene. Among the trailers, Mission Impossible (which has been getting lots of free promo in the British news this week), Superman (i, did not realise that was coming out this summer, ii, unenthused about Krypto, iii, pretty leads, iv, willing to trust James Gunn up to a point) and Fantastic 4: First Steps (skipped the second iteration of F4. Going retro is going to make for comparisons with The Incredibles...but, fine, make the Silver Surfer female.) Am more enthused about Superman than Fantastic 4.

As for Thunderbolts*, overall, yes, it's an entertaining iteration of the scrappy team of powered people having done bad things learning to work together and maybe do good. It has the sense to know that Florence Pugh is the star, making Yelena Belova (who has the least powers) its heart and leader. Some of it is stuff we’ve seen before, deliberately so in some ways, but it’s better and more cohesive than Suicide Squad (backhand compliment though that is.) It has a nice line in being self-deprecating before the audience can be, and is consistently amusing, if not laugh out loud funny, while dealing with damaged, grieving people and continuing the touching relationship of a grown-up child assassin and her embarrassing adoptive dad hankering after glory days that never were first seen in Black Widow.

( tl;dr, spoilers, references to Trump )

Killjoys - 1.5 A Glitch In The System

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Years and years ago, when I started a post containing links to all the fanfiction posted here, I dated it somewhere in the far future. That day is now today. I've had to tick the sticky box (because that was beyond me way back when in the early days of getting Dreamwidth) so that it remains the first thing you see.

To the movies!

On streaming: Free Color popped up, made in 2019, but I’d never heard of it before. It’s a sparse thriller that becomes a family drama set in the middle of climate breakdown, and its main character has superpowers. ( Read more... )

At the cinema: Mr. Burton, and I really enjoyed it. I only knew scattered facts about Richard Burton’s life (only finding out how he came to have his surname thanks to promo for this film) and haven’t seen much of his work. ( Read more... )

That Cooper Family Christmas Feeling, The O.C. PG. 280 words. First posted: March 2007
Summary: Alt!world Kaitlin’s Christmas Eve night. AU. Post 4.7. ‘The Christmukk-huh?’

Disclaimer: Not mine. Don’t profit from ‘em.

( That Cooper Family Christmas Feeling: shallowness )

Mostly satisfying, if at times confusing, season’s finale, ( Read more... )

A goodie, even if a few things happened very conveniently just before the final episode of the season. ( Read more... )

Dead Like Me: Life After Death

Finally, like well over a decade and a half later, I have now seen this. I wasn’t expecting much based on what I recall of the general reaction when it first came out, and yeah, it was very uneven, ( Read more... ) Oh well, the completist in me has been satisfied, even if the fan wasn’t.

(Wow, I don't even have a Dead Like Me tag on Dreamwidth!)