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On streaming: How To Lose A Popularity Contest is a really good high-concept high school romcom with a loose literary connection ( Read more... )

In the cinema: I went to see You, Me and Tuscany, and it about lived up/down to expectations. (Look, it’s tough, here I am with the time and space to go to the cinema and it’s still mainly horror and kids’ films that are on.) ( Read more... )

I don’t think my takeout from the The Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer was meant to be, ‘Yes, but have you checked Miranda Priestly out for early-onset dementia?’ But it was. But I did take advantage of the fact that The Devil Wears Prada was being streamed by Four to rewatch it. ( Read more... ) So, yes, I plan to go see the sequel, even though I think this habit of releasing sequels 15 years and more later is beyond ridiculous.

It was only one movie, and that was Project Hail Mary. The trailers felt very much like a presentation of the 12A blockbusters Hollywood has for us this year. I’m glad that I first saw the Dune Part Three one in the cinema, featuring ( Read more... ) It was followed by another Zendaya flick, sorry, the latest Spider-Man movie, ( spoilers for trailer ) and then I remembered that I haven’t seen the last Spidey film and was reminded of my distanced relationship with most Avengers movies these days.

As for Project Hail Mary, although I felt I’d been stalked by promo clips for it going in, that wasn’t a problem when I watched it. The reductionist take is it’s Gravity meets The Martian only even goofier. Well, it is directed by Lord and Miller, after all. It’s entertaining, in a word. Gosling has the chops and charm to carry it. It looked fab, I chuckled, I was engaged, but no more. ( some general spoilers )

I have time over the next week and a half to go to the cinema, but it looks as though the choices are mainly kids films and horror. (I’ve seen the trailer for The Drama, yet another Zendaya film, and based on that, I don’t think I want to watch the whole thing to find out what her character was meant to have done.)

I’ve seen the Downton Abbey: A New Era teaser trailer, ( Read more... )

Also, I’m glad JRR Tolkien never knew they names a storm after Arwen.

Strictly Week 10

Found out on Friday that Cynthia would be back as a replacement judge but in a different seat because Motsi had a COVID contact/wrong vaccine/lives in Germany but Craig would be back.

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Love, Lies and Records - Episode 6

Made harder to watch by Ashley Jensen’s bereavement, for whom one can only feel great sympathy.

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In other news, I am so glad that Pitch Perfect 3 is much better than Pitch Perfect 2 led us to believe it would be.

Three things:

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As for the trailers, there are many films I’m looking forward to seeing in 2018, Father Figures is not one of them. Every single frame was a case of ‘Why, Owen Wilson, WHY?’

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( I am Groot. )

Trailers: a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean: this is the last one, honest which featured intriguing beasties and not enough Barbossa, but I think I’m bound to see it anyway. There was also a trailer for Spider-Man vs. Iron Man that left me underwhelmed, but conversely, I think I want to see Baby Driver (Edgar Wright mashes up The Fast and the Furious and Drive?) now.

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I went to see Doctor Strange last night. I suppose I might give it a three and a half out of five.

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Current Mood: distracted
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I still don’t know what to make of the fact that I realised, when watching the trailer for Storks, that Andy Samberg was playing the main stork from the way he said ‘nemesis’. What does that say about me? What does that say about Brooklyn Nine-Nine?

Oh, and also I caught a bit of a season 1 Agents of SHIELD episode and was reminded of how thoroughly infuriating I found Skye and how bland Ward was. You know how you change your mind about some things after time? Well, sometimes, you don’t.

Parks and Rec
7.7 Donna and Joe

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7.8 Ms Ludgate-Dwyer Goes to Washington

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Marvel, I still don’t see why a standalone Black Widow movie isn’t upcoming. I really don’t.

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I saw the trailer for X-Men Apocalypse ( Read more... ) Must watch the Rogue cut of DOFP soon, then.

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Oh dear, this was a stinker. ( spoilers )

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I posted Fancy Hotel, a Person of Interest/The Night Manager ficlet. Zoe and John were the focus of the prompt and remain the focus of the fic, but I had TNM on my mind and it was the spark for me. I wish I could have come up with a better title, but at least I managed a summary.

I caught up with B99 3.14 Karen Peralta

( Itsy-Bitsy Spider )

Of course, I’m now behind again because I chose to watch Scorpion (post to come).

I went to see a double-bill of films yesterday for the first time in ages. First was Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Yes, I know. One word review: ponderous.

( more words ) There were lots of problems, but I’ll focus on the most relevant one, which is that you’ve seen the trailer(s), and who hasn't given the promo push, most of the film will not come as a surpise.

And before this film a new-to-me Captain America: Civil War trailer aired and I think that contained a major development that made me clap my hands to my mouth in disbelief that they’d show that now. What is wrong with the people behind cutting these trailers? Stick to the first third, show glimpses of the main characters, give a flavour of the mood...people are going to go see films featuring Captain America, Iron Man, Batman and Superman!

Having said that, The Lego Batman Movie trailer filled me with glee.

What I wasn’t spoiled for in BvS:DoJ was ( Read more... ) Roll on the Wonder Woman solo movie, which seems like the only thing DC is doing that Marvel seems to need to worry about.

The second film I saw was Eddie the Eagle, which is thoroughly entertaining. It has also had a huge promo push in the UK, and benefits from being a sporting underdog dramedy based on a true story that I'm about old enough to remember, but I don't think they used the last third in the promo material.

Finally, I've caught up on Parks and Rec

5.11

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5.12

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The Batman vs. Superman advertising is gearing up. I haven’t been excited about the film, oh, since hearing what the title was. Conversely, every little detail I hear about The Lego Batman Movie is thrilling me. But it feels like it’s too soon for another live action movie about Batman, I am not enthused about their casting Affleck, I think it sounds like there’s too much going on and in this film and so there won’t be enough Clark/Lois, plus I hope this doesn’t mess up the Wonder Woman movie, because that means so much more so than whether DC/Warner can emulate Marvel/Disney.

Still, I was going to go and see it anyway, but I have been reminded that I am going to find Alfred’s voice attractive, which has never been the case before. So, there’s that.

Good to have Parks and Rec back (although Dave are airing it in some random late-night slot, which is typical of this show’s treatment in the UK. What did we do without catch-up again?)

5.1

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I did see The Night Manager and hope to get my thoughts up sooner rather than later, but I’m having problems editing posts on LJ, which is why the same userpic is visible in my most recent posts. Every time I try to edit, the entry text is swallowed up. Has anyone ever had a problem like that before?

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I watched Pitch Perfect 2 on DVD last night, having been unable to see it in the cinema. I thought it was a bit of a mess, suffering from sequelitis. It coasted a bit on liking the characters from their previous outing, the actors' charm - Hailee Stanfield is a welcome new addition, in particular - and it is funny in an offbeat way. The musical numbers were generally my favourite parts.

I enjoyed Bill, which I saw in the cinema a few days ago, much more unreservedly. It's the Horrible Histories team doing a Shakespeare biopic and it's very, very funny in an inclusive way, kids will love it, accompanying adults will love it and so will people who know their Shakespeare. Not always for different reasons, either, because doesn't everyone laugh at silly voices? It left me smiling and shipping ( spoiler? )

The thing is, I probably laughed just the same amount when I saw the trailers for both films, but one stuffed most of the film's best jokes into the trailer, while the other had more to choose from...

Right, some links:

( AOU recap; a pointed fake trailer; Inside Out analysis; Jupiter Ascending compared to The Matrix and Firefly stuf )

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Den of Geek had a feature about Wolf Hall and the controversy about its biases from historians. This passed over my head. I was grateful for the spoilers/reminders of what happened to Henry's next wives. Also, apparently it was mightily successful for BBC 2, which I'm glad about, because I can't imagine it was done on the cheap.

I went to see The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel last night (it is just about what you’d expect it to be, which was just right for me last night, and Smith, Dench and Strathairn, in particular, have a couple of excellent scenes). But before that there were THREE trailers featuring Matthias Schoenarts, seeming to suggest that he’s the go-to romantic lead for period dramas these days, especially if they’re adaptations featuring Oscar-nominated/winning actresses. I am not sure whether he should high-five his agent or not, or whether he should rage about the timing of the releases or not.

Of the three, Suite Française has been on my radar the longest, and I probably will go to see it (although it will basically be competing with Resistance for me, and will probably have less resonance). I am not going to see Far From the Madding Crowd if I can help it, because what little I know of Hardy’s books enrage me. I hadn’t heard of A Little Chaos before, but it’s directed by Alan Rickman and features him, so why not? The actresses in all three are: Michelle Williams, supported by Kirsten Scott-Thomas and others, Cary Mulligan, and Kate Winslet, respectively. Schoenarts first came to my attention playing opposite Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone. I’ll be interested to see if he can do the accents. Also the hair in A Little Chaos is preposterous. That is not a bad thing.

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