I recently revisited both Grand Prix and Le Mans before I went to see F1. Enjoyed them both. I've never been a huge fan of racing yet I enjoy movies about car racing and things like Cannonball run and Smokey and the Bandit type stuff.
F1 was entirely unsurprising and by the numbers. It's nearly an exact copy of Days Of Thunder with Pitt playing both the Cruise and Duvall characters. I think Gran Turismo had a more interesting story. All things being equal, I'd rather watch Gumball Rally again.
Worth mentioning that all of Steve Coogan's "Trip" series as well as the film versions are all currently showing on Criterion Channel. Lots of fun if you like endlessly hilarious competing Roger Moore and Michael Caine impressions. Which I do.
Another great documentary is UNITED SKATES(2019). A sad look at the history of racism in roller rinks and their nationwide decline. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BAD...
The HBO documentary THE LADY AND THE DALE(2021) is a fascinating documentary about trans woman, con artist, counterfeiter extraordinaire Elizabeth Carmichael who becomes a modern day Preston Tucker. This needs to be a movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOZW...
I think it's relevant to add that Lois, as originally written by S&S despised Clark, constantly verbally abused him and put his life at risk multiple times because she simply didn't give a shit if he lived or died. She was not the Margot Kidder Lois who treated Clark like a naive kid brother.
I still say Antoine Fuqua's Arthur film is the one to beat.
@grandcomicsdb.bsky.social Is there a problem with the GCD website?
This is a great article. I wish someone would write something similar that exposes the horror show that Nurse Assistants(aka CNA's, NA's, PCA's) go through on a daily basis. Because it's far, far worse.
I'm not a star wars hater; if you want to see what a star wars hater looks like you can read this Jonathan Rosenbaum review. (which I don't agree with, but really enjoy.) jonathanrosenbaum.net/2021/12/exce...
I always find this to be a key go to for Star Wars criticism:
www.tumblr.com/samueldelany...
Obscure and underrated Time Travel media worth taking a look at. Philadelphia Experiment, Primer, Being Erica(now on Prime) and Harry Harrison's brilliant and hilarious look at time travel and Hollywood, The Technicolor Time Machine.
I’m watching the unbearably lame prime documentary Icons Unearthed:James Bond. The banal narration is peppered with a cast of nobodies earnestly stating laughably obvious claims like “the Bond franchise was the Rolls Royce of franchises!” Practically unwatchable.
Released this very day in 1976, Space 1999 # 4, with its gorgeous cover by Gray Morrow. It was but 49 years ago.
A paperback novelisation of the god awful fever dream that was the SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND film
Always good to find some classic literature first thing in the morning.
Intrada and @lalalandrecords.bsky.social are starting 2025 as strongly as their 2024 release schedule ended: another expanded John Williams soundtrack, another James Bond reissue and so much more! theseconddisc.com/2025/01/21/s...
Pollack wrote an exceptional time travel comic series(a genre rarely done well in comics)under DC's Helix imprint called Time Breakers with artist Chris Weston. Weston has crowd-funded a hardcover collection of Time Breakers that should be released sometime this year.
