Wondering if it is safe yet to admit that I kinda miss “tryhard” Ryan Gosling and it feels like we’ve swung too far in the opposite direction.
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Wondering if it is safe yet to admit that I kinda miss “tryhard” Ryan Gosling and it feels like we’ve swung too far in the opposite direction.
Schneaky!
Premiering 20th March.
Had a really good time with #SpilledMilk, a pint-sized detective story in 1980s Dublin, where a kid’s investigation into his missing elder brother reveals a more fundamental rot taking hold.
The ending is a little neat, but it’s a clever, sweet film that recreates the era remarkably well.
Haney and Aparo’s “The Brave and the Bold” is one of my most-beloved comic book runs, and it doesn’t get nearly the respect it deserves.
Big, bold, unashamed and unembarrassed comic books. It embodies the spirit I wish so-called “comics purists” had.
(tBatB #124.)
Or that time Batman unwittingly sold his soul to Adolf Hitler. Because “Batman wants to LIVE!!”
Also, “NO END” goes hard.
Honestly, an incredible run of comics.
(tBatB #108.)
Bob Haney and Jim Aparo’s “The Brave and the Bold” really is peak comics.
Where the pair will casually reveal that, at some point in the thirties, Jim Gordon shot and killed what he assumed to be an innocent alien, buried the body, and never brought it up again.
(tBatB #139.)
I still love that Jo Nesbø’s big central police character is Detective Harry Hole, and there is no attempt to work around that in the English translation.
This looks fun.
And obviously has at least some ideas in it; mapping a nice clear lineage of the American superhero from cowboy to sheriff to space cop.
It’s actually a proper Damon Lindelof HBO show.
Kyle Chandler advising Aaron Pierre, “You wanted me to train you. I’m trainin’ you”, while drinking beer at a desert rest stop.
Kyle Chandler standing on what appears to be a sports field, declaring, “This is my job.”
Aaron Pierre telling Kyle Chandler, at a football stadium, “We both know I do a better job of this than you.”
Kyle Chandler, scruffy, grinning like a right bastard.
Far more interesting than any of the nonsense happening on “comics twitter”, #Lanterns had me the moment it cast Kyle Chandler employing his “America’s Stepdad” energy as a washed up icon of American exceptionalism.
Good casting, good framing.
#NowWatching #HowToGetAway
I am raging I didn't get to see it at Christmas because it was on BBC Three and the iPlayer, which are not easily accessible in Ireland.
Only ninety minutes long!
I also think the edit of "The Sea Devils" works better than the similar edits of "The Daleks" or "The War Games", if only because "The Sea Devils" is a slighter story with a lot less mythic weight on it.
It is a fun silly runaround, so it is fun to tighten it.
Finally getting around to watching the recent abridged edit of "The Sea Devils" released on the "War Between the Land and the Sea" blu ray.
It is insane there is a recut version of a seventies "Doctor Who" serial with a score by Lorne frickin' Balfe. What a time to be alive.
Your Friday is better with a new Darren Mooney column to read.
The man loves a funny costume.
#NowWatching “How to Make a Killing”
In his latest Patreon column, @darrenmooney.bsky.social dug into Chainsaw Man, and how its dehumanizing horror speaks to life in the modern era.
www.patreon.com/posts/column...
But, crucially, anti-director!
I had a hankerin’ fer some mankerin’.
I thought it was pretty good.
*adds Jay to the “Clint Booth” guest pool**
I remain fascinated by how, whether consciously or not, both “Mank” and “The Killer” feel like Fincher reckoning with the possibility that he may have inadvertently helped to kill cinema.
Sad studies of sad men in which he insists *a little too strongly* that he doesn’t care.
Rewatching “The Killer.”
Quietly top tier Fincher, and as much of a sequel to “The Social Network” as we need, a study of what it means to navigate this disaffected and impersonal world, and the kind of person evolved to it.
Thank you, James!
Good gods, thank you, The 250! You may be my new fave podcast, with your Irish hosts and erudite, thought-provoking talk about Predator: Badlands. Been dying to see the flick since catching a glowing @ebertvoices.bsky.social summer review.
1/2
Absolutely digging
Andrew Quinn, @darrenmooney.bsky.social and Jess Dunne
on the The 250 episode 437, talking Predator: Badlands, paricularly examing briefly how Star Wars, Die Hard and Rambo as US filmmakers revisiting 'Nam.
Podbean.
www.podbean.com/ea/dir-m8f47...
The latest episode of The 250 is now online, with @ohdeerdiner.bsky.social and @cynicalfilm.bsky.social joining us to discuss the Best Picture Frontrunner, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another.”
We think it’s a fun one. We hope you enjoy!
soundcloud.com/the250/441-o...
