Courtesy of Amazon Prime, I had the chance to watch two movies I missed during their original release, to wit:

The Post: aka Steven Spielberg does the Pentagon Papers as "The Education of Katherine Graham". It's a well-made movie (duh!) with an excellent cast both in major and minor roles, including Matthew Rhys, evoking missing-The-Americans- ( Read more... )

Day 2 - Favorite Federation Race:

Well, while Enterprise, the scrappy of ST shows, made me surprisingly fond of Andorians (not only the ST people they fleshed out when no previous show had bothered to but hands down their most succesfully developed aliens, full stop), I’ll have to join the likely majority here and go with the Vulcans, in their ( Read more... )

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Ifinally got around to watching Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse, and lo, it turned out to be as great as advertised. All the Spiderpeople were characters in their own right, even the pig, and yet Miles, whose origin story this was, managed not to be overshadowed. The animation was wildly inventive, embracing its comicbook-ness, and used the ( Read more... )

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Second post of the day, as I thought everyone who commented on this entry might be interested: Ian McKellen just tweeted the official trailer for All Is True, the Kenneth Branagh/Judi Dench/McKellen starring Old Will Shakespeare In Stratford tale:

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(As for the thing that puzzled me most about the original announcement, seems that McKellen, in a ( Read more... )

Now this sounds like a truly intriguing Shakespeare bio pic: Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh as Anne and Will Shakespeare, set after his return to Stratford, script by Ben Elton. There's just one bit in the article which made me go huh, and it's not that Kenneth Branagh is 26 years younger than Judi Dench; Peter O'Toole was 23 years younger than ( Read more... )

Aka the one starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Tobias Menzies, Jim Broadbent, Emily Watson, Andrew Scott et al, set in a contemporary AU Britain where a momentous political decision about the country's future is made based on a temper tantrum, and then it turns out no one is equipped to handle the consequences as the country goes to hell on ( Read more... )

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By sheer coincidence, both my official assignment and the treat I hadn’t planned on writing are historicals - of a sort, since they aren’t direct historical fiction but fanfiction of historical (pro) fiction, so to speak. They even overlap in time, place and setting, so to speak, while dealing with entirely different characters (and their ( Read more... )