Are people so starved of seeing starry adult thrillers at the cinema that we're giving this cold empty dud the 'real movies are back' treatment? The bar right now must be so fucking low. For someone so prolific Steven Soderbergh needs a better hit rate than one good movie for every six. The guy is a restless journeyman and we need to stop talking about him like he matters anymore. Stick a Netflix logo in front of this and it's…
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A Real Pain 2024
Really want Jesse Eisenberg's next film to be a savage industry satire inspired by his six month Oscar campaign.
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music 2025
I've been lukewarm on a lot of the SNL 50 stuff but Questlove knocked this out of the park. It can still fall prey to the schmaltzy platitudes from contributers that has blighted the last week of coverage but as a thorough celebration of the show's musical guest slot and its undeniable cultural influence this is great. The opening mash-up montage alone is worth watching for, really one of the most exhilarating 'holy shit' sequences I've seen in some time.…
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Queer 2024
Loved the first chapter of this which felt luminous in its inebriated intensity of feeling, the copious amounts of alcohol and lustful infatuation coming together with the brazenly artificial world-building to put a woozy waking dream up on the screen. After that the film lost me and I only enjoyed it in fits and starts (that incredible New Order needle drops in the heroin scene; some of the more grisly body horror imagery later on that could have came from…
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