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Watch the odd movie to escape from the smouldering wreckage I have become. Visit my Substack: https://stuartbarr70.substack.com/ Also on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/3z6Gb

One thing I am having trouble with today is trying to reconcile the King Agamemnon in Nolan’s version of The Odyssey with the one in Time Bandits

Pedantry corner: From the Guardian review of Apple TV series Lucky “Let us contemplate these not particularly interesting questions over the course of seven 48-minute episodes plus ad breaks.” Just to point out, Apple TV does not have ad breaks

#booksky Crime fiction lovers (esp of the hardboiled variety) I am currently reading the outstanding Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper. A very current LA novel set in the worlds of crisis PR management and corporate security firms….

Four pages into Jordan Harper’s Everybody Knows and a character name checks Alaska Thunderfuck… I am going to love this book!

Goddamn, just finished Russell T Davies’ Tip Toe and I think the last episode is among the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen on broadcast television.

One episode to go on Spider-Noir, and I don’t think I’ve had this much fun with a tv show in ages. Nicholas Cage is the best here that he’s been since his imperial phase back in the 90s. It’s a perfect marriage of actor and material. He could easily be in a Jacques Tourneur film from the 1940s.

Christ, Obsession is so not the completely conventional modern horror movie the trailer sold it as. I genuinely feel sick coming out of it my stomach was in such tight knots by the end.