Yeah. I hate the Abrams Trek so hard.
I don’t think Tarantino would be that bad but I don’t really want to watch anything by him ever again thanks. Including Star Wars (it’s for kids in the first place. Children. Hence R2D2 and Cheebacca and the rolly robot I’ve forgotten the name of. Also C3PO and Jar Jar Binks who look like misses to me but Lucas thought were great for the kids).
It’s never very Trek, is it?
(Fairly) new Richard Linklater. I thought it was fun!
Watched Wicked Little Letters last night…
The trailers frame it largely as a comedy, and it’s pretty funny, for sure, but it’s also a pretty serious examination of the lives of working class women in the UK in the 1920s…
Olivia Colman is always amazing, but Jessie Buckley was also fantastic.
Seconded! I saw it a bit ago, thoroughly enjoyed it, meant to write about it here. I can’t remember last seeing constant cursing be so funny. Good to see Timothy Spall too, having a good time ripping up the scenery (though he’s hardly recognizable, having lost so much weight). I’m still intrigued by the question of just how close it is to the real story.
A review here:
Allegedly the script of the movie
I posted here about it on April 12 but didn’t go into detail. Like the opening credits say, “more true than you’d think.”
Rose wasn’t Irish and didn’t live alone with a single daughter, but she and Edith were next door neighbors. Edith supposedly started the letters after they had a disagreement over a communal garden. The handwriting clue came from a recipe for chutney Edith had given Rose when they were still friends rather than a hand painted sign like in the movie. Gladys Moss was a real person and the first policewoman in the town, and she did witness Edith drop off a letter, and the invisible ink sting operation was how they finally caught Edith, but it was devised by Scotland Yard. Apparently Edith never confessed or repented, so her character arc of overcoming her oppressive father was a movie thing.
I didn’t think I could possibly crush on Winona more, and then she picks out Ghost Dog…
We just can’t have nice things, apparently.
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It really does sound flatfootedly awful!
Gipper, played by Dennis Quaid,
Viktor Petrovich (played, apathetically, by Jon Voight)
Just those two names alone along with the subject absolutely ensure it.
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OMFG. I was about to come here and add a sarcastic “The only thing it’s missing is Kevin Sorbo”
I went and checked. He’s in it.
He was a great Smiley though that film was more about the outstanding ensemble cast so they are shooting themselves in the dick.
You do know Cornwells that he was Smiley before he did Slow horses?
And he’s an actor? He’s believably different in different things.
My big film thing this week was going to see this:
Which was definitely a thing that I did this week. I wouldn’t call it fun exactly but I had a good day in the cinema.
Was talking to someone about how, for me, I get really restless watching three tv shows in a row (even short ones) but 7 1/2 hours plus two intermissions to make it 8 was fine…
I think it’s because of the repetitive nature exposing the structure of TV making it impossible for me to lose myself in it.
The trailer looks great for this… and here is a positive review…
But I realized the director is Jeremy Sauliner, and he’s great. Both Blue Ruin and Green Room are fantastic films.
One more review…
I had the same reaction, but for Matewan.
[…]
Larry Ellison’s son David has done rather better in recent years by founding Skydance Media, which has teamed with Paramount on projects including Top Gun: Maverick, Mission: Impossible movies, and Trek flicks. In a 2022 interview he explained that part of Skydance’s strategy is making sequels – to give audiences more of what they already like.
As befits the scion of a family that made its billions with SQL.
Earlier this year, Paramount Global dangled the possibility of a sale, and the owners of a majority of voting interests – the Redstone family – eventually agreed to merge with Skydance. The transaction was structured so that Skydance paid billions for the privilege. Larry Ellison helped to fund the deal.
Lawyers are now finalizing the transaction, which this week resulted in the emergence of a filing [8MB PDF] that details the structure of the merged entity and reveals an org named Pinnacle Media – which Larry Ellison controls – will hold a majority voting interest.
Ellison senior contributed $1 billion to help Elon Musk buy Twitter, and now joins him as another owner of a troubled media company.
[…]
Paramount Global, however, includes CBS and its venerable news operation. Which is where things get interesting, as one of the few profitable broadcast news orgs in recent years is Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, which wears its ideology on its sleeve – often in support of causes its proprietor favours.
Ellison senior certainly has a few things he might like the US government to consider – such as a deal that would see Oracle run more of TikTok, and giant federal cloud deals.
The Register can also imagine sneaking a few references to Oracle tech into future Star Trek product.
Imagine the dialog:
Captain Kirk: That’s a mighty fine piece of programming that helped us to escape that quantum diffusion nebula, Scottie.
Mr Scott: Aye, Captain. I wrote it in Java. Did you know Java is the only tech Starfleet uses that was invented in the 20th century? And that Oracle is still around today because it was never bettered? And that the Enterprise runs on an OCI cluster?
[…]
Finally got around to watching The King, with Timothee Chalmette as Henry V… it was quite good, if a bit slow? It was also a very dark and washed out film (not as bad as that one episode of Game of Thrones, but still)…
But honestly, the few scenes with Robert Pattinson as the Dauphin was kind of the best…
The few scenes he was in, he was an arrogant prick with no real redeeming qualities… so at the end, when (spoiler for a battle that happened in 1415!!!) they are at Agincourt, the French have suffered heavy losses, the Dauphin breaks through the crowd of his men, closes his helmet, matched by Henry, and immediately faceplants because of the muddy and wet field… Henry watchings this for a second, and then just lets a few of his men finish the Dauphin off! … 
Pure comedy gold!
Anyway, great film if you don’t mind late medieval war violence.
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