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This isn’t live, so I think his team will get more out of this than the viewers. They and Biden will know if he’s putting the world in jeopardy and if he should bow out after this performance.
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Three stories, and they all have their moments. First is strongest, last is the weakest imho. Yorgos Lanthimos always worth watching, though: you’re always guaranteed something different.
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366 Days of Film. Day 186 - Kinds of Kindness. The characters in Lanthimos films are often cold & disconnected from what they say do or feel. This is his warmest film. It also, sadly, feels thrown together, made from a notebook of unused ideas. Gratuitous in parts, desperate to shock in others.
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I got an email from “Neil” about a week ago asking me to vote Labour. His pre-election speech in ‘92 haunts me to this day. The prime minister we never had.
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366 Days of Film. Day 185 - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. All the Wes traits are here in his 4th arguably grandest feature, incl. an amazing cast (some already regulars) all having a blast on the high seas as they hunt for a rare shark (for Steve to fight!). Fans of Cousteau get extra flavour.
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I always thought a basic tenet of law in most countries was that changes in the law can not be retroactive. TFG was found guilty before SCOTUS ruling...?
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366 Days of Film. Day 184 - Videodrome. “Death to videodrome. Long live the new flesh.” A cult classic, and the SFX for 1983 are impressive and inventive. Now that we’re truly jacked into a world of tech with sex and death at our fingertips, maybe ripe for a remake? Debbie Harry is impressive.
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366 Days of Film. Day 183 - BHC: Axel F. Hollywood once again insisting aging actors go back to a dry well. Don't they know, it makes the audience intrigued enough to watch feel old as shit too?! And with this one everyone's back to make you feel ancient, including Reinhold, Ashton, even Pinchot...
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366 Days of Film. Day 182 - The Stranger. Orson Welles directs himself and Edward G. Robinson as a war crimes investigator on the hunt. The plot has holes you could drive a truck through, but Orson Welles gives a virtuoso performance as the Nazi hiding in plain sight.
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Sloth Month, Greed Month, Gluttony Month, take your pick!
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He’s the best thing in the very average The Greatest Beer Run Ever. Also with beard.
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Cyberpunk 2077 in real-life
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Push back would be that the job isn’t debating dickheads, it’s running the country, and by most accounts the country is being run well as opposed to what TFG did (or rather didn’t bother to do). The debate should never have been held so close after a gruelling schedule of international engagements?
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366 Days of Film. Day 181 - Inside Out 2. Riley’s turned thirteen and puberty is all the rage. This was never going to reach the heady heights of the joyful original, a couple of new emotions have little to do, but it packs a punch by the end. Pixar did it again. Meanwhile Disney are making Mufasa…
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“Malarkey’s my MIDDLE name.”They tried to bring Glick into MSNBC but when they saw his rider, they bailed.
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“I’ll beat Trump for you, and then we’ll see. But for now, I’m determined that you can’t stop me from doing this for you. Let me do this for you, because if you don’t, it’s on you. Look at my record, look at his, talk about both, write about both. You do now, let me take care of the future.”
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If he says he’ll step aside in a year for the first woman and the first black woman to become POTUS, he might boost his chances further…? A twofer.
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366 Days of Film. Day 180 - The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon (2023). A dying man, a fugitive and scourge of the underworld is disappointed when he discovers he’s only the third most wanted man in Taiwan. A premise ripe for dark comedy but this is played serious, like a noir western. Loved it.
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Doesn’t #3 have the potential to exacerbate current trend to the right if you don’t pull off #5?
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He’s not stepping aside. If he wins, I’m guessing he will announce he’s stepping down within a year, as his aging speeds up. People see what they want to from the debate. Case in point, how the two men exited the studio. Powerful / frail vs Alone / Politely thanking moderators, shit as they were!
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The Bear is back and there’s really nothing much better in the TV universe than when a showrunner is given carte blanche on how to present their story.
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Props to Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe, who at least tried to shift focus this morning.
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366 Days of Film. Day 179 - Blazing Saddles. Mel Brooks writes 10 jokes a minute. Half are puerile, a few dated, but 2 or 3 are solid if not lol. By that calculation Blazing Saddles is a 200 joke film, and every actor delivers them to a tee. Be warned tho, disturbingly high count for the n-word too.
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To be released on Christmas Day. That's what you call counter programming! Robert Eggers' #Nosferatu #FocusFeatures www.youtube.com/watch?v=b59r...
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366 Days of Film. Day 178 - LA Confidential (1997). A near perfect LA noir directed by Curtis Hanson from a James Ellroy novel, with weaving plots & fantastic character interplay. Guy Pearce in his greatest role, Russell Crowe in one of his + Danny DeVito, James Cromwell & Kim Basinger to name a few
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366 Days of Film. Day 177 - No Way Out (1987). They don’t make ‘em like this anymore. They don’t make ‘em like this enough. Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Sean Young, and Gene Hackman is the cherry on top in this thriller with an unbeatable twist.
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366 Days of Film. Day 176 - Easy Money (1983). I’m sure this one has a special place in some people’s hearts, but for a first watch, this is a mean-spirited, joke-free snooze. Worth it only for the curiosity of seeing actors in an early career low like Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joe Pesci & Jeffrey Jones
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366 Days of Film. Day 175 - Past Lives (2023). An understated drama about how first love never dies and unrequited love dies last of all. The three leads are very believable, and nice to see Greta Lee outside of The Morning Show (where she's also excellent).
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but DO they retire if Biden retains the White House?
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She seems bad at *her* job… 🤷🏼♂️
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366 Days of Film. Day 174 - Inside Out (2015). This really was peak Pixar. Can't wait to see what the sequel is like, considering their previous peak was with Toy Story 2.
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Daily Beast like dragging the like sister, quoting her word for word😅
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He’s turned into Alex Jones.
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366 Days of Film. Day 173 - Week-end (1967). A couple who secretly have plans to kill each other embark on a road trip littered with wrecked cars and actors monologuing. It’s surreal, but the only reason I kept watching was the unpredictable nature of the film. Mostly I was just irritated!
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366 Days of Film. Day 172 - The Long Goodbye. Elliott Gould is the gumshoe sneaking around LA, flanked by bad men and beautiful women. Sterling Hayden was up for the role of Quint in Jaws, presumably off the strength of his performance as a drunk, burned out writer. He's the only weak point imho.
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366 Days of Film. Day 171 - Good Time. Rob a bank, break brother out of hospital, what could go wrong? A darkly comic scenario from the Safdie brothers, with Robert Pattinson in top form, a cameo from Jennifer Jason Leigh, and a strong supporting cast of relative unknowns. A good time was had.
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366 Days of Film. Day 170 - Bloodsport (1988). Yes, it's a rip off of Enter The Dragon and has none of its gravitas, but it has its charms. Tank-shaped Bolo Yeung makes a good baddie, Van Damme does the splits every five minutes, and Donald Gibb seems to be having a blast.
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366 Days of Film. Day 169 - Alps (2011) One of Yorgos Lanthimos’ more inscrutable films: a group of people are employed to stand in for the recently deceased, wearing their clothes and reading and repeating scripts of things they said, like living reborn dolls to help with the grieving process.
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The Albania taunting stuff is racist… and genuinely hilarious.
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366 Days of Film. Day 168 - Tune in Tomorrow (1990). A little known gem and Keanu’s first role where he’s not playing an airhead, but it’s Peter Falk who has the meatier part and steals the show. Also starring Barbara Hershey, and directed by Jon Amiel off the back of The Singing Detective.
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So that’s what the disaster in the title means 🤓
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366 Days of Film. Day 167 - Origin. Incredible film. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor plays a writer who, after suffering great personal loss, begins to pull together the threads of her next book, connecting the ideas of caste, outcasts, Nazism, race… symbols & systems of violence and hate. It’s a must see.
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Knowledge Fight podcast for a good time.
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366 Days of Film. Day 166 - Lady Vengeance (2005). Park Chan-wook followed Oldboy with this stylish and stylized revenge thriller that slowly peels away the layers to reveal the terrible truth. It’s got a wicked sense of humour, great pac, and there isn’t a boring shot to be had in the whole film.
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366 Days of Film. Day 165 - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). Rex Harrison's gruff ghost lusts for Gene Tierney & becomes jealous when she falls in love with a cad. Tierney dazzles as the confident young widow, and Bernard Herrmann's score is fantastic. Meanwhile Rex thinks he's in a Shakespeare play.
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366 Days of Film. Day 164 - The Truth vs. [monster] Alex Jones (2024). Documentary on how bullshit artist Alex Jones and his Infowars got rich off the Sandy Hook hoax they themselves had a huge part in creating. Get ready to be enraged.
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366 Days of Film. Day 163 - Villains (2019). Two thieves break into a house and find worse versions of themselves in a dark comedy that isn’t particularly dark or funny. The four leads do their best with a decent idea but it ends up feeling like a patchwork of homages (to be kind) to better films.
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366 Days of Film. Day 162 - The Untouchables. Top drawer Brian De Palma with a great cast, brilliant Ennio Morricone soundtrack, and an early screenplay from David Mamet. De Niro is underused in favour of the fab four, but it’s a good gangster flick with a memorable Eisenstein homage moment.
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366 Days of Film. Day 161 - Ghost Stories (2017). An anthology of very British horror stories. The wraparound story is pretty ropey, but three stories starring Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther and Martin Freeman are well handled. Nothing particularly new here.
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366 Days of Film. Day 160 - Late Night with the Devil. Failing talk show host does a Halloween special, and things take a turn for the demonic. Three quarters of a fantastic horror with some mesmerising performances. The last quarter lets the whole endeavour down. For sure worth a watch though.
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