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It aired in the UK on Sky first, now the U.S. gets it.

Would love for the series to go forward on another streamer, but as that is very unlikely, I love what we were able to get across three seasons. A very strong ending for a series that was miles and a away better than it actually needed to be.

Series two quietly debuted today. The first two episodes are up. Still funny, still great music.

I preferred GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE infinitely more than GODZILLA X KONG. I can't believe Adam Wingard directed both. The first one was plodding, trying to wade through this connected universe while ..THE NEW EMPIRE is just fun, breezy, action-packed. A vast improvement.

Extended S2 trailer.

Absolutely adored it and was so disappointed that there was no BAFTA love for Helena Bonham Carter and Augustus Prew.

I actually found it more subdued than the film.

Not as over-the-top as advertised. Still a great watch. By all appearances of the promotion I assumed it would have anachronistic elements and a bit punchier, but it's not. It is very much your standard historical drama, with the exception of a fair bit of humour running through.

Absolutely floored that this was nominated for Best Picture considering the range of films it's up against. It's a nice film, but very slight. I didn't find it as profound as others. Seeing as this, tonally IMO, feels like ALL OF US STRANGERS, I can't see how that lost out in Original Screenplay and Best Picture. Performances great, but underwhelming film.

Director Andrew Haigh's first theatrical film in six years is a adaptation is the second film adaptation of the 1987 novel "Strangers". Starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, ALL OF US STRANGERS is a meditative study of loneliness and connectedness. Of love that reaches through the invisible divides. Screenwriter Adam (Scott) is a screenwriter living in a sparsely occupied high-rise. The seemingly only other sign of life being a man who lives multiple floors beneath him - Harry (Mescal) - who, after a shaky start, he embarks on a relationship with. While Adam spends his evenings with Harry; his days are spent with his parents (Foy and Bell), as they navigate all the things that have remained unspoken over the years. First time I saw it someone was sobbing loudly throughout. It didn't affect me that way...until I saw it the second time. It was then that the emotion of the piece connected with me. Scott got all the glory and Mescal all the attention (and they work splendidly together), but to me, the strength of the film lies in Foy and Bell and their scenes with Scott.

Sadly, the show has done abysmally at the awards this year. Most recently losing in the four categories at the SAG Awards they were nominated in and garnering no WGA awards. At least they look good.

I have a low tolerance for zany and it's the reason why I didn't like KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE and why I really dislike ARGYLLE. What ARGYLLE has going for it is Sam Rockwell and Dallas Bryce Howard who excel despite Matthew Vaughn's unrestraint. Everything else is diminishing returns. However, wouldn't mind if what they set up in the mid end credits pan out to something more. I'd watch that.

What I love about Ramon is that he pushes back when Cristóbal over-reacts. He's full throated when he demands respect from him. Whereas Wlad was more of a tamer, a Cristóbal whisperer, if you would. Wlad let it roll off his back and either laugh at him and keep it pushing. And that worked for him because he was the love of Cristóbal’s life. Ramon had to work harder.

Absolutely loved this film. And a much better courtroom film than France's 2022 submission SAINT OMER (though Guslagie Malanda was mesmerizing). Sandra Hüller gave a stellar performance and Milo Machado Graner more than kept up with the adult actors. I'm hoping it gets a slot in Best Picture like ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT did last year.

Just like JA Bayona's true story tsunami film THE IMPOSSIBLE, SOCIETY OF THE SNOW was incredibly immersive and stunning in recreating those moments. I've never seen 1993's ALIVE based on this story, but I knew about the cannabilism because that's all everyone talked about. Bayona blessedly used the book "Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World's Greatest Survival Story" to form this film. By doing so he gave the dead life. It was no longer about how they died but how they lived. We learned their names. We saw their humanity.