Jon

Watching Oceans 12, randomly.

Taken the afternoon off to see this:

After 3 spins of teenage fanclub’s new LP I can recommend it to all the 50 something melancholic optimists out there. Euros Child’s mournful organ and slightly sci fi keyboard parts add some interest to what is otherwise a lovely lost CSNY album.

Watching this film which apparently is the exact point where Gould started getting fat.

Listening to Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the key of life. Obviously one of the greatest albums ever made. If you ever fancy putting on Steely Dan, for the studio sophistication of the sound, put on Stevie instead and you can get all that and, you know, soul and emotion too.

Working whilst listening to this gem.

If seen through the lens of a comedic meta commentary on Affleck the man, better than people are saying. As a thriller it’s bollocks obviously with everyone working in completely different registers.

Gonna be shit but still going to watch

Pre game watch

You’re never more than a week away from a new Taylor Sheridan series. Tulsa King Series 4!

Watched A Social Reckoning. Shocked by the clunky script, the unconvincing characters, the tv style, the lack of jeopardy or excitement and the failure to show just what a phyrric victory the WSJ reports were. This is more of a depressing story than Sorkin wants to tell, frankly. A total failure.

Watched Don’t Look Back in Anger. Really good documentary about a band I haven’t listened to since 1993. Genuinely moving.

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Watched a satire of an exploitation genre I didn’t really even know existed! Pretty stylish even on the terrible YouTube print copy I watched. Alarming, funny, feminist adjacent.

Tonight’s 1974 Jonathan Demme movie. Not like Silence of the lambs by the look.

Watching some 1974 films over the next month. Oddly, seem to have seen a stack of movies from the year already. But have these on my initial list. The 70s are pretty inexhaustible for great films. The Gambler Zardoz Mr Majestyk Caged Heat Daisy Miller Thieves Like Us

Great film with an unexpectedly fun ending. My disc has a version with an alternative ending though…

Home alone tonight and going to watch, probably the last of my 1973 films:

Assume Brosnan was mute because of his unconvincing Irish accent

A sickness blighted weekend but as I start to feel better, putting this on:

Very much enjoying the audio book of London Falling. I read Radden Keefe’s collection on rogues, which is excellent, but this longer investigation is enthralling: from a murder/suicide to the exile of Ugandan Asians, the brinks mat robbery and A Long Good Friday.

Not sure why Robert Jenrick is being interviewed on the BBC about Burnham’s speech (he’s not the principal opposition yet) but it is, as they say, a car crash. Absolute fud.

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Off to see this (surprisingly long) movie

Watching tonight, from 1973

Watching the second series of Spaced. Best thing Edgar Wright has ever done probably. Might be the nostalgia.

Rewatching the second series of The Trip and having a lovely time. Perhaps the most surprising bit of classic tv.

Looked fantastic, albeit in the smallest of the filmhouse screens. Icy and cool in a specifically French way with the discontent at the heart of the bourgeois family a matter of glances and tiny moments. A couple of great scenes and a perfect ending within a slow burn ironic thriller

Today’s film at the cinema.

Sitting down for:

Now listening.

Dog Stars was a lot better than the reviews suggested. And we are one step closer to a new genre. The upbeat survivalist post apocalyptic film. I’m already planning for a world of folk songs, dog companions, solo flights through verdant wonderlands and meeting Margaret Qualley on her homestead.

First Friday film (to be followed by Shelter). My intellectual nosedive continues.

Loved this. So much more fun and sexy than I saw the TV Glow. Gillian Anderson is Norma Desmond but Gen X and still beautiful.

Next up on my cinematic double bill

Loved this. Question. Why do families set in the 80s seem more like real families? Is it nostalgia? Maybe the Spielberg effect? Whatever. I thought the family dynamics were spot on. Funny, scary, moving. Hathaway is making a case to be my new favourite actor this year: she’s great here!

Heading to the cinema for some dino action

@limmy.com Seen in Brum:

I travelled to London from Edinburgh on the previous hottest day of the year and now I am in Birmingham on the new hottest day of the year. Never leaving Scotland again.

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