To be honest, he doesn’t drive the plot. It would be easy to get rid of him. Honestly, though, wouldn’t it have made more sense to merge him with the lawyer character? Also think he adds bit of tension between Laura Dern and Sam Neill, and just some randomness.

You have to set up your own. Just get lots of people to confess their biggest sins as part of a way to cleanse themselves and become better people, then use that information to blackmail them. It’s actually pretty easy.

Sounds like New Mutants will be a mess and Bohemian Rhapsody might be good enough for a run at the Oscars.

I’m interested to see how they kill people off. The Marvel universe is largely bloodless and to kill an actual superhero is going to take some doing.

Anyone else annoyed this wasn’t an East London set tale of life in the shadow of Canary Wharf?

Always thought that introducing people to Sherlock via Hounds (which was how I came to him) is a bit misleading as the story is a it of an outlier. Especially the films, which play up the gothic horror. The other stories, visually at least, seem tame in comparison.

Maybe she prefers TV work?

Looks like it’s got touches of Lebowski, Nice Guys and Kiss,Kiss, Bang, Bang - if it’s only as tenth as good as those it;ll be worth a watch.

All this talk about female directors these days and Mary Harron never gets a mention - took a tough book and did a good job but hasn’t done much film since then. Lot of good TV work. Be good to see her do something on the big screen again.

As above, it’s not just the ads they are using your data for. They sell it to insurance firms, credit agencies etc - certain online behaviour can trigger higher premiums, worsening credit scores etc. I did a course on social media once where I discovered that Mastercard found that people who liked Coldplay were more…

These things can be linked to your credit score, quotes for various types of insurance etc. So even the most banal data could be being used against you. This article has a good section on ‘character profiling’ https://scramsoft.com/article/does-my-internet-activity-affect-my-insurance-and-credit-ratings/

Possibly, but my reading was (and it’s been a while since I’ve seen it) that it wasn’t that he was imagining it but that either Willem Defoe and witnesses had confused him for someone else as they all looked the same or that it’d been brushed under the carpet because of their wealth.

Loved both the American Psycho book and film - though the business card moment works much better in the film. In the book the descriptions are so in depth and coming from Bateman’s mind that you start to feel the cards are different. But the film has the punchline the book doesn’t when the card is placed on the table…

Columbus is a bit of a Lucas - had involvement in a lot of good stuff early on but when he was given control couldn’t handle it. Now he seems like he’s just a job director brought in as a steady hand with big franchises.

Scared the sh*t out of me when I was young. But loved it. Though surely Columbus partly got the Potter gig because of his involvement in this, not that he stole ideas from it after he was hired on Potter.

Makes sense as we’ve had plenty of stuff about the heroes. And as Thanos is not what you’d call a household name outside of the Marvel Universe it’s not like it’s going to be one of those origin stories where you ruin a character’s mystery as they did with Hannibal Lectur etc. Still, if we do get - as people have…

Really?

Agree. Yet he’s never mentioned as an all time great director. Think it’s because he didn’t write all of these and much of their appeal comes down to their scripts, and he did such varied work so was never a Scorcese or Allen who focussed on specific themes.

A lot of sites are pretty much claiming a death is guaranteed. Though it could be a hawkeye, scarlett witch etc - low level ones without their own movie.

Think they’ll have a death at end of first one - something to drive the second part. And give that ‘Is he, isn’t he’ cliffhanger between the two.