My wife got her black belt from the villain of The Octagon! 

Weird that Tom Breihan made The Octagon representative of action movies that year.

Joker.

...remembered as the decade of snark, a period where being smart and funny also meant being witheringly condescending towards everyone and everything that wasn’t in on the joke.

I said in the news post on the list that was announced but I am sad that the Happiest Millionaire isn’t on the list. Also sad that Condorman is missing.

I’m all about bee warfare this weekend. Killer Queen Black is so freaking good that I’m actually mentioning a video game first, which I don’t think I’ve ever done in one of these things.

Incredible, right? I just didn't want it to end.

I’ve been doing a combined watch of “Buffy” and “Angel”. I’m about to finish season 7 and 4 respectively.

Catching up on the last couple of weeks Casualties and Great British Bake Offs and Only Connect and Holby Cities with my parents because they just returned from a holiday to America, Mexico, Belize and Honduras.

You have far more patience than I do in regard to El Camino, but that’s a great way to approach it. I watched it all in one go and it felt like a single episode rather than two hours.

So I’ve decided to binge Eureka. It’s a scifi show set during the semi-golden period of The Syfy channel alongside the likes of Battlestar Galactica, Warehouse 13 and Alphas. It’s basically a crossover of Twin Peaks, Jimmy Neutron and JJ Abrams’ Alias where a US Marshall becomes the sheriff of a Pacific Northwest town…

This was a very busy week. We had the attics and walls insulated. The house is a mess but I watched two movies anyway, two more Halloween movies: Gorilla at Large, and Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu. Gorilla at Large isn’t much of a Halloween movie, I chose it mostly because I was tired, it was handy, and I really just…

I accidentally stumbled upon Detachment. Wow, what a movie, I thought they didn’t make them like this anymore. Easily one of my favorites of the 2010s. It masterfully subverts the whole ‘good teach coming to the rescue’ narrative. Probably the most damning moment of the movie was the student trying to hug the teacher…

First full Halloween-movie weekend of the season:

Not much of note this week cuz I’ve been busier than a one-legged man in an asskicking contest, but I did sneak out this morning to see ‘Joker’. I figured Sunday morning would be a good time to avoid any mass shootings, because everyone would have their guns with them at church.

Baffled that Joker isn’t the header image this week, because it’s all about Joker.

Finally caught up with Elementary and now only have the last two episodes to watch.

Binged The Politician.

Ad Astra was kinda bad really. A sloppy story, dull protagonist, clumsy action sequences, and an overall air of trying-to-hard-to-be-2001. Look, everyone making cerebral artsy sci-fi, I salute you, but stop trying to make 2001 again. It doesn’t work if you’re not insanely focused on the craft. We’ve all seen man…

I spent my movie nights this week with Beast from the Haunted Cave, and The Nun. The Nun is a good counterpoint to Dialogue of the Carmelites, my favourite story set in a convent. I think Jacques Rivette must have had Carmelites at least partly in mind, as it had been made into a movie only a few years earlier, and…