There’s the Tony Blair Trilogy by Peter Morgan and Michael Sheen; The Deal, The Queen, The Special Relationship. I think some of them were TV movies but That’s probably nitpicking.

My right wing brother always trots out the “Equality of opportunity, not outcome. Martin Luthor King would be rolling in his grave as he wanted everyone to be equal” thing. Most recently when talking about affirmative action. I pointed to a few pro affirmative action quotes from MLK. King knew society wasn’t equal and…

I think it’s more that people think Dowd hates mainstream cinema. The Avclub isn’t Cahiers Du Cinema and the TV Club isn’t particularly snooty in its tastes.l, but the disdain he and Ignatzy seem to have for most mainstream cinema can be off-putting. Personally I like both of them but think they’re suited better to…

I have rosier memories than you. The “I’m way above you” thing was clearly an act and part of the fun. I hung around the V and enjoyed it, tho I think you needed to be up on British snark.

The show has gone to great lengths, over and over again, to show why Gina is so important. The “Gina is being super lazy and mean, oh wait, she’s actually saved the day because she secretly cares” is a well the show has gone to many times. Similarly that her mean streak and outside the box thinking are invaluable…

Slightly concerned about the lack of mentions in press, but I’m hoping they’ll be faithful. I just made a one off tv drama with a downs lead. And now I’m working on an existing show that is incorporating a character with Downs this season. So it’s definitely something that can be done. And it’s not actually that…

Maybe they could adapt some of these *ahem* classic story lines. With Brexit, the border is pretty topical again. 

This sounds cool. The comic was a great read, but what stuck out for me was the relationship with her brother who had Downs Syndrome. If they can nail that, the show will be on steady emotional ground. 

God I miss the WEF and its spinoff forums. Well, miss is the wrong word, but I definitely remember it fondly. Tho a couple of years ago I got curious enough to read some old posts and the cringe was overwhelming. 

BAFTAs are silly nonsense, but the Polanski thing was 16 years ago. At least they’re doing something now. Something token and too late, but it's something. 

Yeah, i guess the corrolary is that the only movies allowed to be 3 hours long are events. So your average film loses money by being long, but length gives the Titanic, LOTR, Harry Potter type films extra weight and appeal. 

Yeah the American media tendency to judge a film by its first 3 days in the USA is becoming increasingly pointless, especially for visual spectacles.

The writers talk about how they fought for everything and won only a fraction of their battles. So they fought for dark phoenix and won some if it, but the studio wouldn't let them do it as a finale. So they had a ton of setup and no payoff. Variations of that happened a lot. Add in that most of the cast weren't…

And the whole beating his girlfriend thing? 

People don’t talk about Alone in the Dark enough in this context. Its almost the exact same game (scary mansion, fixed largely high h outcamera angles, obtuse puzzles, limited clunky combat etc). Its just a lot clunker and instead of a badass American soldier, you’re a fey Edwardian Englishman. 

Pretty much every rock star in the 60s and 70s had sex with girls in their early teens. This can be verified by reading any of Pamela De Barres books or most older rock bios. It was gross and wrong. But we’ve all agreed to ignore it because “it was a different time” and none of us want to lose Bowie/Zeppelin/Sabbath/th…

Yeah, it reminds me of how some people reacted to Ultimate Spiderman “It took Bendis 6 issues to do what took Stan six pages”. Like all that matters is conveying plot. If that was the case, I’d read Wiki summaries instead of comics. Dialogue does so much more than explain the story. 

To be fair, the Jaws 4 house was for his Mum. 

He recently told Mark kermode that because he has points on Nolan's batman trilogy, he no longer has to do movies for the money. 

I was very sceptical about Unsane and iPhone films in general, but I was very impressed. He really took advantage of the format, using almost entirely wide angle lenses and deep focus to enhance the tension. Having so much be visible and in focus at once made you constantly scan the frame and made you feel as paranoid…