Have you seen Armageddon?

I accidentally bought 4DX tickets when i took my kids to see Jumanji, but in that case I felt it actually worked. A relatively short, dumb rollercoaster ride kind of film can benefit from this treatment. three hours of angsty, broody detective drama, maybe less so.

It’s a creative choice rather than incompetence. But I agree that it’s too dark.

Every older film you named there was, in turn, influenced by something that came before. And how the hell does The Last Jedi = Battlestar Galactica? One or two similar ideas doesn’t make something a rip-off.

Thing is, in industry parlance the kind of in camera stuff you describe is known as “special effects” which is distinct from “visual effects” which are done in post-production and add things that weren’t physically present on set.

A VFX award for Tenet makes no sense when, as you admit, a lot of the most impressive images were created in camera. In fact I was surprised it was even nominated.

So the white character gets to be super strong, and the black character gets to be...invisible? Really?

If you liked that, you’ll love this.

Whatever you do, avoid Cynar. It’s made from artichokes, and is exactly as delicious as that sounds.

Great movie. Shame you couldn’t find space to mention the writer, Michael Tolkin.

Interesting that you went with “sallow” in the headline instead of “shallow”, considering that the film is called The Dig.

“Prim"? His accent is just British. Nothing prim about it.

Why only six episodes? British shows (like Bodyguard) have always done this. It helps to keep the story focussed, and prevent the padding, filler and wheel-spinning you often get in 23 episode US seasons.

Black Mirror is ridiculously low down on this list for a show that had such a cultural impact.
And I guess no one outside of the US or UK made any good TV over the last decade?

Can you imagine the action scenes if they’d been directed by shakycam pioneer Paul Greengrass? My eyes hurt just thinking about it.

Cantabria is a region, not a city.

This whole article is based on a misunderstanding of the term gaslighting. It comes from the film Gaslight, and means specifically getting someone to accept your point of view by bringing their own sanity into question. It’s not just about lying, and then doubling down on that lie. It’s about making someone believe…

He does it in BlacKkklansman too, only to get interrupted after a couple of seconds.

Looks cool. Shame that the motorbike scene is a complete rip-off of this:

While technically it only became called the “European Union” in 1993, it’s existed under various names since 1957.
And as for this “we were great before we were in the EU” nonsense, in case you hadn’t noticed we lost an Empire and most of our manufacturing industries since then. Leaving the EU won’t turn the clock back…