as brilliant as Gandhi is, the scene where Ian McShane stares down Winstone is witheringly scary. The small smile, the piercing eyes... brrrrr

Cagney is astonishing in this. His intensity is 20 years ahead of his time - it feels more like early Nicholson. All the other actors look like showroom dummies. 

“waddhe say?”

also, as chairman of the welcoming committee, it is my honor to extend to this context warning a laurel, and hardy handshake.

You couldn’t make a movie like Blazing Saddles in today’s climate? Got news for you: they barely made Blazing Saddles in 1974 - go back and read some of the commentary in the day. Decent people didn’t go to see movies like that. 

“It’s academic, though, since everyone knows what the real best Batman movie is”

not sure how Sam Shepherd fits in a list of comic actors...

Flash Gordon.

yup, that was certainly a list of tv shows.

his accent was pretty good - he wisely didn’t go full “Hahvahd yahd” but yeah, I heard a bit of Scouse slipping in too.

BBQ on Sunday at 1. Come around to the back garden. 

it’s a terrific song and great performance, but he’s not the MVP of the show: Daveed Diggs as Lafyette and Jefferson is amazing. And he has a bunch of songs. And that dance move he does in “What I miss” is insane.

off topic unsolicited advice from someone who’s made the same mistake: “off the reservation” isn’t cool anymore. Got called on that irl and it was really embarrassing.

dood! How did you do that? Must have been in a freaky headspace for the rest of the week!

yeah, they beat it to death (heard on a NFL ident break once) but the original use in the movie rules. 

is that you, Baby Yoda?

Watched Greyhound, because I’m a middle-aged white guy. I enjoyed it - it pretty much did what it said on the tin, and did it well, but I could have done with 10-15 minutes extra of character development for any of the characters. Steven Graham is barely in it, but is really good with what he’s given.

wait- Jessie Ware doesn’t get on the singles list because she’s too big a deal and could be on the album list, but she’s not on the album list either.

Jessie Ware doesn’t get on for reasons? C’mon guys - I like a good music nerd pedantry but that seems pointless.

thats a genius tip - THANK YOU.