I’m a Ghibli nut and love Spirited Away, but I do think Napier may be missing the point about Inside Out. Spirited Away is about negotiating the unceasing, unknowable challenges of life, and about recognising yourself and others as complex, emotional beings with needs and goals.

Infernal Affairs, by a country mile. The Departed is very well crafted and performed, but Andy Lau, Anthony Wong and especially Tony Leung really elevate IA and are constantly wonderful throughout. IA is more exciting too.

That Michael Longfellow stand-up in the article is legitimately great - low-key, original, interesting delivery. If he can do sketch, it’s a great hire.

I think the takeaway there is that there are plenty of men who make the right noises, but ultimately are only performative feminists. Hot doctor wanted sex with She-Hulk, but as soon as he was faced with the prospect of a relationship with Jen couldn’t even be bothered to keep the act up.

I’ve been a Star Wars fan since 1979 and I didn’t feel insulted. I felt like someone was taking this big beautiful thing and drilling into it, showing us themes that had been in there since ANH and giving us the clearest view of Luke as an adult we’ve had. I love it, and it’s probably my favourite Star Wars film after…

Same here, but I am in the UK. I could import dvds fairly cheaply but aside from events put on by magazines and video labels, and the occasional festival programming at the National Film Theatre, it was hard to see anything with a crowd.

This is correct - Gene is Jimmy’s version of Walt, right down to the look.

No, they’re better because the end product is, with only one or two exceptions, way better. They’ve been promoting female and minority talent with great results. And maybe the backroom politics or the money or whatever is grimy... But that’s still Ms Marvel, Shang Chi, Black Panther up there on screen, done right by…

I think they say something like, “that’s the god of carpenters over there...”

Three times for me here in the UK - Endgame, No Way Home and, way back, the original Scream. People went wild in the opening scene.

He’s had an amazing career, killing it in ensemble films and tv shows and leading in great movies like The Twilight Samurai. I first saw him in Corey Yuen’s Ninja in the Dragons Den from 1982, a brilliant HK/Japan kung fu co-production. He kind of seems the same even though it’s 40 years ago. Wild.

I think Jurassic World is far from a failure. It’s the tightest film in the series after the first (Lost World has some great sequences but is kind of messy, and JPIII is no good), continually exciting and has one of the most fun climaxes in a recent blockbuster.

Anyone critiquing poor decision making in a film about a…

Howard’s PI was in on it - he really worked for Jimmy and Kim.

I do agree with you, but I think we have to consider the context for the deployment of this trick. Massive franchise film, designed for a giant international audience, made by someone whose expertise is in wringing out unexpected emotion from silly and strange things, or unexpected comedy from emotion. So are Boy,…

I feel the same. I love Bond, but MI - especially the run from Ghost Protocol through to Fallout - has been untouchable. I think when Bond comes back, it need to differentiate itself again - a little more swagger and cool, a little less introspection.

What the fuck is artificial emotion? I understand a critique of saying this trick is overdone, but all movies (and all art) are built to make you feel emotion. Either it’s all artificial or none of it is.

That’s not a Tom Cruise problem though, that’s a movie star thing. Tom Cruise has extended his period of movie star pomp by leaning into the thing he’s best at. Also see Jackie Chan, John Wayne, and many others who mostly played a variation on the same character.

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I actually think it’s a pretty good accent - definitely not posh and not vague. It’s an Essex accent and from the clips in the trailer it’s accurate and convincing to this Brit.

I totally agree about The Wedding Singer and The Philadelphia Story, they’re wonderful.