Something New (This Week)
I'm back home from vacation, and I'm watching movies
Weird week, short recap post. Here’s some new things I enjoyed this week.
The Newest M. Night Joint
Shyamalan has a new movie out, and just like 2021’s Old, it’s biblical, strange, disturbing, thought-provoking, has a couple of creative visual ideas, and was a little thin. I didn’t love it, but I had a great time mulling over it, and reading what others thought. Definitely worth the price of admission.
Magic Mike, Director
There was also a new Magic Mike movie in theaters, Magic Mike’s Last Dance. The weakeast entry in the truly wonderful trilogy, Last Dance is a vaguely new spin on ideas the trilogy has already toyed with, and is the least interesting story with the least amount of interesting characters. But it still got our Valentine’s Day crowd to ooh, ahh, and screech with emotion as Channing Tatum devoured Salma Hayek. Also worth the price of admission, and worth reminding us that Magic Mike XXL is genuinely a masterpeice of self-expression and friendship. Go watch that one too, if you haven’t (or even if you have).
TV Catch-Up
I finished S3 of HBO’s Barry last night, and I’m so thankful for it’s brisk and sharp ending, and it’s brisk and sharp writing and direction throughout the entire series. A weird examination, exploration, and extrapolation of the anti-hero narrative, and strangely funny, and charming, and good.
I’m also keeping up with HBO’s current blockbuster The Last of Us, a habit I haven’t kept up in years. I’m not enfatuated with the show, but it’s made with careful and thoutful craft, and it is creating wonderful conversation between critics and fans, and I enjoy being caught up in the moment of a cultural object of adoration. It’s a scary, sad show, and I don’t know who to recommend it to (I watch it when my partner is at work, very purposefully), but maybe check in on it!
The books are flowing, the music is flowing, and the movies are flowing. I’d love to hear what you’ve found recently. Let me know, here or there or otherwise.
Love y’all.
TTFN
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