#579

They’d have been better off just writing a letter to Sunak that said ‘Fuck you’

#580

Nomadland is tremendous, it’s melancholic without being depressing and Frances McDormand is excellent as always

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#581

Start by getting the money back from Secret Cinema that they spunked first time round.

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#582

Florence Foster Jenkins (iPlayer). Wonderful stuff. It manages to get the balance just right, between laughing at her and loving her passion.

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#583

Ghostbusters 2020 casting meeting:
-Who do young people relate to these days?
-I dunno, those kids from Stranger Things and Harry Potter? :man_shrugging:

#584

James Corden: good bunch of lads, or would you serve him a bunch of fives?

  • I respec’ him
  • I would deck him

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US politics thread: The crowning of Supernintendo Biden
#585

The kid on the right looks like the lead singer of early-00s also-rans, The Music.

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#586

White hot take on Cordon;

Dreadful man, but Gavin and Stacey is amazing.

Sorry for the non-binary answer.

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#587

I gushed about this film Ham on Rye that’s on MUBI on Twighter. It’s a very dreamlike, surreal twisting of a coming-of-age movie. In terms of how it uses that coming-of-age nostalgia, it kind of feels like to Dazed and Confused what Boards of Canada’s In A Beautiful Place in the Country is to Air’s Moon Safari or something.

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In that, there’s a similar wistful look back to the past – but this one feels haunted by something sort of spectral and sad. It’s a really, really good film. Speaking of Linklater, it feels quite a bit like Slacker. I think the film has been compared to Lynch a few times for the narrative structure – the dreaminess (and the vague sense of menace) is wicked Lynch, but the loose structure is hella Slacker

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#588

Really wish the makers of ‘Ham on Rye’ would have spent just a few minutes more on deciding what they should call the film. Not seen it yet so I’m sure there is a wider context but that is one of the shittest names for a film ever

#589

I know someone who worked for a company he was a client of, he was such a cunt that he wasn’t worth the (large amount of) money he was paying them so the company dumped him.

#590

Does it have any ties to the Bukowski book?

#591

No idea, I haven’t seen it but it doesn’t seem so

Two works of art with that title, what a world

#592

Never seen the Star Wars movies before, and so I thought I’d watch them on DisneyPlus. Have watched IV and V so far. Nice to finally see the pop culture bits that I’ve picked up on over the years, but not exciting me too much beyond that. Looking forward to it picking up with The Phantom Menace though!

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#593

ham on rye

my god this was tedious…i can only think the director has rich parents

cliched coming of age film filled with utterly forgettable, vacant teenagers who say and do nothing of interest

there’s a few filmmakers who can do ennui and alienation really well, the rest are absolutely torturous

#594

Complete shite.

#595

Watched Roma and enjoyed it a fair amount. Some wonderful visuals and the messages could have been very heavy handed in the wrong hands.

Hands.

#596

The endless dog shit in the driveway was something I couldn’t figure out when I watched it.

Apart from that, I really liked it.

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#597

You should see the current state of my back garden and my dug is small.

#598

The Silence - not my favourite of Makhmalbaf’s but its still a beautiful watch

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