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Presently getting lost in Marguerite Duras' The Lover. Good writer.

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Now you just have to do the rest.

Marvel really has no likeable characters left that anyone would now be willing to pay to go see: even the beloved ones from the past, like Loki and Nick Fury, have been ruined forever by their most recent depictions by talentless hacks churning out unwatchable dross in service of political activism.

It's crazy to think just 10 years ago the banner would have had Iron Man, Thor, (the real) Captain America, Black Widow and The Hulk. Maybe Spiderman, Ant-Man and Daredevil.

Now there are these barrel-scrapings.

Fire everyone at Disney; find someone who wrote the great comic books of 30 years ago or more - or at least someone who knows and loves every detail of them inside and out - to come back and Make Marvel Great again.

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The new George Clooney/Brad Pitt movie "Wolfs", about two lone mercenary "fixers" unwillingly thrown together, is a fun watch: not a classic but pretty solid and enjoyable all the way through.

★★★★★★¾✰✰✰

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I think that this is my favourite song of the year, and the first really great Cure song in more than 30 years, up there with their best.

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First photoshoot with the new drummer.

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My understanding is Robert Zemeckis still holds the rights and has, mercifully, rejected all attempts to "reboot" Back To The Future, at least until after his death.

Otherwise we would all have had to see a sour-faced black lesbian called Martina McFly showing the Doc she can invent time travel better than him by now.

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I have to admit, I have never been able to understand the cult appeal of Suspiria: I don't see what marks it out from any other cheesy giallo from the seventies. It has good atmosphere, and I liked the 80s synth soundtrack, but the story just doesn't seem to grab me at all and the characters are flat and bland.

I fell asleep watching 2001 on several occasions when young, but then one day I watched it and all the pieces fell into place and I realized it was literally a perfect film, with every moment perfectly executed. It's rightly considered one of the very greatest achievements in film of all time.

The Shining gets criticism from horror purists because it doesn't work like other horror films and so they see it as a genre failure, but if you see it as a work of art, it's mysterious and fun and suspenseful and unforgettable, and succeeds at being its own thing, as any true work of art should. Having said that, I've never quite understood why it routinely gets listed as one of the scariest films ever, because it really isn't.

The first Kill Bill film is weaker than the second, and strays too much into being just a tribute to bad martial arts films from the seventies. I'd cut the anime section and massively trim down the terribly overlong fight scene[s] at the end. The second film is better and has a more thoughtful and emotional tone, and is less self-indulgent overall. Taken together, they're quite patchy but they have some of Tarantino's greatest set-pieces and are better than any of the films he's made since.

movies that suck shit:

suspiria

2001 a space odyssey

the shining

kill bill

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Shelley Duvall (1970)

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The Hero's Journey

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