Tennis on Netflix Part 3. Break Point Season 2 /”The Netflix Slam”

On 10th March 2024 Netflix finally put its misbegotten Drive to Survive-esque attempt at a slice of the ATP and WTA tennis tours Break Point out of its misery. One can go and read the lengthy articles from this writer on both halves of the first season. In certain ways, much of what was true

The Bizarro World James Bond Adjacent Reality Show You Didn’t Watch. (FULL SPOILERS)

Note. The following piece will assume that viewers have seen No Time to Die (2021) as well as containing FULL SPOILERS for 007: Road To a Million The context of this show being the first B project released after that film is one of the most fascinating things about it. Seeing No Time to Die

Barbie (2023) Movie Review

Note. This review contains spoilers for The Lego Movie (2014). In the writing of this review, this author assumed that there was enough crossover audience between the two films that the spoilers didn’t necessarily need to be flagged. Just in case this is not the case and you’re coming to this review without having seen

The Little Mermaid. (2013) Review

At this point, the Disney live-action remakes also thoroughly entrenched an easy media punching bag. It might be deming with unbelievably faint praise but The 2023 Little Mermaid is easily the best the mouse house is brought to the table since John Favreau’s Jungle Book. Don’t get this viewer wrong. It’s still got the laundry

The Super Mario Bros Movie Is What It Set Out To Be. For Better And Worse.

Even knowing there was going to be an exhausting amount of discourse when it was announced that Illumination had been chosen for the job of making Nintendo‘s first foray into features in 25 years with an animated Mario movie the amount of baffling discussion around the final product has surprised even this watcher. It started

Thoughts on The Whale

There are probably far more articulate writers than this one with thoughts on this wildly divisive but successful A24. awards best play. How much of this relates to the ongoing Brandon Fraser Hollywood redemption arc and what percentage is related to the positive or negative merits of the piece itself remains to be seen. Nevertheless,

Babylon. Review. (Mild Spoilers)

If this author had to pick a favourite working filmmaker as of writing this Damien Chazelle would be his answer. The director’s first three films are among this watcher’s favourites in recent memory. He has this fan’s support in terms of checking out new projects for the length of his career. For that reason alone

Tar. Online Film Discourse Eats Its Own Tail

In the interchangeably morphing online film discourse space post-pandemic debate around awards contenders seems to be getting even more niche and fragmented. Spearheaded by the kind of people who would not know what cinema with a shred of populism if it hit them with the speed and force of an oncoming freight train. The kind

Break Point Part One is Exactly What You Would Expect… Until it Isn’t. Review. (FULL SPOILERS)

This review may or may not be more technically orientated than the audience for this writer’s work is used to. That said its fandom for tennis as a sport will very much colour his opinion on the splashy Netflix flies-on-the-wall offering loosely following several desperate stories from across the 2022 season. So let’s discuss. When

The Odd Case of Disney’s Strange World.

Do you know that there was a theatrical Walt Disney Animation Studios production pushed out into the world on November 22nd 2022? Better question. Did the mouse house want the general public to know that this release even existed? That is the question currently surrounding the discourse one of the most memorably notable flops this