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TAKE ONE header, changed from "Bringing the best of arthouse and festival cinema into focus" to "Bringing the best of streaming & network TV into focus"
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I can now give my unfiltered opinion that Alien: Earth had things it did well, but it had many more things it did extremely poorly, that I don't understand why this was the vehicle for this story, didn't think it handled its themes well or originally, and the season finale was absolutely dreadful.
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We used our podcast about film franchises that we produce for a film reviews website to talk about a TV series. It's a brave new world for us.
(And don't worry, The Impossipod will return later this month for an episode discussing MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE...)
"With seething social commentary at its centre, BAD APPLES feels contemporary and culturally accurate to the landscape of public education in the UK [and] director Jonatan Etzler wields the school setting with skill." - @reaffirmsfaith.bsky.social reviews at #LFF: buff.ly/1YQk7Cp
Bad Apples | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025
With seething social commentary at its centre, BAD APPLES feels contemporary and culturally accurate to the landscape of public education in the UK. Normality becomes quickly warped by extenuating…
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I went quite long on WAKE UP DEAD MAN, the new Knives Out film, because it really resonates with thoughts I've been having around the right's (mis)appropriation of Christianity and how neo-fascists are using the rhetoric of Christianity without any embeddedness in Christ's teachings.
"WAKE UP DEAD MAN may not bring anything novel for newcomers, but it’s a treat for KNIVES OUT fans, serves as a corrective for GLASS ONION's excesses, & imbues the story with meaningful resonance for contemporary Christian politics." - @simonxix.com @ GFT's satellite #LFF screening: buff.ly/e7zMeGP
Wake Up Dead Man | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025 @ GFT
While WAKE UP DEAD MAN may not bring anything novel for newcomers to the series, it’s a treat for KNIVES OUT fans, serving as a corrective for the excesses of GLASS ONION and imbuing the story with…
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"WAKE UP DEAD MAN may not bring anything novel for newcomers, but it’s a treat for KNIVES OUT fans, serves as a corrective for GLASS ONION's excesses, & imbues the story with meaningful resonance for contemporary Christian politics." - @simonxix.com @ GFT's satellite #LFF screening: buff.ly/e7zMeGP
Wake Up Dead Man | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025 @ GFT
While WAKE UP DEAD MAN may not bring anything novel for newcomers to the series, it’s a treat for KNIVES OUT fans, serving as a corrective for the excesses of GLASS ONION and imbuing the story with…
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Ballad of a Small Player didn’t click for me, despite some engaging showiness. Review below for @takeonecinema.net from #LFF! 👇
“A PALE VIEW OF HILLS lives up to a strong cinematic legacy of Ishiguro adaptations with its stunning, dreamy aesthetic and the performances of a talented cast, but the script does not achieve the nuances of its preceding adaptations.” - @reaffirmsfaith.bsky.social at #LFF:
A Pale View of Hills | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025
A PALE VIEW OF HILLS lives up to a strong cinematic legacy of Ishiguro adaptations with its stunning, dreamy aesthetic and the performances of a talented cast across generations, but the script does…
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Really enjoyed the #LFF short film strand ARE YOU KIDDING?, which screens for the first time tonight. Will be trying my hardest to do more short film coverage this year.
"Overall, the ARE YOU KIDDING? strand of short films at London Film Festival 2025 has (for the most part) a commanding understanding of tone, pitching the collection into a tradition of morbid, dark & absurd humour." - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews tonight's shorts at #LFF2025:
LFF25 Shorts: Are You Kidding? | TAKE ONE | Reviews
Overall, the ARE YOU KIDDING? strand of short films at London Film Festival 2025 has (for the most part) a commanding perception of tone, pitching the collection into a tradition of morbid and absurd…
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"Overall, the ARE YOU KIDDING? strand of short films at London Film Festival 2025 has (for the most part) a commanding understanding of tone, pitching the collection into a tradition of morbid, dark & absurd humour." - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews tonight's shorts at #LFF2025:
LFF25 Shorts: Are You Kidding? | TAKE ONE | Reviews
Overall, the ARE YOU KIDDING? strand of short films at London Film Festival 2025 has (for the most part) a commanding perception of tone, pitching the collection into a tradition of morbid and absurd…
buff.ly
Chaser: "“And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling & regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, & from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh & laugh, consume & consume.”"
"You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it."
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’
Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’
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THE SMASHING MACHINE is an accomplished film, but the narrative seems to be all exploratory jabs and no haymaker. Safdie’s film skips deftly around several cliches, but fails to use that fancy footwork to advance something memorable of its own. - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews: buff.ly/21T6mTO #filmsky
The Smashing Machine | TAKE ONE | Reviews
THE SMASHING MACHINE is an accomplished enough film, but the narrative seems to be all exploratory jabs and no haymaker. Safdie’s film skips deftly around several cliches, but fails to use that fancy…
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Longer thoughts at @takeonecinema.net on One Battle After Another, which I think will have legs in the minds of cinemagoers, box office be damned. (Also, if you liked it go check out How To Blow Up A Pipeline, a great but much smaller film I name check in this piece.)
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Really enjoying (re)watching the Mission: Impossible films along with this podcast. Mainly it is cementing my opinion that the overarching theme of the franchise is "Ethan Hunt is a messy bitch who loves the drama"
We're back to discuss MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT, an entry that's not bad but perhaps a tad overhyped. Henry Cavill and Vanessa Kirby are great additions but the franchise is fully leaning into Ethan Hunt as messianic cult leader.
The Impossipod is back for M:I- FALLOUT, a highly-regarded entry that, frankly, @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social are a bit meh about. They discuss Henry Cavill & his $3M moustache, a shift towards messianic tropes, & the script’s misunderstanding of political anarchism. - buff.ly/pq8UlGj #filmsky
There's a title up for grabs! Get on it!
It's difficult to find anyone laying claim to having the second tallest cinema in the world but, following the closure yesterday of Cineworld Renfrew Street in Glasgow, they would now be the tallest cinema in the world.
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The Fargo Side: illustrations of Coen Bros movies in the style of your favorite surreal comic strip.
A cartoon of the Dude from “The Bug Lebowski,” assessing the damage to his rug, which really ties the room together.
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I’ve been rewatching the Coen Bros filmography this month and while drawing a Barton Fink illustration, it struck me how much their films feel like Far Side cartoons: funny, strange, clever, yet frequently inscrutable. Anyway here’s a thread!
An illustration of a scene from Fargo drawn in the style of the comic strip The Far Side: Marge encountering the wood chipper situation and exclaiming, “Oh Jeez.”