I need this in my life.
24.02.2026 14:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@calchal.bsky.social
Producer - director - writer of short films. 8/10 writer (top 2%) over at the blacklist. Sometimes an actor. I make films about well intentioned people making mistakes. I produce films about broken people trying to fix themselves.
I need this in my life.
24.02.2026 14:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The surgery bit with the docs playing golf and zooming in to give guidance never fails to entertain.
23.02.2026 10:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Okay.
20.02.2026 18:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It did $77m world wide opening weekend. And the studio gets roughly half of that.
20.02.2026 17:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I'm sorry, the new Wuthering Heights movie cost $80m?
20.02.2026 16:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Okay, but now I kinda want ScarJo playing Andrew.
19.02.2026 15:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Same with creatives. A few over there have tossed shade at this place for the lack of engagement they receive. They want the 60+ bots liking each tweet rather than the dozen or so genuine people doing the same here (I'm assuming they're genuine).
18.02.2026 20:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It absolutely does. Due South had an outstanding car chase during one of its early eps. I remember Baywatch driving an armoured money truck off a pier (I think it was on fire too). Sometimes driving a car through boxes beats 6 eps of an A-lister fighting a CG monster. I miss it.
17.02.2026 14:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It tickles me that The Sentinel's first season was also 10 eps.
17.02.2026 13:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's on Sky here in the UK. What an incredible curio. Such confident world building (Ward nearly running down a unicorn, the blood rain, the gremlins). And there's some brilliant hard boiled noir dialogue too.
15.02.2026 17:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Channel 4 be like we need affordable dramas. Then announce a show starring Glenn Close.
11.02.2026 20:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I believe so, but anything brand new (like The Pitt, Lanterns or any other new show releasing) will be exclusive to HBO Max.
11.02.2026 14:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Now I'm curious as to what shows she actually does enjoy.
09.02.2026 16:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Not an easy read.
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Having heard the stories about the writer and the director, I wouldn't expect them to have any self reflection.
07.02.2026 17:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Sometimes the show This Is Us would present you with a cold open, some new character you hadn't met before, and by the end of the ep you'd learnt how they were connected to the lives of the main cast.
05.02.2026 23:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Then again, this particular character would have been in the 19-21 range in 1974, so what do I know?
05.02.2026 23:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I guess I personally didn't know many women having kids when they were 19-21
05.02.2026 23:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Okay, now there's a time jump and this mid 20s looking 28 year old is now playing 34.
Oh and there's a post sex scene where the woman is wearing a scarf in bed. Is that a thing? is their a kinkier cut of this PG-13 film?
Casting 41 year old Rebecca Hall to be the mother of a 19/20 year old (but played by a 28 year old) is a wild move.
05.02.2026 19:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0That's what I can't fully recall. I think AG was under contract with Sony and was installed in a holding pattern. I think the book says he basically stayed in his office and let the room do its thing, allowing GB to suggest that Pacey should kiss Joey.
05.02.2026 18:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yep and Fattore.
05.02.2026 18:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wasn't there 2 showrunners in quick succession? And if memory serves the second runner (AG) was there to babysit the room and let them do whatever? And the villain of the piece being the studio (or network) boss who referred to a cast member as a "chipmunk faced cunt."
05.02.2026 18:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And a couple of years later, they gave a 27 year old a showrunning gig after having written 2 produced pilots (that failed to go to series). Those 90s/early 00s were truly insane.
05.02.2026 18:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Strengths: The dialogue is great.
Weaknesses: Get rid of the dialogue.
When you adapt a classic piece of literature and the blcklst scores it a 5/10 for plot. Wait until I tell that dead author that they're a hack.
04.02.2026 17:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0With a cameo from a Kubrick-esque monolith.
03.02.2026 18:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Alan-a-dale from the 1973 Disney animated epic Robin hood
Only a matter of time until this guy shows up in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
02.02.2026 13:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0London concrete estate as seen in The Kingsman film.
I think the worst example of UK for US is in the Mark Whalberg movie Infinite. The London housing estate from The Kingsman (pic below) featured as a New York location. Not a chance.
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