Jade Mansueto

Thursday Movie Club has a charming fun ensemble cast, beautiful locations, and a good plot. At the end, pains are taken to point out that lives were lost

No patronising intro! Chris Columbus plunges into the story, expecting the audience to get up to speed. I like that higher expectation very much

I’m listening to Stone & Sky by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social
At the end of Chapter 20, The Diving Skid, Kobna Holbrook-Smith reads “Peter’s face is unexpected wet” and I am crying. An audiobook has never made me cry. Kobna’s line reading had me choking, I couldn’t swallow. Great performance.

We finally watched Sinners

My gods. I understand why it did so well. I bought for BTS

Gotta buy bluray too cuz this Chicago girl had often gone South Loop, sat on barstool dozen times at Legends. Buddy Guy in a role? Post credit scene? A gift

Ryan Coohler & Michael B. Jordan, you are legends too

#HeadsOfState fun buddy tentpole. Cena a bit dim but canny, Elba is gloomily romantic w/Bourne-like adventure tumbling in & out of planes trains & automobiles. Such good chemistry!

Good VFX by DNEG on Chopra head replacement (guessing) in her slugfests. Kudos to prod for casting good stunt double.

Rebase always makes me pause. Stash your second last commit since you haven’t pushed. But I think you can just rename it, too?

Mr. Willis of Ohio (1999) Richard Schiff in The West Wing (1999)

On an oldies TV channel here, they’ve started, from the beginning, The West Wing. Gods I miss this show. Tonight it is episode six, Mr. Willis of Ohio.

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I’m channel surfing and one of my favourites is on: Kosinski’s Oblivion with Tom Cruise. The story, acting and cast are great but for me, it’s the beautiful rear projection on the Sky Tower sequences that leave me gasping. Kudos to Claudio Miranda. Beautiful work by Pixomondo and Digital Domain.

Alas, not the book but here’s greater detail than what you found in the footnote.
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Bill Ackman, specifically, just thought it was more fucking important to be able to oust Black women from the Harvard presidency than to have a functioning global economy.

That’s what this is about.

Brilliant.

We’ve just finished Adolescence.

I’m shattered.

RIP Val Kilmer. My gods you were something else. I’ll save Heat for the weekend; it’s too long for a weeknight.

But I remembered I love Tony Scott. So it’ll be Deja Vu with Denzel and Val from 1995.

‘We’re not going anywhere’: Chicago rally draws thousands to defend trans rights - Windy City Times Thousands of transgender people and their allies took to the streets of Chicago on March 30 in a powerful celebration of the trans community and call to action amid growing attacks on its rights. The ...

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I guess that means we can feed and water voters in line now. Can legislation barring that be overturned?

I found myself avoiding Adolescence. I wasn't sure I'd want to see this story. But I got lured in by the idea of an episodic one-shot. Beautiful invisible VFX. I am not disappointed.

Every actor is brilliant. Direction is flawless. Prepro is overwhelming to comprehend.

Onto episode 2

Set reference photo of the Musketeers. Oliver Reed, Michael York, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay.

RIP Richard Chamberlain. Everyone says Shogun, but the film that made me love him was The Three Musketeers.

Directed by Richard Lester. Cast: Chamberlain, Oliver Reed, Michael York, Frank Finlay, Raquel Welch and Faye Dunaway as Milady. Charlton Heston as Richelieu!

comedy? action? drama? YES!

Yeah, mmm, that’s not great. I cancelled our US holiday and now we’re going to Celebration; then meander in Japan another month or so.

If the midterm elections swing in a good direction then maybe it’ll be safe enough to consider visiting my family.

Saw The Electric State last night. It’s underwhelming. It didn’t look or feel like Simon Stålenhag. Ground my teeth in frustration

Then I watched the credits. The show employed 10k people directly/indirectly. VFX by ILM, DNEG & other studios. People got paid & did a good job. Yeah, I’m ok with that

This kind of chest thumping “I can and want to kill for <some cause>” posturing is why I left Twitter.

Instablock violent wanna-be murderers. Give them no air.

Never have I been so proud of Justin Trudeau and being Canadian.

Block. This is nonsense that I hoped would stay on Twitter.

Both my parents died wide within months of each other last year. The funeral home handled SS notifications. It was a relief, tbh. Smooth process meant one less thing to fret about.

I love hearing the theme songs but I thought maybe I had zooped out and missed the "why". Life's little non-sequiturs.

why is there a James Bond montage?

He is hilarious. I mean, what a delightful nutter.

Zoe Saldana receiving her Oscar for Best SupportingActress. She just cried out for her mother, found her and waved.

Zoe Saldana crying out for her mami broke my heart. Congratulations on your #Oscar2025 for #BestSupportingActress.

She may be speaking out but she voted to confirm every single person Donald nominated.

So yeah, she’s not trustworthy. Yet.

I was at the Woolworths when I came across a package of beef asado, properly sliced.

My throat snapped shut and I choked. My mother made truly delicious asado. I haven't had hers in decades. I bought it and am making it for dinner.

Grief is sneaky. Crying in front of the beef chiller. Gah.

I’m a Filipina software engineer and I’ve been enveloped in this type of environment, from mild to strident, for most of my work life.

It hasn’t feel new or distinct in years, decades.

Everything was handled so confidently. In addition to Gagné’s talent, this highlights the supportive and nurturing existing production environment for your first-time director. Kudos.