fry from futurama is making a funny face with his red hair Alt: Fry from Futurama squinting suspiciously

Me seeing referrals to @takeonecinema.net from ChatGPT in the Google Analytics data...

Ultras | TAKE ONE Magazine | Reviews ULTRAS highlights how football is not an escape from society, or even a reflection of it - it is a key thread running through the tapestry of communities across the globe.

“[#ULTRAS demonstrates that #football] is not an escape from society, or even a reflection of it – it is a key thread running through the tapestry of communities across the globe.” - #RagnhildEkner's doc is out this week, read @jimgr.bsky.social's review from LFF 2025 screenings: buff.ly/eQuM0xd

JRR Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings as a side project while brainstorming a list of cool names for defense contractors

Not saying this is entirely without merit in wider societal context etc BUT you can’t really blame folk for not watching films that either don’t screen near them or they don’t know about at all. There’s some great films I’ve only seen because I got a review screener, & I live just outside London!

Meta poured tens of billions of dollars into the metaverse and now AI, but they can’t make the process of generating an API token for their various social networks (remember those? the thing they allegedly do?) any easier of an experience than sitting on shards of broken glass.

I think the minute it the MCU suggested on some level you could rewatch the noughties F4 films, Elektra, Spider-Man 3, and TASM2 *and* be vaguely aware of X-Men casting rumours from the 2010s…nah, chief, shut it down. I ain’t got time for that.

The Wizard of the Kremlin | TAKE ONE Magazine | A dose of Polonium-210 already begins to feel inviting a mere half hour into the prolonged 136-minute runtime of THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN.

“A dose of Polonium-210 already begins to feel inviting a mere half hour into the prolonged 136-minute runtime of THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN.” - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews. #filmsky

There’s a certain amount of likely inherent success from the sugar-rush-smashing-the-action-figures-together, the question is whether it’s in coherent or builds anything interesting on top. It’s not making $1.5Bn+ on that alone. Endgame had 10+ years of mostly good sentiment behind it. This doesn’t!

I really think Avengers: Doomsday is going to be an absolute car crash, but if you go back to 2012 I would I say my advance thoughts on The Avengers were very similar, so what the fuck do I know?

The Tropic Thunder crossover nobody expected or wanted?

I enjoyed Departures, which should be out some places this weekend. To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t 100% sure that was going to the be the case 15-20 minutes in but it really finds its stride. Review for @takeonecinema.net below!

Forest school activity using clay and fake bugs with my daughter has ended up looking like a facehugger fossil

I've not seen Godzilla Minus One, so I get there is some context to the title...but...Godzilla Minus Zero still sounds like an objectively silly title.

There’s perhaps some corporate antivirus bollocks happening in this case as well, but I’ve had it on personal machines also. Pain in the arse.

And don’t tell me to switch to Linux or macOS. I use macOS at home, and Linux on several specific purpose machines I have (and ran Mint as my main OS for a couple of years in grad school). However, when you work in software development for a Windows application, that rules many options out!

A Windows update screen: “You're 100% there. Please keep your computer on.”

“With all the talk about efficiency gains from AI, I wonder how much corporations would save if staff didn’t need to sit through Windows updates?”, he idly wonders as he sits through the fifth reboot and fifteenth minute of staring listlessly at his work computer screen.

Cumulatively, I’ve lived in England for 9 years. For every single one of those 9 years I’ve been astounded at how little English* people know about Scotland, let alone Ireland. Americans can be diabolically dreadful, but Brits are often bad.

(*on average, generalising etc etc, don’t @ me blah blah)

There's another setting on a stapler?!

Get the feeling you're fully through the parenting looking glass when you find yourself describing being wary of Makka Pakka from In The Night Garden because he's "the stealth one seems a bit Fuck Around And Find Out". I should probably go outside today.

I am an atheist. I probably have been for as long as I actually understood what religion and the concept of God was. If you have *me* going “Jeez, lay off the Pope, will ya?” you have well and truly gone off the deep end.

Yeah, just feels like a bit of a double whammy of a) legitimising the far-right by engaging in debate if they wear a shirt and tie and b) the media class realising doing that does numbers.

I remember the hoohaa around it at the time, and I sometimes wonder how much of the UK’s current mess of a political and media landscape can be traced back to allowing Nick Griffin on Question Time in 2009, and it getting much bigger ratings than normal. I’m being deadly serious here.

I have no dog in the Premier League or English football fight, but if Tottenham were to get relegated within five years of the Super League nonsense, that would be just objectively hilarious.

Days old today when I made the connection between Dune and the lyrics in Weapon of Choice. Only took me 25 years.

The Drama THE DRAMA renders philosophical thought experiments as tangible personal relationships. The film is both fiendishly juvenile and thought-provoking, with Kristoffer Borgli's black comedy approach harmonising these two qualities.

“THE DRAMA renders philosophical thought experiments as tangible personal relationships. The film is both fiendishly juvenile and thought-provoking, with Kristoffer Borgli's black comedy approach harmonising these two qualities.” - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews. #filmsky

I cannot begin to describe how much time this could save me.

Enough of a nerd I can't decide whether I'm more pleased to have published a review, or that I seem to have (shite with Meta API tokens & longer term debugging notwithstanding) managed to automate (just vanilla API calls in n8n, no AI use) posting for TAKE ONE to potentially 7 social networks.

I liked THE DRAMA quite a bit, and its sense of rising farce coupled against heavy subject matter. Review for @takeonecinema.net below!

The fact that the most respectful audience of any reasonably attended cinema screening I’ve been to in the past year or so has been the U-certificate Pixar film does not reflect well on the adult population.

Ehrlich’s article is good, but my hot take here is…Alamo Drafthouse was never good as a cinema. I first went in 2015, and the writing was on the wall then. Anything else is an illusion. The last time I said this was on Threads shortly after I joined it and quite a lot of Americans got annoyed at me.