Witch Hat Atelier made me like “oh wow! A cute magical world where you have 2 magical dads and their 4 magical daughters!”
and then at some point I’m like 
Okay. This show is setting to be one of the best ones I’ve seen
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Oh, the show’s just getting started. I think we’re around the first “what” in this summary:
I highly recommend checking out the manga, not least because Shirahama’s art is so good.
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Waiting for the box set to arrive 
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We started watching Attack on Titan. I had expected some kind of scifi Starship Troopers thing for some reason. We have seen 8 episodes so far. I am keeping Ascendance of A Bookworm episodes to watch after … for something lighthearted.
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Saw The Mandalorian and Grogu the other night and found it to be a rather straightforward plot, but an overall fun experience. Plenty of humor and action, with a few moments of drama tontug the heartstrings. The only downside is it really does just feel like two episodes of the show stitched together, though with a slightly greater FX budget.
Still, a good time was had. Recommended.
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Spider-Noir is out today on Prime. I just had the most 1980s thought ever, which was:
“Huh, I didn’t know Lukas Haas would grow up to look like Lance Henriksen.”
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Okay, I really enjoyed Spider-Noir. Cage is actually great, everyone around him is even better, it does noir AND Spider-Man properly, great stuff.
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I love that his character tries to model himself on Cagney and Robinson and do the voices.
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“They count them before they put them out, Noel.”
(Supposedly, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Noel Coward while walking past guardsmen at Buckingham Palace.)
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There’s no way I can make a top 10 movies list. I can’t even make a top 5 movies before 1950.
I mean, I can if I have to:
My Man Godfrey 1933
The Man Who Could Work Miracles 1936
The Maltese Falcon 1941
Casablanca 1942
A Matter of Life and Death 1946
But no Citizen Kane? The Third Man? Frankenstein, Nosferatu, Metropolis, It’s a Wonderful Life? The Red Shoes, Wizard of Oz? No Chaplin, Fred Astaire, Laurel and Hardy, Disney Snow White or Fantasia?
My “choose only 10 of all time” is not going well.
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I didn’t love it. Lovely cinematography but the plot and characterisation felt minimal.
An underappreciated masterpiece of personal horror.
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One of the most well-appreciated films of all time, surely?
Or do you mean “not appreciated for the reasons it should be”?
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I was thinking the same! Its on all sorts of ‘Best Film’ lists.
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Released at the time to apathy I believe
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The last time I saw it, one of my main observations was that George is one heck of a surly chap almost the entire time he’s on screen. It’s an interesting choice. As an audience we accept him as a good person, and yet it’s despite the way he treats those closest to him in the film. We’ve seen a glimpse of the before-times, though, so we know that they know a different George. We also know there have been good times since – but the film mostly skips over those. So on screen we’re left with two hours of George mostly at his worst, and I think that the obvious love that the other characters show for him is partly to convince us that George must be a nicer person than the one that James Stewart is actually portraying!
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Indeed. People think of it as a happy positive Christmas film, and instead it is the revelation that not only is this George’s personal hell, even the release of death is denied to him.
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And in tribute to that, schedulers have decided to show the movie ad nauseum every Christmas from here to eternity, until we share George’s horror and desperation at every second which passes in this eternal Hell.
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Somewhere out there, in the inevitable the mash-up with everyone’s other favourite Christmas movie, George Bailey is uttering “Yippee-Ki-Yay” as Mr Potter meets a violent demise.
(Edit: “Yippee-Ki-Yay Mister Potter” could definitely be a t-shirt. I kinda want to make it.)
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Anyone got a picture of Lionel Barrymore falling?
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