Something to watch tonight: Tuesday 1 August

Marvel’s Behind the Mask (Jacobs, 2021) is streaming on Disney+

Dan Slevin

Aug 01, 2023

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Firstly, an update on yesterday’s newsletter about Inception.

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Something to watch tonight: Monday 31 July

A reader was telling me the other day that they thought it was cool that I could use this newsletter to go back and revisit old films and then revise my opinion. We all get older, move on, etc. Old prejudices are replaced by new ones. When I saw that last Friday was the 13th anniversary of…

a year ago · Dan Slevin

We did dig out the 4K version for a re-watch and guess what? While I enjoyed the big set-pieces more than I did back in 2010, generally speaking my opinion hasn’t changed. I find that one of the key things about understanding complex or convoluted plotting is to give a stuff about the charact…

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