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Octopussy (1983) After an agent carrying an expertly faked Fabergé egg turns up dead at the British embassy in Berlin, 007 (Roger Moore) is sent to investigate a violent smuggling ring secretly fencing treasures from the Soviet Union, which may conceal a far more sinister agenda. Following a...

It can’t quite match the eerie, oppressive atmosphere of the original, but in many ways, I think Night ‘90 is the better film. The script really fleshes out Barbara as a character (it almost feels like an apology for not giving her anything to do first time round) and, as you say, it’s a great...

Dan Da Dan S2 ep13-16 The resolution to the cliffhanger ending of S1 reminded me of the self-consciously edgy streak I didn’t like about this one, but it’s hard to deny how great it looks. Science Saru have done such a great job with the animation that I’m dying to know what they’ll do with...

Detectives These Days Are Crazy! ep3-12 [end] Didn't expect this to be the one show of the season that I'd see to the end, but here we are. I always assumed it would have done more with its premise, but it seemed content to just amble along as a light-hearted comedy, with the characters doing...

Not sure I’d go as far as to say I like it more than the first one, but I have a lot of time for Predator 2 - it feels like part of that brief window when we got a lot of sci-fi / action movies that were heavily influenced by the kind of dark humour in Robocop.

Nobody 2 Struggling to make time for his wife and family, following a reluctant return to his life as a professional assassin, Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) seizes upon the idea of taking them back to the beloved holiday park he remembers from his childhood, only to discover it has become a...

Started thinking recently about how little I know David Bowie’s output after Let’s Dance, so decided to try going through some of the later albums. Never Let Me Down has a couple of good tracks (notably Time Will Crawl), but it’s so ridiculously over-produced that it becomes exhausting if you...

Weapons (2025) Following the mysterious disappearance of all but one of the children from an elementary school classroom, tensions flare among the local community as they scramble to find some kind of explanation for what has happened. A difficult film to talk about without spoiling anything...

War of the Worlds (2025) Stuck in a remote bunker, Homeland Security surveillance expert Ice Cube tries desperately to guide his family to safety during an alien attack, by tracking their progress on CCTV and electronic gadgets, in this… reimagining of HG Wells’s classic story. Already an...

The Naked Gun (2025) Facing pushback from his superiors after foiling a bank robbery, grizzled detective Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) tangles with a shifty tech billionaire who may be connected to the mysterious death of one of his employees, in this soft reboot of the much loved spoof...

Glasgow Film Theatre having a mini-season, notably including End of Evangelion https://www.glasgowfilm.org/a-recent-history-of-anime

Detectives These Days Are Crazy! Ep1-2 This is an odd one - maybe it’ll come into play more as the show goes on, but having established that its main character was a child prodigy detective who has grown inept and lazy as an adult, it kind of doesn’t seem to be doing anything with that? I...

New Panty & Stocking ep3 (English dub) The parody did nothing for me, but otherwise that was again pretty funny. Not quite sure what it is that’s clicked for me this time around compared with the original series - feels like maybe it’s less hung up on trying to be outlandish and more focused...

Turkey! Ep1-2 Despite having largely avoided spoilers, I partially guessed where this was going before the end of episode 1, but the reveal that the girls’ bowling team still made me laugh. Would buy a pint for whoever came up with that idea. Going on the general tone of it, particularly as...

Looks like an AI-gen image of SpyXFamily, sorry.

It would be interesting to know if the show’s producers felt that Lazarus was a success. I don’t know how much input they have (was Adult Swim the main investor?), but it is notable that it’s another one from Jason DeMarco, who appears as executive producer on a number of Adult Swim shows that...

Amazon certainly getting the big titles this season. New Panty & Stocking ep1 (English dub) Never having been a great fan of the original, my reaction to them making more was bemusement at best, but here we are. The first few minutes are a bit rough; the onslaught of exposition mixed in with...

Giving very little away, but Apple have released a teaser for their adaptation of William Gibson’s Neuromancer. It’s nice that they’re finally doing it, but I do wonder if the moment has passed. I know adaptations of the book have been floated a number of times before to no success, but it’s...

Not to say it isn’t a wider issue, but is Lazarus a notably bad example of the form? I do remember other people complaining about the dub, to the point where I’ve purposely avoided the show so far, in the hope that the Japanese audio might be made available down the line. The last thing I...

Catch Me At the Ballpark! ep1-3 Not quite what I was expecting (I thought it would be more of a straightforward romance), this is a sweet and often very funny little comedy series that works well with its vignette-style format. I’ve seen a few comments about the production feeling kind of...