Important PSA: The Disney+ version has replaced all the songs with royalty free music. RTE Player remains the only way to watch Love/Hate with all the bangers intact.
Nidge's stag isn't the same without Boom Boom Pow by The Black Eyed Peas blaring on the soundtrack.
Disney gutting its entire home entertainment division can't be good for the future of physical media, even if Sony is distributing those titles. Doesn't surprise me why we never got updates on new D+ titles on 4K and Blu-ray.
Terrible to see all those job cuts across all departments.
2025: 28 Years Later
2024: Kneecap
2023: Oppenheimer
2022: RRR
2021: Inside
2020: Parasite
2019: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
2018: Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2017: Moonlight
2016: Sing Street
2025: One Battle After Another
2024: The Brutalist
2023: Oppenheimer
2022: Aftersun
2021: The Worst Person in the World
2020: Tenet (I guess)
2019: A Hidden Life
2018: First Man
2017: Call Me By Your Name
2016: Paterson
This past week, I got to watch all three Lord of the Rings movies (extended) in theaters.
I was too young to see them when they came out, so it was my first time on the big screen.
Three things were clear to me:
1) the collapse of the theater industry is a tragedy; there’s something so special about seeing moments like Helm’s Deep and the Pelennor Fields in that format.
2) It was the perfect cultural (and technological) moment for those movies to be made.
3)Hollywood lacks the skill and care necessary to ever approach that level again.
I’m glad that we braved the ice and snow to see them.
It's just so dispiriting that Netflix, a company actively hostile to theatrical distribution, has acquired WB after the year of huge wins they've had at the box office. It was all for naught.
It does feel part of a broader push against the arts. You devalue the work of artists in favour of “content”, and you eliminate the people with the taste to distinguish the work of those artists from “content.”
It’s a perfectly logical business strategy.
I don't care if the tech bros think it makes their service better, I want to be able to opt out. I want to be able to use Google search without consuming extra water for an AI summary I didn't ask for.
Tom Cruise's supposed last mission has a lot of problems... but I kind of loved it.
My review of #MissionImpossible : The Final Reckoning (2025) on @letterboxd: https://t.co/zUZP5t7DLg
rewatching Dead Reckoning and this movie is so fucking incredible. Hollywood magic from start to finish. a film that will delight anyone who watches it for the next 100 years. barely the third best installment of its franchise.
Wrote about how Sinners cements Michael B Jordan as one of the first bona fide 21st Century movie stars.
My ★★★★½ review of Sinners (2025) on @letterboxd: https://t.co/jcG12qUaS9
The feeling of seeing these moments from the past few years on the big screen in a dark room with a packed audience will never come close to the feeling of seeing them at home. Long live the theatrical experience.