Sweeping Strings

Maybe this time round, they'll be resistant to Earth germs. EEP!

Having given us probably the ultimate 'benevolent alien' movie in E.T. I'd certainly be interested in Spielberg bringing us one about the opposite sort.

The Lost City - comedy adventure starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe and Brad Pitt with shades of Romancing The Stone. When romantic adventure novelist Bullock is kidnapped by billionaire Radcliffe because he's convinced (having included it in one of her books) that she can help him locate the 'Crown Of Fire' artifact, her regular cover model Tatum mounts a rescue mission with the the help of ex-Navy SEAL 'extractor' Pitt (a hilarious, scene-stealing turn). Some distractions (Sandy's Botox is very noticeable at times and a subplot with her literary agent also attempting to find her probably could've been excised to no great loss) aside, a nicely fun escapist watch.

Only guest on Little Fluffy Clouds I know of was Joni Mitchell, who features in a sample talking about her childhood taken from an interview she gave.

Co-producers of Doctor Who now, too. All hail our mouse overlords.

Sometimes, I'll discover sex comedies etc that have been 'snuck onto' YouTube uncut and the YT overlords haven't cottoned on yet. Always fun, hehehe.

'Imagine being the reason the Kardashians are famous and that NOT being the worst thing about you' is by far the best comment I've seen about Simpson kicking the bucket.

Truman-Lodge was hilarious, a perfect parody of 80s 'yuppie' tossers.

'You'll have to show some sort of ... special talent.' *Bond glances around the room* 'Well, that shouldn't be too difficult'. 'What about the money, padrone?' 'Launder it'.

The Night House - supernatural psychological horror with Rebecca Hall as Beth who loses her husband to suicide, leaving her alone in the lakeside house that he built for them. When some incidents lead her to suspect that he's haunting the house, she starts investigating and discovers that he had dark 'urges' that may be connected to an incident in her past ... A fairly creepy and unsettling flick, with an excellent performance by Hall.

Gaga disrobed for A Star Is Born, I believe. So 'brief full nudity' could be her.

Maybe the studios now think the multitudes of tinfoil-hatted crazies online equate to a large and lucrative target market? Coming soon ... Flat Earth, Australia's Not Real and Chemtrails!

The UK's terrestrial channels which are funded by advertising revenue (ITV, Channels 4 and 5) offer a 'premium' version of their on-demand platforms, meaning that you can watch their content ad-free if you're prepared to pay to do so. Otherwise, the programmes/movies will play with 'embedded' and unskippable ad breaks. It's all quite weird if you remember a time when these type of channels would've thought providing an ad-free way to watch was absolute madness.

I'm old enough to remember when it took about six months after its big-screen release for a movie to get a rental release, and 3/4/5 years after that before it was on TV. Probably why I still find it notable when 'terrestrial' TV has premieres of movies that really aren't that old ... Channel 4 had The Lost City on Sat night and Top Gun : Maverick on the previous one, both summer '22 releases.

Ha, I saw this on Facebook but didn't notice each of the era-relevant cartoon characters on the guy's tee before. Wasn't the discs-by-post thing the origins of Netflix? Names LoveFilm back then, if memory serves.