Presented as a tall tale where anything could happen, Child's Play (no, not that Child's Play, 1954's Child's Play) seems an attempt to create a rural British version of the Little Rascals in the "Holy Terrors", but there's no indication that any further stories were ever attempted (the movie even came out two years after it was made) and it's... kind of fun and silly, actually. Not exactly a primer on atomic energy, the kid gang means to create an…
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You Hurt My Feelings 2023
Nicole Holofcener's exploration of the white lie in You Hurt My Feelings stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies as a surprisingly cute couple tested when she (a struggling novelist) discovers he (a struggling therapist) doesn't like her writing despite always fawning over it. This is the crisis point for them, but it's not the film's true focus and certain audiences may get impatient waiting for the trailer-promised moment. It's rather more about about what constitutes dishonesty, and how both ends…
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Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity 1983
It's kind of perfect. Skip both Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity and you won't even realize Tegan left.
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The Lighthouse 2019
In pre-show interviews, Robert Eggers said this of The Lighthouse, that he wanted to make another film about misery, but this time make it a comedy. I joked that if this was going to be a comedy, it would be like that one Ingmar Bergman comedy (Secrets of Women). And I didn't know how right I was (though as a horror film, it also has shades of Bergman's Hour of the Wolf). There are funny moments in it, as might…