Sunday, 29 March 2020

TV

Doctor Who
4x29 The Macra Terror Episode 3

The Twilight Zone
3x36 Cavender Is Coming
4x12 I Dream of Genie
The second episode inspired an ingenieous double-bill *badum-tish*

Films

Aladdin 3D (2019)
[#53 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Part of an ingenieous double-bill *badum-tish*

this week on 100 Films

2 new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...


Mission: Impossible - Fallout in 3D (2018)
the 3D is superb. It may be a post-conversion, but it’s really well done, in particular during the action sequences — which, in fairness, is most of the movie. The skydive; the Paris bike chase; the helicopter stuff; perhaps most of all the clifftop fight — they all gain something from the third dimension.
Read more here.


Rocketman (2019)
this isn’t just “a film about music”, but a proper musical. It isn’t just a simplistic jukebox musical either, nor a standard musician biopic where the character performs some of their hits. Well, it is both of those... But it’s also more than that in the way it’s executed. Other characters break into song from time to time too, and there are clever reimaginings of several recognisable tracks. This is a restlessly imaginative movie.
Read more here.


More next Sunday.