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Can't wait to see this. The original Matrix was, and still is, one of my favourite movies.

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Only this time it's just Lana Wachowski who wrote and directed this new sequel. Her trans-sister, Lilly Wachowski, moved on to other projects.

Resurrections looks pretty cool. And I've always been a mega fan of the first Matrix, too.

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Hark! If Shakespeare be the food of love, read on...

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

Act 5, Scene 3

I can't wait to see this movie in December. And like The Matrix Resurrections, only one member of a famed sibling directing duo helms this highly anticipated work (Joel Coen without his brother Ethan).

The reviews from last night's New York Film Festival are in and they're overwhelmingly positive.

Variety (Sept. 24, 2021) ~ ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: Denzel Washington Commands in Joel Coen’s Visually Transporting Shakespeare Movie
Deadline (Sept. 24, 2021) ~ ‘The Tragedy Of Macbeth’ Review: Joel Coen Combines Elements Of Stage And Screen To Create A Masterful Film

The Guardian (Sept. 24, 2021) ~ 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' Review – McDormand and Washington Deliver Noirish Nightmare

Coen’s visual contrivances have something of Kurosawa and Welles, with some German expressionist shadows, and this looks like a crime drama from the 30s or 40s – but entirely naturally rather than as an interpretative affectation. Bruno Delbonnel’s cinematography is pellucid and austere and Stefan Dechant’s magnificent production design imagines Macbeth’s castle as a giant, rectilinear modernist house, with chilly courtyards bounded by vast vertiginous walls and corridors that extend like some sort of open-plan death row.

Here's the teaser released a couple of days ago:

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Flicking after the footie last night, under siege 2 I never knew.

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Just watched, you know, and he died at the end!
All the time in the world my arse.

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I've been going through some psychologically difficult times lately (mostly Royal Mail management intimidation and on the receiving end of their corrupt practices; thank you, CWU ---NOT!), but I managed to find the time in my extremely busy two full-time job schedule to login to Prime Video and finally see Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021).

I have to say, it was excellent (which is just as well considering it costs £16 to rent on Prime). I was apprehensive at first because I'm not a big Villeneuve fan. I thought his Blade Runner 2049 was too slow. But the pacing in Dune was miles better. And the costumes, script and photography are magnificent. Worth seeing.

As for Guy Ritchie's latest, Wrath of Man with Jason Statham (also on Prime Video), forget it! Worst Ritchie movie I've seen. Corny mess that doesn't do justice to the 2004 French movie Cash Truck that Ritchie's film was partly based on.

But thank you, Dune, for bringing a smile to my dark world.



Anyway, see you in a bit. Might be a while.

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I wish this one will hurry up...



"The bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven... or to hell."

~ Macbeth - Act2, Scene1

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Watched the unforgivable on Netflix with Sandra Bullock, was really good, and she's the bollox as per.