Him and Good Luck Always Was Strangers

—Edward Scissorhands (dir. Tim Burton), 1990.

Even in a future where we have designed giant mechanical husks to contain and weaponize mythobiological entities, we still haven’t updated to USB-4.

Marvel’s The Avengers (dir. Joss Whedon), 2012. Soul (dir. Pete Docter and co-dir. Kemp Powers), 2020.

Requiescat in pace, David Cornwell.

RIP, Ian Holm.

—Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (dir. Steven Spielberg), 1989.

Bruce Wayne is bad at social distancing. And his mask covers the wrong part of his face.

—Get Shorty (dir. Barry Sonnenfeld), 1995.

On January 28, The Hollywood Reporter, um, reported that Contagion was in the top ten rentals on iTunes, and Vulture followed up with a revisiting of the film.  Great minds, etc., as former Boston Globe reviewer Wesley Morris’ did something similar in the New York Times on March 10 (well-timed there, Grey Lady... you’re only slightly behind BuzzFeed News and just barely keeping up with The Playlist and the Boston Herald).  Despite a career-spanning love of Soderbergh, I passed on it at the time, and so didn’t remember this exchange with which Morris aptly ends his rewatch.

The New York Times obit mentions that for a stretch of time “typically... and to his mounting frustration... played the villain” in a series of films from the late ‘60s all the way through to the ‘80s.  This film came out the same year as he played arch-villain Blofeld in Never Say Never Again.  I hope he got some respite in this film by dramatically mocking the villain tropes he seemed to be trapped in.

This typifies my relationship with the car radio: I’m either singing along or telling it to shut the hell up. Sometimes, like Annie, within mere seconds of each other.

Sources: Skinner auction house and Paddle8. See also Terry O’Neill’s Twitter account.

I’ve been in love with Spider-Gwen’s look since before I read her character in a comic.  How wonderful it was to have her emerge as a true acro-badass onscreen.