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Extended Edition - 140 Solo: A Star Wars Story!

We start to talk about Solo but then remember how much happier we were fifteen years ago...

We've totally been doing episodes for the last six months but Owennever hit the record button.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Brilliant film ruined only by the poor choice of end credit song.

We just watched Coco for the first time. I'm usually luke-warm to Pixar films and figure people only rave about them because the other kid's cartoons must be just so damn terrible, but that was a very pleasant surprise.

Mrs Faldor loved it and all, even if she did do her usual thing of (correctly) yelling out her guess at all the plot twists.

and it left me thinking of my old Gran...

I thought a lot of the movie, particularly the opening reminded me of the Han Solo trilogy. Which I read years ago.

Knowing that Jon Kasdan through in some EU references I do wonder how familiar he was with those books.

If you're really saying this is worse than The Phantom Menace, I think you'll need to hand in your pass to review movies.

sorry!

The podcasts should now be required to come with a label warning that it can make you french. 

Nothings changed

William Shirer's Rise and Fall Of The Third Reich is well worth a read.

Oh Heinlein's best by far!

Happy now!?

I was really hyped for Valerian when it was first announced. I've always enjoyed the fifth element and Adele Blanc-Sec a French-language film that Luc Besson made a few years back about an Edwardian adventuress.

However, when the film came out I didn't have a lot of spare cash for cinema trips and the tidal wave of negative reviews did not encourage me but I watched it last week with my wife and it was definitely nowhere near as bad as the reviews made out. Whilst it wasn't particularly good either I enjoyed it for the visuals if not the plot which was certainly lacking. It felt like one of those films where they had gone over every detail in the source material and tried to fit all of it in instead of just taking a small portion and focusing on that. Definitely not as bad as some people say but nowhere near as good as it could have been.

I really enjoyed the opening sequence with the ISS being expanded on and all the different meetings to the David Bowie song. If the rest of the film had been more in keeping with the opening it would have been a lot stronger.

On Sunday I got to watch Molly's Game which is the directorial debut of "love him or hate him" Aaron Sorkin. I am certainly in the former category, enough of a fan to recognise that Idris Elba's law firm was the same one that Rob Lowe had worked for in the West Wing. My viewing companion commented on the way out how much he had enjoyed seeing a film with a strong female lead that did not involve a romance. Certainly, one to pass the Bechtel test.

I'd definitely be up for something assuming it wasn't in the middle of the night.