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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · May 04, 2026

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) is fairly standard #Ghostbusters fare, from the #McKennaGrace 'next generation' movie series rather than from the all-female re-make. There are all of the hallmarks there, from the siren on the hearse to Slimer. The baddie is suitably Ancient. New Yorkers are still New Yorkers. And the Ghostbusters have traps on drones. It's a little thin on the Venkman quips, but the original characters aren't supposed to be the main stars here. That I spent a while after the movie had finished thinking what they could do next in a few years, with Grace an adult, and the facility in Staten Island available, indicates that the series has not yet reached its limit. But: no trilogies, please. This is about the right rate for these movies. And Ackroyd is right about having less of the original cast in whatever movie comes next. It's time. #GhostbustersFrozenEmpire #USMovies

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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · May 03, 2026

I watched #TheInternship (2025). You don't have to. Really; you don't. Whilst it is good to see that #LizzyGreene is still in the business as an adult, this is a terrible movie. The cinematography is alright, as too the choreography, and locations. Almost of the actors acquit themselves reasonably. What lets it down are the story, which is utter confused nonsense that will have anyone who has ever watched any spy movie (even the children's ones) or action flick positively screaming at the screen in frustration, and #StevenBerkoff, who obviously recognized a dud in the making and decided to just mess around and give a ludicrous over-the-top-performance. To give a sense of how bad the story is: it cannot decide how long it has been since the fall of the Soviet Union and the KGB; characters conveniently just walk into traps or stand around and take fire; and the exploding car is never explained. It sets up for a sequel. Let us hope not. #USMovies

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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 09, 2026

#Fortress (2021) is an abysmal movie. The protagonist, with whom we are apparently meant to sympathize, being a cryptocurrency scammer trying to fleece his parent for more money, was not a good start, and it went downhill from there. Pretty much everyone's acting was either completely over the top or wooden as Hell. The plot was ludicrous; the ubiquitous special effects mist and random camera angles, annoying. The final straw, at which point I just stopped and deleted it from the TiVo, was when the character who had been speaking with a vaguely Australian accent for the entire movie until that point apologized to another character for putting on a British accent. Apparently, they made a sequel at the same time. Avoid both. #USMovies

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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 02, 2026

@ColinHaynes@mastodon.scot It's interesting how the general public's idea of a #GlobalThermonuclearWar, rooted in fiction, has changed. #OnTheBeach is definitely an example of the idea of MAD, and #TomLehrer's "We'll all go together when we go!", that was present right up through #WarGames in 1983. Then in 1984 with #TheTerminator the idea returned that with just enough 'duck and cover!' we might survive a thing that in reality we could not. (They had to make the T-1000 in #TerminatorGenisys ridiculously pause to do banter with its target in order to make it evadable by a human. Killing machines would kill the species stone dead very effectively.) #USMovies #history #sociology

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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot · Jan 30, 2026

@arrrg@kolektiva.social I too was concerned for their wellbeing afterwards. And they don't have the option of doing what that lady who left after 20 minutes did. https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115983497912180622 The Daily Record reported a total of 16 tickets sold in Edinburgh and Glasgow as of this morning. ABC reported 50 pre-booked tickets across the whole of Australia for opening day. https://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/melania-trump-documentary-sells-just-36641836 https://abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/melania-trump-movie-and-why-we-might-need-to-follow-the-money/106285248 @cstross@wandering.shop #Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies

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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot · Jan 30, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop They're not far off, either. I just turned up this. Apparently, 4 people joined The Metro's reviewer on opening night, plus an additional 1 who was apparently another movie reviewer. So a third of the audience was people who were being paid to watch the movie. (-: https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/30/sat-a-near-empty-cinema-melania-thought-26612808/ Amusing coincidence: Kimberly Bond also writes features for Cosmo. @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk #Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #Amazon #TheMetro

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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot · Jan 30, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop The review in @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk 's thread is one of those recycled quotes that actually comes from elsewhere according to Snopes; but lower in the thread people have suggested that the ticket sales for these places can be accounted for *entirely* by the news/magazine movie reviewers who did not have advance screenings. https://mastodonapp.uk/@GetCarter/115982369126621417 #Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #VueCinema #Islington #Amazon

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