Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Eddington (2025) in which the sheriff and the mayor of a small town in New Mexico (the eponymous Eddington) are feuding over some small town bulltulip during the Covid pandemic. Matters aren’t helped by the fact that the sheriff is into anti-masking conspiracy theories, his wife is into child abuse conspiracy theories, and his mother-in-law is into just about every conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard of. Meanwhile, the town’s teens are riled up and protesting on empty roads about BLM, though the local police force is the sheriff and two deputies, one of whom is black (and the other is into Bitcoin)… I was thinking around the forty minute mark that it would turn out to be a sententious story about social relationships and the like, and that was also around the time it started to become something much stranger and went in directions I never expected. It’s a very good film, but once it starts doing your head in, it doesn’t let up 
Incidentally, I was one off when guessing its MPAA number: I guessed 55474, and it’s 55473. As you may remember, I got it right once in 2020 with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) which was also about a cop in a small town in the USA having a grievance with local government. Maybe if I watch more films like that, I’ll get it right more often
After that, a rewatch of In Time (2011) because satirical exposés of the fundamental nature of capitalism are always worth revisiting
Finally, E1 of Pluribus (TV Series 2025– ) in which a space virus causes the entire human race to have one conjoined mind except for eleven people, one of whom is our protagonist: a writer of trash fiction with a huge fanbase. This first episode was entertaining and people have spoken highly of the series, so I have high hopes for the rest of it
Goodnight all
Incidentally, I was one off when guessing its MPAA number: I guessed 55474, and it’s 55473. As you may remember, I got it right once in 2020 with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) which was also about a cop in a small town in the USA having a grievance with local government. Maybe if I watch more films like that, I’ll get it right more often
After that, a rewatch of In Time (2011) because satirical exposés of the fundamental nature of capitalism are always worth revisiting
Finally, E1 of Pluribus (TV Series 2025– ) in which a space virus causes the entire human race to have one conjoined mind except for eleven people, one of whom is our protagonist: a writer of trash fiction with a huge fanbase. This first episode was entertaining and people have spoken highly of the series, so I have high hopes for the rest of it
Goodnight all
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