Film Chat

Justice League, one of the most hotly anticipated car crashes of all time, has arrived. The DC cinematic universe has given off bad vibes from the start, but even the staunchest pessimists could not have predicted that its flagship $300 million team-up would go so wrong that Superman's face had to be covered in a kind of emergency CGI silly putty to disguise his bristling moustache. And yet here we are. Danny and Sam pore over the wreckage with horrified fascination.We also challenge the near universal critical acclaim lavished on Mudbound, a sprawling drama examining racial tensions and PTSD in post-war rural Mississippi. Sam in particular did not care for it, but he was quite tired when he watched it on Netflix and he reserves the right to produce a more nuanced assessment in future if necessary. And in case everyone else changes their minds, he also reserves the right to crow about having got Mudbound's number straight off the bat.PLUS!! We coo over a pair of lavish upcoming TV series and get transported,