The Royal Casino is one of the best Bond movies because it captures how global politics actually works. Money washes around the world and people who are clued in find it trivially easy to get rich. But because it's so easy, they get bored of that and start getting involved in schemes to manage the managers. So there is this layer within the rich that includes secret agencies and criminal hierarchies which mostly seems to fight each other and could…

I was happy to see the crew do their thing but it got a bit exhausting for me. I'm not sure I would call them boring but I didn't feel that invested in the two main Tom Cruise experiences in this and it did feel a bit goofy. I didn't really care about the battle against the computer because it's a computer. They do ratchet it up to the nth degree but even that felt like alright whatever. However I…

I enjoyed the fussing over the arrangements like it was Big Night or Babette's Feast or something, the hints of culture, making sure every file is in its right place, for something so horrific. The lawyers and such eating or not eating, the wine and the beer, the need for air. The secrecy and the stupidity of the attempts at secrecy. The stages of grief for their legacies and the boys-will-be-boys indulgences. I Michael Parenti saying it always annoys…

This is a bad movie but it was also deeply weird. This is a PG Disney movie and at one point a guy is sifting through the ruins of the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion crying and saying "They're not worth saving, they're not worth saving." Most of the dialogue is people struggling to explain what is going on and it still doesn't make much sense. Also Kumail got ripped for this and the way he fights is by shooting energy…