https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/deborah-vance-fights-on-her-own-terms?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

My essay on the final episode of Hacks - a bittersweet, but lovely send off for Deborah and Ava

#hacks #deborahvance #jeansmart #HannahEinbinder #HacksFinale

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/the-thoroughly-repulsive-devil-wears?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

An awful and depressing return for Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway in a bewildering sequel to the clever 2006 film. Devil Wears Prada 2 is an unpleasant film that feels out of sync with today's economic and political realities.
#devilwearsprada2 #merylstreep #annehathaway #mirandapriestly #stanleytucci #devilwearspradasequel #emilyblunt

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/watching-amelie-on-valentines-day?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

A great film for Valentines Day

#amelie #frenchcinema #romanticcomedy

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/galaxy-quest-is-wonderful-satire?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

My take on the cult comedy classic/satire Galaxy Quest

#galaxyquest #timallen #timallenigourneyweaver #SigourneyWeaver #comedy

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/re-watching-but-im-a-cheerleader?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

Watched the cult classic But I'm a Cheerleader and stayed for a fabulous Q&A with filmmaker Jamie Babbit
#queer #queercinema #natashalyonne #butimacheereleader #CultClassics #JamieBabbit

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/shopping-for-used-books-around-bloomsbury?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

I share the titles I picked up on a shopping trip in Bloomsbury

#books #bookshoppingspree #bloomsbury #bookhaul

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/she-was-a-comedic-chameleon-the-comic?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

#catherineohara #ripcatherineohara #comedygreat

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/cult-classics-revisited-the-mirror?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

My essay on a campy - if ridiculous - take on Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd with a pre-Jessica Fletcher as Miss Marple
#agathachristie #missmarple #angelalansbury

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/tracy-and-hepburn-class-up-desk-set?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

My take on a minor classic of the Tracy-Hepburn filmography. Though it will never rank high among the duos work, Desk Set does bring up pointed questions about the automation of the workforce and its effect on labour. We are reading headlines about AI supplementing people and this film depicts a similar anxiety in the 1950s.

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/loving-bookshops-reading-books-and?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

An essay about loving books and loving reading - New Yorker Helene Hanff's ingratiating memoir depicting her 20-year friendship with a book manager of a London bookshop, even though they never met in real life and Hanff never made it to London until she got her book published in the '70s.

#84charingcrossroad #helenehanff #booklover