I’m so very aggravated at The Atlantic, which I subscribe to, asking me to turn off adblock even when I’m logged in. I’ve already accepted a price increase every year I’ve been subscribed.

Tom Cruise isn’t the director, but should probably get the auteur tag for being behind Top Gun Maverick and the recent MI movies which are as good as blockbusters get.

I think what Nolan, Villeneuve and Cruise get right is it’s important to do as much as you can practically. The weightlessness of so many blockbusters is chief among the things dragging them down right now.

Tough beat for the opening set piece to come right after a featurette about Dead Reckoning’s train sequence.

None of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s quips landed for me so once that toned down I liked the character and the movie much more.

Sony realizing they didn’t have the catalog to justify their own service looks smarter and smarter every day.