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Episode 11: Alien: Earth (2025) | TAKE ONE

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 5d

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TAKE ONE header, changed from "Bringing the best of arthouse and festival cinema into focus" to "Bringing the best of streaming & network TV into focus"

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 5d

I can now give my unfiltered opinion that Alien: Earth had things it did well, but it had many more things it did extremely poorly, that I don't understand why this was the vehicle for this story, didn't think it handled its themes well or originally, and the season finale was absolutely dreadful.

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 5d

The Xenopod returns for a special new episode discussing the new Alien franchise TV series, Alien: Earth. @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social discuss how well the worldbuilding works, before descending into a discussion of why the series as a whole doesn't work: takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/a...

Simon and Jim return to The Xenopod for a special episode discussing the new Alien franchise TV series, Alien: Earth created by Noah Hawley. They discuss how well the worldbuilding works, the producti...

Episode 11: Alien: Earth (2025) | TAKE ONE

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Simon @simonxix.com · 5d

We used our podcast about film franchises that we produce for a film reviews website to talk about a TV series. It's a brave new world for us.

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 5d

The Xenopod returns for a special new episode discussing the new Alien franchise TV series, Alien: Earth. @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social discuss how well the worldbuilding works, before descending into a discussion of why the series as a whole doesn't work: takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/a...

Simon and Jim return to The Xenopod for a special episode discussing the new Alien franchise TV series, Alien: Earth created by Noah Hawley. They discuss how well the worldbuilding works, the producti...

Episode 11: Alien: Earth (2025) | TAKE ONE

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 5d

(And don't worry, The Impossipod will return later this month for an episode discussing MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE...)

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 5d

The Xenopod returns for a special new episode discussing the new Alien franchise TV series, Alien: Earth. @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social discuss how well the worldbuilding works, before descending into a discussion of why the series as a whole doesn't work: takeonecinema.net/thexenopod/a...

Simon and Jim return to The Xenopod for a special episode discussing the new Alien franchise TV series, Alien: Earth created by Noah Hawley. They discuss how well the worldbuilding works, the producti...

Bad Apples | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 5d

"With seething social commentary at its centre, BAD APPLES feels contemporary and culturally accurate to the landscape of public education in the UK [and] director Jonatan Etzler wields the school setting with skill." - @reaffirmsfaith.bsky.social reviews at #LFF: buff.ly/1YQk7Cp

With seething social commentary at its centre, BAD APPLES feels contemporary and culturally accurate to the landscape of public education in the UK. Normality becomes quickly warped by extenuating…

Wake Up Dead Man | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025 @ GFT

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Simon @simonxix.com · 5d

I went quite long on WAKE UP DEAD MAN, the new Knives Out film, because it really resonates with thoughts I've been having around the right's (mis)appropriation of Christianity and how neo-fascists are using the rhetoric of Christianity without any embeddedness in Christ's teachings.

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 5d

"WAKE UP DEAD MAN may not bring anything novel for newcomers, but it’s a treat for KNIVES OUT fans, serves as a corrective for GLASS ONION's excesses, & imbues the story with meaningful resonance for contemporary Christian politics." - @simonxix.com @ GFT's satellite #LFF screening: buff.ly/e7zMeGP

While WAKE UP DEAD MAN may not bring anything novel for newcomers to the series, it’s a treat for KNIVES OUT fans, serving as a corrective for the excesses of GLASS ONION and imbuing the story with…

Wake Up Dead Man | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025 @ GFT

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 5d

"WAKE UP DEAD MAN may not bring anything novel for newcomers, but it’s a treat for KNIVES OUT fans, serves as a corrective for GLASS ONION's excesses, & imbues the story with meaningful resonance for contemporary Christian politics." - @simonxix.com @ GFT's satellite #LFF screening: buff.ly/e7zMeGP

While WAKE UP DEAD MAN may not bring anything novel for newcomers to the series, it’s a treat for KNIVES OUT fans, serving as a corrective for the excesses of GLASS ONION and imbuing the story with…

Ballad of a Small Player | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 7d

Ballad of a Small Player didn’t click for me, despite some engaging showiness. Review below for @takeonecinema.net from #LFF! 👇

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 7d

"BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER rarely fails to be entertaining [...]. However, [its virtues] are fleeting thrills in the service of an unmemorable story. Berger’s film looks like a high roller, but it’s playing with buttons and matchsticks." - @jimgr.bsky.social at #LFF: buff.ly/xPNsVy9 #filmsky

BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER rarely fails to be entertaining, with the visuals and performances taking the film a long way. However, they are fleeting thrills in the service of an unmemorable story. Edward Berger’s film looks like a high roller, but it’s playing with buttons and matchsticks.

Ballad of a Small Player | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 7d

"BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER rarely fails to be entertaining [...]. However, [its virtues] are fleeting thrills in the service of an unmemorable story. Berger’s film looks like a high roller, but it’s playing with buttons and matchsticks." - @jimgr.bsky.social at #LFF: buff.ly/xPNsVy9 #filmsky

BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER rarely fails to be entertaining, with the visuals and performances taking the film a long way. However, they are fleeting thrills in the service of an unmemorable story. Edward Berger’s film looks like a high roller, but it’s playing with buttons and matchsticks.

A Pale View of Hills | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 9d

“A PALE VIEW OF HILLS lives up to a strong cinematic legacy of Ishiguro adaptations with its stunning, dreamy aesthetic and the performances of a talented cast, but the script does not achieve the nuances of its preceding adaptations.” - @reaffirmsfaith.bsky.social at #LFF:

A PALE VIEW OF HILLS lives up to a strong cinematic legacy of Ishiguro adaptations with its stunning, dreamy aesthetic and the performances of a talented cast across generations, but the script does…

LFF25 Shorts: Are You Kidding? | TAKE ONE | Reviews

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 11d

Really enjoyed the #LFF short film strand ARE YOU KIDDING?, which screens for the first time tonight. Will be trying my hardest to do more short film coverage this year.

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 11d

"Overall, the ARE YOU KIDDING? strand of short films at London Film Festival 2025 has (for the most part) a commanding understanding of tone, pitching the collection into a tradition of morbid, dark & absurd humour." - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews tonight's shorts at #LFF2025:

Overall, the ARE YOU KIDDING? strand of short films at London Film Festival 2025 has (for the most part) a commanding perception of tone, pitching the collection into a tradition of morbid and absurd…

LFF25 Shorts: Are You Kidding? | TAKE ONE | Reviews

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 11d

"Overall, the ARE YOU KIDDING? strand of short films at London Film Festival 2025 has (for the most part) a commanding understanding of tone, pitching the collection into a tradition of morbid, dark & absurd humour." - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews tonight's shorts at #LFF2025:

Overall, the ARE YOU KIDDING? strand of short films at London Film Festival 2025 has (for the most part) a commanding perception of tone, pitching the collection into a tradition of morbid and absurd…

Left-Handed Girl | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 13d

“Equal parts comical and concerning, LEFT-HANDED GIRL is about resilience in a man’s world, with a five-year-old’s innocent questions shattering illusions and bringing about change.” - @reaffirmsfaith.bsky.social reviews from #LFF: takeonecinema.net/2025/left-ha...

Equal parts comical and concerning, LEFT-HANDED GIRL is about resilience in a man’s world, with a five-year-old’s innocent questions shattering illusions and bringing about change.

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 14d

Chaser: "“And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling & regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, & from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh & laugh, consume & consume.”"

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 14d

"You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 14d

THE SMASHING MACHINE is an accomplished film, but the narrative seems to be all exploratory jabs and no haymaker. Safdie’s film skips deftly around several cliches, but fails to use that fancy footwork to advance something memorable of its own. - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews: buff.ly/21T6mTO #filmsky

The Smashing Machine | TAKE ONE | Reviews

THE SMASHING MACHINE is an accomplished enough film, but the narrative seems to be all exploratory jabs and no haymaker. Safdie’s film skips deftly around several cliches, but fails to use that fancy…

One Battle After Another | TAKE ONE | Reviews

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 15d

Longer thoughts at @takeonecinema.net on One Battle After Another, which I think will have legs in the minds of cinemagoers, box office be damned. (Also, if you liked it go check out How To Blow Up A Pipeline, a great but much smaller film I name check in this piece.)

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 15d

Paul Thomas Anderson’s proven filmmaking ability makes ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER a technically accomplished picture that is gripping and entertaining, taking sides in the battle for history without losing its capacity for doubt. - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews: takeonecinema.net/2025/one-bat...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s proven filmmaking ability makes ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER a technically accomplished picture that is gripping and entertaining, taking sides in the battle for history without los...

One Battle After Another | TAKE ONE | Reviews

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 15d

Paul Thomas Anderson’s proven filmmaking ability makes ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER a technically accomplished picture that is gripping and entertaining, taking sides in the battle for history without losing its capacity for doubt. - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews: takeonecinema.net/2025/one-bat...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s proven filmmaking ability makes ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER a technically accomplished picture that is gripping and entertaining, taking sides in the battle for history without los...

The Impossipod | Podcasts | TAKE ONE | Episode 6: Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

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Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 25d

Really enjoying (re)watching the Mission: Impossible films along with this podcast. Mainly it is cementing my opinion that the overarching theme of the franchise is "Ethan Hunt is a messy bitch who loves the drama"

Simon @simonxix.com · 27d

We're back to discuss MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT, an entry that's not bad but perhaps a tad overhyped. Henry Cavill and Vanessa Kirby are great additions but the franchise is fully leaning into Ethan Hunt as messianic cult leader.

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 27d

The Impossipod is back for M:I- FALLOUT, a highly-regarded entry that, frankly, @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social are a bit meh about. They discuss Henry Cavill & his $3M moustache, a shift towards messianic tropes, & the script’s misunderstanding of political anarchism. - buff.ly/pq8UlGj #filmsky

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 22d

There's a title up for grabs! Get on it!

Simon @simonxix.com · 22d

It's difficult to find anyone laying claim to having the second tallest cinema in the world but, following the closure yesterday of Cineworld Renfrew Street in Glasgow, they would now be the tallest cinema in the world.

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 27d

The Impossipod is back for M:I- FALLOUT, a highly-regarded entry that, frankly, @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social are a bit meh about. They discuss Henry Cavill & his $3M moustache, a shift towards messianic tropes, & the script’s misunderstanding of political anarchism. - buff.ly/pq8UlGj #filmsky

Simon and Jim discuss Christopher McQuarrie’s second Mission: Impossible film, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT, a very highly-regarded entry in the franchise that frankly Simon and Jim are a bit meh…

From Ground Zero | TAKE ONE | Reviews

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 28d

"If any short contains the thesis of presenting the Gazan anthology FROM GROUND ZERO together, it is arguably a line from Mustafa Al-Nabih’s OFFERINGS: 'We know they had a past, dreams, a life, and a future'." 🇵🇸 - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews: takeonecinema.net/2025/from-gr...

If any short contains the thesis of presenting the Gazan anthology FROM GROUND ZERO together, it is arguably a line from Mustafa Al-Nabih’s OFFERINGS: “We know they had a past, dreams, a life, and a f...