A thread to discuss the movies and TV shows you’ve seen in 2026.
4 thoughts on “Movies 2026”
I just completed the two seasons of Andor, the prequel to Rogue One. I would give both seasons a 70/100.
If Rogue One involves the nascent rebel alliance and the way they get critical information that’s used in Star Wars: a New Hope, the Andor series lays more backstory to that. But the series also spends quite a bit of time on other issues, providing social commentary on contemporary events, as well as introducing different characters and storylines that really don’t continue in Rogue One or Star Wars: a New Hope.
I will say this, though: afte the second season of Andor, I did want to re-watch Rogue One and did so. After watching Rogue One, I wanted to watch Star Wars: a New Hope, and did so (most of it, anyway). I suspect others will feel the same.
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
Dir. Harold Clurman
Starring: Susan Hayward, Bill Williams, Paul Lukas, etc.
49/100
Part of Criterion Channel’s “Blackout Noir,” where one of the characters loses his/her memory as part of the storyline. In this film, a sailor finds a thousand dollars in his pocket, but can’t really remember how it got there. It turns that the money is connected with a murder.
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I didn’t care for this film, primarily because a few things took me out of the film. I’ll list them here:
The innocence and good-heartedness of the sailor, played by Bill Williams, was key part of the film, but he was totally unconvincing–not the extent that the film would have you believe. These qualities draw Hayward’s character to him, going some ways to help him and ultimately falling for him. It’s also critical for the motivations of the cab driver. A lot is riding on Williams’s performance, and it just didn’t work for me. He has the right look, but lacked the acting chops.
Clifford Odets wrote the screen play, and he gives the cab driver the lines that are ostensibly the best. Maybe a few are good, but they often came across as too theatrical–as in, “Hey, you’re watching a play or movie.”
The way the characters keeping going to the site of the murder, sometimes hanging out there, and even encountering one or two people who go there was really odd, and took me out of the film.
So why didn’t I give the film a lower score? At some point, I did want to find out what happens in the end. And Susan Hayward is kind of lovely as well.
I just completed the two seasons of Andor, the prequel to Rogue One. I would give both seasons a 70/100.
If Rogue One involves the nascent rebel alliance and the way they get critical information that’s used in Star Wars: a New Hope, the Andor series lays more backstory to that. But the series also spends quite a bit of time on other issues, providing social commentary on contemporary events, as well as introducing different characters and storylines that really don’t continue in Rogue One or Star Wars: a New Hope.
I will say this, though: afte the second season of Andor, I did want to re-watch Rogue One and did so. After watching Rogue One, I wanted to watch Star Wars: a New Hope, and did so (most of it, anyway). I suspect others will feel the same.
Whatever Star Wars thing just came out, a friend of mine says he’s done with Star Wars, and that Disney has ruined it. I wonder what caused that.
So you don’t know which show? There may be more than one, especially if animated shows count. The second season of Andor came out in 2025, I believe.
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
Dir. Harold Clurman
Starring: Susan Hayward, Bill Williams, Paul Lukas, etc.
49/100
Part of Criterion Channel’s “Blackout Noir,” where one of the characters loses his/her memory as part of the storyline. In this film, a sailor finds a thousand dollars in his pocket, but can’t really remember how it got there. It turns that the money is connected with a murder.
***
I didn’t care for this film, primarily because a few things took me out of the film. I’ll list them here:
So why didn’t I give the film a lower score? At some point, I did want to find out what happens in the end. And Susan Hayward is kind of lovely as well.