The basu! Guide to the Movies

#SpaceJamANewLegacy Good, clean career-sequel-building fun. Man, I can't believe it's been how many years since #SpaceJam😱?! We took our nephew and the kid loved the movie…and now he's all grown up with a significant other, his own place, a Master's…when did that happen?! Yikes! Is it meta? I mean, they're making fun of the "algorithm"(Cheadle, having the time of his life, like he always does these days)…only to release it all on HBO Max…that's pretty meta, no? Wait, speaking of meta…the whole thing with the middle kid(Joe, stealing the show), that's not meta is it? Tell me #LeBron's the post-character-arc fun dad/teammate in real life😬🙏!!! PS. *Every*one hates Clippy, er, I mean Pete…Pete😂 PPS. "Somebody's gotta do something, just give me the ball!"🤣😳 PPPS. "Any device with a camera I can see you, if it's got a mic, I can hear you…"😱😱😱😱😱 PPPPS. RIP #MelBlanc😢🙏 - - - #MalcolmDL

#RoadrunnerAFilmAboutAnthonyBourdain Decorous, well-mannered retrospective of a decidedly un-decourously-well-mannered if-he-wasn't-real-they'd-have-to-make-him-up-larger-than-life-all-too-human character. By now, Neville's a pro's-pro at this sorta thing, and he deploys his usual skill with great efficiency to bring Bourdain's remarkable life into (soft)focus. If you're searching for answers, look elsewhere(as one almost always must), if you want to be reminded of why you were such a fan in the first place, then, well, this is as good a place to start as any. I was lucky enough to have seen Bourdain live once, and he wasn't what I was expecting. Yeah, he was blindingly charismatic, yeah, everyone's eyes turned to him, but he wasn't the take-charge/no-prisoners, garrulous, suck-up-all-the-oxygen(boy, would he have hated this writing😬!) look-ma/at-me star the Q&A crowd had become accustomed to. Instead, he was thoughtful, funny, charming

RIP #RichardDonner Made *so* many of my favourite movies, in fact, he's that proverbial movie "soundtrack" to all our youths, no? Because of the vagaries(?📚) of growing up outside of the US where movie availability and release dates were intrinsically not intertwined, it's a little hard to pinpoint which was the first movie of his I saw, and when did I see it? Was it Superman II, which I'm almost positive I watched for *years* before Superman, but then again, was it his movie(?man, I gotta put that film degree to work sometime…). It wasn't Ladyhawke was it, sadly, it wasn't even Goonies(shhh…don't tell anyone…I watched it…in college😱!), was it, OMBG, it couldn't have been Omen, could it😳?! That's a story for another TBT day… At some point during that run between Goonies and Lethal Weapon 4, it must've seemed like every superbly-crafted, mainstream, mid-budget theatrical film was a Donner. Boy, what would Hollywood give for one o

RIP #DilipKumar My goodness, where to begin?! An absolute *pillar* of Indian cinema, in fact when you look at the impact he had on Indian movies, and the length of his career, you could make the case that he wasn't merely an *integral* part of Indian film history, he *was* Indian film history. That *impossibly* rare combination of giant movie star and great actor, he really was a hallowed name growing up, DilipKumar this, DilipKumar that, and, that incredible story from Didu about how nice he was to Ma and Mashi when they met him (there were pictures to boot😲!). A nice movie star?! Now that's truly impossible! He was well into his Grand Old Man phase when I started watching him, but he was still such a presence - that commanding gravitas but with a twinkle, none of that heavyhanded stuff for him - that you understood where the almost-mythic reputation came from. And then when you started catching up with the classics, yikes, then you knew, right, that's DilipKumar