A Forensic Film Reveal

A fair bit of chicanery went down on the day of May 12th, 2026. A film appeared as the rarest choice in that final section where you can look at the rarest choices after you’ve completed all the entries. But the thing is, this film hasn’t been released yet, nor does it even have a speculative year of release. For all intents and purposes, this film doesn’t exist. Yet apparently it scored 20 points. Rubbish. Hokum. Tomfoolery of the highest order. How do I know all this? I’m a major league Ryan Gosling nerd, that’s why.

Oh, I’m referring to the Guardian Film Reveal puzzle on the Guardian app. Just thought I should clarify.

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The Other Bennet Sister, Extraordinary Attorney Woo and the Autistic Heroine

I recently got round to watching the BBC series and thoroughly enjoyed it. Great screenplay, well-drawn characters and some nice sets too. The episodes also reminded me of another series I really enjoyed watching a while ago, and both shows have a central character with a fairly unique view of the world around them, even though the ‘a’ word isn’t used specifically used in the Jane Austen retelling.

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Michael: How Not To Do The Music Biopic

I knew the from the moment I heard that this joint was directly backed by the Jackson estate that it was going to be bad, but yeah, this isn’t it. This makes me feel disappointment and cynicism. While it’s clearly already doing super well in the box office department, I won’t be there to celebrate the financial success. It don’t matter to me. No, I won’t come together to celebrate that W, except maybe from the point of view of supporting the cinema system.

Enough with the MJ puns and onto some actual thoughts.

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