Tuesday, September 09, 2025

The Lights Are Much Brighter There...


Several reviews from yours truly are going to be dropping this week (if not today), starting right here and right now with my take on the third and supposedly final Downton Abbey movie, The Grand Finale. Click here to read my thoughts! I've been surprisingly kind to this franchise over the years, given its wealth-obsessed soapiness is not my usual beat, but I take it the same way that people during the Great Depression must have approached Busby Berkeley musicals -- a lavish distraction. And chauffeur-stud Allen Leech is my Dick Powell, I guess! As I say in my review this final film is extremely For The Fans, but it does have the good sense of gifting us with Arty Froushan's delightful turn as Noel Coward plus half-naked Alessandro Nivola. Of course I had a good time!

My review of the new Downton Abbey movie won't drop til next week but let it be known that Arty Froushan as Noel Coward is now my North Star

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM

4 comments:

Daddy Bri said...

Barrow wasn't brought back to be killed by a run away motor car?? Shocking.

dk468 said...

ALLEN, THAT YUMMY IRISHMAN? CHECK ✔️

dk468 said...

THERE'S NO JUSTICE IN THIS LIFE!!
NIVOLA only HALF NEKKID??!
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN FULL FRONTAL!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

Anonymous said...

Allen Leech is just, ugh, I can't even, he's too too beautiful.