The Five Spot: Poker Face Blues, Escaped Flamingos, And My Problem With The Pope's Movie List

Lots to get to this week. Mostly about flamingos.

The Five Spot: Poker Face Blues, Escaped Flamingos, And My Problem With The Pope's Movie List
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Welcome to The Five Spot, a Friday roundup where I run down my top five things from the week. Most of the entries will be about film and TV, but there might also be ones about weird local news or sandwiches I ate or anything else, really. The whole thing is an exclusive for paid subscribers so if you want to get involved, you can do that by upgrading…

This week, we will discuss the following:

  • An article on pause ads that drove me insane
  • Notes on Poker Face ending and James Bond continuing
  • A movie that flopped so bad its director had to sell his island
  • Fake names I would use if I were the flamingo that escaped its enclosure and is allegedly living in France now
  • The problem with the pope's list of favorite movies

Off we go.