Watched the finale of Marvel’s Secret Invasion.
Well, that show was terrible. The actors were all great, especially Kingsley Ben-Adir and (no surprise) Olivia Coleman, and the Fury kitchen table scene was excellent, but the rest of the writing was absolutely awful.
And the end of ep1 was so bad that I want someone fired so that the industry just stops doing it ever again. I’m annoyed I gave them my viewing clicks now.
On the other hand, Will Trent on Disney is really good, and The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix is quite fun. (It should be, it’s David E Kelley who has been doing tv so long he could make an okay show in his sleep).
Oh crap… Network went into liquidation (~2 months ago).
I’d just watched something I’d bought from them, and I thought I’d peruse the site and see what was new : /
Yep. First heard of them when they were the only ones to release Robin of Sherwood on dvd in 2002, which meant you didn’t need an entire shelf of VHS from eBay, and some of their other releases were amazing lost itv stuff.
Watched Renfield, which I thought was a total hoot. Nicholas Cage owned the role.
Also enjoyed Citadel, even if I figured out who the traitor really was, sort of. Better than Fubar and True Lies.
Night Agent also rocked.
Now watching Season one of Strange New Worlds, and this has to be the best first season of any Star Trek since the original series. YMMV.
My partner (who is a fanatical Star Trek fan) thinks so too!
Just watched the D&D movie. Very good ridiculous fun. And boy, Hugh Grant is having the time of his life as he’s getting older
I watched Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 last night, certainly better than a lot of the recent Marvel stuff I’ve watched.
Damn the movie for making me tear up about a CGI raccoon.
Yeah, I had a bit of a cry too
In a surprising turn of events, my first time at the movies since the Pandemic(1) was last night with a friend to see the Barbie movie.
I never played with Barbies (at home) because my mom hated them. I had legos and books instead and my friends’ daughters these days also don’t get to have Barbies. They get “My little Pony” and “Playmobil for Girls” 
and my friends complain that toys have once again split into girl and boy toys… there is even pink lego now. There is more money to be made that way.
I went to the movie because I heard people whose opinions I regard highly talk about it and that it wasn’t what I would expect. If I had not heard anything about the movie it would definitely have subverted my expectations. I found it was good entertainment. The “messaging” is quite on the nose, anything but subtle and yet there is not clear singular thing I took from it except that pink is a great color (I actually like pink especially in combination with black). I am not quite done processing in which box I’ll put it. But it was enjoyable, funny at times and overall I don’t regret going to see it.
Best moment was the red/blue pill scene. To think, I almost put on my Birkenstocks to go see the movie.
Obviously, now I have to get my partner to go see Oppenheimer (which is more what I wanted to see). I losely followed Peaky Blinders (when my partner was watching it) and I just want to see more of Thomas Shelby
(1) come fall I’ll certainly carry around a mask again.
This has been in lots of other places, but I think it can go here too.
I just stumbled upon some old email from my brother in which he presented excerpts from the film White Noise - English Vietnamese English edition.
Billions
Axe is back. Yay!!
“Heart of Stone” is just as terrible as you’re expecting it to be.
Besides some movies like Guardians III and The Man from Uncle… we’ve been watching a Hunger Games clone (well not quite) from Brazil called “3%” on netflix. The synchronization and subtitles are terribly mismatched and the translation is probably awful (the dialogue seems pretty bad).
The story is okay. These Hunger Games are called “The Process” and people from the Inland are trying to pass the Process to get to the Utopian (or so they are told) Offshore. The show follows some of the Candidates and the people organizing the Process…
But we’re really just waiting for Ahsoka.
My sister and my nephew are apparently watching “Young Sheldon” and nephew renamed the show to “Overwhelmed Parents” not having seen it myself I do not know how accurate that is.
We went and saw The Last Voyage of the Demeter last night, which adapts the captain’s log portion of Dracula into a full film. I enjoyed it, though felt the ending was a little weak. I get they were sticking with the novel, so it’s not like the crew could vanquish Dracula, but I felt something different could have been done. In any event, it was very well acted and directed, and overall the story was good.
Gosh, spoilers!
(Obviously joking)
Just wait until you hear about who Luke Skywalker’s father is!
I thought the time travel sequence made it clear he was his own grandpa.
Also Dracula!