Movies, Television, Streaming

So, I got a year’s subscription to Apple TV+ when I bought my new computer. They have limited content, but the stuff is really good. I just finished watching Dickinson. It’s a surreal and slightly bizarre take on Emily Dickinson’s life. Modern language and phrasing, contemporary political commentary (also appropriate for the 1800s, it seems) wrapp…[Read more]

Messiah is a ten part first season that was canceled because Jordan, where much of it was actually filmed, decided it had anti-Islamic bias. Well, if it’s anti-Islamic bias to cast ashrams that train suicide bombers in a bad light, all I can say is “fuck them.” I think, however, it was canceled because its message is distinctly anti-imperialist. I…[Read more]

I never read the author’s novels (Gardner), and never saw any re-make of it after Raymond Burr’s 1950 series…. This one is produced by Robert Downey, Jr. & wife, and it really does much to take you back to a period (1932 great depression era). Initially, it got my attention because of its’ stars (Matthew Rhys, who was Phillip Jennings in The…[Read more]

Get yourself over to Netflix and watch Norsemen. Season 3 is up. It is a dry wit comedy about the Vikings flavored with contemporary political commentary. The comedy can be a bit raunchy, but it is presented in such an understated way, you will find yourself guffawing. In English with Norwegian accents, which only add to the comedic…[Read more]

The Wasp Network is now streaming on Netflix, which came as something as a surprise to me. How often do you see a Studiocanal/RT production on American TV?

I thought it was a very well done movie. Penelope Cruz and a highly talented Latino cast star in this true story of a Cuban spy ring in Miami that infiltrated anti-Castro terrorist groups…[Read more]

That, and the first of the series, The Young Pope – not everybody’s cuppa, but IMO awesome!   I loved it, and will re-watch both very soon.

I am now hoping HBO springs for a third in the series, and that Netflix will make a Hannibal season 4.  Both shows, even if one does not care for the plots, are gorgeously shot and beautifully sound-tracked.

This is an excellent, in-depth review of the old movie by the World Socialist Web Site. And it’s a great movie, too.

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These “several days in June” brought to many minds the 1964 American film Seven Days in May, directed by John Frankenheimer and featuring Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March and Ava Gardner, which envisions an a…

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This is a documentary on Jeffery Epstein. If you weren’t thoroughly disgusted and angry before, you will be by the time you finish this 4-part documentary.

The one new thing that this did for me is make me believe that Epstein is well and truly, most sincerely dead. By the end he was so hated, there is no way he, as a child molester/trafficker,…[Read more]