What Are You Watching on TV or in Movies - June 2021?

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What Are You Watching on TV or in Movies - June 2021?

1Carol420
Editado: Maio 26, 2021, 9:10 am



We are going to try combining the TV and the movie topics this month. So What are you watching in the month of June? Movies are great but so is TV. Tell us what movie or TV programs you're watching.

2aussieh
Maio 28, 2021, 8:00 pm

TV..I am looking forward to viewing the new miniseries ABC TV The Hollow Crown recorded last night, great casting and rating. I shall report back!!!

3Carol420
Maio 29, 2021, 8:19 am

>2 aussieh: I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of this. I've been seeing it advertised.

4aussieh
Maio 29, 2021, 8:52 pm

>3 Carol420:
Sadly it is not for me, too Shakespearian, the whole series is based on Shakespeare's plays. Great casting however and very historical.

However I am enjoying another ABC series The Durrells

5Carol420
Maio 30, 2021, 6:25 am

>4 aussieh: Thanks for the update. I don't care for Shakespeare things so think I'll skip it. God luck with The Durrells I read the description and it sounds a bit like The Waltons.

6Carol420
Editado: Jun 3, 2021, 6:55 am

Movie/TV Mini series/Book
DES
4
When police show up to the home of Dennis “Des” Nilsen in February 1983 to investigate the discovery of human remains in the drainage system of his apartment building, the middle-aged Scottish man, living in London, doesn’t resist or act surprised. He willingly points officers to the location of other hidden remains around his property. As they take him away in a police car for further questioning, he casually drops the number 15 when asked how many total victims may be buried among his two residences. The three-part miniseries Des captures this unassuming real-life serial killer thanks to an excellent performance from David Tennant, but it focuses just as much on two men who helped bring Nilsen to justice: Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jay, the cop who led the investigation; and author Brian Masters, whose book about Nilsen attempted to understand his motivations and is partially the source material for the series. Seriously: Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.

7Carol420
Jun 5, 2021, 12:33 pm

Movie
Supernova (2020)
5
Sam and Tusker are traveling across England in their old RV to visit friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have.

"You're not supposed to mourn someone before they die." This is what Tusker tells his partner Sam... but Sam knows that isn't necessarily true. The entire trip was suppose to be for Sam to do a piano recital and for them to visit with Sam and Tusker's daughter and their grandchildren and other family and friends. Sam saw it as a time together for the two of them but Tusker saw it as a time he could say goodbye while he still could recognize the man he was saying goodbye to. You knew before Sam what was coming but you just can't stop watching.

8JulieLill
Jun 8, 2021, 12:26 pm

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)

I got a kick out of this film about 2 friends who get kicked out of their neighborhood group and go on vacation at Vista Del Mar and find out about life outside their neighborhood. Comedy

9JulieLill
Jun 8, 2021, 12:30 pm

CNN has a lot of great specials and they aired another interesting one on the history of Late Night Talk Show hosts.
https://cnncreativemarketing.com/project/soln/

10Carol420
Editado: Jun 8, 2021, 3:15 pm

Movie

Mr. Brooks (2007)
5/5

Earl Brooks is a highly respected businessman and was recently named Portland's Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer known as the Thumbprint Killer. He has been attending AA meetings and has kept his addiction to killing under control for two years now but his alter ego, Marshall, has re-appeared and is pushing him to kill again. When he does kill a couple while they are making love, he is seen and photographed by someone who also has his own death and murder fetish. In a parallel story, the police detective investigating the murder is having problems of her own. She is going through a messy divorce and a violent criminal who had vowed revenge some years before has escaped from prison and is after her.

One of my favorite Ken Costner movies. I've watched it about a dozen times and never get tired of it. The ending is a surprise. remids you a bit of the TV series "Dexter".

11featherbear
Jun 8, 2021, 6:06 pm

So impressed with Ken Russell’s “biographical” film of Tchaikovsky’s life, The Music Lovers (1971) when it first came out. TCM scheduled 2 of his biopics which I dvr’d (on at 4AM EST) and got finished watching today: Mahler (1974) & Lisztomania (1975). Russell’s treatment of composers was not a reliable introduction to their lives – he would throw in Busby Berkeley-ish interludes or perhaps English music-hall (see his colorful & most enjoyable The Boyfriend (1971)).

Mahler is less exuberant and a little dull; Russell is not too adept at representing an inward-looking individual, though he does have a good comedic touch for the subconscious. Russell’s theme was the composer’s wrestling with the idea of Death, even writing Songs for Dead Children before the unforeseen death of one of his daughters, while at the same time being so absorbed in composing he seems to be hardly worked up about his wife Alma’s many affairs or his own failing health. Russell uses Mahler’s last train ride to the Alps, to a beloved, isolated site where he learned to swim & wrote many compositions in order to present a series of flashbacks of key movements in his life – I believe it is biographically accurate that he died at his beloved retreat, under the illusion that his life was about to begin.

Lisztomania, on the other hand, goes full on music hall, and features Roger Daltrey as the Hungarian piano virtuoso & composer. Liszt (as a pianist) was a rock-star in his day and Russell portrays him as a literal rock star celebrity with glitzy clothes & piano. He comes across as all external surface, and a sort of musical John the Baptist to his vampirish disciple Richard Wagner who marries Liszt’s daughter Cosima. In Russell’s film Wagner’s music leads directly to Hitler (albeit mixed with Frankenstein’s monster), so Liszt is the grandfather of Nazism. This one is full on Busby Berkeley, playing on what might have been the still popular notion that Liszt’s music was popular trash (known only for Liebestraum, a beginner’s piano standard & repeated in numerous variations by the rock-classical fusion musician Rick Wakeman in the score & musical numbers). For the most part, Liszt’s now admired music contributions are ignored. The whole thing struck me as trashy & literally hysterical, reminiscent of another of the director/screenwriter’s films The Devils (1971).

I thought The Music Lovers achieved a little more balance – yes the 1812 overture interlude is The Boyfriend-type interlude, but there is the transitional dissolve from the composer rehearsing the first movement of his piano concerto with an orchestra, to his memory of childhood on the family estate, with his sister playing the cello part, carriage rides & fields of grain. There is also another scene with children playing with sparklers in the background that I still remember. Aside from the music hall interludes, Russell’s obsession with female hysteria & insanity comes through in the end, with the final scene of Tchaikovsky’s wife (Tchaikovsky was gay – suggested causal effect in Russell’s mind?) played by Glenda Jackson, gone quite mad in a horrific institution. I own a streaming copy of the Tchaikovsky biopic in my Prime Video – never able to find the DVD.

PS: if some of this scares you off, check out The Boyfriend.

PPS: Anyone gotten a chance to see the whole of Mare of Easttown yet?

12Carol420
Editado: Jun 9, 2021, 10:51 am

Movie
In Her Shoes (2005)
4.5/5

Strait-laced Rose breaks off relations with her party girl sister, Maggie, over an indiscretion involving Rose's boyfriend. The chilly atmosphere is broken with the arrival of Ella, the grandmother neither sister knew existed.

I first you won't like Maggie...actually you'll want to kill her and hide the body. As the movie progresses you will begin to see that there is hope for her. I was disgusted with Rose through about half the movie. Everything she did made me question if she was actually a doormat in her "real" life.
Shirley MacLaine was excelled as the long lost grandmother. The movie was saved from the point that Maggie went to find the grandmother she barely remembers, at a retirement village in Florida.

13Carol420
Editado: Jun 10, 2021, 11:15 am

Movie



Christine's House {2000)
3/5

An ordinary house, on an ordinary street, in an ordinary town. Or is it? Christina is convinced someone's watching her. Her father is convinced she's losing her mind -- just like her mother. Christina hears noises coming from inside the house - voices, footsteps - but she is all alone. Or is she? Then Christina's best friend turns up dead.

Too much happened that didn't have a good explanation nor did the movie even attempt to do this. A lot of the characters actions gave the suggestion that there were some things happening that were a lot worse than strange footsteps and dead bodies. The father was down right creepy.

14JulieLill
Editado: Jun 11, 2021, 11:07 am

Made In Italy
A young man living in Italy needs money to keep his gallery open so he searches out his father who he is estranged from and who is an renown artist. He is hoping that his father will sell his home to help with his money situation. Stars Liam Neeson. This was a nice film about reconciliation.

Designing Women 1957
Lauren Bacall (fashion designer) meets Gregory Peck (sports writer) and they fall in love and marry quickly. When they return to New York, they find their worlds clash as they try to establish a permanent relationship. Definitely for fans of old Hollywood films. Loved it!

15featherbear
Editado: Jun 11, 2021, 9:43 pm

Warriors of Heaven and Earth aka Tian di ying xiong(2003). 120 min. In Chinese w/English subtitles. Director, Ping He. Screenplay Richard Epcar & Ping He. Cinematography, Fei Zhao. Film editor, Jinlei Kong. I watched this on Amazon Prime. Note: the following description has been revised after a second viewing.

Takes place on the Silk Roads (trade link between China & the West through Central Asia) ca. 700 A.D. during the Tang Dynasty (Up to this point, the geography and time credit to Wikipedia; the film does not provide this info., though it may be there but untranslated by the subtitles). The Silk Roads pass through Western China, under the control of a number of Buddhist kingdoms. Worldwide this takes place in the early Middle Ages, when “barbarians” threaten both the European & Chinese kingdoms, especially the trade lifeline, & the Buddhist regions serve as a buffer for the Tang from the nomad-barbarians. The barbarians are referred to as Gokturk or simply Turks, though clearly unrelated to the modern Turks.

Two lines of narrative converge: a caravan is bringing a precious MacGuffin to a Buddhist city, & one can probably guess the cargo since the caravan includes a pious monk who prays through most of the film. The religious reverence is comparable to Western Medieval Christianity, and the conclusion seems similar to a Medieval romance. The second thread involves a government killer, Lai Xi (played by the Japanese actor Kiichi Nakai), sent to liquidate a fugitive Tang Lieutenant Li (played by Jiang Wen) for refusing to sanction a massacre of Gokturk women & children which was considered a mutiny.

Lieutenant Li takes refuge with the caravan while it's crossing the Gobi Desert. In the course of his search, killer Lai Xi takes on a woman. The identity of the woman is teased through most of the film; near the end we learn she is a Tang general's daughter; it appears Li was responsible for his death, though she never treats him as her parent's murderer. The killer catches up with Lt. Li when the caravan resupplies at an abandoned rest stop; their fight is a draw. Lai Xi pledges to go along to protect the caravan (he is a government agent after all). He & Li call a truce until the caravan reaches its goal.

At the rest stop we are also introduced to the villain, Master An (Wang Xuqei), a bandit who works for the Goturk Khan. Earlier, Lt. Li picks up an elderly, down at the heels warrior, Old Diehard (Deshun Wang), who will play an important role at the finale -- Diehard is reminiscent of the Walter Brennan role in Hawks Westerns. When the caravan enters a hillier region, it stops at a village overlooking a lake. It turns out that several of the men in the village were military colleagues of Li, who accompanied his escape from the Tang army during the mutiny. For many years Li led them as mercenaries who guarded Silk Road caravans. But he eventually "retires" and tells the men to go settle by that lake, marry, and have children. Li tells them he only stopped by to say hello (right!) but they insist on joining him to guard the caravan. (I only recognized them on second viewing when a rapid pan showed them at the point that the mercenaries break up)

Meanwhile, An gets orders from the Goturk Khan (via the Khan's oily minion) to get the MacGuffin, which may bring the Buddhist region under control or at least undermine it. There are a number of skirmishes with An’s troops as the journey continues, and on the advice of Old Diehard, Lt. Li leads the caravan into the Gobi desert as a shortcut & An catches up with them, with the attack on the caravan clearly patterned on Indian attacks in Westerns. But the concluding battle is Medieval siege warfare, when An & what's left of his gang are replaced by hundreds of Turks.

The film has excellent color photography, and given the desert setting one suspects it's partly a director’s homage to American Westerns. Some of the vista shots are reminiscent of John Ford films. There’s also a hint perhaps of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai & the American The Magnificent Seven. But the key influence may be the Howard Hawks theme of professional community noticeable in his late Westerns. The length of the film allows the director time to individuate the warriors as well as Li & his on-pause executioner (the general's daughter seems like an afterthought). Though originating from Hong Kong, the film is not fantasy wuxia but Medieval warfare (swords, spears, and arrows) from the time period. The finale is an obvious take on Raiders of the Lost Ark, perhaps in keeping with the more upbeat world of Hawks rather than the tragic overtones of Ford or Kurosawa, & is the only place where CGI plays a major role. (Actually, about midway through the film the monk unwraps the MacGuffin & CGI puts on a light show.)

I enjoyed it as a kind of classic Western in Eastern garb. In reading through some comments on the pic in IMDB, I noticed one reviewer who compared it unfavorably to Musa, a Korean historical pic released about the same time as the Chinese Warriors of Heaven and Earth, but I had a hard time finding a description of that title in IMDB’s database. It’s there, but it was very far down the retrieval list, perhaps for its age & lack of popularity in both Korea & U.S. Unlike Warriors of Heaven and Earth, it was not free, but it was rentable to stream on Amazon. I’ll post on Musa at another time. If you hunt around in libraries it may be under Musa: The Warrior or simply The Warrior.

16.cris
Jun 12, 2021, 4:44 am

>15 featherbear: I gave Musa (The Warrior) a rating of 8/10, which is very high for me. Unfortunately, I don't remember much about it, so probably due a rewatch.

17Carol420
Editado: Jun 12, 2021, 12:20 pm

Movie

The Little Things (2021)
3/5

Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.

I had mixed feelings about this one. It seems that the film is more interested in telling us about the cops and how their job takes a heavy toll on them mentally, rather than anything about the bad guy. Clues lead the detectives to the prime suspect, a sicko handyman/repairman. He maintains his innocence and enjoys playing mind games with the cops to show their incompetence. He especially enjoys rattling the chains of the obsessive flawed hero who is wrestling with guilt feelings. The final act is packed with twists and all the little things which we find out are the details the deputy tells Baxter. Things that linger with you and leave you troubled even when away from work. These "Little Things" come together and the film concludes with a less than satisfying ending... one that was a disappointment after an hour and 45 minutes of watching the two deputies dance around one another. It’s not a particularly good film but it is watchable. Denzel Washington is mainly responsible for that.

18featherbear
Editado: Jun 12, 2021, 7:40 pm

Musa aka The Warrior, Musa the Warrior (2001). Streaming rental viewed on Amazon Prime. 2 hr. 38 min. (It was cut to shorter length, e.g., UK length 2 hr. & 22 min.; the Prime streaming vid was the original length). Korean, Mandarin, & I believe a Mongolian dialect all with undifferentiated English subtitles. Director & screenplay, Sung-su Kim. Cinematography, Hyung-ku Kim. Film editing, Hyun Kim. Costumes, Baorung Hwang. Arguably the first blockbuster from the (South) Korean film industry, but apparently bombed.

Historical background. No Wikipedia or official IMDB info that was particularly useful, but contributions from fans were helpful on IMDB. Occurs ca. 1375, quite some time after Warriors of Heaven and Earth; it's contemporary with the waning of the Middle Ages in Europe. Envoys from Koryo, the kingdom that will later become Korea, accompanied by a small unit of Koryo troops, are sent to the capital of the rising Ming Dynasty. One point I am unable to clarify: the military group is divided by Yogyo troops (heavily armed & armored), and another support group – of a different class, under a non-Yogyo sergeant. I’m guessing some of these are the equivalent of draftees including Koryo criminal offenders sentenced to military service. At this time, the rival Yuan Dynasty, founded by Genghis Khan & supported by Mongol troops, is in decline, though it still is the more powerful kingdom.

On the way, they stop over at a Ming city, where the Korean general (Choi Jung, played by Ju Jin Mo) exacerbates already present tensions because of his aggressive attitude, and the Koryo group is denounced as spies. While crossing the Gobi desert under Ming guard, the prisoner train is attacked by Yuan Mongol warriors, and the guards are quickly subdued & eventually massacred. Kim, the Koryo interpreter, explains that the prisoners are not Ming, and the Mongols let them go after killing all the surviving Ming. However, the Koreans are still in the middle of the desert. Worse, the chief envoy was killed in the raid, and his second badly wounded, leaving leadership of the group to the general, who is young, rash, inexperienced, and insecure, and some of the soldiers are badly wounded or dead. Without functioning envoys, the General decides to return to Koryo rather than the place of exile (which the surviving envoy argues would be the honorable thing to do, but is overruled by the less idealistic military.).

Their journey through the desert toward what they hope is the Koryo Kingdom is arduous – they lose the wounded in a sandstorm -- and the second envoy dies on the way. At the point of death, he frees the slave Yeosol (Jung Woo Sung) who has cared for him, but the general ignores his wishes, and the slave continues to be a slave, treated as lower than the non-Yogyo soldiers. Finally the troops stumble upon a desert rest stop & market place, but without their envoys, they are not recognized as having any diplomatic status & refused food and water. They are bailed out by a Korean Buddhist priest returning to Koryo, who accompanies them.

Two key things occur at the marketplace: the slave uses a necklace bequeathed to him by his former master to purchase a military quality spear, and a Mongol group turns up in time to see the slave behead a merchant trying to cheat him, & hold off other marketplace toughs when they try to retaliate. The Mongol leader is impressed by the slave’s prowess – though we never learn anything of the slave’s background or where & how he learned his skill with the weapon. (We also don’t learn why the slave is generally silent; the Koryo troops are surprised to hear him utter a few words.)

The Mongols are carrying a prisoner, a Ming Princess (Zi Yi Zhang, the ambitious martial arts prodigy in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), to their Khan. The General decides to postpone the Koryo plan and instead kidnap the Princess & use her to gain an audience with the Ming emperor, allowing them to complete their diplomatic mission & perhaps get transportation back to Koryo by ship. (Wishful thinking in my opinion, & many of the troops would probably agree with me.)

After the Mongol guard leaves the rest stop with the Princess in her carriage, the General sets up the men for an ambush, but they hesitate. At this point, the sergeant (Jin, played by Sung Ki Ahn) takes leadership and attacks the train with his bow and arrow, beginning by wounding the Mongol leader. While the Mongols are trying to catch him, the rest of the Koryo finally attack & drive off the guards. As the film progresses, most viewers would trust the sergeant’s decisions over the General’s most of the time. Only a camp follower, probably a prostitute, survives, while the rest of the guards escape. The General doesn’t consider her to be worth saving & plans to continue the journey to Nanjing & the emperor, but the Princess demands that she come along as well.

They are now on their way, and sure enough, the wounded commander returns with reinforcements. Here another puzzle for me: the Khan tells the commander he must swear to get the Princess back, because she is the Khan’s sister. So she’s not Mongol (the Ming ethnicity is Han)? Or perhaps it was a diplomatic marriage or, more likely, a member of the ruling family treated as a court member in the rival court but really functioning as a hostage. This was pretty common in Western Medieval alliances at about the same time. This is just the beginning: the rest of this long film (I’ve now seen it twice) covers the chase and a final siege at a castle, similar to the later Warriors of Heaven and Earth. But the tone is quite a bit different.

The cinematographer used filters, so we see quite a bit of the action through a dark, sepia-like window. The warfare, like Warriors, is brutal, probably more gory than the later Chinese film, and probably the comparison with The Wild Bunch is more appropriate here than with the later Hawksian film. No wuxia in sight, and all of the fighting is in the trenches, down and dirty, mostly swift panning close-ups. The acting of the major players is quite good – the conflicted General, his lieutenants, the support troops, & the Princess. The slave Yeosol (Jung Wu-Sung) is charismatic & the action directors do impressive work with his use of the spear. The separation between the classes and other social interactions shouldn’t be judged by modern standards; this is a late Medieval, feudal society with strict class ranks & protocols. The Princess isn’t “stuck-up.” The consort of an emperor is expected to demand respect; even her compassionate choices are expressed as imperious commands, and the Princess is understandably shocked when the slave seems to be getting too intimate. I was quite moved by the subtle changes in her demeanor at various moments, as when she realizes what her decisions have led to. That the Mongol commander respects the slave more than his masters might be due to more equality in their culture. The handling of the minor subplot of the prostitute was extremely moving – her grief at the death of her companions, her panic when Yeosol tries to extract her from the wrecked carriage, being referred to as “disgusting” by the otherwise brave & compassionate priest, and her final scene when she goes to the aid of the interpreter, who is frozen with fear. Trying to get a handle on the mood, and the best I can do is Seven Samurai with a lot less humanism, and the grim world of Game of Thrones, with a more realistic view of decision making, with all its unexpected consequences.

19Carol420
Jun 15, 2021, 6:38 am

Movie

The November Man (2014)
2/5

Peter Devereaux is a former CIA agent who is asked by the man he worked for to extract a woman who is in Russia and is presently close to a man running for President, who is believed to have committed crimes during the Chechen war. She can give them the name of someone who can prove it. His friend says that she will only come to him. So he goes and she gets the info and tries to get out but the man finds out and tries to stop her.

I found the entire movie frustrating. I couldn't keep up with who was killing who or why. The character is the protagonist of novelist Bill Granger's 1980s Peter Devereaux series, and this movie is adapted from the seventh book of that series. I can't imagine reading 7 books of this type.

20JulieLill
Jun 17, 2021, 12:48 pm

Pre-Code Hollywood Collection
This is a DVD collection of 6 films that were made before the Hays Code. The Hays Code, which was enacted in 1934, enforced filmmakers to censor their films for nudity, drugs, sex, unmarried mothers etc. Today, these films would probably be considered PG or PG-13. Though I was surprised to see nudity in some of the films for that time period.

21Carol420
Jun 17, 2021, 1:04 pm

>20 JulieLill: I bet the audience of that time was surprised too:) Just think of what they could see today!

22aussieh
Jun 21, 2021, 2:35 am

Another Year (2010)
5/5
A wonderful English movie, great casting, Lesley Manville was magnificent.

23JulieLill
Jun 22, 2021, 11:39 am

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Drew Struzan, a wonderful artist was highlighted in this DVD about his work doing movie posters. If you have seen any of the Star Wars posters you have seen his work. Highly recommended! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486843/?ref_=rt_li_tt

24JulieLill
Jun 24, 2021, 11:44 am

I watched the film Mulan 2020. It was okay for me but I preferred Disney's animated film version.

25featherbear
Editado: Jun 27, 2021, 2:47 pm

Katla (2021). New Netflix series. 8 episodes (will there be a subsequent season?). Icelandic & English with English language subtitles (or you can opt for English language dubbing which I would never recommend). Series creator, Baltasar Kormakur (I’m not going to try to reproduce the diacritical marks of this language), presumably the show runner along with Sigurjon Kjartansson.

Psychological thriller with science fiction/supernatural overtones, with an erupting volcano, the eponymous Katla, erupting throughout the entire series, which makes for some terrifying background long shots. I believe a major eruption of this kind is occurring at this writing. The Icelandic seaside village of Vik in the volcanic plain has been largely abandoned due to the proximity to the eruption, save for a small group of volcanologists, plus a one-woman hotel, a clinic, and a 3 person law enforcement unit.

The scientist crew on the slopes of the volcano find a dazed woman covered with ash. When she recovers, she claims to be Asa, the sister of one of the deputies, Grima. Asa disappeared a year ago on Katla’s melting glacier & has been presumed dead. Asa cannot remember where she’s been in the past year. More unlikely people begin to appear in Vik – an ex-maid who left the hotel many years ago – but she hasn’t aged at all – the son of the scientific team’s geologist, who died 3 years ago. And so on.

Some family resemblance to the French series The Returned aka Les revenants (2012-15) which was running on Netflix for a while. It should be pointed out, however, that the new people are not necessarily revenants. The maid is a younger version of the Swedish woman who returns to Iceland to try to determine what is going on; the wife of the local police chief is both a dying (but still living) invalid while a healthy, somewhat younger version of herself turns up to cook up some dinner. It occurs to me there might be some echoes also of the Scandinavian classic Persona,

Most of the series is concerned with how the town’s remaining inhabitants try to come to terms with the emerging doppelgangers – what are they, where did they come from, are they to be feared or are they benign, what does it mean, what is to be done. The solutions (or better, the resolutions) vary, as the last episode of the season indicates. Certainly held my interest into the wee hours.

26JulieLill
Editado: Jun 29, 2021, 12:25 pm

Fatman
"A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking." Synopsis from IMDB This was definitely an odd ball, dark comedy film but I enjoyed it and I loved that Mel Gibson played Santa.

27ScoLgo
Jun 29, 2021, 1:12 pm

We have started watching the iZombie series on Netflix. I'm usually not a fan of the zombie genre but this is a clever show with humor and fun characters that by far outweigh the low level of gory stuff. There's a little bit of blood & guts but not nearly as much as one might expect from a show about zombies. This is from Rob Thomas, the creator of Veronica Mars so it's easy to see similarities between the shows.

28.cris
Jul 4, 2021, 6:22 am

Behind Her Eyes I started watching this 6 part series and realised I had already seen it, but I couldn't remember the ending (I knew there was a twist). My friend tried to explain the story, and after 20 minutes my brain froze. I remembered that I had seen it through to the end and so tried explaining it to my daughter. Her head exploded three times (at least). so I challenge anyone to watch it and then explain the storyline to another person.

29.cris
Jul 4, 2021, 6:23 am

>25 featherbear: Sounds like my sort of thing. Thanks featherbear.

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