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The Moebius influence seemed huge to me, enjoyed the series but it was maybe a couple of episodes too long.

I was ignorant of the existence of Moebius until you all mentioned him (despite having seen several films he worked on). I spent the last hour enjoying some of his comics - yeah seems like a big influence on the style of this show

many xps.

I really loved Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up, it was an interesting view of a small arts community in Portland. I like that nothing much happened, it was just a week in the life of a frustrated artist dealing with family and a job and with an artist/frenemy/landlord friend.

It seemed like all of the events in the film gently lead to her greater understanding of her family and to an opening up of her relationship with her friend. What's not to like about that?

And fwiw I also liked the sculptures shown in the film! They are works from Cynthia Lahti

an artist trying to put on a show through those difficulties is something I can empathize with

There is a diversion where you’re led to believe it’s maybe about her slightly more successful graduate school enemy/friend showing her up with their competing shows opening in the same week

But it’s ultimately more about just showing up yourself in life, anchoring yourself and being honorable - for your work, your family, your friends, and even for a pigeon injured by your cat.

I thought Michelle Williams was mesmerizing in the role

I've seen every Kelly Reichardt film since River of Grass and have loved them all especially Meek's Cutoff, Certain Women, First Cow but this film

...I think is my favorite

we can agree to disagree and live together in peace despite our differences and that is what makes us advanced democratic human neighbors. god bless.

Any talk of Blue Eye Samurai (hard one to search for here!)?

So impressed by the first half of the season. As beautifully written and researched as it is animated... The last five minutes of episode four just had me gipped, moved, devastated and thrilled. Really great.

xp we can also agree to disagree about discussing theatrically released movies on this thread. <3

BES is fantastic - it’s come up a few times itt. Every couple of months a new person sees it and we get to say yes we agree it’s great :)

sorry jaymc, I was thinking I should have posted that stuff on a different thread

maybe I'll try Showing Up again. I lasted about 20 minutes but I'd also watched three previous movies that day including Past Lives and it wasn't measuring up.

i don't have to talk about movies on here. sorry! everything i talk about on here is something i watched on a streaming channel though. i never talk about DVDs or movies i see on the big screen. mostly because i don't go to big screens anymore. i enjoy watching Captain Marleau! she is one of my fave crimefighters. she's so funny. all her episodes are movie length! but they are fun. i watch her on MHz Choice. which, as i think i mentioned above, is merging with Topic. which is cool. twice as much stuff.

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It's OK, Scott! I am just being a curmudgeon. I guess I always thought of this thread as dealing mostly with stuff produced for and unique to streaming channels -- "Netflix Originals" and the like -- rather than anything that might happen to be available on streaming, which is literally thousands of movies and TV shows, many of which have their own threads. But I will drop it!

Ugh. Tried the first episode of the Noel Fielding Dick Turpin thing on Apple. I think they're trying for an "our flag means death" thing? But geez, it was not good. And I like Noel usually!

Yeah, it's very meh and def trying to bite OFMD.

Watched the first episode a couple of weeks ago after seeing it get some quite good reviews but haven't gone back since.

Think I may have chuckled once but the majority of the episode was spent grimacing at how terrible most of the jokes were.

I posted about Blue Eye Samurai a month ago before I had finished watching it. Yeah it was excellent - great characters, great voice acting, gorgeous visuals, really not a note wrong. Very happy it's getting another season (the creators have planned for four)

"I am just being a curmudgeon."

no you are right and it makes sense. i just try to stay away from the movie threads because they make ME feel like a curmudgeon. like i'm trolling everyone. or they are trolling me. one or the other. my opinions about movies can be a little hyperbolic or something...

FINE, i'll watch every episode of Tracker. You people make me do everything around here. I can take some Jack Reacher-lite while I clean and price modern classical records in my easy chair. Plus, Tracker's buddies are Montana lesbians and my mother-in-law is a Montana lesbian too! I better tell her about this show in case she's missed it.

man, that show is lame. its like the 90s. but i watched 6 episodes of it for science.

The Julian Leclercq-directed remake of The Wages of Fear should have been called The Wages of Fear: Fury Road except that might have implied excitement, and this movie is dull as fuck. Deeply disappointing; I've seen Leclercq's last four movies (and the Ganglands TV series, also on Netflix) and they've all been good to great. But even Alban Lenoir, the guy from the Lost Bullet movies, can't save this.

Finally starting Res Dogs S3 because I didn’t want it to end.

i stopped before the end of season 2 for the same reason! i'm waiting for the perfect moment to continue again.

First and third episodes have made me tear up a lil bit. I really can’t think of another show that’s had the emotional impact of the Dogs on me.

Jackie from the other gang is in Dark Winds (first season excellent, second season less good) as a minor character.

s3 of rez dogs is so good <3

want hard copies of rez dogs so bad

i would watch something written by sally wainwright before anything else and renegade nell doesn’t disappoint. it might have been done very badly but it’s been done well. fresh, well written, acting excellent, done all together will relish.

Watching it with the kids and we've really enjoyed the first few episodes.

I see it's getting review bombed on the web as WOKE NONSENSE! because it has strong female characters and also, how dare they, black people in it.

black people just won’t let me enjoy things these days, it’s gotten out of hand

i know its a movie and i shouldn't talk about it here but i did watch it on paramount+ and just wanted to say that i did enjoy the first 75% of Beau Is Afraid when it was dark Wes Anderson but the last 25% in the house was more like dark Charlie Kaufman and I didn't like it at all. But that sex scene was pretty funny. and the house was really cool. it took me like a week to watch the whole thing. it was kinda fun in a fairy tale/dream way. i can't imagine having to have that expression on my face for an entire movie. multiple takes! that is some commitment. and i liked how he used his body. i'm not usually a big fan of his. it might not have been entirely successful but it does make you realize that that director could really do a lot of interesting things in the future. they are talented. that movie only cost 35 million which isn't much these days! they really put a lot into it. i can't even imagine. its the big budget Frownland i didn't know i needed.

i suspect, reading this irritating interview with the director – which contains the idea the marvellous idea that sally wainwright doesn't know how to write a successful series - that wainwright originally was going to have a series with only women left standing (nell, queen anne, sofia wilmot), trouncing and defeating men all about them. feels like maybe director (who does a good job) plus disney weren't really up for that. shame really.

He said: “I think there was some, with a show of this size, course correction. So you’re shooting in blocks. So I did episodes one and two. And you put those together and you edit them, and you sort of take stock of what's working and what's not, and what dials to turn up or down.

"I think in terms of changes, Sally was overly ready and willing to sort of incapacitate people, especially the male characters."

Taylor continued: "So [character a] is essentially sort of lobotomised after episode 1, [character b] after episode 3 is sort of incapacitated. We reconsidered that and sort of brought them back to life, [character a] less so but [character b] we needed to be a physical threat. I think he was originally written by Sally, or imagined to be bed-bound for five episodes.

"And we knew that wouldn't work for our big baddie. So yeah, we changed our mind on that.”

Recommendation: Why Women Kill (Paramount +, I think).

No, not another true documentation. A very stylish piece of fiction. Very pretty to look at and the plot is pretty smart too.

watched The Wrath of Becky on Paramount+. top notch! i can't help it. watching Proud Boys get murdered in hideous ways is just fun. hoping for a steady stream of nazi-killing Becky movies.

final post on renegade nell. it was… good, but some promise was squandered i thought. in the first two episodes there was a strong sense that nell’s ability to do stuff was getting her into situations that created more violence, taking her to a dark place. her “Puck” (billy blind) explicitly ruled out being an on demand violence enabler. that all got lost by ep 3 and it was basically a case of being able to switch it on wherever, which broke a good deal of dramatic and plot tension. nell is up against people who will explicitly use power for whatever they want. the mere desire is enough. feels like something got a bit broken along the way. still a lot of fun and the performances are great. (disney+ for anyone still interested, also showing poor things and all of us strangers for those interested)

finished the first episode of Beck. watched the first episode of Murder in Paradise on Britbox. watched the first episode of One Foot in the Grave on Britbox? i think i'm just a little bored. and sheesh MHz + Topic is kinda daunting now. too much to choose from. watched a horrifying documentary via Topic about a propaganda film the Nazis made in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. the doc was called A Film Unfinished. nightmare stuff. i might watch the original The Killing. i enjoyed the American one. but maybe i don't need to. i never watched the original The Bridge either after enjoying the American one. I didn't watch The Tunnel either. I was actually considering a triple feature of the original The Wages of Fear which i have on DVD, the Sorceror remake with Roy Scheider that i also have on DVD, and the new Netflix The Wages of Fear.

Think I'm going to dive in to 3 Body Problem. Benedict Wong will always be hapless Errol from 15 Storeys High to me, he's great.

i wish 3 body problem trailer and promos looked better to me. it looks kinda lame. sorta tempted to just watch the chinese one which looks endless in a hypnotic way.

The new Wages of Fear is really bad. Skip it and just watch Sorcerer again. I wish I had.

I didn't watch it but the capsule description mentions the drivers being a "crack team" or something like that, which is such a quintessentially stupid 2020s change to make

ha ha i just watched the preview and it looks so awful, everyone is chiseled and beautiful and very clean. oddly i just watched sorcerer for the first time yesterday, obviously an incredible movie, but the original clouzot movie is also fantastic.

It's already TWO great movies.

Girls5Evah was great all the way through, love to have more of that 30 Rock-style joke writing & pace. Actually funny songs too.

i should watch that with maria. we need a good comedy to watch.

There’s a thread for 3 Body Problem, for those looking for discussion. I came away with extremely mixed feelings. I think I’m glad I watched it and am still fairly interested in where it’s going.

Constellation, on the other hand—the AppleTV show about parallel dimensions. WOOF. What a tedious and frustrating show. Hilarious that it ended on a cliffhanger, since I can’t imagine it will get picked up for a second season. Avoid avoid avoid.

I've been half-watching Renegade Nell but really dislike the 'vignetted' style it's filmed or rendered in where the edges and backgrounds are really blurry and the centre really grainy. Just looks like garbage on my fairly new TV and baffled by this aesthetic choice (this isn't the only recent show like this with it) - also that overdone blue tint on everything.

Is there a thread for the show? xp

The only one I can see (where there is some discussion) has lots of book spoilers so I left that one sharpish

xpost Huh, we are I think four episodes into Constellation (so, halfway) and we are actually enjoying it, though my wife just complained that she wished there was more space and less space madness.