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  1. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Finished off the current season of Stranger Things. Had its moments, but kinda meh overall. It's like junk food: reasonably diverting while you're in the middle, but essentially just unmemorable empty calories afterwards. Especially if, like me, you're too old to get into its eighties-kids...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The overarching plot is allegedly about Eddie Mannix (*) keeping everything running as the studio fixer... but it's really just an excuse to recreate all those golden-era Hollywood sequences. They were more honest with Buster Scruggs, not trying to have a through-plot, just having fun...
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    Akubra Overload

    I'd go further and say that Akubra's Silverbelly (aka Sand) actually exhibits a trace of beige. It's a warm shade of off-white, closer to tan than gray.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Celebrated Broadway director Hal Prince: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/theater/hal-prince-dead.html
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I'm really looking forward to watching Peterloo. Mike Leigh's films are always worthwhile - even in the rare instances when they're not flat-out masterworks. And Edward, I just can't stand Keira Knightley. The most overrated actress of our time, full stop.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I'm also nearly done watching season three of Jessica Jones - two eps to go. Though seasons two and three haven't matched the stunning first season, it remains the best series of the now-ended Netflix Marvel experiment, IMHO. Krysten Ritter will probably never get another chance to play such a...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    On Amazon Prime, a documentary called Hollywoodism based on Neil Gabler's book An Empire of their Own, which I'd read a long time ago. I'm not a big fan of Gabler in general (his Walt Disney biography, which has been anointed as the "official" one, is very long but inferior to several others in...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I watched that a while ago and also found it fascinating, as I don't pay much attention to Silicon Valley shenanigans. What a strange story! Apparently, there IS a sucker born every minute.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Great Italian film (and opera) director Franco Zeffirelli: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/franco-zeffirelli-dead-romeo-juliet-920639 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/arts/music/franco-zeffirelli-dead.html His Romeo and Juliet blew my teenage mind in 1968 and will always be my...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I agree on In Which We Serve, an excellent film. All that I'll add is that Noel Coward also wrote the script, and co-directed the film with the great David Lean. (It was Lean's first film as director after a decade as a film editor.)
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Jackal... I have really enjoyed American Gods, but note that it's a pretty loose adaptation of the book. Gaiman is one of the exec producers, so he's onboard with all the changes. Some are good, some aren't. I hope Starz keeps it going for another couple of seasons: it's only barely made it...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Totally agree. I said virtually the same thing yesterday... on the TV show thread: What was the last TV show you watched?
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I've been enjoying Gentleman Jack (though I haven't watched yesterday's finale yet)... But I also initially ended up getting most of the way through the first episode and giving up... then getting sucked back in when I stumbled across a subsequent showing. I'm also down for nearly any 1800s...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    It was one of the best minis I watched last year. I liked Sharp Objects a whole lot too, it's definitely worthwhile. Amy Adams will undoubtedly get an Emmy nom (though it'll be a tough field this year with great work by Patricia Arquette, Michelle Williams, etc.) Despite my deep love of...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I saw it when it was new and recall liking it at the time. It's not so much in the Hitchcock tradition as part of the seventies political paranoia genre that emerged following the collapse of sixties idealism in the Watergate era. (See also: The Parallax View, Executive Action, All the...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    It's a great series, well worth the time. Outstanding TV. The overwrought "disappointment" with the ending will fade. You know, if we didn't live in a world where every disgruntled fan just HAS to vent their "anger" on social media immediately, there'd be far less "disappointment". If the...
  20. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The premiere of Deadwood: The Movie on HBO. As a capper to the brilliant killed-to-soon series, it works pretty well, bringing back nearly the entire cast, though many characters have little more than cameos. It includes quite a few pleasurable sequences that are definitely of a piece with the...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I've never read the books, but I'm suspect that Martin's ending (if he ever gets there!) will be much better handled. That is, with a lot more subtlety and believability. The showrunners were only working from his vague ideas about the story's final act. And let it be said that Martin himself...
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    Army may bring back "Pinks and Greens"

    New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/us/new-army-greens-uniform.html
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Edward: Ask and ye shall receive: an Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles series is already in development at Hulu. And yes, remain on the lookout for Only Lovers Left Alive, an interestingly different take on vampires with a great cast.

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