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  1. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    You know your Whedon, you're exactly correct. The Reavers finally show up in the Serenity feature film, which ties up some (alas, not all!) of the dangling plot threads left from the too-short season. BTW, after watching the series too many times, I consider Bushwhacked probably its weakest...
  2. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The series finale of Girls. I know there's a lot of hate for this show, but I enjoyed the entire run: I thought it improved steadily every season, becoming more sharply observed and fearless, tackling a widening group of characters and issues. It's unfortunate that the series positioned...
  3. Doctor Strange

    Who Did You Just See Live?

    Last night... The always wonderful Richard Thompson (solo acoustic... but he somehow sounds like three musicians!) at the Tarrytown Music Hall (a gem built in 1885.)
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Outstanding cinematographer Michael Ballhaus - check out stills from some of his films at: http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2017/4/13/michael-ballhaus-1935-2017.html
  5. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Finished up the three-part The Great War on PBS American Experience. Somehow, this documentary just missed for me. It's more about America moving into its role as a major power than the war itself. It focused on some odd aspects of the war/society, and (following the Ken Burns template) it...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Time to watch those brilliant, hilarious "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" sketches from Chapelle's Show again. "So there we were, playing basketball with Prince... And it was like the shirts against the blouses."
  8. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It's awfully hard for me to have any enthusiasm for the coming DC films, with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Dreck having been such an utter, godawful mess. Gal Godot's Wonder Woman was the best thing in it, but that's not saying much. I will probably be waiting for cable for this and all the...
  9. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Agents of SHIELD has had a very strong season this year... after years of being so uneven I nearly gave up a couple of times. Breaking the season into three distinct arcs - Ghost Rider, LMD, Agents of Hydra - was a good approach, and they've really run with it. Good stuff!
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A couple of more via Amazon Prime: Mr. Holmes - Ian McKellen as the very old, long-retired Sherlock Holmes in 1947, struggling to recall the details of the case that pushed him to retire back in the twenties. McKellen is, of course, excellent, particularly in the flashbacks to the final case...
  11. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Man Who Wasn't There - the only Coen Bros. film I hadn't already seen, because it somehow had never shown up on my cable/etc. for 15 years. I liked but didn't love it. But I really enjoyed seeing Roger Deakins' gorgeous film-noir b/w cinematography, and great work by Coen acting stalwarts...
  13. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Don't go by Netflix ratings, those ratings are useless. I don't trust the general public to determine if a film is good or bad: most of them don't have any aesthetics, they only know what they "like"... And what they like is often dreck! Just this week, Netflix is moving from using multi-star...
  14. Doctor Strange

    G1 'Action back' has come loose/ unfolded

    Actually, the straps are found in the "bi-swing backs" of the G-1 and similar jackets. But there are also "action backs" that are just simple pleats without internal straps to pull them back in. These are found on army jackets like the OD field jacket (aka M-1941) and Indiana Jones-type jackets.
  15. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Walking Distance is one of my favorite episodes, and Herrmann's delicate score is one of the reasons. He wrote the main title theme for the first season (the lesser-known one, not the familiar Twilight Zone theme), and music for a bunch of episodes. Walking Distance is also one of Serling's...
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    I think it's somewhat underrated too - though I must admit I'm no expert on The Shadow. Agreed that it's no masterpiece, but it's one of better comics/pulps-adapted films that followed in the wake of the success of the 1989 Batman (along with The Rocketeer, Dick Tracy, The Phantom, etc.) The...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Theremin - The awesome Bernard Herrmann score for The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) prominently features the theremin and other electric instruments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_(soundtrack) Don Rickles - It's worth mentioning that, like most comedians, he...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The latest Woody Allen film, Cafe Society. Beautifully shot, great production design, okay performances (especially Jesse Eisenberg, who tamps his usual schtick WAY down)... but I found it sad and worthless. Cobbled together from ideas Woody's done better in earlier films (e.g, the...
  20. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Latest episode of The Americans (great, as usual). And on Netflix, the new Louis C.K. standup special (good) and the first hour of the new documentary Five Came Back (excellent).
  21. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    But you still saw it first. If you'd seen it eleventh, you'd be even more confused! ("Wait... Shepherd Book, Simon, and River have already been on the ship all along. Wha?!?") There is an outstanding flashback episode later in the series that fills in backstory ("Out of Gas"), but it's very...
  22. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    It's unclear why Fox even greenlit Firefly in the first place. It was an oddball show that was a tough sell, and it was clearly too smart for its own good. And at that very moment (2002 or so) Fox and the rest of the networks realized something major: they could produce SEVERAL "reality shows"...
  23. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Actually, it's one of the things that's never well explained. (And frankly, that the show doesn't feel it has to continually put us through endless exposition to explain everything is one of the nice things about it.) The Verse is a whole bunch of planets and moons within a single complex...
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