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What was the last TV show you watched?
Oh, and re Five Came Back, I'm also REALLY looking forward to watching it... but I'm so drowning in "content" at the moment that it's gonna have to wait a bit.- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Paul, I can't tell you how much I envy you still having the remaining episodes of Firefly ahead of you! The show is absolutely unique, continually surprising, and wonderfully entertaining. I'm no fawning Joss Whedon fan - I've never watched a single episode of his other shows - but Firefly is...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
As someone who saw Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? in its original release - I was 12 - I can vouch for the fact that it was shocking and boundary-pushing at the time. My parents were liberal Democrats who'd supported the civil rights struggle from day one: like many Jews of their generation...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Beyond the Black Rainbow - like Under The Skin, a "Kubrick-influenced film" I watched in preparation for an upcoming meeting with a film/TV discussion group I recently joined. Beyond the Black Rainbow is an "homage" to trippy SF thrillers of the sixties-eighties. A first feature by a director...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Under The Skin, a bizarre SF/horror flick with Scarlett Johansson as a disguised alien driving around Scotland in a van picking up men (it's easy, 'cause she's ScarJo!) and luring them to their doom. She plays a real "black widow" for a change! Weird, totally unexplained, slow moving, hardly...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Right, I remembered your comments, it was one of the reasons I was curious about the show. Waller-Bridge will become more visible next year, she's been in cast in the currently shooting "young Han Solo film" from the Disney Star Wars assembly line.- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
The season finale of Legion, which became a little less ultra-bizarro and closer to a typical X-Men story as it progressed. But it remains a fascinating show, with an impressive and unusual approach to both mental illness and superhero stories, and I'm glad it's coming back next year. Besides...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Born To Be Blue, the recent biopic about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Another one (like Miles Ahead) that takes all kinds of dramatic license, bringing in characters and events that never actually happened. Ethan Hawke labors mightily in the lead, and some of the musical performances are good...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I read those Hoka books years ago. They're good stuff. Of course, A Piece of the Action and The Trouble With Tribbles are the only premeditated comedy episodes of Trek. As distinct from all those awful third season episodes (Spock's Brain, The Way To Eden, etc.) that are unintentionally...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
Influential comics artist Bernie Wrightson: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/arts/design/bernie-wrightson-dead-comic-book-artist.html- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was your first fedora?
I collected hats as a kid in the sixties - top hat, derby, homburg, boater, deerstalker, etc. - but never had a proper fedora! My first fedora came much later: one of the better (fur felt) Indiana Jones hats Stetson sold in the eighties, tied in with Temple of Doom. It was a really good hat...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: Hats
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Beard Oil?
Yup, quite an ancient practice. The phrase I immediately thought of on seeing this thread: https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Psalm%20133%3A2- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Ingmar Bergman's Through A Glass Darkly, DVR'd from TCM. Not a favorite - I really prefer Bergman's more formal fifties films to his more experimental sixties films - but beautifully photographed and acted. A downbeat chamber piece about four characters fighting through family dysfunction and...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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You know you are getting old when:
I'm not going to argue that circumcision isn't comparable "mutilation". There's absolutely no point in trying to apply modern logic to religious dictates from thousands of years ago. For the record, I am far from religious (and back when I was, it was in a VERY liberal sixties-era Reform...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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KONG, Skull Island, and the Forgotten WWII Pilot
Honestly, I have zero interest in seeing this apart from John C. Reilly's part. A definite wait-for-cable flick for me. Reilly is always fantastic, especially when he stretches and doesn't play his typical lovable goofball-type role - not that he isn't great at those too.- Doctor Strange
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You know you are getting old when:
I don't remotely understand the whole tattoo thing. I find them disturbing on men, and a huge turnoff on women. Part of it is the atavistic response from my Jewish upbringing (in which tattoos and other body mutilation practices are sternly outlawed, a shondeh), but mostly I can't see why in...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Are You Reading
The new Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. His retelling of these fascinating ancient stories is in plain language, like you're sitting around the fire listening to the clan elder speak, with allusions to bring the stories down to our level ("Midgard is where your great-grandfather, and his...- Doctor Strange
- Post #7,398
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What was the last TV show you watched?
The latest episode of The Americans, which continues to be outstanding and surprising. A tremendous series. And the musical episode of The Flash, which features crossover appearances by Supergirl and cast members of the other CW superhero shows. This was a lot more fun than I expected, with a...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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You know you are getting old when:
Actually, I developed in my kitchen and scanned the negatives. I've got an old Omega D-3 sitting out in the garage, along with everything else for a print darkroom (my parents were pros for fifty years, so I have most of the equipment from a full-blown photo biz)... but setting up a darkroom...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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You know you are getting old when:
Some of us still shoot on film! I took this last year on good old Tri-X in a 1971 Nikon F2! Reports of the death of old-school photography are greatly exaggerated! But it's true that photography-as-we-knew-it has moved out of mainstream consciousness, now that everybody take pictures on...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
