The Woman I Love (1972) starring Richard Chamberlain and Faye Dunaway
I ran across this accidentally, and it seemed timely (and short, about 50 min. total), so I decided to give it a watch. It’s about King Edward VIII’s abdication so that he could marry American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson.
While I think Devil in Miss Jones II told the story better, I actually rather enjoyed this, not so much for the rather stodgy staging, as for the portrait it gave of its era(s), the '70s looking back romantically at the '30s, somehow omitting all of that unfortunate business with the Nazis. (And unironically extolling the virtues of Empire to boot.)
I’m sure no one really needs to see this, but as it’s apparently fairly obscure, I thought I’d offer a link for the curious.
I wanted some background noise the other night, but something unconnected from any series, so I browsed Netflix movies and found Hellboy II The Golden Army
I’m glad I didn’t go out of my way to see it in the theater.
After the credits rolled, I opted for GODZILLA Planet of the Monsters. Part 1. With animation reminiscent of Heavy Metal it was …
It was …
It wasn’t very good. The premise starts off good, but then all your Godzilla\Anime tropes are hauled out and tossed in. It was movie made by checking off a bunch of boxes and not properly stringing them together,
I guess it is Part 1 and although it ends on a cliffhanger, I will need to be very desperate to watch Part 2 if it comes out
Lucifer fans, please note: two episodes from season 3 were withheld and were planned to air during season 4. Unfortunately, there’s no word yet on anyone else picking up the show… but FOX is planning to air those last episodes tomorrow night (8 PM Eastern, but times may vary.) One’s an Ella episode; that should be good.
On impulse, I watched the first episode of this on Netflix:
Juvenile, foul-mouthed, and mean-spirited. It’s as if the writers looked into my soul and made a comedy just for me. If you’re looking for a corrective to royal wedding overdose, this is it.
I’m not a big Expanse fan but episode 6 this year was the best ever — finally some shit actually HAPPENS. Even viewers who find the show tedious should watch S03E05 and S03E06. You’ll be all caught up and it’s what you’ve been waiting for all this time.
My daughter and I went and watched Life of the Party.
It’s exactly what you expect…good solid humor. Check, fart jokes. Check, age jokes. Check inappropriate sex jokes. But it was well done and I think comedy is so hard to do. It was great to see a cast of mostly women in a comedy - I support this! Also, one bring you to your knees, wet your pants funny moment…that was definitely worth the cost of admission.
I hear you; it’s a damn shame we’re unlikely to get any more of these wonderful stories. I’m happy to have the last two episodes (though I figured we’d have to wait for the DVDs to see them.)
I wasn’t entirely sure I liked the idea of Ella-the-Ghost-Whisperer, but after figuring out who Rae-Rae was (just before they showed the audience!), I thought it worked really well.
And I liked the twisted-fairy-tale episode as a kind of bookend to the first episode, and a kind of happy ending. I didn’t know who the voice of God was until later-- it was Neil Gaiman, who originated the version of Lucifer the show’s (loosely) based off of in his Sandman series. That was awesome. But it makes me want more.
The last I heard, the showrunners were hoping to sell to another network, or maybe the WB’s upcoming streaming service. But the lack of news is not promising.
In the last three episodes of The Path people start hallucinating conversations with an elderly Keir Dullea, reminding us of the weirder scenes in 2001 and 2010.
That was awesome. But it makes me want more. 
