I watched the movie Tully last night. Maybe not an Oscar winner, but as usual sharp, witty dialogue from Diablo Cody and solid acting from Charlize Theron. I highly recommend.
2 JULY 1970
Duke Ellington pre-tapes a piano recital for a TV broadcast at the ORTF Studios in Paris, France.
Little African Flower / Take the A Train / Warm Valley / Things Ainât What They Used to Be / Paris Blues / Come Sunday / In the Beginning God / Lotus Blossom / Black Beauty / New World AâCominâ / Satin Doll / Dancers in Love
Highly recommended.
Extinction on Netflix â this is some major Philip K. Dick shit.
Also topical. Deeply topical.
Usually.
Guys, GLOW is frickinâ genius. Second season starts a little slow but last night my daughter and I hit #5 and we were on the floor laughing so hard. Also, this season, someone has really dug into the treasure trove of '80s synth background music and added in quite a few âmusic videoâ style scenes, which, I must confess, I have the biggest sweet spot for. Mor bad 80âs graphics please. Oh, yeah, they got that covered, too.
This seems like a good show to watch tomorrow:
Looks like a cross between The Great British Bake off and Parks and Recreation, but with makers instead of bakers.
Seems like it would be a welcome respite from the news.
Thatâs up next⊠I loved the first season of GLOW so much. Iâm really looking forward to this one.
I just finished up Luke Cage, which was a great second season. I have to say that Alfre Woodard was incredible in the second season, just a phenomenal performance from her in ever single episode she was in. Especially ever scene she was in with Theo Rossi (Shades):
Recently watched at casa Nightflyer:
Dad got the boxed set of Are You Being Served? and weâve been working our way through it. It hasnât aged well-- some of the stereotypical humor would be considered so offensive today-- but I canât help laughing anyway. Mr. Humphries was so awesome. 
I canât believe how crazy Trial and Error on NBC is. I caught the first couple of episodes of the comedy/mystery more or less by accident (they came on after the Gubernatorial debate) and I canât stop watching. The jokes are a-mile-a-minute, and many fall flat⊠but the small-town world of East Peck is remarkably consistent. Bits from previous episodes carry into following episodes, and I appreciate the attention to detail. It looks like the whodunnit will be revealed this Thursday, which is good, because I have no idea if Lavinia killed her husband or not.
And finally⊠I had a really stressful day Saturday, so that evening I decided to watch something simple and undemanding⊠Sharknado 5: Global Swarming. Itâs dumb as a box of rocks, but amusing enough. (Though I must be getting old, since I only recognized a third of the cameo appearances.)
OK, I love her. I like him well enough.
But, I didnât feel a bit of sexual chemistry between them. It felt weird, off, forced. As business partners, great, I felt their partnership, the loyalty between them, all that worked perfectly. But they lost me when they started kissing.
Sheâs amazing. I wasnât going to watch it but now you say Alfre Woodard is in it, I could do that.
I think that forced feeling was intentionally part of the character, though. This whole season felt like it was about Mariah struggling against what she knows society wants her to be (a good person, who gets out of the gun running game and spends her time/effort working on behalf of Harlem, with no rewards like sheâd get with being a gangster and what SHE wants to be, which is a bad ass gangster, who out does her grandmother - hence getting into selling drugs and the over the top response to the Stylers. The character has always been awkward, until she tells her daughter the truth about her father - then sheâs completely comfortable in her skin. You can see it on shadeâs face at Gwenâs that Mariahâs real nature scared the shit out of him. On top of that, they did the same thing with the distraction, this time putting Bushmaster front and center as the bad buy, then revealing that the real evil was at the heart of Harlem all along. Yeah, the heads on spikes were fucked up, but probably less so than what she did to Anansi and the people at Gwenâs, because pretty much all 3 of the men involved were dirty and implicated in some way with Mariah, while innocent people were killed at Gwenâs. Thatâs what sold it for me, not the lack of awkwardness, but why that awkwardness exists in the first place.
Yeah, itâs worth it for her. Simone Missick (as Misty Knight) is pretty great, too.
#https://archive.org/details/MaxFleischerSuperman
All 17 of the original Fleischer/Famous Studios Superman cartoons, Supeâs debut on the screen. Formulaic, but a lot of fun in small doses.
Your perspective makes me want to watch the last episode or two again.
I was actually really disappointed in LC2, but Woodardâs stellar performance was one of the few good things about it, (along with that tall drink of water that played Bushmaster/McIvers.)
Simone Missickâs Misty playing off Colleen was also great; I need that Knight Wing spin off like ASAP.
Thereâs a problem when the superhero is the least interesting person in his own showâŠ
Iâve seen enough European cop shows that the themes are getting repetitive, but this one at least has an unusual setting, and the protagonist is basically a grizzly bear walking around in a police jacket. He shrugs off an avalanche like itâs no big deal, and when suspects try to âfightâ him it doesnât last long â but his size is mostly irrelevant to the plot. The title has multiple meanings.
I just hope that however Wall was murdered, she didnât see it coming and that it was over quickly.
Just started the new season of OITNB; the first ep was really good.