Which needs the accompanying link - even for the lyrics & album art alone 
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Oh another thing, I just watched Blade Runner 2049 for the first time.
It was ⌠OK? Couldâve been better?
I liked how it gives a certain segment of the audience what they clearly want â an android-hunter who is an android â without having that character be Deckard. I like how K and Joiâs relationship hints at another new lifeform popping up and foreshadows an even more difficult emancipation struggle someday.
Under MISSING THE POINT: In 1982 the first filmâs FX work was not trying to be retro â the clothes, the acting maybe, but not the flying cars in the skies of Future Los Angeles. They used models and miniatures because thatâs how it was done back then, and they got Douglas Trumbull because he was the best at it, the cutting-edge guy doing the cutting-edge techniques of the era.
Today models and miniatures are NOT how itâs done, the huge industry of people doing that stuff every day doesnât exist any more, and the deliberately retro model work in 2049 just looks fake and amateurish. I donât know who todayâs Douglas Trumbull is but he wasnât working on this film.
Viewers who liked Blade Runner 2049 might also like Max Headroom and/or Total Recall 2070 (the TV series) which both address similar themes in a similar style.
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Seems to be about an anti-imperialist mole inside the British version of the Secret Service.
Like Homeland, itâs competently executed even if the premise is basically absurd.
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Weâre watching Wallandar, BBC police detective series based on books by a Swedish author. Really good and much better than the Hinterland, the first season of which we watched a while back and didnât like. Both have a âdetective with a dark pastâ theme, but itâs fleshed out a lot more in Wallandar, with better acting overall. My only complaint with W. is seeing questions that could have been asked but werenât. Donât know if that was in the book or due to condensing the story for film.
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The thing about Wallander in the books (which does come across in the TV shows, but not as much) is that Wallander is so, so sleep deprived. The books tend to have the beginning of the next murder at the end of the last one, and amply explain how the guy got to be a Type II diabetic with alcohol issues and a bad heart.
You get kind of tunnel vision reading the books, so itâs no big surprise when Wallender misses something â heâs probably had no sleep /is reeling from the latest fight with his daughter or father. It doesnât come across as strongly in the show, even though they did a good job of making viewers cringe at the sound of Wallenderâs ring tone.
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Interesting. Thanks!
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Please, please, please, please, please, please!
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The Brannagh version, or the actual Swedish one with Krister Henriksson?
I liked the Swedish version better. They captured the dark humor a little more, and the author was heavily involved (in a good way!). And Henriksson is one hell of an actor.
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The Brannagh version.
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Preferably with the lovely music of Philip Glass. Candymanâs a good movie on its own, but the soundtrack really adds something special to it, IMHO. 
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Underwhelming is the word I think youâre looking for, and thatâs all I have to say about that.
Last night I streamed the made for tv movie about New Edition, and it was surprisingly very good, especially for something produced by and aired by BET (I havenât watched anything on that network in decades.)
A friend of mine with good tastes recommended it, so I was glad to see he was right:
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Thatâs not even a picture of the real New Edition, and Mr. Telephone Man is stuck in my head!
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You?
That and Candy Girl are now a rotating loop in my brainâŚ
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Cool it down, nowâŚ
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So Iâve begun Showtimeâs Patrick Melrose, which breathes fresh life into the âkicking heroinâ genre. Bumbershoot Cuticlepatch does a very good job, as usual.
ETA: Oh, wow! Jennifer Jason Leigh.
And Hugo Weavingâs character is really getting under my skin, because some of the character traits remind me of horrible times in my life.
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This man is my spoiler hero. Iâve been noticing lately that âno spoilers!â shuts down on-line discussion of films, TV shows, books⌠even music sometimes (David Bowie guested on The Arcade Fireâs Reflektor album!).
So people are left discussing decades-old material, unless itâs deemed too old for âeveryoneâ to have seen it, which puts it off-limits again.
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So, I took one for the team and watched the first couple of episodes of Jack Ryan.
Acting was good, plot a rehash of the same olâ same olâ. Iâm assuming the CIA is funding it. Or maybe trading drone technology to Amazon for it.
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