[ Raises hand ]
Okay, “Knew it would happen” is probably more accurately deemed “pessimistically assumed it would happen.”
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You’re speaking my pessimistic language today!
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As usual, it doesn’t have to be this way, of course.
The CBC (don’t know about other networks) has most of their TV programmung programming available for streaming, either with ads, or you can pay a subscription to get rid of the ads.
It’s sensible, but yeah, I don’t think most decision-makers are working from a place of “sensible”.
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Film preservationists. Libraries. And, alas, funding. If something goes out of copyright, the negatives can’t scurry out of a private film vault on their own. And it’s always nice if the telecine operators know what they’re doing.
I’m glad to see a relatively clean copy somewhere. Too often public domain films look like vhs copies of worn out prints. It’s equally important that it be accurate, but I can’t really attest to that.
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That cartoon is absolutely beautifully drawn.
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Yeah, my point was that public domain works so rarely get that attention, since there’s not much profit in it, usually.
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Sonny Bono warns us of the evils of marijuana. Far out…
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Look, a happy bunny story is coming to Netflix real soon! Who doesn’t love huggable, cuddly bunnies!
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I disapprove.
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I suspect that if I had seen it before this paper, it would be rather more poignant.
but I shall suspend my disbelief and enjoy.
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It really didn’t have a lousy story arc IMO - nearly everything was wrapped up by the last episode. It just wasn’t what people were hoping for, I guess. It’s definitely a show tailor made for binge watching. It’s a lot more fun to just watch and enjoy without getting to bogged down in waiting a week or weeks in between episodes and trying to figure it all out.
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I thought the film was delightful, and it did make the point that there were few doctors offering the procedure. Hope you like it.
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I just finished watching Mile 22, and I am so much the worse for it.
The lead character is written as an abusive asshat with no redeemable value, which the writers try to hide behind a veneer of mental illness. If Ii were an actor, paycheck movie or not, I’d be ashamed to take a role in this turd.
I admit I couldn’t finish The Room, so this makes Mile 22 the official second worst movie I’ve seen, the first being Cyborg with Van Damme.
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Now that it’s cold and wet where I live, I’m inclined to look for desert stories
— but in this case I feel like we’ve all seen this one over and over again
from The Dresden Files to Grimm and every vampire show ever, at least
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Yay! Patriot season 2 is out. Please please please be as good as the first!
ETA: Going back over season 1 to refresh my memory. This show is a jewel.
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I’m watching Granchester, which is about a Vicar in the 1950s who solves Crimes.
In one of the episodes, the post office is robbed of £20. Or was it only £10? The discrepancy is a serious one… In another scene from that episode, the cops are trying to tally up the sum of the losses, but can’t figure out how to tally up the bags of half-crowns, florins groats etc.
I would describe them as cozies…
Probably will view The Patriot next.
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I have seen very few of the films under discussion-- the odd John Woo film, a couple of the Bournes, but I’m not really a fan of the middle budget action flick. But it’s an interesting critique of shakicam.
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Wrapped up the Haunting of Hill House this week. I have to say, it was genuinely scary at times. It was a well written and pretty unsettling. Like one ghost, the bent neck lady, get an explanation, that it was Nellie haunting herself after she dies at hill house. Even knowing that did not make her any less creepy, but somehow made her more creepy!
Moreover, in general, I think it speaks to the overall importance of being supportive of one’s family members, even in the worst of times. They deal with that in how the story line of the twins unfolds, with Nellie reaching out for help, and getting ignored by her busy family members. I think they do this to a lesser extent with Luke and his attempts to get clean. Boundaries matter, but what happens when those boundaries make people blind to what people need from others.
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Good for its:
- bonkers fundamentalist church of Satan satire of hard-line Christianity
- the aunts
- the demon cat
- Michelle Gomez vamping, er, demoning
- every single authority figure is fucking terrible
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