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her flatness is part of the charm esp playing off martin & short

Yes, good call

Watched the first three episodes of The Lesbian Bar Project streaming here and on Roku.

Each episode focuses on the founder/proprietor of one of the 24 remaining lesbian bars in the U.S. Has some of the editing/music tropes of any reality documentary, but it also captures a sense of each city where these bars are and the people who opened and run them. Some gratuitous Jagermeister placements, but that’s better than interrupting it halfway through with a one-minute ad.

good find, i like delaria a lot!

what the fuck is a Philo

VG, I watched peacemaker on a plane bc of your rec in this thread. Superhero/marvel etc isn’t really my thing normally but this was funnier than I expected?? Also would smash john cena.

:D :D

yay! i think the thing i love most is that it’s deeply stupid and sincere. gunn is pretty good at that vibe. and yeah it uses cena’s beefcake to excellent effect

you’re wrong about the end of bad sisters forksclovetofu btw

Thanks for letting me know!

Celine Sciamma’s Petit Maman is now on Hulu. Watching it again makes me wonder if I have some sort of face blindness, because in so many scenes the two girls look alike. Anyway, it is a really fine, magical film about an 8 year old girl trying to understand her mother and comfort her in a moment of grief

All five of Sciamma’s films so far have been memorable

I think the two little girls are real-life sisters? To say more would be to verge on the spoiler-y, but yeah, good film. My favorite of Sciamma’s that I’ve seen to date.

Finally saw the final "Bad Sisters." It was a fine conclusion, but it really disappointed me that even at the end it couldn't resist piling on more cruelty and humiliation.

"Peacemaker" ruled.

Each episode focuses on the founder/proprietor of one of the 24 remaining lesbian bars in the U.S.

This seems insanely low! Does the show go into reasons?

Gay bars are closing all over the city and lesbian bars in particular are really hard to find. The only one I can think of in Manhattan is Henrietta.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/nyregion/nyc-gay-bars-pride.html
https://henriettahudson.com/

did cubbyhole close?

i thought that was a gay bar that was lesbian friendly as opposed to lesbian primary? i may be wrong!

but no, cubbyhole is still open last time i was in the neighborhood.

Started Devs, it’s walking a fine line between fascinating and wtf silly.

Nice to see Nick Offerman doing something a tiny bit different. He was the worst part of The Resort.

I liked Devs. Story is a bit bonkers. Cinematography is gorgeous. And they make A+ use of Low's "Congregation."

The only one I can think of in Manhattan is Henrietta.

This one gets covered in the show’s third episode, covers its evolution from what a lesbian bar would mean in the 90s to a broader range of people present-day.

Smithsonian did this long story last year on “the rise and fall.” Based on the screening of this show that I went to at a newly-open Chicago lesbian bar, and the demand there is here for a queer space leaning more toward women, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a “rise again.”

Likely unnecessary season 2 of the Vow is starting on HBOMax, focusing this time on the trial. they also got people still loyal to NXIVM/KR to sit down for interviews. So if you have not had enough of this story after the other seven hundred docuseries, here's another one.

One thing I liked about Devs is there was no Season 2 and there wasn't one intended.

So my thoughts on Bad Sisters: I do agree with some of these complaints. though they are hardly enough to keep me from recommending the show which is generally excellent. JP and Grace are themselves the main problem, or the portrayals of them, which are often too broad and more like caricature than believable real characters. He is soooo snivelingly evil, she is such a drip... I have no doubts that Claes Bang and Anne-Marie Duff are good actors, but at times their work seems to be more comedic than the content calls for. I'm thinking of her incessant gormless smiles and darting looks, and his, well, everything. I guess this is partly a direction choice as well. TBF BonoDaughter also over did it a bit, but she looks so much like someone I used to know who also had similar annoying quirks that I just now associate with people that age... I believe her, though I find her irritating at times. Sharon Horgan and Sarah Greene do seem to be just better in embodying their characters as believable humans. Having said that, this show stuck the landing, plotwise, and some of these characters annoying quirks were forgiven by me by the end. Also I just love Dublin after having spent time there this summer so it was nice to see bits of it.

I thought the bed-rest pregnant wife of the insurance bro was a really good character too, wish there'd been a bit more of her. I liked her investigatory skills and her comment that 'this is what happens when you don't pay the broadband bill'.

I'm similarly conflicted, because I'd also ultimately recommend the show, too, but tbh it did leave me with a bad taste in my mouth. The happy ending (as such) really skips right past the fact that JP did pretty much successfully destroy their lives, and in fact in a couple of cases the sisters (esp. Becka) are actually even worse off for their desperate schemes than they were before, making his demise something of a Pyrrhic victory and in turn the show's conclusion more tragic than cathartic. Did make me want to visit Dublin, though!

my postscript to this saga is that i downloaded the 10th episode and popped it into plex... where my mother promptly watched it, thinking it was a movie. When I told her it was a series and she missed the first 9 episodes, she asked for the rest to watch backward, which is what she's doing now.
Personally, i've started Ideal and am enjoying a very young Olivia Colman as a comedy love interest.

Anyone else watching Flanagan's new one, The Midnight Club?

I'm about halfway through and now that I'm used to the format, I'm enjoying it a lot. I see that he's already finished filming his next Netflix show, The Fall of the House of Usher too

I liked Midnight Club a lot, all the young actors were fantastic. Was amused though by Flanagan saying earlier that the show wouldn’t have any monologues because it’s a YA show - there’s a kid monologuing in every episode! they just aren’t as long as those in his previous shows.

Haha. Yeah, the young actors are great. Glad to see lots of them are also in his next one

I love that Flanagan has found his place.

Devs has more of a William Gibson vibe than The Peripheral trailer.

Flanagan is just fucking great and on a roll, IMO. I thought both Haunting series were good but flawed; but I basically love every movie he's made (except for Doctor Sleep; but I do want to watch the longer director's cut to see if that fixes some of the things I wasn't too fond of). Absentia, Oculus, Gerald's Game and Before I Wake are all excellent. And obv Midnight Mass was brilliant. I'm surprised by Midnight Club because I never even heard that he was doing this, there was plenty of talk about Usher.

oh yeah and Hush is really good. the majority of these are on netflix and/or amazon prime and I recommend all of them, particularly the ones starring his wife, who I think I am maybe in love with

I saw the director's cut of Dr Sleep, and while not atrocious, if this is the better version I'm glad I didn't watch the other version.

I saw whichever cut was on HBO Max. It was generally fine. The lead actress (the villain) was great.

i think the biggest problem with doctor sleep is the source material frankly, flanagan did the best he could with it. everything about Danny and the girl is good; McGregor is exceptional; everything about the villains was kind of lame, and I believe it is also lame in the novel. Rebecca Ferguson is a good actress though and freakishly beautiful. I just didn't really buy the baddies in general.

Iirc I was really annoyed by the villain, especially the lead baddy's catch-phrase/tic, which I'm assuming is in the book.

Jonas Carpignano’s A Chiara is also now on Hulu. It is the third in his trilogy of films that take place in the small Calabrian town Gioia Tauro (following Mediterranea and A Ciambra). All three films are pretty great and share non-professional actors who actually live in the town. This one follows a 15 year old girl discovering secrets about her family

Man, we absolutely loved "Players". I guess it's no surprise that after nailing the true crime mockumentary the "American Vandal" guys would nail the epic sports doc, too. It's remarkable how invested we were in this (afaik) totally made up story of an underdog eports team.

Just watched the firat 2 eps of The Peripheral and really enjoyed it. But I will caveat that I have never read a scrap of Gibson, so I have no expectations to get ruined. My only complaint is the fact her brother's some kind of ex-elite supersoldier (?) was not at all clear and felt like it came out of nowhere, whereas that was more clear in what I understand of the novel's beginning?

Episode 1 was solid - the future looks much better than the trailer made it seem.

There's a scene in ep2 where the bearded guy (I dont get who he is, aside from a "bad guy" for some reason?) was using a VR and the image had this disconcerting flat, painterly effect on it, which was a neat touch.

Just finished The Patient, not going to comment at the risk of being spoilery, but it's worth your time.

Halfway thru Welcome to Wrexham. Really enjoying it as a portrait of the community, fandom, and renewal. Deadpool and Rob are much more endearing than expected.

I feel like even if you don't like those guys output (and I love It's Always Sunny), they've both always come across and charming.

I finished Wrexham and mostly enjoyed it. Was worried Ryan Reynolds would mug his way through it, and there is a little of that, but there's also whole episodes where he's missing - he and Rob are really not the focus. I enjoyed how many aspects of running the team they look at, though at the same time, 18 episodes was probably like 4 too many

not sure if this is the right thread but is anyone talking about the movie Hatching? currently on Hulu and I thought it was fantastic and creepy as fuck. It is a straight horror movie with many of the classic moves/tricks, but gorgeously shot, with some genuinely creepy ideas. The Finnish dialogue sounds fantastic, recommended Halloween viewing for horror fans.

Is that the one about the egg? I can't recall any discussion about it on the "ok lets all shit our pants to something new: post 2005 horror film thread" thread.

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities is actually very good

anyone else watching Peripheral on Prime?