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oops: first two eps of Clipped are up today!

Started up The Sympathizer. Very cinematic, final days of the Vietnam War spy stuff. Robert Downey Jr. is in some rather off-putting makeup, but otherwise this seems promising.

Anyone watch Ren Faire, the new doc on HBO? I was attracted by the trailer and the premise—a “game of thrones” like competition to see who will take over a massive Renaissance Fair in Texas. It just sounded goofy. But the first episode (of three) was mostly just kinda tedious.

It's also competition show!?!? I thought it was just gonna be a deep-dive on all the notorious backstage shenanigans at Texas Renfest (which, among other things, inspired a terrific King of The Hill episode).

No it’s not a competition show. It’s about a few different characters who are vying to take over the Renfest because the guy who owns it is in his 80s and wants to move on.

Finished Lady Parts 2 and I straight up LOVE it. There's also a delightful Bear reference.

Stoked for Martha Wells’ Murderbot series, coming to Apple TV probably 2025, and optimistic the diverse IMDB cast will do it justice. Looking forward to seeing Murderbot, Mensah, and Ratthi brought to life, plus later characters like ART. Curious how the writers and Skarsgard will transfer the book character’s internal monologues. First person narration? Deadpool fourth wall breaks? Subtitles?

this reminds me that i need to read the murderbot books. i finally bought them all last year. every time i went to a store one would be missing and i wanted to catch them all.

i finally finished How To Have Sex on Mubi. that movie was sad. the direction was good. Molly Manning Walker. do not know her.

watched Gasoline Rainbow on Mubi and it was like the opposite experience as far as coming of age movies go. and it almost gives me hope for american movies! very heartwarming but in an honest way. documentary-style. i have to admit it was refreshing that it didn't go dark. it stayed in the light. watch it with your kids! way better than Nomadland too. a thousand times better.

The Murderbot books were fantastic. I liked apple tv’s adaptation of silo so maybe they’ll do a good job with murderbot - hope the humor translate to the screen

If you’ve never seen it and don’t have HBO: Chewing Gum is now on Hulu!!!!

I don’t watch a lot of comedy but this is one of the funniest shows ever. tbh I binged this during my heavy weed-using era but even so, I def laugh more while high but this show had me absolutely cackling nonstop.

and in the UK at least Scavengers Reign is finally legit available on Netflix. hard recommend as per various posters upthread.

Watching a Spanish crime show called Hasta el Cielo which I did not realize until I started was a sequel to a movie; Netflix offered me the series but not the movie. Anyway, the first two episodes basically fill you in on everything you need to know from the movie ("Oh, I'm so sad since [character] died"; "Oh, I can't believe [character] betrayed us to the Chinese - we'll get her ass!") so I'm just rolling along.

i'm still watching Bosch. finished Season 4. my least fave season so far. got sick of the black guardian thing and the protestors and did not care for that sad alkie cop on the run. here's to season 5.

gonna watch Monkey Man on Peacock tonight.

finished first ep of Scavengers Reign, oh hell yeah.

Haha, welcome.

And spread the word as if it does well there'll be a second season

Has anyone watched Under Paris?

Seems to be generating a bit of a buzz but I'm wondering if it's actually any good?

Looks terrible but a refreshing French flavor of terrible, so I'm going to watch it.

Under Paris special effects are about Sharknado level ... pretty dumb, but I did like the way they ended it

We watched first ep of Presumed Innocent series from. Apple+ w Jake Gyllenhaal

not bad, scratches my itch for mild pulpy summer thriller

obv not as good as the original but it’s fine for what it is

funniest thing is the show’s explanation for Jake being Roadhouse-ripped is “he swims a lot”

You folks weren't kidding about Tubi... I spent an evening of enjoyably bored downtime scrolling through their impressive collection of classic/"cult" movies, and sampling bits & pieces of a few.

Andrew Mccarthy's Brats documentary is ... interesting if you want too see someone basically going through therapy onscreen, though 1/4 of the way through you are going to want to strangle hiim

lol otm — i enjoyed it though mostly

Has anyone watched Under Paris?

You just kind of have to roll with it. It gets better as it goes along, and there was one scene that I found genuinely scary. Being trampled by a crowd in a small space is already a nightmare of mine. Add in the possibility of being drowned and/or eaten by sharks...

Monkey Man is on Peacock, if you want an Indian flavored Wick. I'm not a Wick fan so I found it kind of tedious.

i’m excited to see it!
(known Wick fan)

its not really like Wick. we watched it last night. its cool to watch. i liked the look of it. it reminded me of a hong kong or japan action/revenge movie. the Wick movies just remind me of Hollywood and watch commercials and school shootings. Monkey Man has a much cooler look.

it’s very explicitly anti modi and there is a great set of “training” scenes set in an intersex hijra community and making extensive use of a tabla. revenge movie is definitely right. it’s very single minded.

intersex and trans in fact i think. anyway slightly to scott’s point, it’s revenge ultraviolence with a progressive political background.

Wick is just shorthand for cool stunts - I gleaned from the trailer that there’s way more to it than that obv

wick movies I like mainly because they are stylistically really cool. yeah they do look like watch commercials I guess.

Monkey Man is absolutely great, and yeah the anti-Modiness lands even better after the recent election.

Yeah I want to back up the progressive bonafides but I think I've just aged out of pure action films, especially ones that lean hard on the violence.

The elevator scene was amazing

Andrew Mccarthy's Brats documentary is ... interesting if you want too see someone basically going through therapy onscreen

Yeah as a big Huges fan and 80s kid, I wanted to love this, but I just couldn't. It felt very indulgent, tbrh. Rob Lowe came off really centred and happy, and seemed like a really nice person. Demi was cynical but knowing about the therapy angle. But Mccarthy was this bundle of anxiety and repetition that started to feel really heavy and weird by the end. His interview with the author that coined the phrase felt off to me - like, Mccarthy's face was giving up this real anger he didn't know where to put, one he came to understand the guy had meant no malice!

one = once, my fingers are frozen and I'm typing like crud.

I’m watching Ripley and need to give a shout to whoever handled the sound design on that show. It’s really incredible and just as deliberate as the all the beautiful cinematography. There are numerous scenes where I’d expect music to fill in all the gaps, but they just let the sound of scene happen. And this is especially played to the hilt for almost the entire last half of the third episode. It’s really epic. If you have a good set of speakers at home I highly advise watching/listening to that episode. When the guy with the mop comes along toward the end it’s practically a jump scare because they’ve done such a good job training your ears to lean in.

xxpost yeah I realized afterwards that McCarthy is barely even mentioned in the article, but i think the unstated upshot is he’s angry on behalf of all of them, i guess? idk

but Blum doesn’t come off great either. imo he had some jealous axe to grind against all these handsome privileged stars & figured he’d take them down a peg or two. He does a lot of out of pocket shit-talking that feels very “fuck these clowns, I’m smarter than all of them” and it would have been good to see a longer conversation about that imo.

Oh yeah he came across as quite a dick.

To add more to support to Monkey Man, its really good, partcularly as a genre stew of the kung fu revenge thriller, and the modern stuff re: Modi is interesting too. Well worth it imo

Oh BTW to add one last thing re Brats: I noticed that Anthony Michael Hall's name and face did NOT come up at all even in passing. That seemed weird?

they showed him in clips from 16 candles and the Breakfast Club but to my mind, neither he nor RDJ were really 'brat pack' actors.

i think the other somewhat sad thing is that...andrew mccarthy was not a very good actor. it's possible this label hurt his career to a point (though pretty in pink came out after that article), but there's a reason why Rob Lowe, Demi Moore and Emilio Estevez kept working.

yeah there’s a lot of iirc Brats not covered at all.

AMH is one of the core 8 brat packers, according to Wikipedia

Also, it seems like McCarthy has worked regularly, at as much as Estevez

Breakin' On The One is a fun doc on Hulu. early 80s nyc breakers. you'd think people might be a little burnt out on the burnishing of the early hip hop legend (kinda how i feel about the endless nyc hardcore or nyc disco/club worship) but the footage is so damn cool that its always fun to watch. lots of background on rocksteady crew and dynamic rockers.
i used to watch the ny breakers in NYC in the early 80s when i was a kid. catch them in washington square park. i miss grimy 70s and 80s new york. it was nuts. i never even knew what to look at. there was something amazing to see in every direction.
its crazy how early breaking and graffiti became some sort of international museum piece. from the very beginning. so much footage and documentation! lots of early scenes didn't get that kind of coverage. helps to be in new york.

its short though! kinda wouldn't have minded more. there is stuff at the end about the breakdance fever that swept the world and i would have liked more of it. prince charles saying "dig that crazy rhythm" is a treat. i need to sample that.

los espookys fans need to be watching fantasmas, julio torres’s new show. just so good

Yeah it’s a real treat!