It’s not easy to find. It’s only streaming on the Critereon channel in the US (currently).
There’s a Critereon Blu ray for about $30. I may have to pick that one up. It’s a good one and Richard Grant is generally fabulous.
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I really liked him in the Franchise, a one season show about the making of a superhero movie that was very funny. Kind of a British The Studio.
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One of my favorites! “We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now!” 
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“I feel unusual.”
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Just reserved a copy from my library, it’s been far too long.
I just finished watching the 6 part British series Red Eye on Hulu. It was very good. It’s about a British doctor being framed for murdering a Chinese National as part of a much larger conspiracy. You have to suspend a lot of disbelief, but I still enjoyed it.
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We started The Assassin on Crave tonight.
It’s set in Greece.
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Just watched the last episode of Ballard. If they don’t renew this show for a second season I’m going to be really pissed!! Interwebs say the writers are writing but no commitment yet for a renewal.
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Just started watching this. I really like Keely Hawes. Was surprised to see Josh O’Connor in this but I guess it’s before he hit the relative big time. Leslie Caron is also in it - I didn’t realise she’s still around and acting!
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Fell in love with her watching Spooks/Mi 5 and then line of duty a few years ago. She and Matthew Mcfayden are married in real life-they met the first season of Mi5. Great actress-admire her along with Olivia Coleman and Nicola Walker.
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+1 for Nicola Walker who was also in Spooks. Last Tango in Halifax soon followed; and well, in so many of her following roles she holds the screen and doesn’t disappoint.
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My PIC is always looking for movies for us to watch, and he usually chooses well. Yesterday was no exception.
Sew Torn is a fun take on how our decisions & actions change or don’t change the outcome of a story. A seamstress somewhere in the Swiss Alps (where everyone happens to be speaking English, for some odd reason) gets entangled in a messy crime. Shades of Lola Rennt if that’s your groove. And if you’re into sewing, you will probably love it.
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Weapons (2025) - Zach Cregger
In 2022, Zach Cregger moved from comedy, where he was part of The Whitest Kids You Know sketch group, and sitcoms like Friends with Benefits to directing horror, with Barbarian. It turned into a decent hit, with Cregger’s unusual story structure and moments of absurd, black humor as particular points of praise. Now comes Weapons, which, while a very different film than Barbarian, again uses an unusual structure to great effect, and has some absolutely fantastic gags that serve as welcome light highlights, to contrast with the rest of the films upsetting, unsettling atmosphere.
We’re told in opening narration that one day in a Pennsylvania town, 17 children, an entire school class, save for one boy, all left their homes at 2:17am and disappeared. They couldn’t be found. The town is very upset and suspects the class teacher Justine (Julia Garner). Why only HER class? We also have Archer (Josh Brolin), the father of one of the missing boys.
If you think you’re likely to see this (and if you generally like horror, I recommend it), then you might wanna skip the rest of this. I won’t be talking spoilers, exactly, but I will be mentioning structure and theme, which you might wanna experience blind.
For the rest of you…
We’re told the story in discrete chapters, each segment taking the perspective of a different character. We don’t get different versions of events, ala’ Rashamon, but we are shown how different paths cross, and thus we are forced to readjust our understanding of events as new information is revealed. It’s a clever conceit that actually plays well into the themes of the film, namely, alcoholism and neglect. We see people act in poor, albeit very human ways, and the catalysts that lead from poor circumstances to self-destructive behavior, sometimes beyond their control. Cregger is careful not to make this a complete bummer. The aforementioned humor really is laid in with great skill, providing needed tension breaks so it can be built back up again. Brolin in particular has one of the funniest line-readings of “What the fuck?!” in recent memory. Only once or twice does the film threaten to tip into the “but really it’s about traaauuuuma” territory, and it skillfully avoids going over the line into eye-rolling obviousness. And it never forgets that first amd foremost, it’s a scary good time.
4 out of 5 kids spookily dunning through the dark with airplane arms.
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We’re in the middle of it. Egerton has an amazingly punchable face. We’re enjoying the show.
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The Durrells in Corfu is one of my all time favorites. Based on the writings of the youngest son Gerald, both are entertaining
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Patience is very well done IMHO. Some will say that the original, Astrid, was better but I think it’s a toss up.
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Patience sounds good. I like stuff that is set in Yorkshire.
We don’t have the original available to compare. Discovered that a neurodivergent woman plays Patience. The script writing is smart, and we only hope the audience is sufficient to support a second season.
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