Definitely! O’Hara was the best part of that show.
I can’t find a clip, but my all-time favorite line of hers is “I can’t believe we’re eating Cantonese. Is there no Szechuan here?”
Breaking the Waves might just be the most heartbreaking movie I’ve ever seen.
Absolutely. It really grows on you.
We started the new season of Hijack, mainly bc it’s set in Berlin. We’d watched the first season and liked it, according to my PIC, so who am I to argue? Not that a lot of the recap rang a bell for me, but that’s entirely to blame on my brainz 
So far, so good. Enjoying the scenery for the most part, of course, but I’m incredibly annoyed that the (clearly) German actors playing Germans are communicating with one another in English in an absolute random manner, while other times subtitles are employed. Why not all the time? Never mind that Germans would N-E-V-E-R make smalltalk with one another on a full subway train, least of all in English. /endrant
Gah!
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Thank you for the heads up …and see what I did there? Shrinking has my name, shrinkrap…. written all over it! 
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Breaking the Waves
Yeah. Like I said, nobody does “bleak” like Von Trier. I think Dancer might be even more affecting than Waves, but I haven’t seen the latter in years, so I wouldn’t insist. Stack those two up with Antichrist, Dogville, and the best movie about depression in recent memory, Melancholia, and you have a cinematic ouvere that is likely to lead you check yourself to a nice quiet, rubber room for a few weeks, or lifetimes.
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I also tried and was sad it didn’t stick.
TBH “depressing” is pretty low on my agenda these days. Escapist, fun, silly, crazy is where it’s at for casa lingua.
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Heresy, I know, but I really liked Emily Hampshire. She kept us interested at first.
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And we watched the Wrecking Crew last night because why??? 
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I’ve heard if you skip the first season the second is more engaging.
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Then might I recommend Avatar: Fire and Ash? Seriously, if you want braindead good guys vs bad guys escapist fun all served up with the most spectacular eye-candy you will likely see this year, James Cameron doing his James Cameron thing would be a pretty great choice, and at 197 minutes, you can’t say it doesn’t provide good value for your viewing dollar.
I saw it opening weekend in IMAX 3D and high frame rate, gimmicks that under almost any other circumstance I absolutely loathe. Cameron is perhaps the only director that knows how and when to deploy them to enhance the experience. And really, that’s what this film, what ALL the Avatar films are: cinematic experiences. You can roll your eyes at the idea that Cameron has spent untold millions of dollars to stage 10 foot tall blue cat people that ride dragons battling mech suits and hovercrafts, but for 3 hours not for one moment do you doubt that you are watching 10 foot tall blue cat people riding dragons battling mech suits and hovercraft.
The entire series is something akin to a David Attenborough-narrated nature travelogue, except this is of a WHOLLY INVENTED PLANET down to the smallest bits of ecosystem. People splash around in the waves or a moving stream and there is no tell-tale “too perfect” shimmer. The titular fire is as real as any practical pyrotechnic explosion, and the ash coats the characters skin and smears down their faces so perfectly that you barely notice it. It’s utterly convincing if you let yourself get swept up in it. Turn your brain off. Ignore the dialogue suitable for 12 year olds. You are touring another planet! Enjoy the wonder.
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We caught the first one. 'twas alright. Silly > dumb anytime. The dialog makes my brains leak…but not in a good way 
Last night’s movie was def fun, weird, and escapist: Dust Bunny starring Mads Mikkelsen (whom I’d watch in practically anything) and Sigourney Weaver, who delivers one of the funniest rants about children I’ve seen in a while.
Finished the evening off with Young Frankenstein.
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Well, the editing window has long closed, but I meant to add just how unique the cinematography in Dust Bunny is. A touch of Tim Burton, with some really beautiful shots & magical realism. A hint of Wes Anderson even, but without the over-the-top preciousness, and characters one could imagine to exist in real life, not just place holders who recite a dialog solely for effect.
Really very enjoyable…if ya like that kinda stuff.
Dust Bunny is most assuredly on the list. I was miffed I missed the all too brief theatrical window for it.
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I’m so glad we watched it.
That’s “FRAHNK-en-steen”…
This and Spinal Tap are conastantly swapping places in my “top five comedies of all time”
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We watched the third installment of the Knives Out franchise last night, which I had zero expectations for, having absolutely hated the first one & don’t remember the second one, which we apparently also watched at some desperate point in our viewing lives. That accent, oh my!
Much to my surprise, we found Wake Up Dead Man rather entertaining. Fun dialog, great cast, and a decent plot twist.
Low/no expectations is where it’s at, y’all!
Followed it up with the first epi of S18 of Taskmaster. Happy to see Jack Dee in this one, a very funny standup I was introduced to in 1990 (!) by British friends. His bit about pets is legendary.
We also watched the final episode of Common Side Effects. Sad it’s over for now. Great script, great animation.
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I rather enjoyed the first Knives Out. The cast was all top notch (esp. Jamie Lee Curtis and Chris Evans and his sweater). The 2nd (Glass Onion) was a little more shrug-worthy, being a rather on-the-nose jab at the Musk and Zuckerberg types that believe that “rich” must necessarily be equivalent to “smart”.
I enjoyed Wake Up, Dead Man much more. Josh Brolin was fantastic, as always, and I appreciated a more nuanced, twisty mystery.
I think Craig’s cornpone southern accent is kind of hysterical, personally.
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