@linguafood - I had the same reaction - it was ridiculous and infantilizing. They looked absurd! I also have zero patience for AI nonsense 
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So awesome. There is unfortunately video of me dancing behind the couch, which I now have to try to delete from the internet.
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Yes, yes, and that’s why I could never get into Schitt’s Creek. I watched the first season on a plane and didn’t feel like continuing.
(Walton)
Haha!
I don’t watch the Super Bowl, but I watched the halftime on YouTube (full screen) and wow did it pack a lot in, and pack a big visual punch. A+ production design.
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Watched the 5th episode of Bookish on pbs last night and the first of the new season Bridgerton on Netflix. I love that the same actress is in both shows.
SB Film festival raging all around me this week. A good friend rented a place downtown and she’s been going to a bunch of movies. Lots of stars-Adam Sandler, Ethan Hawke, Jane Fonda and Leo D and Sean Penn were there last night taking questions after their movie. I used to go but know to lazy, just wait for stuff to stream.
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We just binged The Last Thing He Told Me on 
. Pretty sure I’d seen it before but my wife hadn’t so we wanted to prepare for Season 2 coming 2/20. Not the greatest show, but decent plot. Not sure it was as bad as its Rotten Tomatoes ratings in the high 40s. Maybe more of a clue is that I searched and couldn’t find any mention here
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The Winter Olympics, but pacifically curling.
So. Much. Fun.
pacifically curling
Atlantically, it’s all about downhill.
(Sorry. Couldn’t resist 
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No Other Choice (2026) - dir. Park Chan-wook
Park’s newest work is of a piece with his Oscar-winning Parasite — social satire with a a slightly violent edge. Lee Byunn-hun plays Yoo Man-soo, a senior worker in a paper factory who is laid off, along with most of his cohorts, by the new American owners. There is “no other choice,” they say. A year later, still unemployed, Yoo learns of a job overseeing a new automated factory. No workers at all. So he becomes determined to kill off his competition.
Park shows the same sharp instincts as Parasite, even if the narrative doesn’t have the former’s twists and turns. Instead, we get an intimate picture of Yoo, as the system drives him to turn against his cohorts.
I think a special mention should be made of Park’s use of music. Music is one of the most mysterious art forms. Using no concrete language, it is Diane how able to communicate emotions between people, across cultures, language barriers, even time. The cello solo featured at the end of the film (google says it is “Ri-One’s Theme” by composer Jo Yeong-wook) manages to convey deep emotional catharsis and haunting menace simultaneously.
To be clear, I don’t think this film is on the level of Parasite. It’s very good, but it doesn’t have Parasite’s propulsive snap, and the central conceit is fairly on the nose. But it’s runs quickly, seeming much shorter than it’s 140-some min might suggest.
4 of 5 faceless corporate execs who care about nothing except “line goes up”.
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Tonight, catching up on the Olympic team figure skating performances.
And I recently watched If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Not an easy film, basically two hours of nonstop tension, but Rose Byrne is phenomenal and onscreen the entire time.
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RIP Bud Cort. Brewster McCloud and of course, Harold and Maude. One of my favorite roles was his role as a the voice of a sentient computer in 1984’s Electric Dreams.
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Every time I’ve watched Harold and Maude, I cry my eyes out at the end. RIP Harold.
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Oh, how sad. Great movie, and wonderful soundtrack.
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We’re about finished with season 2 of Schitt’s Creek, and it occurred to my partner and I that Moira Rose and Louise Bluth (and Mallory Archer) would have gotten along famously. I want to imagine Jessica Walter and Catherine O’Hara were good friends, and if there is an afterlife, they should be day drinking and swapping stories.
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) - dir. Pedro Almadovar
A very very young, very handsome Antonio Banderas is let out of the asylum where he’s spend most of his life, and goes to kidnap the actress he’s been obsessed with (an absolutely stunning and very funny Victoria Abril). He believes she will fall in love with him. What follows is fun, sexy romcom with a thriller edge, with more than a little bit of Beauty and the Beast-style Stockholm syndrome. These days, the sexual politics get a LOT of (deserved) side-eye. But honestly, the rest of the movie is so infectiously joyous, and the cast appears to having a tremendous amount of fun.
This is when I first became aware of both Banderas and Almadovar, immediately going back to find Women of the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. He’s since done everything from more comedies like All About My Mother to the very creepy and upsetting The Skin I Live In.
4.5 of 5 deeply inappropriate but still sort of sweet sexual relationships.
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Having absolutely adored Derry Girls, we are very much looking forward to Lisa McGee’s new show, starting tonight.
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Oooo. Good. That can come after we finish Schitt’s Creek!
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We started the new season, Season 2, of Cross. So far , so good.
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I just finished watching the first 3 episodes. Very Epstein-esque.
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