Thanks I will keep an eye out for Sinners and Bugonia. I actually have Marty Supreme on my bucket list but to each their own.
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Who knows, maybe you will love it. Critics sure seem to 
Marty Supreme
I enjoyed this one, but it’s a Safdie film, which means it’s centered around a hyper obsessive narcissist who works in a straight a line as possible toward his goal and damn whoever happens to be in the way. I especially liked the very anachronistic 80’s soundtrsck. I think it did a lot to link up that particularly American “greed is a virtue” culture from the postwar period through the Reagan era. All the performances are top notch, in that you hate EVERYONE, but they’re all believable in their deeply flawed natures.
Def not for everyone. If you found Uncut Gems or Good Time unbearable, this won’t be your cup of tea.
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I think I mentioned how much I hated the first 10 min that I had to turn it off. Nope. So, def not my cuppa… and the “greed is virtue” mentality is a lil too au courant for me to feel nostalgic.
“I’m one of the few writers that’s written more books than he’s read.”
“I know writers that use subtext and they’re all cowards!”
Thus spake Garth Marenghi, Horror Writer, from Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, an utterly ridiculous absurdist British…. sitcom? that is too weird to properly sum up. It’s of a piece with The Mighty Boosh if that helps at all. 6 episodes means it doesn’t overstay its very thin premise, but it’s so aggressively weird that it constantly rides that Tim ‘n Eric-like line of open hilarity and anti-comedy.
Available on Amazon Prime in the US.
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Since I haven’t been able to convince my PIC yet to stop giving that useless POS any more money, I suppose we could check it out. And then quit 
I should really rewatch Flight of the Conchords.
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A lot of it was filmed in my neighborhood. Their manager’s office is played by this establishment, which used to be on the corner of Grand and Essex and has since moved a few storefronts east.
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How cool is that!
I just saw Song Sung Blue on Peacock and really enjoyed it. Kate Hudson and Huge Jackman were excellent. It was mostly fun, but there were a few shockingly sad moments that I didn’t expect, since I didn’t really know the real story that it was based on.
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Pretty cool, I think! Such a good show.
Saw it at the behest of the mister, who lured me in by saying it had an Oscar nomination. Like many “quality” horror movies (Hereditary, for example) this sets up a pretty interesting premise and then completely squanders it by devolving into gore and nonsense. It does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Sinners, which is an actual very good movie.
It’s a classic over here. I love that show.
The temporal collision was fab. The style of filming also evoked the 70s-80s gritty NYC look and mania. I loved it. I have some critiques, but I liked it.
The Simpsons 800th episode was set in Philly, so that was quite fun.
The we started on The Hillside Strangler, a 6-part documentary of which we watched 3. What compelled my PIC to suggest this after an absolute shite day is beyond me, but it’s certainly interesting in a true crime procedural kind of way… if you can set aside the infuriating misogyny — which I really couldn’t, so my rage simmered on well into late evening.
What streaming service is this on?
MGM+
is a complete f’n sentence 
I have access to Prime video only because my partner’s best friend from college has it and lets us use her login. So, at least for this, I’m actively stealing from him.
I am 100% ok with it.
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I am several BILLION% ok with that.
