I think we made it through one episode and when I reminded my wife that we had more episodes, she kind of shrugged and said, “eh…” I feel the same.
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Yeah mixed up riot women with Derry girls. Watched the first episode and love it. I’ll check out redemption I don’t think I’ve heard of that. One of the riot women was in Episodes, a show I loved.
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I’ll have to catch up on the BAFTAs red carpet that is happening right now, and will def record the actual awards show to watch later 
Whole lotta fun:
RIP Robert Carradine. Lewis from Revenge of the Nerds, but I’ll always remember him and his brothers David and Keith playing the Younger brothers in Walter Hill’s fantastic neo-western, The Long Riders, along with the Keach brothers playing Frank and Jesse James and the Quaids playing the Millers.
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Completely wrapped up in the new season of the Night Agent on Netflix. Very suspenseful and the temptation is to watch too many episodes at a time. It sort of has a Diplomat-like vibe.
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binged it all too fast. Wife and I kept saying. “One more episode than we take a break.” It was fun.
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We watched the excellent and very funny Four Lions (2010) last night, about a bunch of British wannabe jihadists. Highly recommend!
With a very young Riz Ahmed & Kayvan Novak (of What We Do in The Shadows fame).
It’s pretty dark, so it may not be for everyone.
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We started (and are about halfway through) How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. That it was by the creator of Derry Girls was enough to give it a try without knowing. Anything else. We were surprised by the direction, especially given this hilariously incorrect “AI summary”
But it’s still quite a lot of fun.
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We loved it & finished last night. Bet there’s a second season.
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This was an odd lil flick, but fun. With Steve Buscemi and Britt Lower.
Are you familiar with the work of Chris Morris? You might want to be.
It’s so good. I was also delighted by a shot of the Derry Girl’s mural and the use of My Lovely Horse.
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I don’t remember him from The IT Crowd, strangely enough. A lot of the shows he was or is involved in seem to only be able on the other side of the pond, unfortunately. Interesting to see he worked with Steve Coogan, whom I like a lot.
As Michael Caine cracks me up every time 
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We need to rewatch The Trip Trilogy. I thought there was something new (movie? show?) on the horizon with Steve Coogan… 
Penguin Lessons was fantastic.
ETA: Oh, that’s right! He’s gonna be in Dr. Strangelove 
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He is in something new-ish which is also pretty hilarious, pops up on my feeds sometimes.
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*How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge), his show from 2025
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Megadoc (2025) - dir. Mike Figgis
Megalopolis is a fiasco. A grand plan led by a great man who has built a system around himself that allows him to indulge his whims despite those closest to him trying to bring him to earth. So many actors, from Hoffman to Plaza to Esposito, all seem to have more or less the attitude of “Hey, the guy made The Godfather. I don’t have any idea what’s going on but I’d be nuts not to take the job”.
Several times, Coppola references Jacques Tatí and Playtime, and how Tatí spent his fortune and died broke making a critical flop that was only recognized as a masterpiece decades later. Coppola seems to believe in the process over all. That the manner of the making of the thing is paramount to how the thing turns out.
The whole affair feels a little off. Everyone loves Coppola, and few in his orbit seem to want to disappoint him by criticizing his vision. Coppola himself, while he certainly has a vision in his head for what Megalopolis should have been, cared less about the ultimate result, I think. He wanted to make one last big production, gathering his family and friends around him to play with all the toys he’s managed to accumulate over a fabulous lifetime.
This doc doesn’t make the film itself any better. It’s still a shambolic mess of half baked symbolism and an old man yelling at clouds while insisting he’s still “with it.” But it DOES inspire a bit more empathy towards Copolla (not that he particularly needs it). He just wants to make art and thinks people should have the freedom and capacity to do so. Idealistic, to be sure, but we can’t all be cynics.
3 of 5 eye rolling discussions w Shia LaBeouf about ‘process’.
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