DH watching Tim Burton’s Ed Wood and I just could not ignore it. Wonderful and terrible all at the same time.
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I love that movie to death. PERFECT!!!
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Damn it was on tv earlier this week and I forgot to watch it 
I worked for someone a few years ago who was a real film buff and he said that movie is so bad it’s funny.
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We greatly enjoyed Send Help with Rachel McAdams and some pretty boy actor I didn’t recognize. It takes a bit to get going, but when it does it is absolutely delicious watching McAdams take control over her douche boss. Directed by Sam Raimi, so there’s also completely over-the-top scenes of violence and lots n lots of bodily fluids.
Very entertaining.
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Watched the first two episodes of Welcome to Wrexham last night. We’ve been watching it since the beginning and even though I have very little interest in sports or European football (soccer) each season is like returning to a group of old friends that I’ve become attached to. Besides the players and coaches and owners they always feature people from the town of Wrexham and their deep connection to the team and their joys and sorrows. A wonderful slice of Welsh life with two famous American actors as owners so it’s fun.
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Doncha just love Phil Parkinson’s passion?
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The pretty terrible They Will Kill You, which our buddy suggested last night. The other choice was Undertone, which I would’ve greatly preferred, but the guys outvoted me. So we spent 93 minutes watching a scantily clad hot chick slash through armies of undead tenants.
Terrible. Hopefully, my PIC and I can watch the superior flick tonight.
I thought it was ok. Not great, but it was, as you say, 93 minutes of a scantily clad chick slashing her way through an army whatever. To my mind, that’s what was advertised, that’s what was delivered. Ready or Not 2 is similar, but it’s 2 chicks and they are more appropriately dressed. It’s also more fun than this one, but this sis still a good time if you turn your brain off and enjoy the violence.
Speaking of which, if any of you are still interested, however slightly, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I caution you to stay far far away from Punisher: One Last Kill, a “Special Presentation” on Disney+. My partner, who has near zero interest in comic stuff, likes Punisher because it’s Jon Bernthal blowing stuff up and killing bad guys. We watched all 50 minutes of it.
There’s about 15 minutes of perfectly acceptable rated-R violence, surrounded by 35 minutes of the worst script, the most wooden dialogue, and frankly some truly awful acting. Even from Bernthal, though to be fair, he has little to work with. This is dire even by the standards of post-Endgame flailing.
Really just unforgivably bad.
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Oh yeah I think we watched Ready or Not, but it was too long ago* for me to remember any deets at this point. I think the sequel was another option for last night.
*could be as little as 48 hrs 
We watched the campiest, cheesiest show in existence on television — well, European television: the catastrophically entertaining Eurovision Finale on Peacock.
Some shots ICYMI.
So much drama, so much background dancing, so many pyrotechnics, so MUCH. OF. EVERYTHING… well, besides actual talent, which is a little harder to come by 
Probably best watched on acid, but the costumes & over-the-top theatrics make up for that. Plus there’s always martinis and and a well-packed bowl 
Tits (Bulgaria)
won over ‘talent.’ (Israel)
Natch.
A couple of Peep Show epis to cleanse our brain folds after this audiovisual assault 
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Just saw The Christophers at the cinema. Very enjoyable.
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@medgirl Welcome Back!
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The Martin Short documentary Marty, Life is Short, which was wonderful. What a kind & funny human, with many other kind & funny humans surrounding him.
As it should be.
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I just watched the latest Jack Ryan movie on Amazon Prime and enjoyed it. I like the movie format better than the series format for Jack Ryan. There is a lot less filler.
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We watched what should’ve been a much better movie, Undertone, but it was a bit of a snore fest. Don’t waste your time.
The David Attenborough doc was alright.
Lastly, Remarkably Bright Creatures yesterday evening. Sally Field is always great, and the movie was … cute? Maybe a bit too cute for me. Also I kept wondering how I know the young male lead, who looked strangely familiar.
It’s Bill Pullman’s son, and he’s the spitting image of his dad. Mystery solved 
Oh, and I binged almost all remaining episodes of the final season of Hacks — the weakest one so far. It has decidedly run its course, so all the better that it’s done after this.
After The Flood, Season 2
We gave The Boroughs a shot, and I was not expecting supernatural! I was expecting a parody of The Villages, not something that seemed to share some DNA with Pluribus - cul de sacs, dryness, et al. Whatever, like the cast, it’s kinda scary, will continue.
John Lily and the Earth Councidence Confrol Office (2025) - dirs. Courtney Stephen’s, Michael Almereyda
This documentary, narrated by Chloë Sevigny, traces out the life and work of Dr. John Lily, a medical doctor and psychologist who became obsessed with the idea that cetaceans, and specifically dolphins, were conscious, and could communicate if only we could find a way to translate it. Part of his work lead directly to the anti-whaling movement and Greenpeace. During WW II his research was supported by shady govt grants. He was also an early proponent of LSD in the 50’s. His search for the meanings and mechanisms of consciousness led him to invent the sensory deprivation chamber, which he used in conjunction with both LSD and ketamine.
The path Lily goes through, from legitimate, if rather esoteric scientist to weird 70’s pseudo-shaman is kind of fascinating. When he passed, he was an afterthought, a weird blot of the border of science and woowoo crystals and aliens mysticism. But his books and work have left real indelible prints on society, and directly inspired two movies, each quite good in their own way: Day of the Dolphin w George C. Scott and Altered States with William Hurtnin his first role.
It’s neat stuff, especially if you’re interested in that mid-20th century cultural spot where it seemed like any idea might just bear fruit.
4/5 unethical dolphin experiments. The film pulls no punches condemning much of his work.
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Day of the Dolphin (1973) - dir. Mike Nichols
Based (loosely, but obviously) on the work of Dr. John Lily and his (ultimately misguided) experiments in attempting to communicate with dolphins, director Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry adapted a French sci-fi potboiler, where a scientist based on Lily (and played with absolute seriousness by George C. Scott) attempts to speak to his cetacean friends, while the shadowy group funding his research has more sinister cold-war plans.
The whole thing has that particularly 70’s sci-fi feel, ala’ The Andromeda Strain or Phase IV, where what should be a very silly premise is given unexpected gravitas just because sa stubborn refusal to see the humor. There are moment of humor here, all derived from the totally strait-laced delivery of the cast.
That would make for, at best, some mild amusement, but the film also has some truly remarkable ‘acting’ by a pair of bottlenose dolphins named Fred and Ginger. There were no mechanical or rubber standins. All the coordinated action with them is real, and honestly, that alone is worth the price of admission.
2.5/5 laughable presidential asassination plots.
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