There’s two available and looks like next two drop tomorrow.
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Just getting around to Broadchurch, and finished season 1.
@Phoenikia , @ChimayoJoe , WTH!?
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a pleasant surprise.
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Everything I have watched the past 4 years is a blur.
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Age related macular degeneration. They can fix that.
More like it’s a blur because I’m scrolling though Hungry Onion or Twitter full attention to what’s on the TV. LOL
I did pay good attention during Shetland and reasonably good attention during Broadchurch, but I can’t remember different seasons or what took place 2 or 3 years later.
We are currently watching Suspects on BritBox.
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We’re big Agatha Raisin fans, so Tosh has a good new boss, as much as we like Jimmy.
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She was great in Extras, too.
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THANK YOU again for a great recommendation! We really enjoyed the movie, and you couldn’t have put it better: that 3rd act came out of nowhere!
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Any time a film can pull off a misdirect like that it has my respect. It really shows how well the filmmakers understand how to set and play with expectations. It speaks to a knowledge and respect of their genre that I appreciate.
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Also, cool choice of antagonist. Like, REALLLLY unexpected.
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I love Ashley Jensen. The Extras episode with Dan Radcliffe and Dame Diana Rigg was hysterical.
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Turns out her she married co-star, who also played Vera’s sidekick. Cripes – and who doesn’t admire Brenda Blethyn . . .
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While The Change may strike some as appealing only to a limited audience, we (including my def not-menopausal partner) found the first 3 episodes pretty entertaining.
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I enjoyed that. really like Bridget Christie and I adore Monica Dolan.
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Trap (2024) - dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Shyamalan has had a very odd career trajectory. Hailed as a new Hitchcock or Spielberg, he went all in on a gimmick and believed his own press until he sort of imploded, with some high profile flops that pointed largely to his own hubris as chief culprit.
Then he wisely seemed to take a break and decide to come back with more ‘usual’ dramatic thriller/horror flicks that, if they weren’t anything as inspired as his initial films, were at least fun and generally competent.
Now, he seems to be making an effort to secure employment for his kids. One daughter directed the recent faerie-horror film The Watchers earlier this year.
With Trap, he’s giving his other daughter, Saleka, who has a nascent career as a pop singer, a boost by casting her as… a pop singer. It’s all a bit worthy of some side-eye, what with all the recent press about ‘nepo-babies’. Thankfully, Saleka is fine.
Really, that’s about the best description of the movie as a whole. It’s fine. It’s like a-tween’s-first-serial-killer-thriller. Former minor teen heartthrob Josh Harnett is a dad, named Cooper, taking his tween daughter to see a Lady Raven (Saleka) concert. Only thing is, Cooper is actually The Butcher, a serial killer who has a victim stashed in a house somewhere. And worse, the cops KNOW The Butcher is at the concert. So how will Cooper escape? What about his daughter? What about the victim?
Very much a HowCatchEm (as opposed to WhoDunnit?) the film does a nice trick of letting you root AGAINST the lead while still keeping his escapes and near misses tense and fun. The whole affair is rather bloodless and safe for a SERIAL KILLER movie, but fits completely with the tween level cast.
But, it IS bloodless and tame, and while it’s not bad, neither is there anything to particularly recommend it unless you have a very young horror movie fan who isn’t quite ready for Silence of the Lambs-level intensity.
I only went because I’ve promised to see the new Deadpool with the partner, and I wanted to get out of the house yesterday. If you need a couple of hours in the A/C, it’s a fine enough distraction, but it’s very much a “Sunday afternoon while folding laundry” sort of film.
One fun note: Hayley (The Parent Trap) Mills has an extended cameo as the FBI profiler out to catch the killer.
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Back on The Bear bandwagon. Watched 3 episodes tonight and loved the Tina backstory episode and really enjoyed bringing the crazy mom back and making her much more sympathetic. It was actually a very touching episode at the hospital and watching mother and daughter come together and bond.
That was a good one.
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We started watching The Gentlemen yesterday and enjoyed it a lot.
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