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Oh, au contrares, madame Faux. There's a new sanctioning body, called the LGBTQXYZ Boxing Association, and they will be having events of the gladiators in arenas that seat 1000's of cheering(and booing) spectators. Yup. Get your ticckiccks, today.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Woody Harrelson was terrific in “Highwaymen” as one of the Texas Rangers who tracked down and killed Bonnie and Clyde.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simone
Just finished all the seasons of Longmire. I enjoyed it.
A couple of Christmas’ ago, my wife gave me a boxed set of Craig Johnson’s Longmire novels. I think that for once the series did a good job of doing justice to the books. They had to cut some corners, but they realized that Wyoming itself was one of the main characters.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
Johnson kind of reminds me of James Lee Burke, but I don’t think Hollywood ever really got his Dave Robicheaux novels quite right.
I liked it too. Within the limits of Hollywood, I thought it was a fairly accurately portrayed. I've been hoping there would be a spinoff.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
My brother and SIL suggested watching "Drain the Oceans" on Disney+. It's produced by National Geographic. We started watching it last week - fascinating! They use current technology to see what shipwrecks (and other stuff sunk in various bodies of water) would look like if we could "drain the ocean." They can then figure out how and why the ship sunk. If you like history, you might want to check it out. I think there's also one season on Hulu.
I don't know about a spinoff, but I think I would enjoy a continued extension... seeing how things and people progress beyond the last episode.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
An outlier I'm sure, I mostly watch baseball these days. :~)
One show I treated myself to each week was Endeavour on Masterpiece Theater Sunday nights. Its last episode was last weekend. Now I'm wondering if anything can take its place. [sigh.....]
Anyone else watch Endeavour? What did you think of the last episode?
I do watch other British series on occasion such as Foyles War. Some of those are older, but I simply cannot stomach much American teevee anymore.
Just got Season 12 of Death in Paradise from the library. I'll be watching that this weekend.
I am watching “Chimp Empire” a four part documentary on Netflix. The Director of this also made the gorgeous Oscar winning film “My Octopus Teacher.” I heard him interviewed on Joe Rogan and it was a great interview.
The chimps in the Ngogo national forest in Uganda are habituated to humans because scientists have been studying them for 30 years. so when camera people came through, the chimps ignore them just as they ignore the scientists.
Okay----That was VERY(xxx4444)interesting, Faux. Yup. Which reminds me that yeah--I been sitting & watching various Iron Mike Tyson videos, including a compilation made when he was at his best, knocking out a series of challengers within a few minutes of the match beginning. Hardly worth seems going, if your a spectator paying big $$$$$ vfor a tickick, and boom, boom, it's all over. That being said, Iron Mike proudly stated on one a his own shows that a DNA test indicates that he is of Congolese Ancestry. Yup. Thing is, in spite o' HIS athletic prowess, he had an older sister who died at 24 of complications from asthma, diabetes, obesity. Yup. But then---I also sat-n-watched him go up against Lennox Lewis when they had both started to decline about 20 years ago, and Lewis, who is much bigger, got the better of Mike. But, it took about 7 rounds. Yup. But yeah---you kids should sit-n-watch summa these classic boxing matches. They're pretty good.
I watched Merpeople on
Netflix, a multiparty documentary about people who dress up as mermaids and attempt to earn a living. A weird and wonderful world.
Okay---I wanted to let you know that tickkicks to sit-n-watch Jerry Steinfield are selling fast. Get the best seat in the house.(see photo). Too bad Kramer & Elaine & George & Soup Notsee won't be appearing. But yeah---should I drive or fly to San Lo?Attachment 5583Attachment 5584
I don’t think I would pay to see Jerry Seinfeld, but we have tickets to see (and meet and greet)CraigQuote:
Originally Posted by littlebittybobby
Ferguson in November.
I'm watching an interview by Dr. Shawn Baker of Dr. Richard K Bernstein on You tube. Dr. Bernstein is an 89-year-old type one diabetic, originally an engineer, who pivoted to medical school when he couldn't get doctors interested in frequent blood sugar monitoring, which had turned his life around. He's had low normal blood sugars and not one diabetic complication in more than 50 years, and is still practicing medicine. He'll leave a huge hole when he retires.
I often express my displeasure of doctors who turn their backs on health-giving treatments to pursue well-paid conventional medicine that really only helps them. Dr. Bernstein is one of the few practitioners I truly admire.
Streamed The Lost King yesterday. Sally Hawkins is such a fine actress. Not a heavy or deep movie, but it is based upon the main character's true story of her efforts to find King Richard III's burial place and bring him into a better light, not as a usurper as defined by Shakespeare and everyone since. I enjoyed it a great deal, for Hawkins' performance more than anything else.
that’s interesting. The story of how they found the bones of Richard III is fascinating. I didn’t know it was a female archaeologist who lead the seatch.Quote:
Originally Posted by KayLR
Unfortunately, I a truly deeply dislike Sally Hawkins but I might be able to watch this because of the subject matter.
Has anyone seen Openheimer?
Been asked by a couple of people if I planned to see it. It looks pretty bleak, and like it might not have any lighter moments (Richard Feynman's antics), etc.
it’s getting universal raves. I’m not sure I want to sit through a three hour movie in a theater. There was a time when a film of that length would’ve had an intermission.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
We are watching Fisk, and it is absolutely hilarious and spot on with the inheritance plot lines.
I’m glad you mentioned this! I enjoyed “Fisk” too and binge watched it. It’s not brilliant but it’s quite entertaining.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
I watched “Stonehouse “ a three part limited series about the English member of parliament, who brought down the Wilson regime. It was mediocre.
Watched an oldie on Hoopla…. Stolen Summer …. excellent! Lotsa laughs+
After many years I watched “Raise the Red Lanterns “a classic Chinese tale. It is reputed to be visually stunning, and it was. It is a peek into a world that no longer exists, ancient, aristocratic Chinese families. It is about the young fourth wife of a rich man and intrigue within that large family.
Well, we're in August, leaves are starting to fall, and it hasn't been a movie that I'm really excited to see yet. There's some I'll see, Napolean, Dune Part Two, The Equalizer 3, those I'll see.
I watched "I Used to be Famous" on Netflix a couple of weeks ago. It's about a 1980s or 90s rockstar who is trying to get back into the game. it's a quiet, tender movie.
Has anyone see the documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie? I've been seeing ads for it and wondering about it.
Did I Mention Invention …. airs on ABC Saturday… here. Hokey host but enjoy and learn!
I've not streamed much of interest for a while, but I did recently enjoy the new movie, The Burial. Based on true events. Some of the main issues dealt with race inequality. I can get an overload of the topic at times, but it was done well. It is a court room type drama of corporate take overs of family run funeral homes in the 1990's. My father was in the funeral home business' about then and I remember his stories of the pressures to sell out to mega corporations. I generally like Tommy Lee Jones in most anything.
“All the Light We Cannot See” has been turned into a TV series, and has an 8 out of 10 rating. That is super high.
This beautiful book is one I have not read. I have it on my Kindle app. I just have been putting it off and putting it off, and now perhaps I can watch the television adaptation. Should I? I feel that I “should “read the novel yet who is giving me these directives? And are they really the boss of me? I guess the Reading Police would prefer that I read it rather than watch it first.
I thought the TV folks did a phenomenal job with “the Queen’s gambit “which is a novel I’ve loved for decades, do I have faith this could be a good adaptation.
I can't imagine "All the Light..." TV series being an equal match for the book. It's perhaps the best general interest book I've read in years. I'm still looking forward to the series at the right time.
I especially enjoy the new Ken Burns series on the buffalo. It's a story told many times, but his visuals in photos, art, and videos are always top of the line.
well, I see that the reviewer for Time magazine called it “ a schmaltzy incoherent mess. “Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
I think I will wait for a while before starting it to see what other reviewer say. My favorite movie reviewer, Frank Sweitek, only does films. If I won the lottery I would hire Frank to screen everything I’m thinking about watching and tell me what he thinks.
Okay---When I get time, I will watch the 1975 dystopia drama "Rollerball". Wish mee luck.
A Japanese drama called Pending Train, during an ordinary day cars 5 and 6 of a commuter train to Tokyo suddenly disappear leaving the commuters stranded in a strange place and the efforts to find them. If you like La Brea or Lost this is the kind of show you will like. Netflix recently announced season two will drop August 2024
Thank you for the tipQuote:
Originally Posted by hana
I watched about ten minutes of “All the Light” and that was it. I think it was the dark fuzzy computer generated graphics that was the kicker. I really liked the book.
i recently got a decent credit from Apple for an outdated iPad replacement. It was amazingly easy (unlike some recent government transactions). My new iPad came with 3 months of Apple TV for free. I’ve been impressed with the quality of their offerings, although not the big Netflix selection which I no longer use. I’m on “silo” right now. I read the popular book series, Wool a few years ago. It’s maybe very good but not excellent.
Thanks for the review, Roger, for “All the light we cannot see.” I will probably skip the film.
I just saw a really powerful movie that not everyone will like... namely, DH, who gave up on it early on, but I was mesmerized by it. It's The Wall--a German/Austrian movie based on a book. I knew it had to be based on a book because the whole movie is narration, and a stellar performance by basically a cast of one. If you don't mind slow-burning movies that make you think, this is the movie for you. I loved it--and it was hard to shake the mood after it was over.
These two films are Hollywood mediocre but are getting a bit of Oscar buzz, and I watched them:
“May-December “ which is inspired by the Mary Key Letourneau scandal where she seduced her 12 year old student.
This film is a re-imaging of that couple, decades later. The plot revolves around an actress who is planning to play
mary Kay in a film, and how the two women interact. Mildly interesting but because Julianne Moore is wonderful as always, and the young man who plays her lover turned husband conveys some of the pain and problems of his early life.
“Leave the World Behind” is another star powered film. It is ok. It shows a family who leaves New York City for a weekend vacation when a catastrophic event hits the united states. No one is certain what, exactly, the event is. Julia Roberts is in it, and she is her usual annoying self although toned down. Marharishi Ali is elegant and wonderful in it, as always. Kevin Bacon makes a surprising appearance in a small role at the end, very effective.
Then, not a Hollywood film:
”Saltburn.” This one also has star power of the British variety. The first scenes of the film had me thinking it was a remake of Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited” so I settled in for a long character study.. But then, there was a Thing that happened. And then, another Thing happened. And then Oy Vey did the Things happen! I guess I can recommend it, if you like plot driven movies.
Saltburn is definitely an "OMG did I just see what I saw." kind of movie. Reminded me of The Talented Mr. Ripley. I liked it but don't watch with kids.
or alternate title “We Need to Talk About Ollie.”Quote:
Originally Posted by Simplemind
And more bodily fluids than you will ever want to see.