I've been watching the Series' more than films lately. Somehow feel less guilty "watching one more episode" for 30 minutes than spending 2 hours watching a movie.

Ony Murders in the Building has been amusing.
Selena Gomez was incredibly annoying in the beginning, but she's grown on me. Love the cameo appearances of former SNL and other comedians.
Steve Martin and Martin Short are just a hoot.

Dead to Me, I finally binged Season 2 and can't wait for Season 3. Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini are really well matched as actors and characters.

Three episodes deep in Hellbound from Yeon Sang Ho, director of Train to Busan, and so far I'm digging it. South Korean dark fantasy with themes of sin, punishment, and religious zealotry. An angel appears to sinners prophesizing their death where executioners will arrive to drag them to Hell. It can get brutal at times and it's quite sad. Imagine knowing your death is imminent only to spend an eternity in suffering.

rsmurphy wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 10:18 am Three episodes deep in Hellbound from Yeon Sang Ho, director of Train to Busan, and so far I'm digging it. South Korean dark fantasy with themes of sin, punishment, and religious zealotry. An angel appears to sinners prophesizing their death where executioners will arrive to drag them to Hell. It can get brutal at times and it's quite sad. Imagine knowing your death is imminent only to spend an eternity in suffering.

Thanks! I'm a sucker for South Korean mystery. On that note have you seen Na Hong-jin's The Wailing? It's superb! It's also a horror. I reckon you'd like it.
His other stuff is hit or miss (The Chaser is a serial killer film and wasn't bad; The Yellow Sea started out promising, but just turned into an action flick...)

I recently finished David Simon's We Own This City. It's very much a spiritual successor to The Wire (with some of the same actors). Confusing at times with the timelines and kind of just goes over the various details of the crimes carried out by the cops involved. Doesn't offer much in the way of answers and mainly dwells on the police corruption and bureaucracy keeping the system broken. Jon Bernthal was absolutely spectacular in it. Surprised me. Dude is definitely going on to do big things.

andyman wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:52 amhave you seen Na Hong-jin's The Wailing?

Twice! Much more rewarding the second time if you have the time. That is one long-ass movie, but so worth it. Honestly, by the end I was growing exhausted with all of the subterfuge of "is he, isn't he/is she, isn't she" but when the question finally got answered, holy shit. Master reveal and super terrifying. If you haven't seen The Medium do so immediately. Na Hong-jin wrote the script. One of my top 3 horror films last year. Got my ass handed to me.

catwoman wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 8:57 pm
Dead to Me, I finally binged Season 2 and can't wait for Season 3. Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini are really well matched as actors and characters.

That show got more soap opera-ish in its second season (twin brothers! set the car on fire!), I'm not interested anymore.

Lately when I'm home alone in the evenings I've found myself putting on The Sparks Brothers documentary (on Netflix), though it gets a little redundant by the last 15-20 minutes.

zircona1 wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:23 pm Lately when I'm home alone in the evenings I've found myself putting on The Sparks Brothers documentary (on Netflix), though it gets a little redundant by the last 15-20 minutes.

It's kind of the opposite of many music docs, for better or worse. Where you'd normally see 'blah blah blah.. skip to the period most people know and ignore the last 2 decades', The Sparks Brothers was like "and then they put out another record in 1997, and again in 2002, and again in 2005.. " etc.

I liked it, and them, but think it could have been cut down by a third at least.

Mentioned it in another thread, but The Figo Affair is very good. Think it's a Netflix deal. The Rashomon of sports docs.

I started watching The Night Of recently. It's a courtroom/prison drama from 2016 with John Turturro and Riz Ahmed as the leads. Ahmed plays a nerdy college student who gets accused of a violent murder he doesn't think he committed, and Turturro is a bottom-feeding lawyer with eczema who ends up defending him. I'm halfway through and it's superb so far, better with every episode. It's darkly funny, very New York, and very well written in immersing you into the ambiguity of the prison/legal system that Ahmed's character has to try and navigate, while showing the machinations of the justice system at work.
It might be one of Turturro's funniest roles. Michael K. Williams is in it too.

Night Moves (1975) starring Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Jennifer Warren, on Hulu. Arthur Penn directed.

enframed wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 11:44 am Night Moves (1975) starring Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Jennifer Warren, on Hulu. Arthur Penn directed.

Yeah, this is a good one.