I’m three episodes into the Netflix animated series Seis Manos and it’s crazy in all the right ways.
It’s a genre cocktail of 70s films: Grindhouse, Kung Fu and Blacksploitation. But it also has an underlying heart to all the main characters. And the cast seem to be giving it their all.
It follows a set of orphans in San Simon, Mexico raised by a Taoist Kung Fu master and their hardships trying to protect their once sleepy town as it’s attacked by users of a strange drug being produced by the cartel leader El Balde (voiced by Danny Trejo.)
It’s hard to clearly describe as it crosses so many lines from Telenovela to B Horror but I’m really enjoying it.
That line made me laugh out loud, partially because my spouse loves to quote it. Another ad lib was Todd making the “honk the horn” sign to the trucker that drove by. Matched perfectly with his other terrifying habits —I kept thinking that whatever childhood trauma that character had suffered stuck him as an emotional 8-year-old for life. The soups! Everything. Anyway, yeah. So good to have another classic Jesse/Walt conversation. Worth it for that scene alone.
Todd’s character always struck me as interesting -
with his child like “aww shucks” crush on Lydia interlaced with the ability to straight up murder a child in cold blood and not give a fuck about it, to the idolization of his neo Nazi uncle. His portrayal in El Camino managed to be both understated and terrifying.
(It was nice to get closure to the tarantula story arc as well.)
Well, i’m watching watchmen and i certainly think that’s worth watching! Maybe it’s because i had extremely low expectations to begin with but it’s great so far.
I just caught a special preview screening of Frozen 2 with the wife and kids. No songs quite as catchy as “Let it Go” (which is kind of a blessing I guess) but the story did include various Pokémon.
I found out The Bletchley Circle has been renewed, and Millie and Jean have traveled to San Francisco on the trail of a serial killer who was stationed in England during the war.
Good show that at times passes the Bechdel Test, despite the strong themes of misogyny and patriarchy in many of the stories.
I’m another fan of Watchmen. The following article made me face palm, because I didn’t even register it while watching, but of course this explanation makes so much sense:
The Netflix adaptation of Green Eggs and Ham did a not-so-subtle jab at Trump by making the primary antagonist a megalomaniacal, status-obsessed asshole who lives in a giant tower emblazoned with his own name, says things like “I have the best words” and has a ridiculous blonde hairdo that is actually a small animal forced to sit on his head.
Yeah, i just read that somewhere else and it does make sense and damn you to hell if anyone didn’t find that a compelling hour of television. It’s just not afraid to tackle racism head on by including things like the tulsa riots or the nazi rally in madison square.
Oh, and… i’m not up on my minutemen lore so i’m wondering how much of what was shown in the episode fits with that. Accepting the fact that what we saw might not be entirely reliable they showed captain metropolis would rather seek the next photo op instead of tackling institutional racism - it’s not our problem, just clean it up yourself.
Is anyone else watching his dark materials? I’ve been enjoying it but it has been a slow burn until the most recent episode which really kicked it up a notch and now that the pieces have been laid down it feels like the story can start proper. The realisation of iorek was just superb as well i thought, he had a real heft and presence and very nicely voice acted.
“The Laundromat” on Netflix. No excuses: watch it. A dramatization (starring major actors like Meryl Streep and James Cromwell) of the corruption in our financial/legal regulations.
Mossack Fonseca was the real firm. They sued to prevent the release of the film and failed.
To me, what could be a throwaway line underscores how pervasive this is when the characters comment about Delaware LLCs and how the film’s “director has five” and “even the writer has one” of them."
Oh, that line didn’t escape me! I think there’s no doubt they did that as research for the film. And yes, it’s that easy to set up a shell corporation. You can do it on a whim.
Just came back from Knives Out. Not bad, but I kind of had it figured.
Maybe it’s because I grew up on Agatha Christie and Rex Stout or maybe it’s just knowing that you don’t bring in a Chris Evans and then leave him out of the first half of the movie, without him being the baddie.
I don’t know. But I do know that it’s fun, if you’re into the meta structure of a whodunit. Not entirely sure how it works as a full-on whodunit, though.
