Got around to seeing Jim Jarmusch’s zombie film, the Dead Don’t Die. It was like he was making a zombie film that takes all the tropes of bad zombie films, but with an A-list cast.
Also, finally saw See you Yesterday, which was a great film.
And rewatched Killer Klowns from Outer Space, which is as bad and funny as I remember…
Couldn’t find a clip of the best scene, Vernon answering the phone in the police station as the clown attack calls come in. Comedy gold.
It really is… we got part way through and my daughter says (cause she picked it) “this is the best decision I’ve ever made.”…
Halfway through the second season of Altered Carbon.
One point that jumps out at me:
Despite the second season setting being ~30 years in advance of season one, it appears that there has been little to no political or technological change in the interval.
I’m undecided as to whether this is just lazy writing, or if it’s instead a deliberate choice to reflect the paralysis of the decadent Meth-controlled society.
Good news… there might be an attack the block 2… and I just realized that Jodie Whittaker was the nurse in the first one…
Birdman returns.
I keep forgetting to post this… Every Sunday at 3pm EST silent comedies with live accompaniment. Also a bit of actor and studio history commentary.
Past shows and livestreams on youtube as well as other silent comedies with music from Ben Model.
If you’re a fan of the Crown, they’ve begun to announce casting for the 5th and final season:
Worth the time. It isn’t just about Baldwin, it’s also about Medgar, Malcolm and Martin.
Yeah, but even if it WERE only about Baldwin, it would still be worth the time.
Been watching Netflix’s Comedians of the World, where comedians from around the world have 30 minute sets. The most recent country set we watched was Germany, which had Enissa Amani, who also has a full concert on Netflix:
But this guy was hilarious, too…
He did lots of his stuff on languages of Europe, which was surprisingly funny. I was rolling. He might have some stuff up on youtube with English subtitles, but if you have Netflix, his 30 minute set is worth watching.
Anyone have any fucking clue why you can’t get season 3-5 on DVD that is not an Australian edition? 
Half-way through Sam Esmail’s “Homecoming” with Julia Roberts, and really enjoying it. It has the same distant, alienated vibe as Mr Robot, but without the regular mindfucks. It does have the same genius cinematography and symmetrical shots though, like a dark, midwinter Wes Anderson.
For anyone who is familiar with Emilie Graslie, host of the educational YouTube show The Brain Scoop (which got folded into the Field Museum’s educational outreach programs a few years ago), she has a new miniseries on PBS called Prehistoric Road Trip that I highly recommend. It’s fun and educational and there’s dinosaurs and all kinds of other fossils and some good segments reckoning with and discussing the implications of paleontology’s long history of disrespect for tribal authority over their lands and the fossil material found there.
It’s free on the PBS video app on most platforms, and should also be available to watch on the PBS website.
Just finished the last season of Dark. Holy shit, that was a great show. Will try to give some more indepth analysis later…
I’m still on the first few episodes of season one and finding it very slow going as well as a bit, well, Dark. Does it pick up pace?
I’m watching it in the original German and am not impressed with the quality of the acting either, tbh.
