What are you watching?

[hollywood10]

Denzel filling the screen in The Equalizer 3.  If you like good acting with your vengeance and violence in Italy this is your meat.  I found it amusing that credit was given to Mr. Washington's hair stylist.  His head is shaved throughout the film.

[Sneakeater]

If unlike me you have hair on your head, keeping it off is work.

[Sneakeater]

I'm sure I've said this before, but in the early '80s I saw this play called A Soldier's Play.

It had one of those classic great ensemble casts.  But even so, two actors, then unknown to me, stood out.  One was named Denzel Washington.  The other was named Samuel Jackson.

I remember hoping I'd be able to see each of them acting again.

Little did I realize.

[small h]

6 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

If unlike me you have hair on your head, keeping it off is work.

And if you have hair on only a very select area of your head, keeping THAT off is also work. I know this because of my roommate.

[Wilfrid]

"Ghost Light," latest episode of Only Murders in the Building, both hilarious and quite intense. At least one jump-out-of-your-seat moment. And no Streep/Rudd.

[Wilfrid]

21 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

I'm sure I've said this before, but in the early '80s I saw this play called A Soldier's Play.

It had one of those classic great ensemble casts.  But even so, two actors, then unknown to me, stood out.  One was named Denzel Washington.  The other was named Samuel Jackson.

I remember hoping I'd be able to see each of them acting again.

Little did I realize.

I have one of these stories. 1986, Jack Lemmon starred in the London stage in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” 

To my surprise, my father bought tickets. He would not know O’Neill from a pork pie and indeed spent the long evening paging through his program. He just wanted to see Lemmon, who he did know.

Lemmon was great but I was impressed by the then unknown actors playing his sons. Would I ever see them again?

Kevin Spacey and Peter Gallagher.

 

[Sneakeater]

Oh!  I saw that production on Broadway!

And then, years later, Spacey as Hickey in Iceman (in a production that also played the Old Vic if you were still in London then).  That was a performance for the life list.

Spacey's greatness as an actor (how about The Usual Suspects?) raises all kinds of questions about the artist v. their art of course.

Edited September 12, 2023 by Sneakeater

[backyardchef]

Re-watching the Sopranos. Despite the abuse of dream sequences and a few stray misguided late characters and time wasted on Artie Bucco, the show remains truly brilliant and revolutionary television. Definitely worth revisiting. 

[bloviatrix]

Started watching The Gold on Paramount Plus which is based on a gold heist in '83 where thieves made off with 3 tons of gold bars. The show is about how they went about laundering the gold and the police pursuing them. Had they dropped more than two episodes I would have binged the whole thing.

[Wilfrid]

So sad Below Deck Down Under is finished but oh look Below Deck Med starts on Monday.

[backyardchef]

I think Captain Lee and Kate have a new talk show, too.....don't fret. 

28 minutes ago, Wilfrid said:

So sad Below Deck Down Under is finished but oh look Below Deck Med starts on Monday.

 

[Wilfrid]

Ooh.

[small h]

You're So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah

So much cringe, so much yeah, this looks very familiar. Best exchange:

Girl: I'm an adult! I've had my period for like seven months!

Dad: That's a long period.

[backyardchef]

Extraordinary Attorney Woo! 

Monk if he had been an adorable, young Korean attorney. 

Wholesome and oddly addictive. 

[Evelyn]

I am down to my last few episodes of Orange is the New Black. Which I really liked. Other Netflix series/movies anyone cares to recommend, would be appreciated. TIA

[small h]

8 hours ago, backyardchef said:

Extraordinary Attorney Woo! 

I gave it a couple episodes, but I just don't like procedurals very much.

[Sneakeater]

First appearance of Mrs. Peel on The Avengers in the mid-'60s.

How did British television get to be so sophisticated back then?

 

[Sneakeater]

(Patrick Macnee always fessed up to how intimidated he was to have to act opposite as superbly classically-trained an actor as Diana Rigg.

(Fortunately, he appears to have somehow got over it.)

[maison rustique]

I adored The Avengers!

We started watching Night Sky on Prime. I think it is great, but Don seems upset by it, understandably since it hits a bit too close to home for him with his dementia and advanced age.

[hollywood10]

Killers of the Flower Moon is a full 3 hours and twenty-six minutes of drama and history.  At the time of the events depicted, Oklahoma was definitely not O-K.  There is an excellent soundtrack assembled by the late Robbie Robertson.  Hidden among the large cast including many first nations (Osage) folk are Jack White, Pete Yorn and Charlie Musselwhite (himself a Choctaw).

Highly recommended btw.

Edited October 23, 2023 by hollywood10

[hollywood10]

Robbie Robertson's last interview.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-interview-killers-flower-moon-martin-scorsese-1235764103/#recipient_hashed=5cb983ad3394200104c8abf77ea5e0fe427131f0a078f1c4f56b801ccd436140&recipient_salt=ff2d863fc6e42ad7173ea43adcff922a5209bfc0aed852339894bca55c3531d1

[maison rustique]

Bosch Legacy. I love that they've brought in so many of the characters (Crate & Barrel!!! <3) from the original series.

[StephanieL]

"aka Mr. Chow", a documentary running on HBO about the poor art student turned actor turned restaurateur turned painter Michael Chow.  I'd forgotten that Tina Chow, one of the first prominent women to go public with an AIDS diagnosis, was his wife.

[bloviatrix]

The kid and I just finished watching all of the Indiana Jones movies (we had seen the new one over the summer). While remembered most of Raiders of the Lost Ark, I had very little memory of the others. They're tons of fun and J loved them.

[Sneakeater]

I'm the only person in the world who thinks this, but Temple of Doom is my favorite.