What are you watching?

[Evelyn]

Sly Lives! Story of Sly and the Family Stone.  On Hulu.

[cinghiale]

Thanks! Pretty good so far, but strangely produced for a doc (have to wait to find out who the obscure interviewees are). But (now decrepit) Grace Slick slagging Great Society and claiming Sly fixed them is just wrong on so many levels.

[Wilfrid]

I didn't expect a cricket documentary series on Netflix, but I guess there will be a big audience for "Greatest Rivalry: India v Pakistan."

I nearly gave up at the end of the first (of three) parts. So pointlessly stylized. Rapid cutting, random slow motion, dramatic music, silly shots of Sehwag standing on a beach with a cricket bat looking out to sea.

It was worth persisting. The makers had a great interview with Shoaib Akhtar in the can, even if it was cut into countless bite size pieces. Fascinating to see Javed Miandad and Inzamam-al-Haq in recent interviews. I would never have recognized Javed. Plenty of Ganguly and Gavaskar from the other side, the latter looking almost ageless.

And they do let us watch some cricket.

@mongo because he will like the result.

[small h]

Flow. Wordless Latvian animated film about animals helping each other escape a flood. Some suspense, some heartwarming-ness, cool scenery: is it Cambodia? is it Venice? is there someplace where you can find lemurs, secretary birds and golden labs? Nice timeline cleanse for me.

[bloviatrix]

Season 4 of Shoresy.

[small h]

Holding out for Jerseyshoresy.

[relbbaddoof]

Sick already of Jerseywhoresy?

[Wilfrid]

On 1/9/2025 at 7:55 PM, splinky said:

Zoë Saldaña be acting up a storm in this and Selina Gomez was impressive

Oscar and when she went to her Dominican heritage I cried of course. My daughter, my Dominican family. Big deal. 

[maison rustique]

Season 3 of Reacher. And Boston Celtics games whenever they are on.

[small h]

The Oscars, of course, and I didn't really disagree with any of the winners. Of course, I've only seen five of the BP nominees, so what do I know.

[backyardchef]

7 hours ago, maison rustique said:

Season 3 of Reacher. And Boston Celtics games whenever they are on.

Enjoying this season of Reacher. It's always a nice escape. And interested in the Neagley spin off. 

 

Also watching The Pitt.  

[hollywood]

"Zero Day" is a 6 episode conspiracy thriller on Netflix.  Robert DeNiro is a former POTUS with some mental issues.  Jesse Plemons is his assistant who may be compromised.  Joan Allen is his wife.  Angela Bassett is the current POTUS.  Some unknown enemy (possibly foreign, possibly domestic) has unleased a murderous cyber attack on our transportation systems and threatens to repeat it.  DeNiro is tasked by Bassett to head the Zero Day Commission and to root out the culprits and stop them.  I've viewed the first two chapters which pour on the tension and uncertainty.

I should also mention that for reasons yet to be revealed DeNiro's character seems obsessed with the Sex Pistols' "Who Killed Bambi?"

Edited March 9, 2025 by hollywood

[MitchW]

4 hours ago, hollywood said:

"Zero Day" is a 6 episode conspiracy thriller on Netflix. 

I especially liked the pictures of a young DeNIro that were shown during some scenes.

 

[Evelyn]

I liked Zero Day too.

[splinky]

Searching for Soul Food on Hulu. Chef Alisa Reynolds is an interesting character and watching her eat around the world is fun. 

[small h]

Flow and The Wild Robot, both of which were enjoyable, neither of which lived up to the hype. I may be jaded.

[hollywood]

"Watson" is sort of an amalgam of "Rosebud" and "House" with a Sherlock Holmes overlay.  The titular character played by Morris Chestnut is so smug sometimes you want to smack him, but he can act (certainly better than most of the cast of "Behind the Gates"). There's so much medical jargon put forth that at times I need to check my vitals.

[splinky]

9 hours ago, hollywood said:

"Watson" is sort of an amalgam of "Rosebud" and "House" with a Sherlock Holmes overlay.  The titular character played by Morris Chestnut is so smug sometimes you want to smack him, but he can act (certainly better than most of the cast of "Behind the Gates"). There's so much medical jargon put forth that at times I need to check my vitals.

Rosewood was better and why is the team on Watson all personality disordered folk. 

[hollywood]

17 hours ago, splinky said:

Rosewood was better and why is the team on Watson all personality disordered folk. 

Admit it. You're still coveting that banana yellow GTO.

[splinky]

10 hours ago, hollywood said:

Admit it. You're still coveting that banana yellow GTO.

you got me

[hollywood]

"Black Bag" uses care to keep its audience unsettled and on edge.  The editing moves the pace faster than what you normally find in espionage films (compared to this "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" is lethargic).  The British accents make it difficult to immediately capture what characters are about.  The frequent use of under lit sequences further underscores ambiguity. The dramatic dining scenes make "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff?" seem childish.  In the end, what will happen to the money?  Do spies live that comfortably and dress that well?

Those who want a more straight forward suspenser might wait until next week's release of De Niro in Levinson's "The Alto Knights."

Edited March 17, 2025 by hollywood

[Wilfrid]

All We Imagine as Light on Criterion looked like my kind of move, and it is. Set in Mumbai and the subtitles actually indicate all the different languages being spoken.

But the real thrill: as I am watching the credits at the beginning I think I see the name Emahoy. And indeed, the movie is wrapped in her deathlessly brilliant piano playing.

[StephanieL]

Last week, PBS re-ran a Ken Burns documentary from 2003 called Horatio's Ride, about the first successful cross-country trip made by automobile.....in 1903.  You had to admire the optimism of Mr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, especially as seemingly all of his gear kept falling off the car and he and his driving partner (and later the bulldog Bud) were traveling muddy, steep, and near-impassable roads with no maps and no places to fuel up.

[splinky]

The Residence on Netflix. When I first heard about this Shondaland produced show, Andre Braugher was set to co-star with Uzo Aduba. The production was delayed by the strike and sadly Braugher passed away half way through filming and the role was recast with Giancarlo Esposito.  The casting is clever and it's a fun romp through a murder investigation set at the White House. Worth the watch. 

[maison rustique]

Been watching newest seasons of Reacher and started Bosch: Legacy last night. Both great, though I prefer Reacher clean-shaven. This season his face just looks dirty.