Watched it with our 7 year old granddaughter last weekend and it was fun. She’s obsessed!
Watched Left-Handed Girl on Netflix last night, great movie 10/10 would recommend.
Oooh! Lots of food scenes?
We finished A Man on the Inside. Hard to tell if they’re setting up for a 3rd season, but I certainly wouldn’t mind watching David Strathairn and his floffy white hair a bit longer.
He truly had the best lines this season.
Not as much as I wanted there to be, but it was a nice story with excellent acting.
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I love Party Down.
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We finished it last night and I think they definitely were setting up for a 3rd season with Ted danson character getting his pi license and maybe shuttling off love interest to make room for a new love interest. It’s a fairly entertaining series and after watching a convoluted and violent episode of Down Cemetey road the night before I needed something more benign.
Also I could watch a series with Gary Cole’s obnoxious billionaire barreling through life and basically being a grade A as*hole. Very topical to our times!
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OMG he was the second funniest character, plus his trophy wife!
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Just finished truth & Treason. Great film and true story about a Hitler youth who spoke up.
We watched Troll 2, apparently having enjoyed the OG film enough to do so.
It was pretty terrible 
We watched Jay Kelly last night. While a bit disjointed at times, we overall enjoyed it, and the scene in which he is running through the woods in a white linen suit was so remarkably poignant it stayed with me. I really wanted to hate Adam Sandler bc I don’t particularly like him, but he was quite good in this.
Streaming on Netflix now, free.
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Hardly ever watch movies these days but going to check this out because I really like the director Noah baumbach. I did watch K-pop Demon Hunters over thanksgiving w granddaughter so that and the Paddington bear movies are my total movie watching for summer/Fall 2025.
This is def an adult movie 
Watched over half tonight and big thumbs up. My kind of movie. Love that Greta Gerwig pops up in a few scenes.
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Anyone watching a series called The Artist (starring Mandy Patinkin)? It’s on a streaming service called The Nerwork (which I hadn’t heard of until I saw something about this show). It’s a bit strange; at least based on the first episode. Not sure what we think yet.
I just finished watching the finale of The Last Frontier on Apple. It was very good and sets it up for a potential second season if it renewed.
We started watching Dispatches from Elsewhere, a Jason Segel production based on the 2013 documentary The Institute about an alternate reality game that ran between 2008-2011 in SF (I had to look that up — never heard of it before).
It’s strange and curious with a great cast, but I think what I enjoy most is that is not set in SF, but in Philly 
Sorry. The streamer is called The Network.
I can’t say I was a fan. I do think Adam Sandler did a wonderful job in his role, and many supporting players brought what they could. The problem is that it felt like a surface level exercise in reflexive navel gazing.
There was a kernel of a good and really interesting story but it was so focused on making sure our identification aligned with Jay Kelly that it failed to really explore what it means to sacrifice all connections for work. The problem is that with the casting and with the final scene it doesn’t really dig into the ugliness of Jay’s behaviour. His treating himself as star and others as afterthought was mirrored in the film’s narrative where each character is pretty much a prop in telling Jay’s story (especially the train). I think if there was more attention to leaning into that darkness, this could have been better. Instead, we’re forced to spend time with a narcissistic man, whose narcissism is reinforced by the structure of the film, and whose self reflection feels masturbatory and minimal. The embarrassing evocations of other sentinel journeys (8 ½ and Stardust Memories) makes this feel even more sadly stuck in the world of men who reflect themselves back at everything in a way that shows little interest in the humanity of those others who were part of their journey.
Apologies for the inevitable typos and lack of clarity. I can tell this is going to be one of those middlebrow films that I loathe and which will be inexplicably (imo) praised.
I thought he came off as insufferably narcissistic and shallow, so for me the film didn’t make him out to be sympatico in any way 
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