I find Keri Russell a bit tiresome and repetitive, but I love Rufus Sewell! It’s fluffy and entertaining. Looking forward to watching season 3 this week!
Caught a screening of Hamnet (dir. Chloe Zhao) at the Woodstock Film Festival yesterday. Excellent, engrossing (possible) backstory of Shakespeare’s creation of Hamlet, focusing on his wife Agnes. The cinematography is gorgeous and the acting - especially by the kids in the cast - first rate. Worth seeing in a theater.
Love the Diplomat as well. Keri Russell is fine, and I like that she looks like a real person. But Rufus Sewell!!! I’ve loved him since Cold Comfort Farm!
We just finished watching The Rainmaker series on USA and Peacock. It’s obviously not as good as the original movie, but was still entertaining in it’s own right.
In the middle of S4 of Slow Horses now. So glad we decided to give that show another try. I can almost smell Lamb through the screen
Another episode of Mr. Scorsese that dealt with his almost dying from his coke habit. Whoa. I had no idea a) that one could die of a coke habit, and b) that he was such a druggie at the time.
Next we want to check out Lisey’s Story, which I read a million years ago and… well, liked is maybe not the right word. There are some truly disturbing images in it — it’s Stephen King, after all — but I found it captivating, and I loves me some Julianne Moore
I’m a little confused about the release date, which seems to have been back in June 2021, yet it is being heavily advertised now
On that note, I have high hopes for Derry. I thought the original TV series It far surpassed the recent movie release, and — having devoured the novel in my teens, I look forward to a deeper dive into the Derry universe and its history, which is barely touched upon in either.
We watched the newest, Halloween-themed horror anthology in the V/H/S franchise, and it was both creepy and entertaining. We were kinda stunned how many kids found their demise in this one
It: Welcome to Derry started yesterday on HBO. Not sure what to think of it just yet. Most of the first episode’s ‘plot’ is absolutely unrecognizable from anything that happens in the book, which I devoured at the tender age of 14, but I get the impression the producers/writers are going more for the feel of the very vast & complex story. It’s eery, and an early scene with a boy hitchhiking is rather unsettling.
Ve shall see
We also watched another episode of The Chair Company, which — coming from the insane mind of Tim Robinson — is, well, insane. An acquired taste, for sure, but if you enjoyed the absurdity of I think you should leave you’ll like this, too.
Finished the first season of the Gold on PBS. Well done with great actors although some of the relationship fallout and class struggles get a bit overdone. The brinks gold robbery and what happened after is pretty interesting and I will now await season 2 which already exists but I guess pbs is going to dole it out.