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Nice! Thanks. I'll check them out.

(Just in case it's useful to anyone, Kanopy also available with a library card in some places in the UK, it's good!)

walk among the tombstones is based on one of my fave book series just fyi and btw.

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Mine too! What did you think of Neeson as Scudder, Ian? I wasn't really sold on him in the role, or the film as a whole. It was a not bad piece of adaptation - too much backstory, but understandable - just very ordinary and average, whereas the books are way above average.

Not sure who I would cast as Scudder, mind.

I will only ever know the character name "Scudder" as belonging to E.M. Forster's Maurice

I didn't know that. It seems unlikely that E.M. Forster's Maurice was the source of the detective character's name, but you never know.

oh lord, i was in love with 'Maurice' as a teen. May be time for a rewatch.

some people call me that

We finished "I'm a Virgo." It's very good.

Kanopy is also available through libraries here in New Zealand, and they also offer another free service called Beamafilm which has a load of really good stuff.

Maurice is lovely, the novel hits harder because it feels like Forster, after all those tragic characters, finally allowing himself a happy ending

(Maurice is on MUBI, just to tie it all together)

for Mpls folks - Hennepin County library has Kanopy now

Some people call me Maurice

rare good news in the middle of the Hollywood strikes - Minx season 2 has been rescued from being zaslav’d and is now airing on Starz https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/minx-starz-peak-tv-death-david-zaslav-streaming-hbo-max-netflix-1234790127/

Three episodes into I'm A Virgo and it's great so far xps

Definitely wild but also very funny and extremely dark.

I love the bits we see of Mike Epps music career

i had all these good intentions of watching cool art movies last night and then i ended up watching...Day of the Dead. on Hulu. the original. i'd had a rough day. i needed that missile silo. and i loved seeing Bub. the coolest-looking zombie of all time. haven't seen it in decades!

xpost I also lost it every time Walton Goggins' house talked to him in the Bill Cosby voice.

I won't go so far as to say I love Day of the Dead best of the original trilogy, but I do rewatch it way more than Dawn of the Dead.

the long director's cut of dawn of the dead is best. and is probably my fave. it makes it into something more emotional. as opposed to the theatrical cut. and then the argento cut is something else entirely. three great tastes though. of zombie. (i actually just got a copy of the argento version on dvd by chance. haven't seen it since the days when i knew someone who made a living taping japanese laserdiscs onto vhs tapes and selling them via mail.)

I have a DVD box set of Dawn that has at least 3 different cuts, plus a documentary. I prefer Day as a whole package, but the housing project SWAT team sequence in Dawn is some of the most incredible horror/action filmmaking ever. Totally terrifying.

My heart (?) will forever be with NOTLD for being the movie that most terrified me as a kid, specifically the matricide in the cellar sequence

<i>i knew someone who made a living taping japanese laserdiscs onto vhs tapes and selling them via mail.</i>

when you're so far behind and ahead of the curve........time is a flat circle.

I used to go to a comic book store that did that. I paid 40 dollars for a vhs dub of Akira from Japanese laserdisc with no subtitles or dubbing. A while before the first English language versions were released.

when I started college, most home internet connections sucked and one of the guys in my dorm had a side hustle of downloading anime VCDs, burning them to disc, and selling them online

i tried to watch a Marvel show called Secret Invasion last night on Hulu starring national treasures Samuel L. Jackson, Martin Freeman, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, and Dermot Mulroney but it sucked and was totally boring so i stopped watching it. i would like to see an older and wiser Cobie Smulders on a good t.v. show though. i'll always have a soft spot for Robin Sparkles.

watched Happy As Lazarro on Netflix. that there is some magical realism. it probably would have helped to know more about the bible watching that. maybe. i'm guessing. quite a film no matter how you slice it.

It’s been a few years but I really loved that film!

Likewise. I need to see more Rohrwacher.

I like the idea of Martin Freeman as a US national treasure because that means he's your problem now (I do like him as an actor, but boy does he have some Takes).

You should hear him go on about the Sackville-Baggins.

oh i was being a little silly there. just such an odds & sods cast for that show. (he would like that reference, right, cuzza 'im bein' a mod hooligan or whatever.)

Il Buco on Mubi! So great. What a great movie. That film would make a cool double feature with Happy As Lazarro! For real. They share some sensibilities. But man oh man does that Il Buco director show off. What a show-off! And his name. You'll never guess his name. Michelangelo Frammartino! See, he's showing off. Even with the name. It's a great name. Both these movies make life look more magical.

i gave that movie 5 stars on my ltrbx. and not just for the sweeping vistas or cow-herding antics. it was mostly the cave. the cave did me in.

Hulu's Welcome to Chippendales with Kumail Nanjiani is some quality TV.

yeah that was a good series

yeah i dug that one too

It helped that I didn’t know any of that story before watching; not the Stratton connection, nothing. It was completely surprising to me.

I knew that was coming but was surprised they went there so suddenly

I knew the whole story going in because my bf's podcast had done a story on it a few years earlier lol.

Watching a Hulu doc about an app called HQ Trivia—which was apparently a big deal for a few years, and yet which neither my wife or I (both fairly plugged-in) had ever heard of; to the extent we wondered if this was some kind of “spoof” doc about a nonexistent thing.

Ha, I watched that. I also had never heard of HQ but my partner had. Decent documentary for something that completely passed me by at the time.

HQ: the free trivia quiz live tv show app with real cash prizes that is not dystopian at all

i watched the first episode of Copenhagen Cowboy by NWR on Netflix. don't know if i will continue. it was fine and looked cool as usual but i just really hate anything brothel/sex slave. i always get some of that in any crime shows i watch but they are just one episode. i just wasn't cut out to work vice. its too depressing. i re-watched Once Upon A Time In China on Criterion the other night and had forgotten about the part where the 13th aunt gets kidnapped to be sold as a sex slave and even that disturbed me. and yet for some reason i really liked that movie Sucker Punch? humans are contradictory. NWR also has that brutal horror director attitude even though he makes action/dramas. maybe he should just make horror movies. i still watch horror but i mostly look for movies now without tons of torture/degradation/etc. life is hard enough. even the revenge action/horror movies a la I Spit On Your Grave or whatever now seem like they are 65 minutes of torture and 25 minutes of revenge. (and yes i did just watch High Tension and Martyrs recently but those are different somehow. more fucked up in a dream-like way.)

I'm A Virgo is so refreshingly weird and funny and sweet and I feel like I haven't heard anybody talking about it

Creamerie is so good. Hope they get another season. It's basically Y: the Last Man but in New Zealand and good.

can I bitch about Amazon Prime's "freevee" here? It's great they have a free tier with ads, fine. But I don't think you should have to watch the ads if you are alrady paying for Prime. I suffered through the Tower records documentary (All Things Must Pass) last night (it is great) but just cuts randomly away for interminable weird ads mid-sentence. Tried to watch Spaced a few weeks ago and the editing for ads was so terrible it was unwatchable.

and they seem to be pushing stuff on Freevee really hard. Like it's a huge amount of their content now.

i'm going to go out on a limb and say that Amazon is using Freevee to make more ad revenue. The old Freevee backdoor sneakaround gambit. It's textbook Amazon.

I watched the Big 4 on Netflix and it was insane and cool. and nuts. I would watch it again.

I honestly liked watching Jury Duty on FreeVee because the rhythms of pre-streaming TV commercial breaks are like, a part of my firmware, and it did a nice job approximating them in length, frequency, and variety of ads. Just needed some promo of other Amazon Originals or exclusive new releases, and a ten-second teaser for the 11:00 news.