I was waiting for TG to post this since he would no doubt have a more insightful take on it, but he hasn't, so I will.

He's a Nigerian guitar player influenced by Tuareg musicians like Tinariwen and Bombino. And I guess you could add Ali Farka Toure since his style is one of the main roots of the Tuareg style.
He played solo, mostly on an amplified acoustic guitar, sitting on a chair. During the second song, he asked the audience to clap the rhythm, which unfortunately led some of them to clap during every song, and those who did it for every song mostly couldn't keep the beat. He actually stopped during the next song and said "You have to clap with the tempo." I wished he'd had a percussionist to offset them. But nevertheless, he was good, and I enjoyed seeing how he played. It was not as fiery as his work with a band, but I think that was a plus - I find some of his band work to be a bit much.  

Here he is in a 2024 Tiny Desk Concert playing solo, using one of the guitars he played that night

I thought about doing a thread for this movie, but it seemed more efficient to hit all the ones we watch this year in one thread. Anyway, first off -
LAST CHRISTMAS (2019)
Paul Feig directed and Emma Thompson was one of the writers. Emilia Clarke stars as a young lady whose life is a mess. She came to England from Croatia with her parents when she was a young girl. Emma Thompson chews the scenery as her mother, who was traumatized by the war. (Not sure why they didn't get a Croatian actress.) She works in a Christmas boutique owned by Michelle Yeoh. Henry Golding is a mysterious man who keeps coming to visit her
This was sort of odd. Amusing but not laugh out loud, and it took a supernatural/magic realist turn, which would be a spoiler so I won't mention. A happy ending but not what you'd expect at the outset.

I've heard a lot of buzz about this one and figured I should check it out someday for the Jujutsu angle. Well, it's not about that at all. It's a lot like Dan Da Dan. The main antihero is a hapless schlub who becomes possessed by eating a demon's finger so he turns into a demon too. He goes to train at a Jujutsu academy where demon hunters train. There are 10 demon fingers (the demon had 4 arms) and after the antihero eats them all, he is to be executed. I see where K-Pop Demon Hunters got the demon patterns. Maybe that's a more universal thing that I knew. The demons are lovecraftian, all mutating eyeballs and teeth everywhere. 

There's only one season available here I think, but the show will be dropping season 3 soon on crunchyroll which would be like giving DM a stead heroin IV drip, can NOT subscribe to crunchyroll. Nope. A man's gotta know his limitations. 

I'm only a few eps in - there's like 24 half hour eps in S1

Buck Rogers from the TV show. I watched that back in the daze.

Watched on Tubi. This Russian sci-fi film answers the question: what if you took the look of Barbarella, stripped out anything remotely sexy or erotic, mixed in the sensibilities of Waiting for Gadot and shot it in a landscape just down the road from Burning Man. If you've ever seen The Bedsitting Room, it's got that kind of vibe as well.

A guy gets sent to the grocery by his wife, on the way, he encounters a young Georgian man who says there is another guy right here who is barely clothed, says he's an alien. They both go to help and are accidentally whisked away to his planet (without him). They spend the rest of the film trying to understand their situation and get back home. 



Not really recommended
--tg

I tried. I tried to wake up. But it was just so long. Benoit Blanc is back on the case to see who murdered a priest in a room where he was the only person in the room.

My biggest problem with this mystery is they don't give you the clues to actually solve the mystery. The Queen figured it out but only by going for motive. And this film seemed really long. Could you just get to the part where Blanc is telling everyone who killed the priest?

And it seemed like Blanc was in a different film than everyone else. Everyone played it serious but he seemed to be intent on scene chewing and mugging. It was just weird.

(03-17-2023, 09:49 AM)Greg Wrote: Joy Ride
Stephanie Hsu's next film

From tech blog daring fireball of all places

https://daringfireball.net/

Quote:ROB REINER AND WIFE FOUND STABBED TO DEATH AT HOME ★
Deadline:

Quote:The bodies of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Reiner have been found in their Brentwood home, sources confirmed to Deadline.

It appears the acclaimed director and his wife were slain by knife wounds.
The LAPD are on the scene, but have not issued an official confirmation yet. A press conference is expected to take place tonight.

People:

Quote:Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed by their son, Nick, multiple sources confirm to People.

So it goes

(10-09-2025, 09:50 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote:

The Mighty Nein

Good voice cast...

I thought we had a thread on this one already.

Well, we do now.