--tg

Brixton was the chillest golden retriever, a therapy dog who became a canine celebrity fo appearing everywhere in SF. I got to know him at OSL, where he cheerfully donned ranger cosplay. He enjoyed sunglasses. Such a good dog, now over the rainbow bridge.

DSI Pirie is given the job of looking into the cold case of a murdered girl 25 years ago because a podcast is stirring up the town of St. Andrews. Three local lads are the prime suspects. 

Pretty good police procedural set in Scotland. I had captions turned on because I couldn't understand a word anyone was saying. Although it was irritating because the captions were always a beat late. It's three episodes but episode is 90 minutes long so it kind of works out.

Seen on Brit Box.

Anybody up for getting together at Jakes on Sunday the 21st at noon? I'm thinking about driving down.

This is a new TV series by the legendary Hong Kong autuer Wong Kar Wai set in the 1990s when China experimented with Shanghai as a capitalist city by opening the stock market. It’s exhaustingly La KDH and lush, like WKW can be - his cinematography is so sumptuous, simply gorgeous demonstrations of how to set up shots, so much so that it’s downright exhausting. Each ep is just under an hour, and there’s going to be 30 of them. I don’t know if I can go the distance. It’s an alluring story of intrigues surrounding a financial wizard under the tutelage of a shrewd venture capitalist sifu. It jumps back and forth through time a lot - but there are these huge captions to keep us on track chronologically. But it teeters on the edge of brilliance and a confusing mess. 

I’ll give it a few more eps, but it’ll take a lot to stay invested for 30 eps.

Quote:I hate every ape I see.
From chimpan-a to chimpan-z

With Simu Liu - 

Quote:Premiering December 27 on Peacock, The Copenhagen Test stars Liu as an intelligence officer who finds out he has unwillingly become a spy. How does one “unwillingly” become a spy, you ask? Well, because their brain is hacked, enabling someone to watch and hear everything you do. Which is great for those people if the subject isn’t aware but becomes a dangerous weapon if they are. Here’s the new trailer.

Jay Kelly is an actor unsure of who is anymore in the world. He feels the need to reconnect with a family that doesn't want to connect with him. There are flashbacks to his early life that shows how he got to this place. In it all he's kind of a dick.

As the Queen stated, about ten minutes in, this film is really depressing. And it was. There as still almost two hours to go.

It's got a really good cast headed by Clooney and the obvious parallels between Clooney's life and Kelly's are used all the time for a certain meta effect. Adam Sandler plays his agent in a supremely unfunny role. Laura Dern and Billy Crudup also make appearances as publicist and old friend. 

It was kind of a heavy handed melodrama serving as a cautionary tale to superstar actors.

i saw the trailer for the new one in the theater, so when I saw that the first one was available (in multiple places) I watched on Tubi, with ads.

They tell you at the beginning, and once, later in the film that “sisu” is an untranslatable finnish word that describes a sort of super-power state when you are deprived of everything. The story is about this guy that was fighting Russians during WW2. His entire family was killed and he went on a rampage and the Finnish army couldn’t control him, so he became an army of one. Flashforward to now, and he’s an old prospector working the fields with his dog and his horse, alone in a very beautiful landscape…its like a desert, but green. He finds the motherlode, packs up his haul and heads to civilization to cash in.

Meanwhile, the Nazis are losing and are destroying everything in their wake as they exit. The prospector crosses paths with a band of Nazis and hilarity ensues. I think this is where we get the phrase “Finnish him!” (See trailer below)

It’s very Tarrantino-esque. The prospector doesn’t say anything until the very last scene.

Recommended…

—tg

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