My wife and I started watching Vox Machina on Prime. Pretty fun show so far, we're about halfway through the first episode. Good mix of surprisingly effective character drama and wacky hijinks. As long-time D&D nerds, you can see it came from an actual campaign, because it's exactly the way actual people play characters and screw things up.
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Netflix series from Thailand.
A cute teenage girl on her first day at a new highschool is immediately targeted as a victim by a pedophile teacher. Except she's not a victim... or a girl... or a human.
Whoops.
She is...a demon?
The Serpent?
John Doe punishing the 7 deadly sins?
Each episode she shows up at another school as bait for any human weakness. All of her targets are volunteers, they set the hook themselves and she lets them run with it. She'll ask them if they're sure they want to continue, sort of a karmic Miranda warning...and she/it derives enormous glee from their self inflicted travails. No sin is too small, and the punishments can be disproportionate and heedless of collateral victims. The star actress is quite effectively unnerving as the eerily idealized shy, innocent schoolgirl... until she drops the mask.
Creepy, unpleasant and dread inducing.
Babylon : a beautifully filmed, absolute hot mess of a movie. The actors are all quite capable and the technicians are master craftsmen, but what a fever dream of a movie. Hollywood loves to make movies about itself, it should stop.
Marlowe: such a disappointment. I love film noir and had hopes for this one, but they were dashed. It's a slick looking film, but it seems as if the makers concentrated their efforts towards putting lipstick on a pig. A character of the Marlowe, Spade type should be world weary but thumbing his nose at the world in spite of himself. Humphrey Bograt and Robert Mitchum did it well. Even James Garner and Elliott Gould did it better. Here , Liam Neeson is just tired. After a fight with two torpedoes Neeson comments, "I'm getting too old for this." Yes Liam, you are. It wants to be Chinatown but comes nowhere close.
We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.......
Violent Night - John Wick-ish real Santa Claus. Kind of stupid but mindless ok fun watch.
Cloud Yeller of the Boomer Age
Oak Island.....
Still no treasure. 🏴*☠️
"... And miles to go before I sleep".