What was the last TV Show or Movie you saw, and did you like it?

[Chance]

The last episode of Severance season two stuck the landing. I won't include any spoilers, but there are story elements in that series that really haven't been done before and it continues to exceed its high expectations.

Great writing, great performances, great direction and cinematography. Well on its way to being a classic.

If you're interested, don't ask people about it. Even minor plot elements will ruin the fun.

[Bigguy]

"The Residence"



The wife and I enjoyed this immensely. It’s not a laugh track comedy. but it doesn’t take itself too seriously. It’s basically the game of “Clue” in the White House.
It’s well written with many interesting characters, well portrayed by the actors. But without doubt, Uzo Aduban carries the load, taking it over the top. The wife and I are becoming real fans of her and will check out anything she’s in. I’m hoping they’ll bring her back in another season in another adventure.
I highly recommend this one.

[feudist]

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
2023 French Canadian movie, AMC+.
Offbeat not-quite-a-teen-comedy story about a young vampire that can't kill humans to feed due to sympathy.
She meets a bullied and suicidal young guy and he offers to let her kill him.
It has a sort of Addams Family vibe with her vampire family and relatives all trying to help her get over her difficulty and lots of implied murder off screen played humorously.
The movie doesn't aspire to much...teen depression/suicide is a shaky hook to hang a story upon, but it's well done and the vampire girl is compelling enough as an emotionally closed off teenage "girl".
3/5

[Glenn E. Meyer]

New Daredevil series. Pretty good. Rick Stein's food shows - very relaxing. Mindless Gamera movie. Rubber suit giant turtle fights! Not watching sumo anymore has the talent is mediocre at best.

[Crusader]

Watched The Reader for about the fourth or fifth time last night, I seem to watch it every two or three years. Not usually the type of movie I’m interested in, but it’s such a great story with great acting all around.

[feudist]

Continuing my vampire kick with Nosferatu (2024).
Despite high expectations this turned out to not be my cup of tea.
I'm an Eggers fan(The Northman was the best Norsemen movie ever made, a brilliant and hallucinatory depiction of hatred and Wyrd-and the best version of Hamlet), but this just didn't gel for me.
I'd not seen the 1922 Nosferatu and didn't realize how closely it hewed to Stoker's Dracula novel. It's copyright lawsuit similar.
This is well done, but simply doesn't compare to the fever dream theatricality of Coppola's Dracula.
Dafoe is woefully miscast and can't ham like Hopkins did as Van Helsing. Lili-Rose Depp was surprisingly good in an over-the-top role, but Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are wasted.
3/5, wait to see for free.

[Bigguy]

"Zombie Strippers"



I haven't actually seen this, but can't imagine being disappointed by it. It's not available at the local public library. I checked.

[feudist]

Artifice Girl (2022)
An international task force hunting child predators online uses an extremely cleverly designed AI software program that renders a realtime live interactive image of an undetectably artificial 14 year old girl to entice and trap them for solicitation.
The program gets more resources and becomes uncannily accurate in its mimicry, to the point where it's troubling.
What are the differences between feelings and emotions vectored by dopamine and serotonin and those derived from algorithms and weighted matrices?
What are the implications of having an AI do nothing but interact with the most horrible people humanity has to offer 24/7?

This is a pretty well done indie sci-fi that foregoes the usual Skynet/Ex Machina tropes about AI.

Free on Tubi.

[Bucky]

"Zombie Strippers"



I haven't actually seen this, but can't imagine being disappointed by it. It's not available at the local public library. I checked.

I actually own this, mostly because Robert Englund is in it.

IMDB says it’s available on Tubi, which you can watch for free, even without an account.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Lots of good free things on Tubi. I found "Prey", the Native American young woman vs. a Predator on it and now watching a history of warships. They have a lot of ship shows and interesting travel.