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Motherland: Fort Salem: Not Our Daughters (2021)
The battle comes to the streets.
I enjoy this show immensely even though I've never had any interest in the military and I'm a bit put off by their peculiar take on witches.
The relationships are fascinating.
All the 'witches' I have known have been perfectly 'normal' human beings (well, usually rather more interesting human beings). You're not born a witch, it's a personal choice. And no, we don't proselytize.
I've never understood why they have to look for people who don't know they're witches.
Doesn't the Call go out to you on Conscription Day whether you know you're a witch or not?
I mean it's not like you actually have to register for this draft, right?
Lightyear (2022)
To Infinity and Beyond!
I don't know why this movie was a flop.
It's everything I expect from a Buzz Lightyear movie and more.
Eye candy everywhere and many clear nods to previous space movies.
Casting was great, even if it isn't original to Toy Story. That was a toy Buzz Lightyear after all.
Fun secondary characters and just the kind of team we've seen Buzz Lightyear lead in Toy Story. They're not the team you want but they're the team you've got so don't complain and make the best use of it!
They'll surprise you.
The music was good with nods to Gustav Holst's "The Planets."
If Ron Cobb didn't design the ships, they were surely inspired by his designs.
Virgin River (2019)
Better than a lot of this kind of stuff
I decided to check this one out when they mentioned a nurse practitioner and midwife from LA moves to far Northern California.
They hit all my hot buttons.
My wife and I both looked into getting into nursing, my current healthcare provider is a nurse practitioner and I'm delighted with her.
Yeah, we used to live in Arcata and as hard as they try, this sure ain't Humboldt County. But it's the thought that counts.
I got hooked on Heartland a few years ago because of the horses and this show keeps up pretty well with that one.
I really don't care for some of the characters but that's par for the course.
I always thought of California as a place where people go to reinvent themselves. It never paid to ask too much about someone else's actual history.
In the Midwest people ask "who do you think you are?" In California, you just say, "Oh really, that's interesting," and don't waste time trying to judge anyone. Maybe they know what they're talking about, maybe they don't, but so what?
Everyone has a mysterious backstory and no doubt the truth is much different from what you suspect. That's what keeps this interesting for me.
Flyboys (2006)
Fun and respectful tribute to the Lafayette Escadrille
Even if the aerial maneuvers were impossible for planes of that time. I've never seen so many Fokker DR1 triplanes in one place, especially so many RED ones. As I heard it there was only ONE red Fokker triplane.
I would have liked to see some Albatrosses and some of those SE5As they mentioned at the start of the movie. I'm not sure I saw any of those Newports they were talking about either.
I can only take so much of James Franco but I enjoy Jean Reno whenever I can find him.
Senior Trip (1995)
Not the best, but a nice try
All the various 'types' represented by the students seem to act like what the other types thought they should be like. None of these close at all to what these 'types' are/were, EXCEPT for the Black kid in the beret! He was PERFECT! Almost half of my senior class were various versions of this guy, though most of us weren't Black (many of us acted like or subconsciously wished we were). Everything he did was exactly on target, right down to chugging vodka in the back of the bus. That guy specifically self-published a zine of student art and political analysis my senior year.
Of course in my day we were bemoaning the way so many of our peers were giving up marijuana In favor of alcohol. We saw it as a dreadful trend.
T.R. Baskin (1971)
This is the movie that turned my into an ardent feminist
I saw this movie on one of the big networks on their big evening movie when it was first released to television...at a very impressionable age.
The whole story is told from her point of view and I was only a few years younger than the character and I identified with her completely.
Candice Bergen was simply awesome.
I saw it again in the early 90s on Lifetime but never again.
It was the very first movie I bought from Apple's iTunes Store because I absolutely couldn't find it anywhere else.
The President's Analyst (1967)
There's more going on than you know.
This is still one of my very favorite movies.
1967, the best of times (if '68 could be considered the worst).
Before Reagan, before Nixon. And still very tense times.
Many now-well-known faces in the cast and Godfrey Cambridge is amazing as always.
I love the witing in this movie:
Nan: Honey, why don't you just quit?
Sidney: I can't. I know too much. They'd never let me get away!
(more thoughtfully) They would never let me get away. You see? I am paranoid!
Nan: I don't thing you're paranoid. I think you have a firm grasp on reality.
'Liberals' arming themselves against the "right-wingers" next door. Spies from both sides working together against other spies from the most unexpected places.
And the preview of our own time with the government being run by corporate puppets.
No wonder the powers that be didn't want to be referenced.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Very nice follow-up on a classic. But I have a problem.
I was impressed. The mood was good, though not the same as in the first one. For that matter the weather and lighting were different. But it was a compelling story about another conflicted 'blade runner.'
I was unhappy about what happened to Dave Bautista's character at the beginning because I'm such a fan. But I guess that's the job.
Then I noticed something that has kept me from ever returning to this. Shall I say 'misogyny'?
Every Single Woman in this movie is violently killed, except for the woman who confronts him about his conceit and the woman in a bottle who makes memories.
As soon as I first noticed this pattern it became a grisly movie to watch!