Enjoyed #watching “The Undoing” (a 6 part mini series on HBO) made in 2020

synopsis:
A modern twist to a classical "whodunnit" tale,
the life of a wealthy New York therapist turns upside down after she and her family get involved with a murder case.

cast includes Donald Sutherland, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant
also features Matilda De Angelis (who plays Lidia Poet in the netflix series)

i’m not a committed fan of whodunnits, but this one was a cut above average.
can’t say much about why without spoilers…
that one of the main characters is a therapist provides a clue that this is more about what makes people tick than about weaponry and the usual forensic hoo-ha.

also, it was set amongst a privileged class of people in NY, and it’s always enjoyable telling some characters on the tele they are “horrible” people, or even “w⚓️s”

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not part of the story, but always of interest to me is the attitudes some people/ characters have to money:
the donald sutherland character in “the undoing” has an “old money” vibe about him, which is a refreshing change from stories about excessively greedy corporate power types.

the rule “first generation makes it, second generation spends it, third generation loses it” is supported by data (the internet told me so it must be true 🤔…) 70% of wealthy families lose their money by second generation, 90% by the third”

“The phenomenon is globally recognized, known as "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations" (English), "Fu bu guo san dai" (Chinese: wealth does not pass three generations), or "Grandfather in a tent, father in a palace, son in a tent" (Pashto).

看过 极限审判       
https://neodb.social/movie/4ojNe1uw5l7B9Tb1krIrAg

看设定以为很烂,结果竟然还不错。跟前些年的靠电脑屏幕上操作叙事的《Searching》有异曲同工之妙,大多数叙事都是在一个类似于 vision pro 操作界面的 AR 环境里,有一切联网电子权限的全知 AI + 极不合理但能创造电影紧张时间冲突的倒计时自证清白死刑执行椅庭审,作为高概念电影在全民嗑 AI porn 的时代背景下执行得相当不错。不看这部电影从未发现 Rebecca Ferguson 这么方……但她一脸正气又 vulnerable 的脸演这种 AI 法官真的蛮合适的。

#watching

Mercy

In the near future, a detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced AI Judge he onc

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#Watching AI CEO vs Engineer (2026). - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAUnmQt2Z7Y

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AI CEO vs Engineer (2026).

AI CEOs.Interview with a AI CEO vs AI Engineer with Josh Doe and Jackson Jineer - aired on © The AI.Programmer humor programmer jokesAI humorNext gen AICloud...

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A ★★★½ review of Moon (2009)

Cerebral sci-fi with a minimalist budget from the guy that eventually did...Warcraft. Still my favorite Sam Rockwell performance (close second being 3 Billboards) despite having a fake beard made from the remains of highway roadkill. The less you know going into this the better, but if you didn't actually see it in theaters in 2009 it was probably spoiled for you but it doesn't lose much of its power even if you know the second act turn. Leslie Bibb uses this movie as porn.

最近不是劳模姐补完计划嘛,外加借着 Project Hail Mary 的风,就又把 Interstellar 看了一遍。当年最早看和七年前二刷的时候都还不是劳模姐的粉所以压根没注意到她,要不是最近补完计划我都不记得她演了这片。当年注意力更多在 Anne Hathaway 身上。现在再看,感叹这是不是劳模姐演得最温柔的角色之一了,其她的都雷厉风行的🤣 (当然最喜欢的依然是 Zero Dark Thirty ,最近新看的 Scenes from a Marriage 也是心头好。苹果再不放 The Savant 我要报警了)

以及不知道是那个年代的电影锅还是诺兰不会拍女的的传统艺能,每个女性角色都要排个爱情戏,Brand 还稍微有情可原点毕竟有剧情推动功效(她好惨),Murph 得到公式之后给同事那个吻是不是有点毫无必要  现在看到就微翻白眼。

#watching

fren has been #watching a murdoch mysteries episode which features catholic religious (christian brothers??) playing handball. (it’s a canadian show)

this made me curious — my older brother went to a christian brothers college (melbourne australia) in the 1960s, and he was, for a while, obsessed with the game

it’s a fairly fundamental game requiring only a ball, a wall, and some players. no surprise it was popular and hardly an exclusively irish thing.

however, wikipedia tells me the christian brothers are credited with introducing it to successive generations of australian catholics thru their school network, and this thesis i stumbled across suggests it was instrumental in promoting irish identity in various colonies.

i’m a mix of surprise and amusement — i always thought it was a christian brothers obsession because “the devil makes mischief for idle hands”

we know it has been an irish thing for a while, cos the 1527 Statute of Galway, forbade playing ball games against town walls. 😆

https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/8827/Light.RP_thesis_2012.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1

From ‘Irish Exile’ to ‘Australian pagan’:
the Christian Brothers, Irish handball, and identity in early twentieth-century Australia

Rupert Remembers (2000) #Watching https://boxd.it/11F6k #Trans #Toronto

https://www.criterionchannel.com/rupert-remembers “One transsexual man’s personal memories of TS spaces and activism in the Toronto of the 1970s and 1980s.”

 

Daleks, in the future, are teaming up with the heads of the other galaxies to overtake the Solar system and destruct time, and the Doctor's only got Steven (a pilot from the 24th Century) , Katerina (a slave girl from ancient Troy), and a local soldier to help.

The guardian of our Solar system has betrayed us to the Daleks! He's mined 50 years worth of Terrainium secretly from Uranus to power the core of the Dalek Time Destructor.

The Daleks say "Execute" when they have found someone guilty of negligence, vs just when they are a pest to be exterminated.

The doctor nips in, under disguise, to investigate the council, steals the Terranium and the president's ship, then gets the team stranded on the Solar system's prison planet.

The prisoners try and raid the ship but the Doctor has set a trap and electrocutes the invaders, just in time for them to fix the ship and escape.

Only one prisoner has stowed away on board.

[Then there's a episode still missing, in which apparently Katerina wrestles the prisoner into the air-lock and they are both spaced. The Doctor and Peter return to Earth to warn about the Daleks.]

They arrive on Earth (future earth remember, but all the computers have giant tape drives and knobs) as an experiment on mice is in progress.

I guess the experiment was to try and make mice turn into negative images screaming in slow-motion and then bounce up and down as they are transmitted through space many light years away. And the Doctor, Steven, and some security guard chasing them get sent along too. With the Daleks following on in their ships.

The Daleks exterminate the mice 😔

There's 8 ft tall invisible creatures on this planet so the mice were gonna be in trouble anyway. The Doctor beats them off with sticks before being apprehended by Daleks.

[Then there's four still-missing episodes in which the Doctor and Steven steal a Dalek ship, trick the Daleks with a fake Terrainium core, meet the Monk who attempts revenge, and celebrate Xmas on a silent film set. All with Daleks giving chase]

The security guard and the Monk are still with them in the next archived episode, when they are in a Egyptian tomb for some reason and the companions including the monk are captured.

The doctor faces the Daleks to negotiate his companions' return.

At the hostage exchange the Doctor hands over the core as the ancient Egyptians attack the Daleks. It's a slaughter of course. All the Egyptians die, but they made a good distraction and the Doctor skips off.

He's knicked the Monk's Tardis' directional compass so the Monk goes to who knows what random place now.

The Doctor aims to try and materialize the Tardis at the point the Daleks are likely to use that Terranium, to take over the galaxy and destruct time, but seems like the Tarids fails.

[And then there's another two still-missing ones in which the security guard ages to death in a time-mishap, and an entire planet is wiped of all life to thwart the Daleks. The Doctor and Steven lament the senseless deaths of the three of them that they cared about.]

Crikey. I guess they used to bounce around in time and space more during a story when it was twelve 20 minute episodes. That Prison Planet was there only to be landed upon, have the Doctor electrocute some people, and then leave with a stowaway. The 8ft tall invisible creatures are in like 2 scenes.

Incredible body counts. Just absolute carnage compared to most New Who.

The background of mega-death while the protagonists lament the death of only their own reminds me of the way the contemporary news will focus on one marooned soldier over the deaths of hundreds. Humanize only their own.

The Monk is a good candidate for a return. He's got this great Frankie Howerd like mischievous campness. Exited this story with a randomizer on his tardis vowing revenge.

#watching #tv #doctorWho #TheDaleksMasterPlan

Je suis en train de regarder la série Lost Média qui a utilisé l'image de Feldup et c'est vraiment pas terrible.....

#watching #serie

#Watching THE DARK AND THE WICKED

Patience pays off as this slo-burn horror movie makes you look at your elderly parents in a different way. Maybe send them to a nursing home sooner rather than later.

https://letterboxd.com/noeljpenaflor/film/the-dark-and-the-wicked/

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A ★★★½ review of The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

Patience pays off as this slo-burn horror movie makes you look at your elderly parents in a different way. Maybe send them to a nursing home sooner rather than later. I'm not saying, I'm just saying. Cancel all the lemon parties and watch this movie.