Monday 19 March 2018

Lately I've been watching.... TV and film recommendations (with trailers)

Previously on Lately I've Been Watching....


Once-every-few weeks-series of film and TV recommendations ~ or not, as the case may be.  For more info about a show/film, click its title.




TV mini series (6 episodes)  about the 1993 disaster, when, after a 6 week siege, a compound housing members of a religious community burned down.  Of course Waco is famous and I thought I knew what happened, because I remember it being on the news at the time and had read/heard bits and bobs about David Koresh over the years.  When I watched this, I understood the full picture; it's truly shocking.  I thought about it all the next day.  Stars Michael Shannon (love him!) and Taylor Kitsch.

5 stars
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5 stars 
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Here's the trailer for the first season, in case you've never seen it!





TV Series, about a TV news programme in the late 1950s.  I've watched both seasons currently available.  Stars Dominic West playing a womanising drunk, Ben Whishaw, and a hopeless miscast woman as his eventual love interest (she looks more like his auntie).  Lots of great acting and drama, corrupt politicians, behind the scenes TV stuff, scandal, etc.  Jolly good!

4.5 stars
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Film: SciFi, pre-apocalypse.  About a coming 'extinction event' ~ 'the shimmer' covers a section of land, is growing, and anyone who goes in to investigate what it is does not return ~ at least, not as themselves.  Biologist Natalie Portman joins Jennifer Jason Leigh and three others to go in.  Normally I can't stand Natalie Portman but I liked her in this.  It was good, but not particularly memorable.

3.5 stars
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TV series ~ comedy, about the Vice President of the US (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her entourage.  At least 6 seasons available; I've been watching it on and off but slowly getting through it all.  Really, really funny.

4.5 stars
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Mama 

Film: Horror

About a couple of kids who get lost in the wilderness for several years, go feral, then get taken in by their uncle and his girlfriend.  Twist is that they bring with them something nasty and scary.  Started off okay, lots of stuff to make you go 'waaaah!', but got sillier as it went on.  Extra half a star because it stars the lush Nicolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister in GoT).

2.5 stars 
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Documentary series, about a religious cult originating in India that took over the small Oregon town of Antelope and tried to take over the county, too, by means of harrassment, attempted murder, poisoning, and importing thousands of homeless people to their 'city' so that they would have the numbers to vote their members onto the council.  Early 1980s.  Fascinating, horrendous, and you will feel so sorry for the people of Antelope.  And angry, too.

4.5 stars
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