I’ve always liked Rob Lowe comedies.
This show is funny.
A father-son comedy in which socially shy son Jackson (his real son John Owen Lowe) begins working for his successful and admired, but eccentric and narcissistic-adjacent, father Ellis (Rob Lowe) at his high-tech bio research facility in order to help save him from spiralling further following the death of his wife.
Good cast. I particularly like Rachel Marsh as Luna and Emma Pilar Ferreira as Ruby.
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Not great. But I somehow got through Fallout.
The plot is too confusing. There are many subplots and characters that don’t seem to contribute. Perhaps they relate back to the original video game.
BUT Walton Goggins as The Ghoul / Cooper Howard is unforgettable.
And Ella Purnell ia perfect as the naïve Bunker dweller Lucy MacLean.
This will win all the awards for visual effects and cinematography. Some of the best shot at Namibia‘s Skeleton Coast.
… the aftermath of the Great War of 2077, an apocalyptic nuclear exchange in an alternate history of Earth where advances in nuclear technology after WWII led to the emergence of a retrofuturistic society and a subsequent resource war.
Many survivors took refuge in fallout bunkers known as Vaults, unaware each Vault was designed to perform sociological and psychological experiments on the Vault Dwellers.
More than 200 years later in 2296, a young woman named Lucy leaves behind her home in Vault 33 to venture out into the dangerously unforgiving wasteland of a devastated Los Angeles to look for her father, who had been kidnapped.
Along the way, she meets a Brotherhood of Steel squire and a ghoul bounty hunter, each has their own mysterious pasts and agendas to settle.
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Funny TV sitcom.
Colin from Accounts is an Australian comedy television series created and written by husband-and-wife team Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, who also star as the show’s main characters. …
Set in Sydney, Australia and centred on Ashley (Harriet Dyer) and Gordon (Patrick Brammall), two singles who are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog whom they name Colin (from Accounts).
Ashley and Gordon are flawed, funny people who choose each other after being brave enough to show their true selves, scars and all, as they navigate life together.
Worth watching. Though I did feel the series got weaker towards the end.
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Like most everyone, I loved season 1.
The Tourist (season 1) is a 6 part TV show series where an Irish tourist in Australia is run off the road, waking up in hospital with amnesia.
Season 2 explains why Jamie Dornan as (The Man / Elliot Stanley / Eugene Cassidy) is on the run down under.
He goes home to Ireland to uncover his past.
Still surprising.
Conor MacNeill as Detective Ruairi Slater is terrific. What a role!
All the Irish casting is excellent.
BUT I can’t say I enjoyed it as much as season 1.
I like the comedy. The intense drama … not so much.
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Very funny. Smart dialogue.
As funny as 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
MANY pop culture references.
Cameos by Fallon, Colbert, Tina Fey, and more.
It follows four women who were part of a girl group named Girls5eva, which was briefly popular around the year 2000 before fading into one-hit-wonder status.
Now unfulfilled in their various lives, they reunite to try to find musical success again.
I quite like Daniel Breaker as Scott, Dawn’s husband. He plays the one normal person in the show.
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I watched season 2, as well. Not nearly as good.
A hard NO on season 3.
I only read the first third of this book. I normally find King books to be superb storytelling — but too long.
I quit at the point where the ghost story started to get too weird and violent.
Bag of Bones is a 1998 horror novel … about an author who suffers severe writer’s block and delusions at an isolated lake house four years after the death of his wife. …
He decides to confront his fears and moves to his vacation house on Dark Score Lake, known as “Sara Laughs”.
On his first day, he meets Kyra, a 3-year-old girl and her young widowed mother, 20-year-old Mattie Devore.
Mattie’s father-in-law is Max Devore, an elderly rich man who will do anything to gain custody of his granddaughter. He was the bad guy when I quit the book.
Pierce Brosnan plays the writer in the TV mini-series.
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Not recommended.
Weird. Some sort of horror from France.
Well … there is humour, mainly around quirky Ida — some sort of online detective hacker. She’s terminally ill so doesn’t much worry about anything she does.
The plot is confusing.
Opening Shot: “1994.” The camera pushes in on a house on a lake. SWAT teams arrive in rafts and put up their weapons.
The Gist: The SWAT teams are there to invade the house, in the French Alps village of Levionna, which is the headquarters of a cult led by Caleb Johansson (Stefano Cassetti). Johansson ends up being the only survivor after a mass suicide …
Decider
30 years later the village economy is dominated by a mysterious company, apparently an anthracite (coal) mine.
A journalist looking into the past cult deaths is kidnapped.
His daughter — Ida — arrives to rescue her Dad.
After another seeming cult murder, Jaro Gatsi is blamed by the townspeople. He’s an ex-con who was hired to work at the ski resort.
There’s Jaro’s friend. Who’s got relationship problems.
Next — a troubled police detective, who seems to be the only cop actually trying to solve this thing.
An evil nurse in an insane asylum.
Too many fights. Gunshots. A car chase. …
The whole thing is pretty dumb. Who approved this script?
On the upside, it’s original and not often boring.
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All the Light We Cannot See (2014) is a war novel by American author Anthony Doerr.
… set during World War II. It revolves around the characters Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl who takes refuge in her great-uncle’s house in Saint-Malo after Paris is invaded by Nazi Germany, and Werner Pfennig, a bright German boy who is accepted into a military school because of his skills in radio technology.
It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Overall, I was disappointed.
Too long. Poor storytelling. It rambled too much.
There were dozens of scenes that could have been left out — leaving the core story stronger.
WHY have 4 diamonds? That added nothing but unnecessary pages.
I’m astonished that the Pulitzer judges were impressed.
The mini-series — 4 episodes — is MUCH BETTER.
Don’t listen to the critics who gave it only 27% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I commend the screen writers for improving so much of the messy book.
Werner Pfennig is a much stronger character on screen.
Hugh Laurie is excellent as the World War I veteran suffering from PTSD.
Marie-Laure is played by Aria Mia Loberti who is legally blind. She responded on a whim to an All The Light We Cannot See open global casting search posted online. An amateur. Well cast.
I’d agree with critics that the NAZIs are cliche in the TV series . No nuance.
That was my biggest complaint with the mini-series.
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I didn’t watch Snowpiercer (TV series).
But finally got around to the 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction film.
Weird.
Why and how did a billionaire build a train that could run around the world?
I can see why some consider it a cult classic. It is philosophical.
It does have a terrific cast.
Rotten Tomatoes reports that 94% of critics gave the film a positive rating.
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The Gentlemen is a big hit on Netflix.
Guy Ritchie a super skillful creator.
I wish he’d do something without having to rely on the shock value of ultra violence.
Casting is excellent.
Theo James carries the show and almost makes the absurd story believable.
Michael Vu as James “Jimmy” Chang, Susie’s chief weed grower is my favourite.
Edward Horniman has unexpectedly inherited an estate of 15,000 acres (6000 hectares) and the title of Duke of Halstead at the reading of the last will and testament of his deceased father.
He learns that the land has become part of a weed-growing empire run by Susie Glass.
He must navigate a world of eclectic and dangerous characters with nefarious agendas, whilst also trying to protect his home and stay alive.
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Rick McCharles 