This is my favorite 24 adjacent piece of media
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Been considering a 24 rewatch myself after seeing it made Amazon prime over here recently. I always remember when a series ended with just Jack going to his car and having a break down. What a show.
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if youāve seen 24 and havenāt seen The Shield you should watch The Shield
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Very highly recommend this 5 part doc series from the guys who made Hoop Dreams. Itās very good!
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I recommend every video in the Pretty Good series. Jon Bois is a very talented man.
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Watched Night Stalker on Netflix about the Night Stalker serial killer. Bog standard true crime genre, interview voice over over crime scene photos and archive footage.
Nothing special but if you want to get some of the history itās a good watch
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I tried watching the new Tiger golf doc on HBO and just cannot get past my overwhelming Fuck You to anyone willing to share the green with certain people.
But it looks good and I look forward to watching it someday.
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Iāve watched like the first four and a half seasons and then kind of stopped. Where is it streaming at?
The Best New Movies to Watch on Amazon Prime in January 2021
One Night in Miami
Herself
Face/Off
Cloverfield
Eveās Bayou
Greta & Hansel
Alone
Regina Kings striking directorial debut One Night in Miami is the obvious must-watch new release this month - and one thatās likely to pop up in the most awards conversations
But donāt sleep on the quietly charming Irish dramedy Herself either.
In the realm of older films, weāve got the always enjoyable Face/Off
one of the best-ever found footage movies with Cloverfield (and itās a perfect time to revisit considering the films original viral marketing built entirely around the 1/18/08 release date)
as well as Kasi Lemmonsā sumptuous drama Eveās Bayou .
With Gretel & Hansel , Perkins revisits one of the best-known stories of all time, tapping into a tale that has terrified children for generations with a keen eye and intelligent homage to the bleakness of the original Grimmsā Fairy Tales.
Filmmaker John Hyams already had an interesting resume between the surprisingly ass-whooping Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning and Netflixās thrilling zombie series Black Summer , and with Alone , heās got another impressive piece of blood-pumping B-thriller that knows exactly what it is (and earned a spot on our Best Thrillers of 2020.
Iām excited to watch One Night in Miami with eyebooger for next Fridayās Oscar night. Just look at this, one commanding performance after another. Regina King has made impeccable choices in what roles and movies to pursue. Feeling pretty confident weāll see that same insight on display in her directorial debut.
|Date|Title|Role|
|ā|ā|ā|ā|
|1991|Boyz n the Hood|Shalika||
|1993|Poetic Justice|Iesha||
|1995|Higher Learning|Monet||
|1995|Friday|Dana Jones||
|1996|A Thin Line Between Love and Hate|Mia Williams||
|1996|Jerry Maguire|Marcee Tidwell||
|1998|Rituals|N/A|Short film|
|1998|How Stella Got Her Groove Back|Vanessa||
|1998|Enemy of the State|Carla Dean||
|1998|Mighty Joe Young|Cecily Banks||
|1999|Love and Action in Chicago|Lois Newton||
|2001|Down to Earth|Sontee Jenkins||
|2002|Truth Be Told|Rayne||
|2003|Daddy Day Care|Kim Hinton||
|2003|Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde|Grace Rossiter||
|2004|A Cinderella Story|Rhonda||
|2004|Ray|Margie Hendricks||
|2005|Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous|Sam Fuller||
|2006|The Ant Bully|Kreela|Voice|
|2007|Year of the Dog|Layla||
|2007|This Christmas|Lisa Whitfield-Moore||
|2010|Our Family Wedding|Angela||
|2013|Let the Church Say Amen|Director||
|2014|Planes: Fire & Rescue|Dynamite|Voice|
|2018|If Beale Street Could Talk|Sharon Rivers||
The Tiger doc was ok. My hot take is heās not that interesting. He was one of the best golfers of all time with a crazy dad who pushed him. His career was ultimately derailed by injuries. He likes women. Now make that fill 3 hours.
I always sort of give the extreme wealthy a bit of a pass for being deplorable. The problem in america is we give them outsized influence when they should just be one person one vote. Also people as singularly focused on one goal like elite athletes tend to be are often out of touch and make questionable friends and decisions as a result.
My other takeaway is that the paparazzi are terrible people and there should be stricter laws against the shit they do. This is not freedom of the press. Itās harassment, full stop.
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Much thanks for watching and commenting on it. I made it like ten minutes in before I realized how much Iād rather watch The Short Game again.
Thatās an interesting point about the pappas. I tend to think of it as the cost of fame, but maybe thatās just me having internalized how awful the paparazzi tend to be and how little control we have over it.
Donāt forget Watchmen (TV).
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My wife and I are into season 2 of The Handmaidās Tale. Sheās taking it surprisingly in stride that I have started calling her āOfdlk9s.ā
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I always saw the cost of fame as losing some privacy in public spaces and being recognized everywhere you go. You have fans always asking for autographs and pictures. I can see how thatās annoying, but I donāt see that as a huge societal problem.
On the other hand, in the doc you had people surrounding his mistress in her apartment building, blocking her from leaving, shoving cameras in her face, and asking āare you glad you broke up his marriageā all so they could make $100 from some shitty tabloid.
That stuff should be illegal.
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I would never!! Just didnāt want to make the wall of text too big by also including her voluminous TV roles. Sheās already an accomplished director if we include TV.
Now that I agree with. Good points.
By the way, I knew The Handmaidās Tale was supposed to be really good, but itās way better than I expected. I knew the basic idea - weirdo Christian society oppresses women - but I didnāt realize how extreme it was. One of the few shows that Iāve actually asked my wife, āWanna watch another?ā after finishing an episode, rather than she being the one to ask me.
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its good, i havenāt gone back to catchup after first or 2nd season i forget, although i think it gets worse as it goes on. Iāll probably start from beginning.
Weāre at the point where June got caught trying to escape and sheās back in the Commanderās house.
Weāve enjoyed the flashbacks lately that show us who some of these characters were before the country went to shit. Definitely interested to see where things go from here now that June looks like sheās totally fucked.
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