That looks great, anyone know, can you get HBO via a vpn in the UK?
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Looking forward to this.
Ultra-low budget and very violent rip-off of “Alien”. A space module lands back to Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate into people’s bodies and make them explode. A group of speleologists are attacked by the monsters inside an underground cave, but the survivors are in for a surprise when they finally manage to escape the trap…
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Enjoying Fall Of The House Of Usher. Big Mike Flanagan fan so it was going to be a winner for me no matter what. Quite cheeky taking inspiration from the real life horror of the opioid epidemic/sackler family and using that as a framing device to tug on a bunch of Poe works.
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Talking Heads on Colbert
“How did you feel about being described as art-rock?”
“I don’t think it was a compliment” 
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Something I’ve noticed and keep looking for at these reunions is that Jerry is always a buffer between Byrne and Chris/Tina.
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God bless
Really enjoying this. Best tv I’ve seen in a while.
If you like vintage woody Allen this has similarities (well Jewish New York humour presumably)
Genuinely worth a watch… you’ll know within 10 minutes if you like it or not
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I watched the first few and was left feeling like he was trying so hard to be Woody Allen it was almost off putting.
Kinda related but the documentary about Woody Allen “Allen v Farrow” is not an easy watch. I adored his films growing up but I just don’t see them in the same way now.
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That’s interesting. I’ll have to watch that (hadn’t heard of it before) … I’d sort of assumed Allen had been partly stitched up. Sounds as if I was misinformed
I didn’t feel he was trying to copy Woody Allen particularly… just Jewish humour was my reading of it
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The documentary is wild. It dispels the notion he’s a quirky film maker and puts him firmly in the position of Hollywood powerhouse and if the makers (his estranged family) are to be believed then he’s a sinister bastard.
I love his 70’s NY films, Manhattan etc so didn’t want to dislike him but it’s hard not to after watching that.
Yeah he was so front and centre of each of his (good,early) films that if you no longer believe the schtich they’d be a hard watch…
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Just rewatched Housebound on Amazon Prime.
It’s a genre bending horror comedy. Some proper jump scares and laugh out loud moments.
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Watched the original Halloween last night with my 17 year old daughter, she loved it and the music freaked her out a bit as it did me… Lol
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This was very funny and gross. Norwegian dark comedy about extreme narcissism. Same writer/director as the new Nicholas Cage ‘Dream Scenario’ thing.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sick_of_myself
Class Action Park. The gift that keeps giving.
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We’re watching The Burning tonight…
John Cleese discussing phone-hacking with Chris Tarrant whilst flanked by nuns and cats. Nothing if not surreal…
https://www.youtube.com/live/lj09u0mZ5h4?si=snkoLKOn5rtEnTvq
i didn’t work with him directly, but i’ve worked in capacities that orbited his. i can tell you this - he’s one of the laziest filmmakers ever.
i’ve heard (on good account) that he’s only on set for a couple of hours a day - at most - and that everything other than showing up, looking around and giving a few yes/no’s, and yelling “action”, it’s fully his support staff pulling any “woody allen” movie together. he rarely shoots more than two takes of anything, and it falls on his editing staff to cobble the best moments of anything usable into coherency. dropped audio, flubbed lines, continuity discrepancies - it’s all handled after the fact, and being that he uses top talent, it’s not like he can call anyone back in for re-shoots as they’re all off on to the next thing.
from what i can tell, he was more interested in keeping his “one feature a year” pace going than making anything of good quality. and he probably knew that once every five years or so, the new yorker or whatever would write a “he’s back!” article, no matter how meh the feature was.
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One for McCartney II sequencer nerds
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Watching the second part now, really good stuff
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