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- Binge: The Undoing (Susanne Bier 2021) 1 March 2021I first heard about this as 'that show about rich people in New York with a lot of hair', and that's what it is. I spotted the murder victim immediately, we guessed who would be the prime suspect almost immediately, and at the end of the second episode we're pretty sure we know who the villain will turn out to be. That is to say, it' […]
- Blackbird (Roger Michell 2019) 27 February 2021Terminallly ill Susan Sarandon has a last weekend with her family, intending to take her own life with her doctor husband's help once they all leave. All the family's suppressed tensions come to light. It's well acted, but something doesn't quite work. Then it turns out to be a remake of Bille August's Stille hjerte (2014), with the […]
- Earth Dwellers (Kristen Lang 2021) 25 February 2021New poetry from Giramondo.
- NetFlix: Staged, season 2 (Simon Evans 2021) 22 February 2021Even funnier!The show goes to the US, or does it?
- Minari (Lee Isaac Chung 2020) 21 February 2021This feels as if it comes from the writer-director's own childhood. A little boy, his parents, sister and grandmother struggle to make a small farm work in rural Arkansas. It's very beautiful to look at, and wonderful in many other ways, particularly in the way it makes mainstream Americans seem strange when we see them through Korean immigrant eye […]
- Binge: The Undoing (Susanne Bier 2021) 1 March 2021
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