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Reading & watching- ABC iView: The Story of Film: An Odyssey (Mark Cousins 2011) 23 July 2021This 15 part documentary series looks fabulous. Interesting tidbit from the second episode: the early Hollywood industry was woman dominated – most of the scripts were written by women. Only when it came to be seen as a huge money-maker did the men with money move in and take charge. The perspective is global, deliberately not US-centric.
- An American Pickle (Brandon Trost 2020) 20 July 2021Though written and directed by other people, this is a Seth Rogan project. He plays Herschel Greenbaum, a Polish-Jew immigrant to the US who falls into a pickle vat in 1919 to emerge unchanged in 2019. He also plays Ben Greenbaum, Herschel's app-developing great grandson. It's a comedy that has one or two laughs, and plunges unconvincingly into que […]
- ABC & iView: Innocent, Season 2 (Matthew Arlidge & Chris Lang 2021) 19 July 2021This isn't a continuation of the first series, but a brand new story of a woman who has been definitively found not guilty of a murder she was convicted for years earlier. As in the first series, the protagonist seeks to rebuild her life in a community that still sees her as criminal while the hunt for the actual murderer goes on. Katherine Kelly as the […]
- The Good Fight, Season 5 (Michelle King, Robert King, Phil Alden Robinson 2021) 18 July 2021Strangely offbeat as before, this season starts with a 'Previously' episode that covers, not the preceding seasons, but the year 2000. The first couple of episode are taken up with farewelling some main characters, changing the status of others, and introducing a couple of new ones. The big question is: can the show keep up its off-kilter feel when […]
- Overland 238 (ed Evelyn Araluen & Jonathan Dunk Autumn 2020) 17 July 2021I'm more than a year behind in reading Overland. This issue came out when Covid-19 was new.
- ABC iView: The Story of Film: An Odyssey (Mark Cousins 2011) 23 July 2021
Will there be a sonnet about it? Because I don’t want to comment until it comes out in sonnet …
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Oh dear, mccardey, I was giving myself a day off!
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