What are we watching now?

[State of Epicicity]

We just saw Safehouse from 2012. Total ripoff in every superficial way of the Bourne series, but better than any of the Bourne sequels. Story wise it was standard espionage faire, but it has a great cast, and I felt like Denzel Washington still cared somewhat doing this film. The hilarious thing was, instead of saying Jason Bourne with gravity a million times in one movie, they just replaced that with Tobin Frost. If we were doing shots on his name, I'd be in bad shape right now.

 

[Dave Lewis]

I’ve been watching this brilliant Australian series over the last few weeks .
I’m halfway through series 5 streaming free on channel 4 in the UK.
It’s had me pissing myself laughing

Acclaimed Aussie comedy-drama. Brilliant barrister Cleaver Greene defends the biggest crooks. Sharp-witted and self-destructive, he loves boozing, betting, women and the law. As for justice? No drama.

 

[CBHScott]

As my, "watching in the background during work" show, I just started streaming the old classic Boston Legal.

I hadn't seen it since it aired, and it still holds up, Funny AF. Also, Julie Bowen

Boston Legal seems to be a forgotten show in the pantheon of great comedies of the last 20 years or so, but it was a ridiculously funny show.

 

[Stone]

5 watt world a short history series

 

[State of Epicicity]

Mo Amer Vagabond from 2018. This guy had me in tears. He's so damn good. I see he has a TV show on Netflix, and I'm going to have to see that at some point, but I see they also have another special of his, so I'll have to see that first. This guy is fucking amazing.

 

[newpedals]

I am not into distortion pedals but like the way he presents it.

Hope he demos the Tu-3S sometime. It helps people "chug" after tuning to drop D :)

 

[laxu]

New season of Last of Us is upon us but it will probably take a few episodes to get going...so the weekly drip of episodes will be a drag.

 

[State of Epicicity]

Rush from 1991. I had seen it once a while ago and remembered correctly that Jason Patric is fantastic in it. This is him working his hardest, and it's so good. His father is Jason Miller, the guy who played the younger priest in The Exorcist, and I always lament that Jason Miller didn't have a career in great films after that. At least there are some really cool and interesting performances with his son doing serious and cool work, and this is one of those. The soundtrack is by Eric Clapton, and to me it just doesn't have any real intelligence to it; it's just a white dude playing blues to me, not nearly playing off the emotional complexity of the actors and the story; that's a real waste and a detraction from the power of the story. But Jason Patric is so goddamn hard of a worker in this film that he totally carries it. I highly recommend it for his performance alone. A very cool and related double feature would be to watch his two great undercover films with four letter titles back to back: Rush then Narc!