I didn’t realize that Pablo Schreiber and Liev were half-brothers. I liked Ray Donovan until Jon Voight became a main character.
expresso's comments
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) S1 E5
irdulili
5 points
1 year ago.
Not sure but I’m pretty certain that one gray/stripey alien was Armin Shimerman—AKA the actor who played the ferengi, Quark from TNG et al. IMDB has done a lousy job of listing extras and guest stars lately.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) S1 E5
This was a perfect episode. TOS homage to Vulcan battle music? Check. Whimsy? Check. Balls-out captain risky meta-move? Check. Personal predicament that echos the major episode predicament? Check. Tens across the board. They Did What Needed To Be Done.
Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies (2022)
expresso
1 points
1 year ago.
Nice job here using ordinary analogies to explain the technology breakthroughs that allow research and discovery on the sub-atomic and galactic-string levels (both halves are in one link)
Angelyne (2022)
Highly entertaining biopic about the 1980’s LA ‘fauxlebrity’ Angelyne - Emmy Rossum is great
Raised by Wolves (2020)
irdulili
1 points
2 years ago.
Rotten Tomatoes also says “6 Episodes” for this season, spelled out like that. Kind of a bummer. Usually a studio orders a small 1st season then more for the 2nd and subsequent seasons so long as it’s doing good. And everyone seems to love this.
Raised by Wolves (2020) S2 E8
expresso
3 points
2 years ago.
I keep saying there’s no way they can top the sheer insanity of the previous episode and I keep being wrong. Mind blown.
Star Trek: Picard (2020) S2 E2
YgraineDance
3 points
2 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)
I’m kinda with you on your point about Q; I could never stand him and just wanted him gone. Seeing him now, I still feel that way. I find the Borg Queen arc to be most interesting, though…so maybe the Q angle won’t be so horrible.
Cabreras is a lot of fun. Remember him as a Musketeer a few years ago?
expresso
2 points
2 years ago.
You and I may have had this conversation before…I ADORE that show. I rewatch about every other year!
Hoping Q gets less screen time and Borg Queen gets lots more.
Star Trek: Picard (2020) S2 E2
moongoddess
4 points
2 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)
Always loved a Q season. Can already tell this will not disappoint.
I find Q exasperating, I think he’s an acquired taste. Working with the Borg Queen however, that’s going to be really interesting. Love Santiago Cabreras.
Raised by Wolves (2020) S2 E7
Saucer-People
10 points
2 years ago.
What an episode! The CGI is used to spectacular effect!
Obviously I had to search elsewhere to watch episode 7, but I felt strangely compelled to return and comment on PW as it’s a hard habit to break - let’s hope against hope that this link situation isn’t irreversible.
Sita Sings the Blues (2009)
expresso
4 points
2 years ago.
Stunning remix of animation styles and modern narrative woven through Indian mythology. If I hadn’t noticed @Bsharp2C’s watch party I never would have found it - thank you!!
Raised by Wolves (2020) S2 E6
expresso
2 points
2 years ago.
Every time I think I can’t possibly be more blown away by this it proves me wrong.
1883 (2021)
This plays against every expectation and every classic element of the western genre. Westerns are safe, formulaic, sentimental accounts of heroism. This central character is a woman and not a man, her narrative is lyrical, not sentimental, and the story is about naive and unprepared immigrants going west where nothing they have learned in life is useful or applicable and the things that keep going horribly wrong are brutal and oppressive and cannot be fixed by testosterone. Deadwood and Hell on Wheels are excellent series I love and have watched many times. You leave the old order for a chance to shake the snow globe and land in a better place in the new order. This show is about the chaos of the unknown. There is no order. It’s dark and brilliant.
Cyrano (2022)
expresso
2 points
2 years ago.
The casting is odd, the National’s music is same-y, Peter Dinklage is not a singer and yet I found this charming and innocent and boy do I not get enough of that.
Vikings: Valhalla (2022)
expresso
2 points
2 years ago.
Loved it - more please! If you like this period while you are waiting there is a great short podcast called Stones & Bones about Emma of Normandy who had a far more complicated life than the window of time we see here. I was wondering about this version of Leif Erikson so I waded through articles on ScreenRant about this adaptation that answers some of the questions on this page.
La faille (2019) S2 E9
Quebec City is the real star of the show here. Decent plot twist at the end of a well-acted and solid comfort-food procedural. Poutine on screen :) We need more French Canadian drama.
La faille (2019)
expresso
2 points
2 years ago.
Really enjoying this French-Canadian Noir! Starts out slow, turning into a great binge for a snowy Saturday.
The Green Planet (2022)
Time lapse photography of plants killing their competition - if you’re “oh another nature show” take a look it’s pretty amazing.
Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard (TV Special 2021) (2021)
expresso
6 points
2 years ago.
Fossil hunting, stone tool making, spear throwing and a mammoth dig with David Attenborough on a cozy Sunday afternoon :)
Zama (2017)
expresso
2 points
2 years ago.
5/5 Kafka in the Chaco, Waiting for Godot, Heart of Darkness, Aguirre the Wrath of God - if those sound tasty this film is for you. Visually and mentally stunning.
Don't Look Up (2021)
expresso
4 points
2 years ago.
Yes - amazing! I actually have a Gary Oldman playlist already, for exactly the same reason. Time for Cate Blanchett playlist - great idea!
expresso
5 points
2 years ago.
dediCATEd:The Cate Blanchett List https://www.primewire.ag/playlist/4671
Don't Look Up (2021)
irdulili
6 points
2 years ago.
She’s another master of disguise, like a female Gary Oldman. Did you see the Queen Elizabeth movies?
expresso
4 points
2 years ago.
Yes - amazing! I actually have a Gary Oldman playlist already, for exactly the same reason. Time for Cate Blanchett playlist - great idea!
Star Trek: Discovery (2017) S4 E6
Crenshaw1
4 points
2 years ago.
Yes, I’m aware, but there is not a Spock type character on the crew or main cast.
expresso
3 points
2 years ago.
Michael started out in Season 1 much more Vulcan. They’ve taken that out of her since the time jump and she’s less balanced and less interesting.
What we’re all missing is Georigeou.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017) S4 E6
The science to melodrama ratio per hour is way way down. I loved the first 2 seasons, last one was okay, this one…it pains me greatly and I never thought I would ever say this about I show I like, too touchy feely.
Don't Look Up (2021)
irdulili
21 points
2 years ago.
Having seen this, I’m now convinced that Leonardo DiCaprio can play anybody. Also, wow. What a scary film. It’s up there with Idiocracy and The Strain in terms of unflinching realism when it comes to how this machine called society works.
Don't Look Up (2021)
Straight to cult classics, this is what will actually happen if there is a NEO in my lifetime
The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin (2021)
expresso
7 points
2 years ago.
The hair is real. This is not your second-cousin’s Photoshop project.
Only Murders in the Building (2021) S1 E7
It’s a 21st century silent movie! Really, it is - go watch a film from the early 1920’s, before talkies came out. Hm, maybe this is a 100th anniversary tribute to something? (off to do some recon)
Couldn’t really get anything out of the trailer, but I’ll watch it once it has an air date. A group of European migrants leave London on a steamship to start new lives in New York City. But when they encounter another migrant ship adrift on the open sea, their journey begins to turn into a nightmare. From the creator of “Dark”.
Thanks for pointing this out - looks very cool