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Gogglebox: UK TV at its … finest?
It’s been days since I pleaded with you to get a good VPN and peek into TV from England and Canada and Australia and everywhere else that you can’t get to if they think you're from the U.S. And now I’m going to do it again, with a review o the frankly impossible UK weekly, Gogglebox. Frankly, it’s...
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Amusia
A story of music, the hidden language inside it, and the evil we do to each other
David Cleary had been the host of “Clearly the Classics” on KCPR for almost twenty-five years – four hours every morning, til a stroke took him down like a hammer. Now music – any music – sounds hideous to him. It fills his ears with screeching and grinding, broken nails across a blackboard. Harsh, cruel, ugly sounds. And though he hated to admit it, he heard something else. Beneath – maybe between – the howling and clashing, he could hear what felt like … words. Feelings. Other people’s feelings. And one person in particular – he was almost certain — was coming for him.
Or was he?
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The Last Few Posts Before These…
Resident Alien is great; Alan Tudyk is greater
It took SyFy long enough – I get it, timing and seasons and COVID and all – but finally, finally we have a new season of Resident Alien, and with it the return of the damn near legendary Alan Tudyk. Ahhh, Alan Tudyk. I’ve been watching the guy, enjoying his work over...
Calamity Jane is back in a new, not-bad movie with some surprising stars
I streamed the new 2024 movie called Calamity Jane, featuring well-disguised members of your favorite superhero shows, and I’m here to report: it’s definitely … a movie. The ultra-violent, plain-speakin’, gun-slingin’ lady with the poor hygiene has been the subject of...
Wynonna Earp Returns!
Here’s some actual good news: Wynona Earp is coming back … at least for one movie sometime this year. Way back in 2016 – jeez, was it really that long ago? -- SyFy was heavy into the vampire thing for obvious reasons … and in the midst of it they premiered this...
Oh No Ross & Carrie: the podcast that debunks all the silly stuff out there, so you don’t have to..
Do you remember The Amazing Randi? No? You should. James Randi was an amazing sleight-of-hand magician and illusionist, who was also a world-class, lifelong skeptic, like Harry Houdini before him. A guy who knows more than almost anybody on earth about how to create...
This Wretched Valley: survival horror with great promise … and something missing
I just finished Jenny Kiefer’s This Wretched Valley, by first-time novelist Jenny Kiefer … and I almost liked it. But there was something missing… and I wonder if anyone else felt it, too. You remember the podcast, Talking Scared, that I reviewed a while...
Henry Thomas and the sequel to E.T. (no, really)
Here, come on down the rabbit hole with me. I went looking for some background on Henry Thomas for a review of The Fall of the House of Usher… and found an entirely different little gem: a very short, very special sequel to E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, posing as an...
The fifth season of Fargo keeps fulfilling Noah Hawley’s odd and slightly hallucinatory vision
Fargo has been an odd and slightly wonderful Brigadoon of Peak TV, appearing at the oddest times, always a little different and consistently worth the wait. The various seasons have varied from damn good to awesome, and the newest season, starring Juno Temple and Jon...
Obliterated: Rock ‘em-sock ‘em action on the ribald, silly side
Obliterated was making some noise on Netflix a few weeks ago, and I had much fun sliding my way through it. Just the kind of premise you know grew out of a half-sloshed pitch session, where everybody’s three cocktails in, and somebody says, “You know what would be...