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Not Netflix - but a free (with a couple of ads and you have to sign in) on YouTube... this little fairytale-like movie was simply beautiful. Not complex, but a nice little story about love flowers, art, and orphaned birds. If you’re feeling a little melancholy and in of need a “pick me up”.

it‘s called “This Beautiful Fantastic”.

 
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Has anyone watched AJ and the Queen?


I quite enjoyed it, and found it good in how it shares gender identity, gender presence, sexuality, and well, lots and lots.

I am disappointed to read that it wasn't going into a second season
 
Well I'm going to mention a movie that I haven't watched, just in case some of you have HULU(who has the exclusive rights).....it's coming out shortly and it was mentioned by Stephen Colbert the other night....it sounds like it could be interesting.
 
Well I'm going to mention a movie that I haven't watched, just in case some of you have HULU(who has the exclusive rights).....it's coming out shortly and it was mentioned by Stephen Colbert the other night....it sounds like it could be interesting.
I want to see that too! No, I can’t get Hulu either.
 
The difficulties of life as an enigma: knowing the difference between good, bad, ugly and the beauty of the shadowy overseer. Then of course humans tend to wish no assistance due to another mysterious drive ... misunderstood avarice?

Some people have no clue and thus that expression of de void ... it can be derived as inky! Wasteland ... if pssssst burn all behind you and kick it over!
 
Netflix and Neil Gaiman dropped some of the casting for the Sandman TV Series. Tom Sturridge (who I am otherwise unfamiliar with) is playing the lead and damned if he doesn't look like young Neil Gaiman (which makes him perfect). This is looking better all the time. Gaiman is involved as Executive Product and doing some of the writing.

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Well last night we watched a remake of a movie, on Netflix) that I used to watch every year around Easter time when I was a small girl. I loved it back then.......and this remake of Lady of Fatima, simply called Fatima this time around, was still enjoyable.
It takes place in 1917 during the 1st world war and the Pandemic that ravaged the world. If you're not familiar with the story, it's based on the true story of 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal (7,8 and 10 years old) who claimed to have seen the virgin Mary. Problem was, they were the only ones who could see her. As word spreads the crowds get bigger with many looking for miracle cures.
The children never waivered that they were talking to "the lady" despite immense pressure from the church and family to recant and continued to give the crowd messages that the "lady" was telling them.
The lady promises them a miracle during her last visit that everyone in the crowd will witness.......and according to news reports, she does deliver. This miracle became known as the "Miracle of the Sun".
It may not be everyone's "cup of tea", but I rather enjoyed it.
 
I've been watching the documentary Birth of the Cool about the life of jazz great Miles Davis. What a life. The guy was definitely not a pleasant human being much of the time, save to people he was close to and not always them (her forced his second wife, a talented dancer, to give up a role in the original production of West Side Story and become a housewife). However, his influence on music is just incredible. He was a major player in both beebop (in the fifties) and modern movements like acid jazz (in the seventies and eighties). Even non-jazz musical forms like house music and hip-hop were influenced by him. And the number of great musicians who spent time in his bands is incredible: John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea (RIP) all got starts or boosts playing with Miles. Of course, like a lot of jazz greats, Miles battled addictions and dropped out of the scene a couple times because of them. Early in his career it was heroin, then later coke and painkillers. He did have a history of beating them and coming back, though.
 
We just watched Head Full Of Honey today. It's a beautiful story about a grandfather with alzheimers (Nick Nolte) and his ten year old granddaughter. It was a beautiful story that included beautiful photography. There's both laughter and tears. Have Kleenex ready.
 
We just watched Head Full Of Honey today. It's a beautiful story about a grandfather with alzheimers (Nick Nolte) and his ten year old granddaughter. It was a beautiful story that included beautiful photography. There's both laughter and tears. Have Kleenex ready.
Thanks for the heads up, we will give it a try this weekend. Another tear jerker (and uplifting too) is Penguin Bloom, we enjoyed that one too. Based on a true story.
A Mom that becomes disabled while still young, with a husband and three young boys and a bird the family names Penguin Bloom (that helps give her strength to learn a new way to live when she thinks her former life is lost and can't find the will to move forward.)
 
2 episodes into Russian Doll. It's billed as a comedy but it's not a traditional sitcom. No laugh track and shot more like a movie. Only 8 episodes but a second season has been greenlit. I am quite enjoying it but it is a bit weird (the plot is about a woman stuck in a time loop where she keeps dying and popping back to her 36th birthday party) and the lead character isn't the most sympathetic character around. She's pretty foul-mouthed and a pretty heavy smoker, drinker, and drug-user. In fact, at this point, she's thinking the drugs are what are causing her to experience the time loop (i.e. it's a hallucination).
 
2 episodes into Russian Doll. It's billed as a comedy but it's not a traditional sitcom. No laugh track and shot more like a movie. Only 8 episodes but a second season has been greenlit. I am quite enjoying it but it is a bit weird (the plot is about a woman stuck in a time loop where she keeps dying and popping back to her 36th birthday party) and the lead character isn't the most sympathetic character around. She's pretty foul-mouthed and a pretty heavy smoker, drinker, and drug-user. In fact, at this point, she's thinking the drugs are what are causing her to experience the time loop (i.e. it's a hallucination).
I tried watching it and never got any further than that. Fell asleep every time. Had no idea it was a comedy.
 
I tried watching it and never got any further than that. Fell asleep every time. Had no idea it was a comedy.
As I said, NF billed it as a comedy in the app, but I would call it a dramedy myself. Definitely some gags designed to get laughs, but some serious stuff underlying it all.
 
We just saw that New Amsterdam is on Netflix now. We started watching the first episode. I see why people really like it.
 
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