Thursday, July 27, 2023

Thursda Movie Picks #458: TMP Television Edition - Con Artists


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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is TMP Television Edition - Con Artists
 
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This is a fun theme. My picks are all newer series.

The Company You Keep (2023)
The series follows a family of con artists who targets other criminals for their cons. This was an ok series which I have seen a few episodes. Unfortunately it has been cancelled so I don’t think I’ll be finishing the rest of the season.

Chloe (2022)
Limited series Chloe follows a social media obsessed woman, Becky, who usually does small cons for example pretending to know someone to gain entrance to a club or event. Then, when a rich woman, Chloe, whom she has been following on social media, apparently commits suicide, Becky assumes a fake identity to infiltrate Chloe’s circle of friends to find out just how Chloe’s seemingly perfect life went wrong. I really enjoyed this, it is such a gem. Initially the series had looked to be about social media obsession and the superficiality of perfect curated lives but then there’s also the nice little mystery and thriller element of what exactly happened to Chloe and will Becky be found out as the imposter that she is.

Inventing Anna (2022)
Limited series about Anna Delvey the fake German heiress. I actually enjoyed it, very entertaining. It’s unbelievable how so many people were duped by her. Like no one googled who her supposedly rich dad was? Not even the banks really digged into her identity. And if she was a German heiress, why had she seemingly not hang out with other rich Germans or even other Europeans? When overseas, people tend to try and connect with their fellow countrymen…Anna doesn’t seem to do this at all, that there makes her looks sooo suspicious. Then there was the regular non-rich, non-socialite people…the trainer, magazine writer and concierge who eagerly believed they were her friends despite the huge income divide…they were so silly…rich people are not friends with people they employ/pay. 

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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Thursday Movie Picks #457: Book Adaptation



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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Book Adaptation

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Another quick one. I haven’t seen much this year so I’m just going to go for the last 3 book adaptations I saw and can’t say I like any of them very much.

The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
Picked this a few weeks ago for the Period Drama TMP. As was said then, found the mystery in the movie a little thin. However, the movie had great visuals. The wintry landscape was perfect for a gothic horror.
 
Bullet Train (2022)
It was interesting, but a little too loud (visually), theatrical and manic for me.

Where the Crawdads (2022)
This book is like super popular. It’s a mystery but seem to be going for more of the literary fiction side which is just not my thing. I prefer fun mysteries or dark gritty mysteries, this looks like neither, so I never read the book. Anyway the movie is so so…the story is quite bland…kinda feels like you know one of those “inspirational” TV movies.
 
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