tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11284011555274975212024-03-14T07:59:56.419+08:00Wandering through the ShelvesWandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02942463921185187112noreply@blogger.comBlogger531125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128401155527497521.post-42613019184069396532024-01-01T00:30:00.003+08:002024-01-02T15:04:53.645+08:00No Thursday Movie Picks in 2024<p>I’ve been posting most of my TMP posts late for almost two years, haven’t really been able to keep up with neither a weekly schedule nor a fortnightly one. So I’ve decided not to continue with TMP this year.</p><p>That’s it and happy new year.</p>Wandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02942463921185187112noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128401155527497521.post-30112818058391200502023-12-28T23:30:00.006+08:002023-12-30T14:15:25.143+08:00Thursday Movie Picks #470: TMP Television Edition - Sports (Scripted Series. Non-Reality)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's <span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday Movie Picks is<b> </b></span><b>Day or Night in Title</b><br />
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<div><b>The Vast of Night (2019)</b></div><div>This movie has no recognizable name attached to it but I had seen that it received quite a number positive reviews, so I gave it a watch. I like it. It’s a sort of minimalist paranormal drama set in the 50s.</div><div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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<div><b>Maleficent (2014)</b></div><div><i>The Sleeping Beauty story </i><i>from the perspective of Maleficent the wicked fairy th</i><i>at cursed her. </i>Did not enjoy this. Didn't like the story and I thought Angelina Jolie's celebrity persona eclipses the role...all I see is her the actress and not the character.<br /></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Here are 3 that immediately came to mind.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The Clearing (2023)</b></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Follows a woman who as a child was in a cult and now realises the leader of that cult may just be starting it up all over again. </i>Set in Australia, this is based on a book that was inspired by a real cult in Australia. The story is sad and the atmosphere very creepy...the kids in the cult had had their hair dyed platinum blonde, wore preppy uniforms and they were soo brainwashed.<br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><b>The Midnight Club (2022)</b><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>A group of terminally ill kids at a hospice, which apparently used to be the home of a cult, meet at midnight to tell scary stories...and spooky things do start to happen. </i>Based on Christopher Pike's book. This was disappointing, so I'm not surprised it was not renewed for a second season. It's just not as emotional, scary or haunting as Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill House. This was more like The Haunting of Bly Manor... very meh....<br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><b>Archive 81 (2022)</b><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>An
archivist is hired to restore a collection of tapes and finds among
them a journalist's tapes from the 90's on her investigation of a cult hidden in an
apartment building in the city. </i>Adapted from a podcast.<i> </i>Of my
picks today this is the one I really enjoyed the most. It was very suspenseful
and super creepy and I was very disappointed when it didn't get renewed
since the last episode looked like it was setting itself up for a second
season, plus the series had review well and got a lot of views...so my guess it was because of budget cuts after the pandemic. I suppose I would have to listen to the podcast to know if there
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">These workplaces are scary in itself because they're so isolated even without the alien creatures trying to get the characters.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Alien (1979)</b></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Space - I only saw bits of the movie as a kid and it was scary. Hope to watch it in full one day.</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><b>The Thing (1982)</b><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Antarctica - The shapeshifting element just heightened the paranoia and horror.<br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Underwater (2020)</b></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Deep Underwater - The whole facility collapsing after an earthquake is just terrifying, then there are the creatures swimming around it trying to get to the surviving humans.<br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div>
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series about a young woman whose parents died in a tragic fire related
incident when she was a girl. Due to the trauma and her youth, she never
fully remembered nor understood what actually happened and her
grandmother hides aspects of it and their family history from her until
it slowly unravels in the present day.</i> I really enjoyed this slow
burning family drama full of secrets. The girl's family owns a flower
farm, so the flower designs were very beautiful as well as Australia's
natural landscapes.<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Will Trent (2023 - )</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Based off Karen Slaughter's Will Trent series of books about a detective who had a tough childhood solving crimes for Georgia Bureau of Investigation. </i>Of the TV series I've listed today, this is the only one that I have read the book, only the first book of the series, which is a spinoff of another book series, Grant County. </span></span>Karin Slaughter is one of my favourite crime novelists. I've read her Grant County series and a few of her stand alone novels. The thing about her books, including the Will Trent book, is that they are very dark and the crimes are often violent and disturbing. The books spend a lot of time with the police, the victims and the family or community and how physically, emotionally and psychologically devastating a crime affects them for years and years. A more faithful adaptation of the Will Trent books would be a TV series that is likely aired on HBO or Netflix. However, this TV series, is an ABC series, which means...it is quite a PG series, something like FBI, Law and Order...one crime an episode type of series, very surface level exploration of crime, all solved by the end of an episode. That said, it's an okay series, something you can watch when a random episode of it airs on TV. <br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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<div><b>The Chalk Line (2022)</b></div><div><i>A couple fosters a non verbal girl they found wandering the roads at night who is afraid of stepping out of the chalk line boundary she draws around herself, while the authorities work to find out who she is in order to return her to her family.</i> This is kinda like one of those creepy children movie where you question if the girl is disturbed or traumatised. Overall a decent mystery with an eerie atmosphere. </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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<div><b>Boston Strangler (2023)</b></div><div>A movie about the two female reporters who reported on the Boston Strangler and the rampant sexism they faced at a time when most female journalists were relegated to writing for the home and lifestyle sections. </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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<div><b>500 Days Summer (2009)</b></div><div>I love this movie. It’s sweet and funny and I really enjoyed the soundtrack.</div><div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)</b><br />This brought back McDonagh as writer/director and costars Gleason and Ferrell together again who all worked on In Bruges. I love In Bruges, so I wanted this to be great, unfortunately this was quite disappointing for me, it was just so-so, others though seem to love it as this is a well reviewed movie. <br /><div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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This week's <span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday Movie Picks is<b> </b></span><b>Erotic Thrillers</b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div>Another quick one. This sub-genre isn’t the greatest but the twists while often silly make it a fun entertaining watch. I am picking movies I recently watched.<br /><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wild Things (1998)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Saw this years ago. Don’t remember anything so rewatched it this year. Everyone in this is so corrupt with everyone conning each other…the movie should be renamed Dirty Things. Anyway I enjoyed the 90’s-ness of this movie; the twists were silly but fun.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Voyeurs </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(2021)</span></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A young couple having moved into their new apartment finds that their neighbours in the building opposite them have large curtain-less windows and are shamelessly living out their lives and romantic lives in full view of their neighbours to see. I thought this was interesting. The twist though came as a surprise and which I thought was over the top and a little nutty.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">
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<b>Deep Water </b><b>(2022)</b><br /><span>In order to avoid a divorce, a couple have an agreement that the wife would be able to have affairs with other men. Then the wife’s lovers start to either disappear or turn up dead and the husband becomes the prime suspect. A little on the moody self-serious side but still thought this was pretty entertaining.</span><br /><div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The first two picks were easy finds and what inspired the whole Companion Reads, the last was a little hard to think of.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAH-ahX6BircxTqo5L9-E0_0XJc4CA0JMCkvz-vjeUpueXEVKCPG5jMxkGHgyDzPjbju8LYVHJrdvJygLdIB5kWyiCiOXswUGhYhHMfXL797MIf63EVdUcUQvD9f2fV9IWRhmOKtGuUnvm2qpJFtoOj2NzBuVgtqV6jwih8Ayk4yWirA7lLWuCt7vBmw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1257" data-original-width="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAH-ahX6BircxTqo5L9-E0_0XJc4CA0JMCkvz-vjeUpueXEVKCPG5jMxkGHgyDzPjbju8LYVHJrdvJygLdIB5kWyiCiOXswUGhYhHMfXL797MIf63EVdUcUQvD9f2fV9IWRhmOKtGuUnvm2qpJFtoOj2NzBuVgtqV6jwih8Ayk4yWirA7lLWuCt7vBmw=s16000" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Lost in Austen </b><b>(2008) </b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and <b>A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England (2014)</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">Lost in Austen follows a modern woman, a fan of Jane Austen, who finds a portal to the world of Pride and Prejudice. Switching places with Elizabeth Bennet, she pretends to be Elizabeth’s friend visiting her home. I love this mini series, it is so much fun to see a present day woman trying to live in regency England; I remember there was a scene where she couldn’t identify the instruments to brush her teeth with…it was twigs and some cleaning powder. A perfect companion read is the non-fiction A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England. It is such a fun and insightful read covering how people of the time lived and socialized, how they traveled, the fashion of the time, money matters, what they shopped and do for leisure, marriage and also health. I think this book provides very good context for anyone reading a Jane Austen or regency novel.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div><div><b>A Teacher (2020) </b>and <b>Tampa (2013), My Dark Vanessa (2020)</b></div><div>In limited series A Teacher, a teacher has an inappropriate relationship with her student. I thought this was interesting as it gives the perspective of both teacher and student. Two good companion reads to A Teacher are Tampa and My Dark Vanessa, though I do think there is a difference in that the teacher in A Teacher was unhappy about her life and the relationship she started with her student was part of her imploding her life instead of making certain difficult decisions, while the teachers in the two books are a lot more predatory in that they went into teaching specifically to get access to children. Tampa is quite controversial, it is a first person narrative of a teacher, Celeste, so you are basically in the head of a predator and she is unrepentant in her pursuit and conquest of teenage boys. My Dark Vanessa is from the perspective of a woman, Vanessa, now in her 30s who had a relationship with her teacher when she was 15, one she is adamant was consensual. However, as the Me Too movement gets more press coverage and previous allegations of sexual abuse by other students resurfaced against her teacher along with new allegations, she reluctantly reexamines their relationship…was she too just another victim. Of the two books I definitely recommend My Dark Vanessa, the middle of which is a bit long but the last quarter or so was really good.</div><div><br /></div><b>Home Before Dark (2020 - 2021) </b>and <b>The Good Girls Guide To Murder (2019)</b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In Home Before Dark, a young girl, an aspiring journalist, starts her own newspaper and begins to dig into the unsolved case of her father's still missing best friend who had been abducted as a child, where she believes the man imprisoned for his supposed involvement in the crime was wrongly convicted. A good companion read is The Good Girls Guide To Murder, it is quite similar in that they both have precocious girls trying to investigate a crime in which they believe the main suspect was falsely accused and the victims are still missing. In The Good Girls Guide To Murder, five years ago, a teen girl went missing and the prime suspect is her boyfriend who eventually committed suicide after texting a confession of her murder. In the present day, Pip, a girl in her last year of school before university decides to make a podcast for her final year school project focusing on the local murder suicide as she believes the boyfriend was falsely accused and the real killer is still out there living among them.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>Promising You<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ng Woman </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(2020) </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and <b>Sadie</b></span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (2018)<br /></span></span></b><div>In Promising Young Woman Cassandra’s best friend died when she was in medical school and for the years after that Cassandra has been out on a reckless and suicidal quest for justice and revenge. In Sadie, Sadie’s sister was recently killed and she herself had recently disappeared out on a desperate, reckless and suicidal quest for justice and revenge. Sadie is a dual narrator novel; the other (the first is Sadie) narrator is a radio host who has been tasked to start a true crime podcast. When Sadie’s disappearance gets his attention, the missing Sadie becomes the focus of the podcast. If you like Promising Young Woman I highly recommend Sadie as it is quite similar in its basic premise and is soo good. However, in all its bleakness Promising Young Woman still had moments where it was darkly funny…Sadie on the other hand is relentlessly bleak and heartbreaking.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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This week's <span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday Movie Picks is </span><b>Romance Tropes Edition - Forced Proximity</b><br />
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