Thursday Movie Picks #442: TMP Television Edition - Amnesiacs

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is TMP Television Edition - Amnesiacs

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I'm picking the first three series that came to mind. Also drop by my blog Sunday night, I’ll be posting the final 2023 schedule.

 

The Sinner (2017 - 2021)

In season one, a woman fatally stabs a man while at the beach with her family, without knowing why. This is an anthology series with each season a new crime is investigated by the main detective character. There’s a memory loss element in the first season, where the accused suffered some missing months in her early 20s causing her to have a violent physical reaction to the victim in the present day. The series presents its stories in a very eerie haunting manner though it is not always consistently good I think; I prefer only the first and fourth season.

 

Tabula Rasa (2017)

A woman suffering from amnesia is involuntarily committed to a mental institution when she becomes a key figure in the disappearance of a local man that she doesn't even remember she knows due to her condition. Out of my three picks today, I like this Belgian limited series the best. It’s a slow burn as it slowly reveals what actually happened and the extent of the main character’s amnesia. To me, Tabula Rasa is a little like a mash up of Shutter Island, The Orphanage and Before I Go to Sleep, so if you like them, check this out.

Surface (2022 - )

A woman suffers complete memory loss after what she is told was a failed suicide attempt by jumping off a ferry. This is a mystery, unfortunately not much of a big mystery in the end, it just went round and round but it did look pretty though. So a bit disappointing. It is a getting a second season. The first season covers the main character’s most recent past, while the second season it seems from how the last episode ended will go further back in time to when she was in London, before she emigrated to the US. 

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #441: Winter Sports

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Winter Sports

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This is coming in late, so it’ll be a quick one. I am picking my most recent watches.

Mystery, Alaska (2006)

Ice Hockey. This is a nice little sports drama (though a little forgettable) about a small town community hockey team that gets a lot of attention I think because they play on a naturally forming ice rink…it was a frozen lake or pond.

Eddie the Eagle (2015)
Ski Jumping. I didn’t enjoy this film. I thought it was fairly boring.

I, Tonya (2017)

Ice Skating. This is the movie today that I really like and it was such a surprise. It’s a sports drama biopic with some mockumentary elements and dark humor.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #440: Movies with Flowers/Plants in the Title

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Movies with Flowers/Plants in the Title

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This theme is suggested by Brittani. This is quite an easy one, there are plenty of movies I've seen. I'm picking the ones that were disappointments.

The Black Dahlia (2006)

I remember there was a lot of hype with this movie because of the cast, director and it is based off a real unsolved crime. I think it was trying to be noir-ish and also some kind erotic drama/thriller but ultimately it all fell flat and didn't get good reviews.

La Vie en Rose (2007)
Yes it won an Oscar for best actress, but I did not like it. It was so dreary and boring.

Violet & Daisy (2011)

Two flowers! I think Saoirse Ronan is a good actress and had been looking forward to this and had thought it could be a mix of Hanna and The Professional. Nope...it was boring and Alexis Bledel was too old to play a teen.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #439: Retro Chic (Movies set in the present day but has a retro look)

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Retro Chic (Movies set in the present day but has a retro look)

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I had initially wanted to pick Wes Anderson's films, but it was hard to tell if they were ever set in the present day, because everyone wore retro costumes and I can't remember if they ever featured present day tech gadgets, which kind of signaled the movies were set in some undetermined past. Anyway I'm picking the ones I like.

Nancy Drew (2007)

I don't remember the plot, but I had thought it was charming that while Nancy is a present day teen who uses tech gadgets in her sleuthing, she, her father and Ned all dress like they're out of time, from a different decade.

Stoker (2013)

I really like this one. India and her whole family their whole lifestyle seem like from a different period.  It's only, I think, when she goes to school that we realise how out of time and weird they all are.

Dope (2015)

I don't even really like hip hop but I thought this was quite a fun movie following the adventures of a geeky teen and his friends, during their senior year of high school, who all like 90's hip hop culture and dresses like they are from that decade.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #438: Combat Sports

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Combat Sports

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This is going to be short since it's been some time since I've seen these movies and I can't remember enough to say a whole lot. I'm picking the ones I like.

Warrior (2011)

I think I was rooting for Edgerton's character because he competed to financially support his family while Hardy's character is just soo broody.

Win Win (2011)

I really enjoyed this heartwarming gem of a dramedy.

Here Comes the Boom (2012)

I remember being surprised to have enjoyed this. It was funny and rather sweet. 

 

Southpaw (2015)

Lots of drama. Gyllenhaal and the child actress were good as father and daughter.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #437: TMP Television Edition - Non-English

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is TMP Television Edition - Non-English

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This is a recurring annual theme. I'm picking new series that was released the past year.

 

Parallels (2022 - )

Four teens sneak out at night to celebrate one of their birthdays at an unused bunker in the woods. In the midst of their celebrations a blackout occurs and when the lights come back on, two of them have disappeared and of the two remaining, one has become a 30 year old man. In an alternate version of reality, the two that disappeared are the two that remain. In each version, the remaining teens try to cope with the loss of their best friends while trying to figure out what exactly happened to them. When I was a kid I did watch some of Disney's tween/teen TV series. We only get the English ones then so most were the American shows, and they were not really good at all. I find most of the characters on those shows rather annoying, they tend to dress in candy colored loud clothes and act very cutesy and the acting is often over the top. Parallels is French Disney series, and I was so surprised by the how good it is (which makes me wonder if the American shows have improved as well or still very childish stuff). It's a nice sci-fi drama that was decently acted. I wonder if this will get a second season since I do think the first season seems like a complete story.

 

The Empress (2022 - )

About Sisi the Habsburg Empress. While I know of Sisi, I know nothing about her, so for that reason I found the series interesting. However, I did not like that they made it too modern...such as the costumes. The particular corsets being used were obviously not from the period as well as some other things like the chunky statement jewellery. It's like they have some modern costumes and just decided to make do with them and try to match them with some things that they do have that look a bit more period appropriate...it all made it all rather mishmash. I suppose they didn't have the budget? Or they just wanted a modern look to entice young or new audience to Sisi's story...and I guess it kinda worked because this German series has already been renewed for a second season.

 

1899 (2022 - )

In 1899 a ship from Europe bound for New York receives a message consisting of coordinates halfway through its journey. Believing the message is a distress call from a ship that disappeared four months ago on the same route, the captain decides to change their course to go to the received coordinates to find the missing ship, to the displeasure of its 1500+ passengers and crew who wants to get to New York on schedule. If you like the German TV series Dark, 1899 is made by the same people so I definitely recommend it. I love the first season of Dark, the subsequent seasons not as as much with the third and final season being extremely convoluted and never fully explain some things. Anyway so far the first season of 1899 has been entertaining. This is similarly a sci-fi mystery drama like Dark, although in the beginning it almost plays out like a ghost story. Another thing that got 1899 a bit of attention is that it has a multi-national cast and is a multi language TV series. While Netflix has done this before with the 2020 series Into the Night, 1899 does it on a bigger scale with a larger cast and I think it makes so much sense because of course a ship will have people from different countries and speaking different languages and I think the show portrayed it well. And if you enjoyed this series, I'd also recommend watching the making of feature. 1899 was filmed using Volume technology, something that I think The Mandalorian was the first to use, and it was just amazing to watch how they filmed the series. I have yet to hear if this has been renewed, I hope it does as it was certainly set up to have a second season.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #436: Book Adaptations

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Book Adaptations

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This is coming a little late. Anyway, I'm picking some of my recent watches, which were all adapted from YA books I haven't read.

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)

This is a charming gentle teen drama about two teens stuck in a time loop repeating the same day. Each day they go out looking for a new adventure to stave off the boredom of being stuck and find perfect things like seeing a skateboarder complete a perfect trick, witnessing a bird of prey swooping into the water catching a fish and watching a treehouse lit up with fairy lights; all moments they would've have missed if they had not lived the same day again, while also trying to figure out why they are stuck and and how to escape it.

Rosaline (2022)

Adapted from a book that is a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet from the perspective of Rosaline, you know the girl Romeo had been infatuated with and conveniently forgot about when he met Juliet, in a high school setting. The movie, however, changed the setting back to Renaissance Italy, which I'm glad as it made it a lot more fun to watch with the costumes and beautiful sets and locations. The movie is also funny and Rosaline played by Kaitlin Dever is pretty good as the title character.

Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

I love this, it was so much fun and just very funny...my favourite of today's theme. The movie follows Birdy a 14 year old girl in medieval England as she navigates becoming a young woman and trying to avoid getting married off by her family to some rich suitor in order to prevent them from getting bankrupt. The cast is great in this especially Bella Ramsey who plays the title character and just has that look...like she belongs in medieval England, which I suppose was why she was in Game of Thrones too.

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Thursday Movie Picks #435: Female Revenge Movies

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Female Revenge Movies

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Back in 2019 we did a revenge theme where I picked The Prestige, Leon and Turning Pages.

This time, we're doing Female Revenge Movies. I'm picking the first 3 that came to mind.

Do Revenge (2022)

Two girls decide to get revenge on the ones that have wronged them by doing each other's revenge, kinda like Strangers on a Train. There are things that I like and don't with this movie. I do not like the costuming in this. It is just too loud. The story is okay, with a little twist in the middle something I did not expect, which was quite diabolical. It also kinda reminds me a little of Promising Young Woman with the whole guys selling the "good guy" image hard are the worst.

Promising Young Woman (2020)

A woman traumatized by what happened to her best friend seeks revenge. This is soo good, one of my favourites from 2020. Like I'm probably never gonna watch it again because it was a hard movie to watch...but it is such a good movie. It has some humorous moments but is also ultimately really really dark. And I love the soundtrack, the songs were perfect for the scenes. You know there was this sort of "happy relationship with the new boyfriend montage" halfway through and I couldn't help but be happy for the main character because her life had been so bleak, but then I was like no...no...this can't be right. Why must it be a guy that makes her happy...it just feels wrong for the movie and the main character. Why can't it be a new friend, a new job or a new hobby...or whatever. Anyway...of course the "happy relationship" was a setup for another development in the story and it made perfect sense because it's just a well thought out and well written movie and a good performance by Carey Mulligan the "Promising Young Woman" in the title. And what a great title right...it's actually a reference to the Stanford case.

Gone Girl (2014)

A man becomes a suspect when his wife disappears. Amy orchestrated the whole complicated revenge because she's mad that after playing the "cool girl" their whole relationship, her husband cheats on her.

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Thursday Movie Picks #434: Movies in which the Actors Didn’t Like Each Other

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Movies in which the Actors Didn’t Like Each Other 

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Today's theme is a suggestion from Birgit. I’m picking movies that I knew the co-stars had issues on the set before I saw the movie.

Twister (1996)
I only saw this recently and had read that Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton who plays a divorcing couple, both meteorologists who goes storm chasing together could not stand one another during filming. The stars themselves have never confirmed the reports of the feud. Anyway, apparently a sequel to the movie is being planned.

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy reportedly did not get along on set. They have publicly confirmed it somewhere and said it was due to the pressure of filming a sequel to a well known movie which heightened tensions or something along that line.

Fifty Shades Trilogy (2015 - 2018)

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan were rumoured to have not gotten along. Both have apparently said the rumours are untrue. But who knows? Too little time have passed, both actors are still young and not A list enough, so they wouldn’t want to be known as difficult to work with, so it kinda make sense even if there was a feud, they would deny it.

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Thursday Movie Picks #433: Halloween/Television Edition Horror TV Themes/Scores

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween/Television Edition: Horror TV Themes/Scores

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 6 - Halloween Edition: Horror Movie Themes/Scores
October 13 - Halloween Edition: The Final Girl
October 20 - Halloween Edition: New Home
October 27 - Halloween/ TMP Television Edition: Horror TV Themes/Scores

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So I'm picking the themes/scores I like and I feel like I am probably forgetting something.

 

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2020)

This is one of the most Halloweenish sounding opening theme song ever .

 

 

The Walking Dead (2010 - 2022)

I may not like the TV series anymore because it got very manipulative and draggy, but I can't deny it has a good opening theme song and I liked the soundtrack of the seasons I saw.

 

True Blood (2006 -2014)

The opening theme song just fits so well and it's rather catchy.

 

 

 

X-Files (1993 -2018)

The X-Files was so much a part of my childhood. The song, that whistling is just so creepy.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #432: Halloween Edition - New Home

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - New Home

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 6 - Halloween Edition: Horror Movie Themes/Scores
October 13 - Halloween Edition: The Final Girl
October 20 - Halloween Edition: New Home
October 27 - Halloween/ TMP Television Edition: Horror TV Themes/Scores

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There are a lot of horror movies about people having just moved into a new home, so I thought this would make a great theme with plenty of choices. I’m simply picking some of my most recent watches.

Intrusion (2021)

A woman and her husband who just moved into their new modern home in a small town become victims of a home invasion. This sort of reminds a little of The Invisible Man with the leads living in a modern home with lots of secrets. Intrusion is not as good but still entertaining.

Things Heard & Seen (2021)

A young family moves out of the city to upstate New York for the husband’s new job at a college. At their new home the wife becomes increasingly isolated and senses a presence of spirits while strains start to appear in the couple’s marriage. This has a low rating on IMDB, but I rather enjoyed it. It’s a mix of marriage drama, crime, suspense and a haunted house movie.

Aftermath (2021)

Strange things start to happen at a young couple’s new home which they had bought at a great deal as it had been a scene of a crime. The premise reminds me a lot of Within but this I thought was a little better. Still this is more of a B movie, one if it played on TV probably ended up on Lifetime channel.

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Thursday Movie Picks #431: Halloween Edition - The Final Girl

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - The Final Girl

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 6 - Halloween Edition: Horror Movie Themes/Scores
October 13 - Halloween Edition: The Final Girl
October 20 - Halloween Edition: New Home
October 27 - Halloween/ TMP Television Edition: Horror TV Themes/Scores

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I’m picking movies I like with strong final girls who save themselves.

You’re Next (2011)

A home invasion occurs during a family reunion with a little twist - one of them has survival skills. Horror with a little dark humour, it’s good.

Ready or Not (2019)

A bride newly married into a wealthy family that owns a games company is forced to play a dangerous game on her wedding night. If you like You’re Next, you definitely want to watch this; it also has plenty of dark humour with a little gothic horror.

Prey (2022)

A young Comanche woman fights to protect her tribe. I know this is probably not the kind of flick one thinks of as a Final Girl movie, but when you really think about it, it fits really well. This the first Predator movie I have ever seen, it’s a prequel to the original and I thought it was good. I like its early 18th century period setting which took the battle of wits up another level since the Predator’s alien tech and weapons are so far far more advance.

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Thursday Movie Picks #430: Halloween Edition - Horror Movie Themes/Scores

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - Horror Movie Themes/Scores

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 6 - Halloween Edition: Horror Movie Themes/Scores
October 13 - Halloween Edition: The Final Girl
October 20 - Halloween Edition: New Home
October 27 - Halloween/ TMP Television Edition: Horror TV Themes/Scores

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First week of this year’s Halloween Edition and it’s an easy theme for me. I love lullabies in horror movies  because the vocalisation in them make them all the more haunting and here are three of my favourites.

Lullaby Part 1 and 2 from Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
It’s two tracks but it’s very similar. I haven’t seen the movie in awhile, I suppose part one was played in the beginning and part two at the end. Anyway the lullaby is creepy sounding and Mia Farrow’s humming just adds to the eerieness.

Casper’s Lullaby from Casper (1995)
This maybe from a kids horror comedy but there is nothing juvenile about the Casper’s Lullaby. It is beautiful, sad and haunting.

Pan’s Labyrinth Lullaby and Mercedes Lullaby from Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

I love this movie and the lullabies here are so haunting and beautiful. Pan’s Labyrinth Lullaby is an instrumental piece with a more polished sound. Mercedes Lullaby is slightly different with Mercedes, the mother, humming. Both tracks are very short and it’s general tune is what I have found myself humming often.

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Thursday Movie Picks #429 Mystery/ TMP Television Edition - Cold Cases

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Mystery/Television Edition - Cold Cases

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Inspired by the 2000s TV series called Cold Case, this is another theme that I mistakenly believed was going to be easy. Anyway, I still managed to find three picks and am going with all British series.

 

Unforgotten (2015 - )

This is a pretty good crime mystery drama. It’s a one case per season series and usually a season opens with a body being found which tend to be a missing person from a cold case several years or decades old. I like the series but I do kinda find one thing annoying that is the lead female detective. She is sometimes overly emotional, like sniffling and nearly tearing up emotional even when briefing her subordinates. I get that the cases are heartbreaking, but if you are a commanding officer and need to cry…go into supply closet or something, do it in private…the people you lead do not need to see you all weepy.

Bancroft (2017 - 2020)

A young detective investigating a cold case finds that a senior detective may be connected to it. This is a decent crime thriller with a cunning manipulative villain. The last episode of season 1 was pretty diabolical.

 

The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021)

Based on a real police cold case investigation of unsolved 1980s murder cases. This is another decent crime drama and a sobering reminder how long it can take to catch a perpetrator. The murder cases were two decades old and it took about another half decade to reinvestigate and build a case against the perpetrator.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #428 Mystery Edition - Female Investigators (Private or Police)

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Mystery Edition - Female Investigators (Private or Police)

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This theme is quite a challenge. I think there are much more female investigator roles on TV than there are in movies. Anyway, the past year or so I've been watching a lot of older 2000s and 1990s movies that I've missed and here are 3 that had female investigators.

 

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

I had watched Lethal Weapon 4 more recently but I think I liked this better and Rene Russo who plays the internal affairs officer got a lot more to do here, while in 4 she was just the pregnant girlfriend.

 

Copycat (1995)

Criminal profiling was probably such a new thing to explore in a crime thriller back in the 90s, now it's almost a given in every crime movie and TV show. Anyway Copycat was just very 90s and it was a pretty good thriller; I like it. It also had good performances from its two female leads, Sigourney Weaver who plays a psychologist and Helen Hunt who plays the detective.

Taking Lives (2004)

I don't think this is as strong as Copycat. It has a little more cheese but still an entertaining enough crime thriller in which Angelina Jolie plays an FBI agent assisting the Canadian police to profile and catch a serial killer that takes the identity of every new victim.

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Thursday Movie Picks #427 Mystery Edition - Media or Technology Mysteries

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Mystery Edition - Media or Technology Mysteries

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Third Mystery Edition. I'm going for the most recent ones that I like.

 

Kimi (2022)

A tech worker finds evidence of a crime in a work file. I really enjoyed this. I came in knowing very little of what it was about because the synopsis I had read was quite vague. Basically a woman, Angela, works for a company that runs a virtual assistant service called Kimi which is something like Alexa and Siri. She gets the failed commands audio files where Kimi doesn't understand the garbled commands or sometimes because as a computer Kimi just doesn't understand the context the user is using. So Angela is tasked to make sense of these failed commands and program Kimi to be able to read such commands better in the future. Then one day she gets a very unintelligible audio file where it seemed to be picking up the sounds of a crime occurring in the background and so she goes on a quest to find out which user's file it was and try to get help. Anyway, the premise is so interesting and I found it to be a pretty good thriller that feels very current. Also one of the characters in the movie actually references a real life case where the police wanted to use an Alexa recording as evidence in an investigation.

 

Upgrade (2018)

Set in a tech obsessed near-future, Grey a mechanic who becomes a quadriplegic after an attack that also killed his wife, is offered a secret unapproved experimental operation where he receives a chip implant that allows him to regain his mobility. Disappointed that the police investigation of the attack that killed his wife hasn't gotten anywhere, now secretly mobile, he begins his own investigation. I've picked this a few times before and it's here again because it is such a good sci-fi thriller that is very techy.

Searching (2018)

When his daughter goes missing, a father desperately goes through her laptop tracing her digital footprints to find her. I thought I had picked this at least once before, but apparently not. I really like Searching. It's a very good suspenseful thriller which does a great job of presenting the apps, websites, messages, etc on the screen as it tells the mystery of what happened to the girl.

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