Happy Thursday, everyone! Best of luck to everyone who got hit by Idalia this week. We get a very small edge of it here in Virginia (and it's part of the reason it's only 70 today). So let's look as a distraction at what I've found recently.
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I keep pushing 2018's A Simple Favor at people; it's a smart, funny little weird thriller from writer-director Paul Feig that has a really fun cast led by Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. If you liked Knives Out at all, this is for you. It's just weird enough (Linda Cardellini shows up in a small role that's a great use of her) and it also looks amazing (there should have been a Best Costume nomination for it).
Seriously, the looks in this movie are amazing. Plus, a fantastic soundtrack of French pop songs.
A Simple Favor is streaming on Prime, Fubo and MGM+.
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The classy stuff this week? Terence Malick's World War II epic, The Thin Red Line. I go back and forth on Malick (I think the Chastain sections of The Tree Of Life are brilliant, but the Sean Penn and dinosaur stuff is incredibly up his butt) but a friend of mine made a very convincing case for this as under appreciated so I kept an eye out for it.
The Thin Red Line is currently streaming on Starz.
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Finally this week, I ran across the complete 10-season series of an Italian series titled La Piovra (The Octopus) which apparently ran from 1984 to 2001 and I was previously completely unaware this existed. About the Mafia and it's influence on Italian politics, this is an absolute blind buy for me, one that I saw in the store and googled and immediately grabbed because this is the kind of niche show that I absolutely had to check out. It's only 48 episodes over those 17 years and hey, why not?
La Piovra is currently streaming on something called MHz.
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