Movie and TV Reviews - November 2023

Short reviews of what I watched in November. 

Movies

• The Meg 2: The Trench. This was marginally better made than the first Meg movie, but every bit as stupid. If you like giant monster movies, this one is for you. (Amazon Prime)
• Searching for Sugar Man: A 2012 documentary about Rodriquez, a Detroit musician who faded into musical obscurity after releasing two albums in the early 1970s. But he sold half a million albums in South Africa and didn't know about it until a couple of fans tracked him down in the 1990s. Highly recommended and the music is great. (TVO)
• Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary. Half-Life is my favourite computer game and it's held up pretty well after 25 years. If you've played the game, you'll enjoy this documentary. (YouTube)

TV Shows

We finished watching Payback, Bosch Legacy season 2, Antiques Road Trip season 24, and single episodes of Fake or Fortune, Human Footprint, and Impossible Engineering. 

• The Cleaner: A British comedy about a forensic cleaner. It didn't work for me, probably because I couldn't follow the dialog because of the strong accents and the lead character was an ass. (BritBox)
• Ghosts (seasons 1-4): A young couple inherit a British mansion that turns out to be haunted. It's funny and sweet (as one of my family described it) and a nice antidote to the grim British dramas we've been watching a lot of. (CBC Gem)
• The Changeling: I've heard good things about this but it's another show where we watched two episodes and decided it wasn't for us. (Apple TV+)
• The Art Detectives (season 5): We both enjoy shows about art and art history and this has the benefit of showing the detective and forensic work involved in tracking down the attribution of old paintings. (TVO/Tubi)
• Antiques Roadshow (season 27): We decided to take a break from Antiques Road Trip for a while and catch up on some Antiques Roadshow (the US version). (PBS)
• Irvine Welsh's CRIME (seasons 1-2): A grim, intense police procedural with an emotionally tortured detective and a nasty villain. It's set in Edinburgh, so we had to turn on closed captioning. (BritBox)
• For the Love of Dogs (seasons 9-10): When we were taking care of Nancy's mom, we watched this a lot. The late Paul O'Grady is funny and charming but the dogs are the real stars of the show. (CBC Gem)