Movies and TV shows that Nancy and I watched in August. I do these posts mainly so I can keep track of what we've been watching, so the reviews are cursory. Now that it's baseball season, there will probably be fewer items here.
Movies
- Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Somewhere in this bloated hulk of a movie, there's a really good 45-minute-long episode of the original TV show screaming to get out. (Paramount+)
- Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. Again, an almost 3-hour-long movie that could have, and should have, been no more than 90 minutes. Even then, it would have been a total waste of time.
- Jurassic World: Rebirth. The parts with big dinosaurs doing nasty things were good,. The rest of it was pretty meh. Out of the four movies we watched this month, this was the best, which is also a comment on the sad state of big Hollywood blockbusters these days.
- Superman: Another wasted 2 hours. There was nothing in this movie that was better than the Christopher Reeve Superman.
TV Shows
- Antiques Road Trip (season 10): Our journey though the gewgaw cluttered antique shops of Great Britain continues.
- Ridley (season 1): A police procedural set in the gloomy lake district in England. I found it rather slow. Main reason for watching is that it stars Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty). (PBS)
- The Good Ship Murder (seaons 1-2): A murder mystery about a lounge singer on a cruise ship who doubles as a private detective. Light entertainment set in various ports around the Mediterranean. (BritBox)
- Ludwig; A puzzle creator becomes a detective by impersonating his missing twin brother. It's an implausible idea, as all such impersonation plots are, but we enjoyed it. Funny and more than a little twisted. (BritBox)
- The Liverpool Murders: Ashleigh and Olivia. A documentary-style show about two murders in Liverpool. Not the best example of this type of show. (Amazon Prime)
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