Shame they’ve hiked the prices by akmost 30% this year.
All these subscriptions are getting quite costly.
Disney+/Paramount/Netflix/Prime (now with advertisements unless you pay not to) as part of Prime membership/Crunchyroll/Apple Music/Qobuz…
BritBox is shutting down having been assimilated a while back by ITV X - a shame as I hate the ITV X app on AppleTV so a separate BritBox one was just the ticket. Even if you pay for ITV X almost everything seems to have advertisements.
Talking of Disney+ I watched Shogun a few nights ago, thanks to @Jamiewednesday for the heads up, not sure so far but early days.
What really tickled me was that after Shogun I watched one of my all time favourite Westerns - Tombstone with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer.
So many movies/TV shows now come with trigger warnings at the start.
Tombstone is full of gun violence, an implied rape scene early on, lots of booze, laudanum addiction and an opium den.
Not that I want them but the ‘trigger warning’ was something along the lines of ‘Has discussions about tobacco’ - crazy, and completely misses more hazardous pursuits.
A very lavish production, but I’m not immediately taking to Cosmo Jarvis’s portrayal of Blackthorne having watched the earlier series with Richard Chamberlain as a lad. I think from the 2 episodes so far though that it goes into a lot more detail of the political intrigues at play.
I see what you mean about odd camera effects, some almost as though they have drones sweeping overhead. The Osaka views did seem exaggerated but I have no idea if this is historically correct or not in terms of scale.
I suspect the Anjin’s character will mellow as he adopts elements of the culture.
I’ve always intended to read the books, another item on the unfulfilled wishlist!
It also reminds me I have the DVD boxset of the earlier version somewhere! Time to revisit.
Enjoyed the first two episodes of this intriguing whodunit series (no spoilers please). Apart from the solid cast and twisty plot, the cinematography and visual effects are well above average.
I’ll weigh in with specifics later, but I’ve been very intrigued by the content on Apple + of late. They seem very committed to producing great content and damn the expense apparently.
I watched the first episode last night and thought it was very good. Great (and very rude) script. Beautiful production and it looks like Julianne Moore is having a blast
All the light we cannot see, on Netflix. A war drama, which is something I wouldn’t normally watch.
It reminds me of Sunday afternoon drama when growing up in the 60s. The sound has a dubbed quality, but isn’t. Hugh Laurie, Mark Ruffalo, Aria Mia Liberty and Louis Hofmann plus many fine actors. Has elements of Indiana Jones first film theme without the chases.
We are finding it intriguing and a bit gripping. Only 4 episodes.
