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Wait, is that Anne-Sophie or her sister Sophie-Anne?!! Ha ha 
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SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN
For the music only( not saying Lee Majors isn't hunky...)
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The Family
Netflix documentary about a secretive right-wing Christian group who has extended their control over decades through American government and across the world. It's very interesting but will make you despair about government and religion even more than you probably do. Will make you never want to hear the word "Jesus" ever again.
Oh Geez..
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I gave Altered Carbon an episode but won't be watching on. Joel Kinnaman has zero charisma, the detective isn't a good actress, the premise is okay, but the world-building is patchy: a hotel that's not had a guest in fifty years is still open and acts like a clingy stalker to its guests; the main guy has been frozen for 250 years but is still supposedly going to be a tech-savant - the new world seemingly not having moved on or it doesn't seem to surprise him all that much because he's not an emotive actor. I guess i'm just not a cyberpunk fan.
I think I gave the first ep ten minutes before dumping.
Thor loves it, naturally.
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Great film composers 1970s part one. (Sky arts)
They set the episode up by saying "coming out of the 60s, the 70s were the start of something, you can see that virtually everyone who is working in composition for film scores is experimenting."
They do a mini bio of Rota, and cover his background, working with Fellini n Visconti building up to The Godfather, and Godfather part 2.
Georges Delerue next, (i didnt know he worked in a factory by day during ww2 and played piano in bars at night). They cover his career for french films like Jules et Jim and working with Goddard and Malle, and also Bertolucci's The conformist. Then they mentioned Fred Zinneman's A man for all seasons and his Day of the jackal, which they described as "subtley-menacing". And Truffaut's Day For Night.
They they moved onto Jerry Fielding, who they described as one of the "most daring composers". They mentioned how his career was hampered by refusing to name names to the house of un-american activity, and it was 1962, when he was 40 years old, before his career began with Advise and Consent. They cover Peckinpah's Wild Bunch then moved on to Straw Dogs and Outlaw Josey Wales. The said Fielding was a "remarkable sound sculptor".
Next up marvin hamlish and Bananas and The Way we were and The Sting, and his adaption of Scott Joplin's music.
Surprisingly they also covered Small. "The 1970s were known for its themes of paranoia and no composer caprured this more vividly than Michael Small" - and they cover Klute, Parallax View and Marathon man.
Then its Lalo Schifrin...with Mission impossible. Cool hand Luke and Bullitt. And working with Siegel on Coogans Bluff, and then Dirty Harry. They described him as the "grooviest of 70s composers" - they even show Charlie Varrick and The Eagle Has Landed.
70s part2 will be jaws, star wars, taxi driver, Rocky and the omen and star trek.
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Crisis on Infinite Earths. Despite its bouts of awkwardness, this is the Justice League movie I've been waiting for, with a slew of fun cameos, callback references, and revealing tidbits (apparently, Routh's Kal-El did undergo his own Superman III after Returns), ending with significant (for this multiverse) reprecussions, and even nods to a certain streaming service. It makes a rather convincing case of using main characters as McGuffins.
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Just watched the first two episodes of THE OUTSIDER on HBO. Jason Bateman is the director, and I didn't care for how he directed himself. He really underplayed his role. Also, didn't care for the pulsing and irritating sounds called music. Parts of the story needed more emotive music.
On the other hand, it is a very interesting mystery with clues slowly unfolding. I read the novel, so I know where it is heading. My husband was totally flummoxed by the alternating forensics and clues.
I'm sticking with it. It is dark and at times too understated but interesting.
I found it compelling and well acted overall. Maybe not the strongest of HBO's series(so far at least), I thought it interesting and watchable. The flashback moment showing a certain character with blood all over their mouth, dripping down to their shirt and talking to a little girl in the park is an image I can't remove. I will continue to watch at this time.
Yeah im up to episode 2. Nice pace, well made, good cast, intriguing. I guess it goes downhill from now?!
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Im up to part2 of Deadwater fell.
A mystery fire kills a family. But theres more than meets the eye. Its only problem is - i kid you not - a flashback scene every 14 poxy seconds. Seriously annoying
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Outsider.
ep3 getting weirder. Its well made but truth is I dont trust it. Ive never liked Stephen King's usually pathetic endings so im expecting a typically feeble conclusion. Hes always struck me as someone who concocts sometimes great concepts, then just dooesnt know where to take them.
We will see.
Great film composers 70s pt2
Starts with john williams n mini bio and covers Poseidon/towering inferno/jaws/star wars/close encounters, also looks at David Shire and the conversation/Pelham 123/All the presidents men. Herrmann's Taxi Driver; Stanley Myers Deer Hunter and cavatina; Goldsmith's The Omen; Nitsche's Performance/Exorcist and One flew over cuckoos nest.
Then to dave grusin and 3 days of the condor/heaven can wait/The Champ and wraps up with Bill Conti's Rocky.
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Yes we covered it.
Why didnt you ask? Couldve saved you typing out such a long and boring review! 
And what on earth - after 8 episodes of mean n gory violence and a good storyline - was that pathetic rooftop ballet about? Wtf???! I mean The Yakuza suddenly meets West Side Story? Some plank had a bad day at the office with that idea.
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I'm still only up to the 50's.
Learning about how Alex North and Duke Ellington introduced jazz scores to Hollywood, and this fellow named Bernard Herrmann, who worked with a chap called Alfred Hitchcock on the odd occasion.
Alfred who?
Yes the "experts" are film critics/specialists trying to wing it as film music experts, so for any collector loosely versed in the last 6 decades there isnt a great deal of insight. Probably more interesting to average Joes with no knowledge of film music at all.
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