What are you watching?

[Big Frank]

I started watching Sinners (2025), 7.5/10 stars, on Prime. One minute in the narrator is talking about people known as "griots". But she pronounced griot as gree-ott, not gree-oh. I know Hollywood gets a lot of things wrong, but it's only a minute in they're already losing my interest. I don't know what it says if an idiot like me can get this right, but none of the dozens hundreds of people involved in making a $100 million movie can correct such a glaring mistake, which is the premise the whole movie is based on. I'll still watch it, but may groan and moan my way through. I wonder if there's a movie about the Salem watch trials?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31193180/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griot

Did you know there's an America's Black Holocaust Museum? Did Hitler have a hand in exterminating millions of Black Americans that I never heard about? Public schools are pretty bad, but it still sounds like something I would have heard of at some point in my life if the Black Holocaust was real.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSPeHZ6l-OY

[alfsauve]

Beyond Paradise released a Christmas special.  Yes, it’s a little Christmasy but well done.  I guessed the surprised character, to the amazement of Miss Kitty. 

I’ve conjectured it would be a nice cross-show plot to have DS Williams from Beyond Paradise, get promoted and transferred to St, Marie as the Inspector for Death in Paradise.  Let’s just say they writers have taken a small step in that direction.

[Big Frank]

I saw Predator: Badlands a couple of days ago. Predators always like to use a barrel shroud when they hunt. You know, that shoulder thing that goes up.  

Yesterday I watched the latest episode of Fallout, then some other stuff on Amazon. I saw an episode of the Upload series last night. I guess I only watched the first 2 episodes before, and it ran for 4 seasons, so I have some catching up to do. I never finished watching The Expanse or Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, either.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31227572/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7826376/

[alfsauve]

Nice little British cyber attack serial movie(6 episodes) is NightSleeper, about an express British train, sort of a red-eye, that traverses the length of the isle overnight.  The two leads were great.