I must have watched this as a kid because this post got me to re-watch it and I recognized parts of it, but I also read serveral of the Oz books way back when, so I could have been remembering that.

Anyway, I can see where it might scare kids, but it is no worse than the Dr. Who episodes that send kids hiding behind the sofa.

I haven't been thrilled with series TV this year. The best have been on subscription services with not much on broadcast networks. My personal favorite has been 'North of North' about a native woman in an artic native town (contaminated with white hosers). I did not like 'Paradise' but I watched it. I could not sit through 'Suits LA' or 'Doctor Odyssey'. My mom likes 'Grosse Pointe Garden Society' but I don't care for it. She gave up on 'Sherlock & Daughter', but I ended up liking it.

Here's an unsorted list of the new stuff I've at least kinda liked.

• North of North (Netflix)
• Bad Thoughts (Netflix)
• Common Side Effects (HBO)
• Dying for Sex (FX/Hulu)
• Watson (CBS)
• Sherlock & Daughter (CW)

Sure, you're getting worked up about her misrepresenting the number of illegals, but I'm over here all incensed that she's saying a person is just ONE meal for an alligator? As if gators wouldn't join in and make a party of it? How dare she! An adult alligator will eat 20 pounds of food a week during warm weather but can go for weeks without eating during the winter. That means a generic 100 pound human should feed at least 3-4 gators (or up to 5 if we don't count bones as food). Suggesting a person is only one alligator meal is like suggesting a person isn't unemployed once they're run out of unemployment benefits -- and who'd be stupid enough to suggest that?

Given those directors, I recommend Ozon's Criminal Lovers and -- if you can find the uncut version -- Greenaway's Baby of Mâcon . You could try A Zed & Two Naughts as a substitiute, but it isn't as good. You might also try Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre or Solondz's Happiness . I'm presuming you've seen Dogville, Breaking the Waves, The Element of Crime, The Five Obstructions, Dancer in the Dark, Manderlay, Enter the Void, Vortex, Irrevesible, Climax, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Mulljholand Drive.

From best to worst:

Tiger Bay (1959)
Gillie, an orphaned eleven year old tomboy who lives with her Aunt, witnesses a young Polish sailor, Bronislav "Bronek" Korchinsky murder his ex-girlfriend after she spurns him. Initially, the sailor does not know Gillie saw the murder, but abducts her once he finds out. Meanwhile, the police investigate everything.

The Brutalist (2024)
Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor and Bauhaus-trained architect László Tóth flees to the United States after being forcibly separated from his wife, Erzsébet, and orphaned niece, Zsófia. He strives to make a go of it, reunite his family, and deal with the demands of a wealthy client.

Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2018) Documentary film covers Clapton's early childhood, including the trauma of his mother leaving him to be raised by his grandparents, and his career, consisting of "a single-minded mission to raise the profile of the blues in popular culture". Clapton's tragedies, include his infatuation with George Harrison's wife, Patti Boyd, struggles with drugs and alcoholism, and the death of his 4-year-old son Conor are highlighted, but his racist tendencies and other misdeeds are glossed over with only brief mention if at all.

Guns Don't Argue (1957) Low-budget docudrama about the early achievements of the FBI in defeating the most notorious criminals of the 1930s. Inaccurate and dull.

A Minecraft Movie (2025)
Five people transport to the minecraft world. I couldn't be bothered to pay much attention to this stupidity.

Okay, I shouldn't have said 'everyone', but people in the theater cheered for him -- and when the movie let out, I heard people putting him in the hero role. I'm glad to hear a wider audience saw it as I did.

I've come back to mention a few others that hit different re-watching as an adult: Zulu, Khartoum, Kim, Gunga Din, and basically any other grand epic where the Brits are portrayed as gallant heroes battling uncivilzied local populations -- until you look at it in terms of colonialism and see the Brits as pompous captialists parroting government lines about their own greatness and glossing over the legitimate reasons the locals want the colonizers gone.

Unrelated: everyone watches the movie Falling Down as if the lead is our Hero, but try watching it (as I did) seeing him as the unhinged villian.

The gay thing was one of the things I only got when rewatching Lawrence of Arabia.

No idea what tysto is. but I wanted to warn people that it is not secure.

Great film! I've seen it repeatedly because I've had to make other people watch it ("Subtitles???" -- "Yes! Just go with it. Trust me!").

The Deer Hunter. I first saw it when I was in my early teens and didn't care about the guys, the wedding, hunting, or any of the opening activities. I was not looking at the characters nor how they were reacting nor noticing themes.

I watched it again in my 40s and thought it was really good. The way the men communicate (and don't), the things that failed to stay the same for the characters, the loss, and everything -- it all felt deeply poignant. I still thought the movie was a bit too slow, but I finally 'got' why people respected it.

I had a similar experience with Lawernce of Arabia, but I liked that one as a youth and on re-watch was amazed at everything that went over my head, which made the adult viewing much better and cemented it in my mind as one of the best movies of all time. Another of the best is The Man Who Would Be King, but I've always abjectly adored that one.

I just encountered this. I looked for images of "White House Rose Garden" and 90% of I got was images of it getting bulldozed for getting paved over per Trump's recent command.

So I looked for images from 1980-2010 and 90% of I got was historical stuff NOT from that time range -- like yellowed photos of how it looked before Jackie O' made it the Rose Garden, or pictures of MLK or other random gardens.

There HAVE to be images of the Rose Garden from before Melania ripped out the trees in Trump's previous term. Where did they go?

The best collection I could find was on this unsecured site: http://tysto.com/grounds/rose-garden.htm

After that, it was, sadly, two dog pics on a Daily Mail article. One with a Bush the other with Regan and Thatcher: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2440219/George-W-Bush-pays-tribute-dead-dog-13th-birthday.html

Most sites only have stuff like this current/bulldozer stuff: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a65124864/white-house-rose-garden-paved-photos/

Where did all the other photos go??????

Perhaps if my eyes were rotated 90 degrees on my forehead, I'd appreciate vertical images, but since they are situated to binocularly scan a horizon, I'd rather stick with wide formats, thank you. Extremely old movies were square and you could sometimes notice dark corners due to the circular aspect of light that had entered the lens failing to reach the edges of the negative. Films gradually got wider and wider. That's generally been a good thing, though I think we've passed a maximum for easy enjoyment without needing to move your head to track motion on theater screens.

I might back up to 16x9, but I certainly don't want to see 6x13.

'Space Babies' aside, I loved Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor. I agree with Davies that no matter what happens, there will be more episodes.... though maybe not for several years and maybe it will require a break from Disney.

But the point of Fermi's Paradox is that we are not seeing evidence of alien intelligence anywhere. We don't expect it here on earth, but we look out in space and see no light/radio/other waves that look like messages; no energy bursts or other anomalies that don't have better explainations (though some have no explaination at all). The Great Filter is simply a hypothesis -- like the Dark Forest -- as to why we don't see evidence of intelligent life in space.

If we went back to caves, we'd have great-filtered ourselves.

I like the radio show "Wait, wait! Don't tell me!" more than Jeopardy. The radio show is always about stuff that got recent attention and mostly news. Jeopardy can be anything and when there's a category about sports or pop music, I'm sunk. It feels like the categories can be tailored for the contestants, and it is too easy to 'get' me with a subject with personalities who are uninteresting to me.

I didn't realize that was an original show. I figured it was a U.S. remake of the British show, Humans.

Pekin duck

edit: source: I owned Pekins.

And I'm like, "How'd his cheeks DO that?!"