Is Centennial Park having a moving beer moment?
Fashion of Moving Centenial Park of Winghaus fame
Just been around the world – 11 cities in 7 countries on 3 continents in eight weeks – from Grasmere to Auckland via Abu Dhabi. So plenty of stream bingeing.
My show of 2024 – Sky’s Day of the Jackal – on Sky and Peacock. Brilliant writing, music, acting and directing. Eddie Redmayne reigns. Go Bianca, Rodin and The Jackal.
If you liked Succession, you’ll love the Australian Outback’s take on families / business / legacy and cattle – Territory. Gritty, authentic, Aussie modern neo-Western from Netflix.
Series Two of The Diplomat – Netflix. Brilliant plot, addictive characters – Golden Globe winner, with Rory Kinnear as the British PM making every moment on camera count. And what a cliff hanger!
Dark Winds – also on Netflix – reminiscent of Longmire. Riveting story of two Navajo police officers teaming up to solve a brutal double murder. Close to home and the reservations that border our Sonoran Desert home.
You Would Do It Too. I spend a lot of time in/around Barcelona and was drawn to this. It’s new (on Apple) and has started well.
And finally – I’m a sucker for heist movies – here’s one from Sweden (go figure!) – Helicopter Heist based (loosely I suspect) on a real story. Another example of Netflix increasing internationalism.
Unexplained heat-wave ‘hotspots’ are popping up across the globe EurekAlert
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86-YEAR OLD DIRECTOR TO 120-YEAR OLD INDUSTRY: Please Keep Hiring Me to Spend Your Money! Gladiator IIdirector Ridley Scott compares Denzel Washington’s character to Trump: ‘A clever gangster.’
Ridley Scott, the director of “Gladiator II,” said during an interview that Denzel Washington’s character in the movie, Marcinus, was similar to President-elect Trump.
“[Macrinus] was a prisoner of war — probably at a North African state — and actually was taken to Rome probably as a gladiator. Survived. Got free. Got into the business of maybe making wine and bread. He evolved into a very rich merchant selling s— to the Roman armies — food, oil, wine, cloth, weapons, everything. He maybe had a million men spread around Europe. So he was a billionaire at the time, so why wouldn’t he [have ambitions toward the throne]? ‘Why not me?’ He’s also a gangster — very close to Trump. A clever gangster. He creates chaos and from chaos he can evolve,” Scott told The Hollywood Reporter.
I’m so old, I can remember when comparing an American president to a gangster was the highest compliment: Quote of the Day: Obama Should ‘Go Gangsta.’ CNN columnist Roland Martin urges the president to unleash his inner Al Capone.