What are you watching?

Tonight I'll resume Rogue, a four season series starring the delectable Thandie Newton as an undercover agent. So far, it's proceeding nicely.
 
"Martha Graham Dance Company: We Are Our Time" on PBS celebrating the company's 100th anniversary.​
 
Some movies:

Finished up Apex starring Charlize Theron on Netflix. It seems a cut below Theron's usual fare, but it's still a gripping survival flick with Charlize being hunted in the wilderness by an outback crazy. A good watch, overall.

Next on Netflix was the final(?) installment of the Venom franchise - The Last Dance. As usual, fun and goofy with great action. I will not be surprised if there's another to come.

Next. the movie of the day on Prime: Dust Bunny, a strange yet highly entertaining mash-up of genres starring engaging newcomer Sophie Sloan as the little girl who ants to hire Mads Mikkelson to kill the monster under her bed; nice lesser part for Sigourney Weaver. Don't wait for explanations - you won't get one (or need one). Just sit back and enjoy.

Next - on Netflix, The Takeover, a tidy little Dutch (with good dubbing) action/thriller about a hacker who hacked the wrong thing. Standard genre stuff, but a fun watch nevertheless.
 
Movies:

Revisited Aliens, the excellent James Cameron sequel to Alien. Two completely different tones: Alien as a brooding sci-fi thriller that set the stage, while Aliens is the inevitable balls-out action flick the fledgling franchise was asking for - and it denivers in sspades!

Sigourney Weaver is awesome as Ripley, young Carrie Henn (who never pursued much of an acting career) as Newt, Michael Biehn, fairly fresh off The Terminator and a few lesser-knowns who became stars like Bill Paxton (who played one of the punks at the L.A. Observatory at the beginning of Terminator, and Paul Reiser.
Holds up like it came out yesterday.

Next, a revisiting of Shaft (2000) starring Samuel L Jackson as the nephew of the original, Richard Rountree, who gets a healthy supporting role. With kinetic action and a plot that rolls out easily as we go, it is a fitting and exciting follow-up to the original. So glad they kept the main Isaac Hayes soundtrack and theme - how could they not.

Now, I'm halfway through Mindhunters. I though this might be a precursor to the excellent Netflix series Mindhunter, but it is not so. This is a standard exercise with some maniac killing off the cast as you go. But it's still good enough.

Update: Finished Mindhunters - turned out to be an utter load of crap. Surprised to find out it was directed by Renny Harlin. OMG how far he has fallen!
 
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