Christmas 2020 is finally over, Covid and the lockdowns are not.
I previously complained about this year's Christmas TV programs and being stuck alone at home, isolating and only watching Freeview.
Well, it wasn't all bad. I enjoyed the following.
- Bridge of spies. Staring Tom Hanks, he really is a solid, reliable actor and one of my favourites.
- The shape of water, both this and the previous film were both set around 1960 with the cold war as a background. But they were very different. One of my obsessions is looking up online reviews of films on websites such as IMDB. And seeing what other films, actors were involved in. This film had very unusual reviews, review after review gave it the bottom grade 1 out of 10. The rare 10 out of 10 review explained what the film was really about. It had a twist at the very end and clues scattered throughout the film leading up to that final twist. If you didn't get that, the film made no sense.
- Dad's Army, 2016 version. I previously avoided it because I considered it sacrilege to remake a classic. It really is mediocre, but so were many of the TV episodes and this film was in the same spirit.
- Tower Block. So many unlikeable characters in that tower block. I was on the side of the shooter. I could emphasize how he lost it and decided to shoot the lot of them.
- The amazing Mr Blunden. I was very impressed with the leading actress, so I looked up her and the film on IMDB. What a surprise, she was a leading child star of British film and TV in the early 70s. Lynne Fredrick. Then her career took a nosedive, she became the fourth and final wife of Peter Sellers. She was 23 he was 52. A 29 year gap. She was vilified by the establishment as a gold digger. Things then went from bad to worse to even worse. She died in 1994, aged only 39, from alcoholism and cocaine addiction.
I hope new year's TV is better.
