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Put this on a loop and this would make a great video for TV showrooms. Malick’s meditative essay about our corner of the universe is a feast for the eyes. The wonderful landscape shots are interrupted by video cross-sections of life that rather spoil meditation.

Stone is on great form. He’s even objective. He managed to present Snowden’s story well, with tension and dynamism. Levitt is excellent, the final glimpse of the real Snowden proves how well his transformation went. Information and freedom are more valuable that security.

Another brilliant season with a story line involving a good detective digging up the past (at last Maddie is put to good use). The case prepping with Chandler is refreshing and the search for J. Edgar on Haiti was also pleasing. His new partner at LAPD looks interesting and keeps his cool even when faced with severed heads. Bosch’s final elimination of the bad guys was particularly well done this time. I hope Coltrane comes back.

These modern remakes of classics should be forbidden. The cheap drawing and senseless plots just impair kids’ abilities to think. And the modern lessons are frightening. At least it used to be fun when they used to kill each other for no reason at all. I’m off to dust off some old video cassettes.

Fascinating. America accuses itself of crimes against humanity. This procedural dialogue-based movie with the dogged Driver has drive and an unexpected outcome (luckily with a closing title showing that justice will not be served in any case) even though it’s based on actual events. The Report is admirably convincing with raw flashbacks showing enhanced interrogation techniques in practice, which just serve to emphasize the message that, thanks to this film, we don’t have to read the 7,000-page torture report to find out. P.S: I liked the reference to Jack Bauer.

Brutal action, inimitable one-liners. Cop killers are a great topic, especially for Harry who tends to incline toward rather rough solutions to criminal cases. Holes in the head, exploding mail boxes, nudity too. A classic that still has something to say.

A powerful season where we at last someone gets their comeuppance. This time, regular police work is spiced up with an excellent storyline about a family and their problems with the Chinese. Bosch continues to prove to be a more than solid alternative to The Wire. Titus is king.

Blessed be the name of Amazon for buying The Expanse and bringing us another season, which probably concludes Miller’s story. The new Earth looks fantastic, but only in the later episodes…when the water recedes. The rather low-key story about the dispute between the colonists and the traffickers is completely transformed in the season finale. The sequences inside the enormous alien structures look just like how I imagine Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness. Perfection.

Another episode that grabs you and doesn’t let go. Titus has got Bosch down to a T and right at the start you can see the extreme objectivity that he uses when approaching this case involving a cop-hating lawyer. He has a bigger fish on his place and that fish wants to get to know him better. Quality.

A Danish minimalist western with the excellent Mikkelsen. In places, Levring quotes Leone verbatim, not hesitating even to give greater dimension to the characters, perhaps with a touching memory. The straightforward story with a bloody climax will please fans of this genre. The juicy acting performances (Pryce is perfect in the coffin) enhance the terrifying atmosphere of fear. It’s just a shame that Eva doesn’t have much to say and doesn’t come across as particularly sexy. Why couldn’t Jonah Hex have turned out like this?