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Old 01-13-2017, 06:47 PM   #141
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This site may give you some information when there are streaming problems.
http://downdetector.com/status/amazo...-instant-video

I had a problem last evening with Amazon and Netflix. Other streams were OK.
Tonight all seems better.
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Old 02-08-2017, 11:21 PM   #142
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Enjoyed both Goliath and Sneaky Pete. Sneaky Pete was an unintended 3 day binge fest; now we're eager for season 2!!
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Old 02-09-2017, 08:57 AM   #143
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Has anyone watched 'Sneaky Pete' with Giovanni Ribisi?


Very good. Another couple I like on Amazon is The Beginning of Everything and The Man in High Castle. Just started the latter one but better than I thought it would be.

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The Kettering Incident - kind of an X-Files Down Under. Nice scenery, metamorphosis requires at least 8 episodes.

Also, under Audible channels - Ponzi Supernova, Bernie speaks! (a tad over-produced) mildly entertaining.
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....under Audible channels - Ponzi Supernova, Bernie speaks! (a tad over-produced) mildly entertaining.
A condensed version presented @ Radiolab

Radiolab Presents: Ponzi Supernova - Radiolab
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Wolf Hall!

This PBS series has been available on Amazon Video for a while.

Fantastic dramatic production. Watching it is a total immersion in the early English renaissance (Tudor period). The characters in their costumes look like they've stepped right out of the Hans Holbein paintings of the period. The settings are magnificent buildings of the period. Very detailed settings. Fabulous acting. You feel like a fly on the wall during an incredible period of history.

It's about the politics surrounding Henry VIII's break from Rome and establishment of the Church of England and the early Reformation movement. As seen (and intrigued) mostly from the point of view of Thomas Cromwell who rose from a blacksmith's son to king's minister.

Adapted from the 2009 historical novel same name.
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Do not, I repeat do not watch "Dirty Grandpa".

I wasted two hours of my life the other day, thinking with DeNiro, the movie can't be that bad, can it? Yes, the movie is that bad. The movie is filled with F-bombs that even sweetheart, Julianne Hough (from Dancing with the Stars) throws out a few.

As charming as DeNiro's character was in "The Intern", his character is totally crude and offensive in "Bad Grandpa".
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Do not, I repeat do not watch "Dirty Grandpa".

I wasted two hours of my life the other day, thinking with DeNiro, the movie can't be that bad, can it? Yes, the movie is that bad. The movie is filled with F-bombs that even sweetheart, Julianne Hough (from Dancing with the Stars) throws out a few.

As charming as DeNiro's character was in "The Intern", his character is totally crude and offensive in "Bad Grandpa".
This is my problem with most things labeled as "comedies" ....in fact it's starting to be my problem with the late night shows, on-line political comments and things like that. They think the cruder and meaner and crueler, ie more bulling they are, the more they mock people, that somehow they make their point of view more valid.
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This is my problem with most things labeled as "comedies" ....in fact it's starting to be my problem with the late night shows, on-line political comments and things like that. They think the cruder and meaner and crueler, ie more bulling they are, the more they mock people, that somehow they make their point of view more valid.
I've always felt that as far as comedies, being cruder and meaner is kind of a short cut (weaker approach) to get the cheap laughs and effect. I suppose sometimes there's a fine line. Movies like the Austin Powers series does have the crude factor but done with good humor as opposed to finding ways to offend and shock.
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I must agree; bathroom humor and crude language is a lazy way to get a laugh from the sophomoric audience that spends the most money on going to the movies. I turned off "Bridesmaids" on the plane when the "joke" was having a bunch of women have sudden diarrhea in the bathroom sink.
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This PBS series has been available on Amazon Video for a while.
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That was an excellent production. If I recall right, it only ran 2 seasons. Does Amazon show more?
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Just watched "Anthropoid," a new item to Amazon. A movie about Czechoslovkia during the Nazi occupation. Resistance fighters are given the assignment of assassinating one of the chief architects of the "Final Solution." Based on actual events. Slow at the beginning, but builds up at the end.
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Amazon has a new show called Loch Ness--a present-day murder mystery set in duh, Scotland--that started three weeks ago. There is a new episode every Monday. Really enjoying it.
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We are watching it on Acorn and really enjoying it. The scenery is wonderful.
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The movie "The Dressmaker". Very entertaining.
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That was an excellent production. If I recall right, it only ran 2 seasons. Does Amazon show more?
I think it was just the six episodes. There should have been another set involving Anne of Cleves and the eventual disgrace of Thomas Cromwell as this was covered in the books, but I don't think it's happening.

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The Mirror and the Light is an upcoming historical novel by Hilary Mantel, the final part of a planned trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII.[1][2]

The Mirror and the Light is expected to cover the last four years of Cromwell's life, from the execution of Anne Boleyn (1536) to Cromwell's execution (1540).
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We just started watching the series "The Night Messenger Manager". It is loosely based on a John Le Carre novel.

Starts out with a British hotel manager in an upscale establishment and a pretty woman who is the girl friend of a notorious wealth Egyptian. She is privy to some secrets of a British arms merchant.

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We just started watching the series "The Night Messenger". It is loosely based on a Johe Lecarre novel.

Starts out with a British hotel manager in an upscale establishment and a pretty woman who is the girl friend of a notorious wealth Egyptian. She is privy to some secrets of a British arms merchant.
I think you meant "The Night Manager". Thanks for the suggestion - I love Le Carre.
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Just saw A Man Called Ove about a cantankerous old man who has been laid off from work, and now roams around his neighborhood looking for HOA rules violations to enforce. It's in the Swedish language and has English subtitles. I liked this movie. The main character is acted well, and the story is interesting. There are flashbacks to events in his life throughout the movie. One word of warning: there are three different occurrences in this movie of the viewer being slapped in the face with political correctness, and it sticks out like a sore thumb, as though someone decided to squeeze the scenes in, eve though they do nothing for the plot.
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