Loved Mickey monologuing and his kooky interiority, till it gets swallowed up by the plot. Even the big theme competes for space with the bombastic Mark Rufallo character whose whole deal is puzzling.
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Apollo 13: Survival 2024
Having recently watched all of the distracting but truly middling alternative space race show For All Mankind, I'm well primed for space jargon and scenes of an exasperated flight director at NASA mission control. This is a nice pair, an archive-filled telling of the aborted 1970 moon landing which failed due to a near fatal electrical fault but nonetheless happily landed in the sea. It's definitely not on the level of The Shuttle that Fell to Earth or Challenger: The…
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American Primeval 2025
A fan of such things (violent men with big hats trudging through snow at night) could make their way across American Primeval's wintry Utah, but otherwise... horrible uninteresting Mormons aren't very entertaining. Nothing memorable, nothing to say. The women in this show spend far too long in manacles and we spend too long with a boring, emotionless, gravitas-less Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant impersonator. And it looks poor - desaturated, blue tone, fake grain, wobbly claustrophobic angles.
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Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone 2022
Oh, to be given a pile of archive footage and license to slap some ruminative captions on it. Great stuff. Delivery mechanism for eerie and unfamiliar film recordings of the disintegratated USSR, presented (in classic style) in provocative contrasts.
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