Your recommendations
Your recommendations
What do you recommend to Read, Watch and Binge?
Hi friends!
There has been a substantial influx of people here, so I thought about presenting the newsletter again.
I developed Read, Watch, Binge because I constantly feel overwhelmed by the millions of options of movies and TV shows to watch. This is in addition to the hundreds of thousands of book releases.
I enjoy watching essays on YouTube about those subjects, but I often find myself forgetting about the recommendations later on. Oftentimes, the channels don't even mention which stories they are referencing.
Even after that, there's the whole hustle of finding out which streaming platform I can watch each recommendation.
Here, I try to be a new online friend that sends recommendations directly to your email, with the link to the correct streaming platform. While I do that, I babble about other things in my head, so win-win.
You can check more on my recently re-written Fixed Post.
And what about you?
I know everyone has good recommendations that are kept safe for their dearest friends.
I also know that we are always looking for something new.
Maybe you are looking for a specific recommendation? Or, did you just finish a book, or series, or just watched a movie that everyone should know about?
Leave a comment below. Maybe someone here has your next favorite story.
And a movie to watch:
I just rewatched Hail, Caesar! from 2016 and found it this time around to be almost a perfect movie, a gentle satire about a Hollywood studio in the early 1950s trying to complete the shooting of a Biblical epic when the movie’s lead actor (played by George Clooney) is kidnapped. The studio head (Josh Brolin) almost seems like a doofus at first but is really the key to the studio’s success (and the movie).
Some of the pleasures of this movie are the scenes we get to see from other movies the studio is shooting that are typical of the era: a cowboy and his horse (Alden Ehrenreich), a water ballet (Scarlett Johansson), a musical number with dancing sailors (Channing Tatum), and rehearsal for a stage-play drama where the director (Ralph Fiennes) attempts to get the recently-added cowboy actor to say his line the way a member of high society might.
Joel and Ethan Coen have revisited the Hollywood of the past in earlier movies, such as Barton Fink (and even the bowling dream sequence in The Big Lebowski). Here it’s a funny take on the industry, and Brolin, with his little mustache, is just great.
Available on Netflix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMUUKtF_BF0
A Stitch in Time almost sounds like a sci-fi sequel to A Wrinkle in Time, but it’s actually a six-part BBC documentary series by Amber Butchart, who calls herself a “fashion historian.”
I would just say historian, as this is real history viewed through the lens of clothing that people wore in the past and its associated technologies. She focuses on a particular garment in each episode and even enlists artisans to re-create the garment for her to try on.
I found this series far more interesting than I ever would have expected.
Available on Amazon Prime.