Bandersnatch

Its been a while since I watched Black Mirror

I liked the Phillip K Dick references

I preferred the nostalgia of seeing Trellic tower and Notting Hill as they appeared in the 1980s. I remembered typing in Basic. Beyond that, it is just a computer game. I mean there is nothing there is not here that is not in Broken Sword. Just a better budget and better script

Bird Box

Okay, there is nothing wrong with this. I quite liked it. Pretty strong cast

Malkovich, Bullock. A lot of good people in the lower rungs. I thought it was Avon's Barksdale playing the love interest. It's not. It is Trevante Rhodes.

I liked how Sandra's character was not likeable at the beginning. The world going down the toilet was well done. Though there is a lot of scenes of extras running up and down the street.

There are some nice twists. One problem I had was I thought the group of survivors huddled in the house at the beginning trusted each other too much too soon. I think it would have made more sense to have them in a supermarket. I think John M drank the most malt liquor I have seen in a while

I liked the dig at Maze runner and the walking dead. I liked the groans when the Supermarket lad told people that he got his info off the internet. The supermarket kid had a nice character arc

The reactions when they were riding over corpses was well done. Again a very strong cast

I had a real problem with Tom Hollander as the crazy enemy within. I remember him from The Thick of it, and from Rev., I am simply not afraid of him. I know he does more dramatic roles now. But honestly, I thought even a pregnant Sandra Bullock can take him down. Not to be that guy, but I thought Avon Barksdale was in the room.

The river and rapid scenes were beautiful countrysides. 

Sandra is old enough to be her love interest's mother. Oh well, what is sauce for the goose!

Peru was hit first by the plague /Demons

I saw the Hollander twist coming like Christmas. I did feel the rapids and river scenes, and the last scene at the end held my disbelief at bay. For a popcorn summer flick, the scenes with Boy and Girl were really quite deep. Sophie's choice meets King Solomon

Quite fun

Round up

A happy and prosperous 2019 to you all

I had a decent Christmas

 I played Santa at work, this was interesting and often fun.
With the exception of one Thursday where the system crashed and we were playing catch up all day.
That and one particular set of teens, who really did not want to have their pictures taking.
I got to hold a lot of babies and chat with kids.

I liked the girl who asked for a blue diamond

I got my daughter an Amazon tablet, and I received Amazon Alexa

My daughter is well. She went to a chifa restaurant last night

The Enemy of the World

Patrick Troughton has not met many Mexicans His accent as Salamander crosses the Med, several times, but I don't think it manages to  go as far as Mexico
The second Doctor wears long johns
Victoria is quite pretty. There is a cook that complains about everything... no microwave. Granted that is class thing.
It seems there are two plots meshed together here.
The Salamander as a megalomaniac trying to take over the world. The deception of the ``survivors'' from the faked nuclear war.  I am not really sure if the former plot makes sense. I don't understand why the Salamander would bother with them. Was it supposed to be a harem, why? Yes it is his way of controlling the Suncatcher satellite but ehh really ??
PS, I would love to see a Suncatcher satellite floating in orbit completely forgotten about in New Who
The Universe of 2019 has an older woman pushing about a large pram. Despite the rockets leaving between Sydney and central Europe. There is also a hovercraft, this is the past's future
The food taster is a pretty black woman Fariah. She is killed off in true Hollywood style, it is also hinted I think that Salamander had used her as a concubine
Zones would be mentioned again in the battle with the Merka
One might make political capital of a Mexican employing robot harvesters.
Troughton does some great work flipping between characters in a heartbeat.
Its nice to see someone thrown out of the Tardis..