Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-11 (Sunday)

On 5/12/2025 9:17 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
 

Step Up Revolution (3D blu-ray) 2012 sequel which movies the action to
Miami.  This means lots of gratuitous shots of women in bikinis.

 Dude! It's tuitous. There is no reason to watch without cheesecake.
 

A Simple Favor (4K disc) 2018 mystery movie directed by Paul Feig and
starring Anna Kendrick as a single mom who befriends the mother (Blake
Lively) of her young son's friend.  Blake asks Anna for a simple favor,
watch her young son, and then lots of very spoilerly things happen.
Henry Golding also stars as Blake's husband.  This was mostly background
noise with the director's commentary.

 Was this made for tv? I watched it when it was new and disliked it. I
can't believe they made a sequel.
 

It had a theatrical release and made a bit of money.  I liked it for all the twists and turns when it first came out, but once you know all the twists and turns it's replay value goes down.  I was extremely happy for the commentary track, but even that barely held my interest.

Watson - "My Life's Work Part 2" - Season 1 finale which has Moriarty
and Watson pretty much going head to head against each other.  This was
a surprisingly good finale, made possible by Watson, and I think his
entire team, being willing to throw away the Hippocratic Oath.  The only
weak link in this episode, and the series in general, was Randall Park
as Professor Moriarty.  I have liked Park in everything I've seen him in
except for this show.  Moriarty is clearly supposed to be evil, and Park
is just way too likeable to pull off evil.

 Heh, yeah. I noted that in the pilot episode. Louis Huang cannot pull
off brilliant evil mastermind.