[watching] What have you viewed recently? (II)

My little granddaughter loves "Spidey and Friends"
 
I watched Glass Onion last night, the second of the Knives Out films. Great fun murder mystery that twists and feels perhaps a little more on the nose now with the way that the Tech Bros are behaving.
 
Conclave my friends generally liked it, but I felt I had watched it for 3 hours but it's runtime was 1h50m.
 
Watched Fletch on Netflix and it was light hearted fun.
 
Enjoyed Black Doves on Netflix. Sure, the tradecraft was dire but I was working around how that could be addressed. Carried along with its energy.
 
Finished watching seasons 1 & 2 of The Eminence In Shadow on Netflix. If I was still a teenage boy this would be my favourite show ever, hitting loads of the classic harem manga/anime tropes as hard as it can manage. The gratuitous bikini episode in season 2 was a particular highlight, with the nice touch that the clueless harem protagonist (obviously not present) was still the excuse for the episode via one of the show's standard misunderstandings.

Recommended for the recovering teenage boy.
 
Finally finished The Umbrella Academy on Netflix. I enjoyed it, but it was a very downbeat ending.
I perhaps should have started again as it was a while since I watched the previous seasons.

No regrets at following four seasons of the very dysfunctional Hargreeves family though.
 
The Instigators (Apple TV+) - a Matt Damon and Casey Affleck heist-gone-sideways movie that's entertaining but does struggle to find its feet really. There are moments it suggests that it's meant to be darkly comical but then it flips to playing it safe. I did like the curve balls though.

The Gorge (Apple TV+) - a monster movie crossed with a love story. Decent effects, a bit silly but lots of energy carried this through. The design of the threat was done very nicely. Enjoyed it, but perhaps really a popcorn movie.
 
Finished my re-watch of the Green Man which I first saw ten years ago but couldn't recall much about. I was prompted to see it again after reading the novel by Kingsley Amis. It's a reasonably faithful adaptation but I was disappointed that it didn't feature the eponymous creature. In the book it's a genuinely frightening composite monster, sort of like a golem made from various bits of wood material. All we get in the TV series is a sub-Evil Dead nasty tree. I'd guess the FX budget might have something to do with this. The special effects are pretty poor even for 1990 and a big wooden golem chasing people down the lane would almost certainly broken the bank and probably have looked pretty duff. On the plus side it's got some nice location shooting around Cerne Abbas and some good performances including a genuinely chilling appearance from the late Michael Culver as the undead but "still injaynious" Dr Underhill, and a highly amusing comic turn from Nickolas Grace as a trendy vicar.
 
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