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Movies
Mickey 17 (2025) - A black comedy about a dystopian future (or now?) where a religious political leader sets off to a new planet to create the ideal white utopia. In order to do that, they have Mickey, who volunteered to be an expendable to escape a desperate situation, who repeatedly dies while being put into dangerous situations so no one else has to die. He gets reprinted and his memories downloaded into the new body. It's a neat premise, but a bit heavy-handed and beats you over the head with "classism is bad". From the director of Parasite, so the classism thing wasn't surprising, but the heavy-handedness was. Based on a book, which might be a better experience.
Fly Me to the Moon (2024) - A fictionalized account of the first moon landing by the US. NASA is struggling, so the president hires a PR expert to turn it around. I thought it was very cute and entertaining, but slow in some spots.
TV
My Life is Murder S1 (2019) - Lucy Lawless, who in addition to being ridiculously watchable, plays a retired police detective who gets pulled back in to solve a mystery of the week. Comfort TV like all the other detective shows.
School Spirits S2 (2025) - Peyton List stars as Maddie, a ghost trying to solve her own disappearance. This is so good! I can't really say anything else because spoilers. Based on a graphic novel.
Mickey 17 (2025) - A black comedy about a dystopian future (or now?) where a religious political leader sets off to a new planet to create the ideal white utopia. In order to do that, they have Mickey, who volunteered to be an expendable to escape a desperate situation, who repeatedly dies while being put into dangerous situations so no one else has to die. He gets reprinted and his memories downloaded into the new body. It's a neat premise, but a bit heavy-handed and beats you over the head with "classism is bad". From the director of Parasite, so the classism thing wasn't surprising, but the heavy-handedness was. Based on a book, which might be a better experience.
Fly Me to the Moon (2024) - A fictionalized account of the first moon landing by the US. NASA is struggling, so the president hires a PR expert to turn it around. I thought it was very cute and entertaining, but slow in some spots.
TV
My Life is Murder S1 (2019) - Lucy Lawless, who in addition to being ridiculously watchable, plays a retired police detective who gets pulled back in to solve a mystery of the week. Comfort TV like all the other detective shows.
School Spirits S2 (2025) - Peyton List stars as Maddie, a ghost trying to solve her own disappearance. This is so good! I can't really say anything else because spoilers. Based on a graphic novel.
