Aussie Shazza – Google

This is s poignant touching film about a couple going on a last trip by motor home to visit family and friends. One of them has dementia. They both happen to be men and in a gay relationship. But this film is not about being gay. It’s not about two men in love with each other. Their sex and preferences are really inconsequential. It’s a love story about how a healthy partner copes with the imminent loss of the love of his life, and how the affected person is also coping with his loss and not being a burden to his partner. Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci are great in this movie. Two wonderful actors.

I have watched this on cable TV a couple of times. Maxine Peake is fabulous in this. It makes you sad and angry. It’s poignant and it’s a story of courage, resilience and cover up. I remember this happening and it was shocking. Being Australian I didn’t realise how long the families had to fight for justice. I didn’t know of the lies and coverup. Some have still not been punished as they should have, especially in my opinion David Duckinfield, the policeman in charge who panicked and froze. Then covered it up, saying the fans that died were drunken louts. Some were only kids. The police coerced another policeman to lie about ambulances and seeing Anne’s son alive being carried from the pen to the pitch on an advertising board. The coroner and the government were complicit in the cover up. It should never have happened.

I’m not a gamer so know nothing about the game or the story. I’m not into this zombie apocalypse fantasy stuff either. But I like Pedro Pascal as an actor, and I loved Chernobyl, so I thought I’d watch the first episode. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The sequences set in 1983 were fantastic edge of the seat stuff. That’s all I’ll say. I liked the young actress that played Pedro’s daughter, she was very good in the role. Anna Torv had that beaten down weary character down pat as well. Like Chernobyl, it’s is all extremely well done. I don’t know how it fares against the game but I’ll be back for episode 2.

I saw this movie as a young teenager in the 70’s and it became a firm favourite. Sidney Poitier is wonderful in it. I’ve seen it several times since then and again just last night. Some of the actors are a bit old to be the students, but they do well to portray their bored student, soon to be adults, characters. The song by Lulu who is in the film was a big hit at the time. Whenever it is on the TV I watch it. I loved it enough to buy the book and read it. It is a product of its time though, portraying issues that may not exist in the same way today.

We don’t have these coupons in Australia. I’ve watched this show a few times and always find myself yelling at the TV ‘this is crazy!’. These people need help. It’s an addiction. They do it to get their ‘high’ just like a drug addict. The stockpiles always have lots of items that have expiry dates. I’m sorry, but you simply can’t use 200 bottles of pasta sauce before they expire. Same for cookies, pasta, chips, soft drinks, candy, sauces, canned food. It’s hoarding, just not with junk. Look I can understand if you do this to donate the food to charity or make up care packages, but most of these delusional people don’t. And some little old lady or person on a low wage, or a poor person, who really needs to save 50c on a grocery item, misses out because of these selfish women who want a display case of 300 hand washes in their basement. It should not be encouraged by stores or they should limit the amounts so everyone can get even a small benefit.

I’m through three and a half eps. I’m enjoying it but it’s a little overlong in parts. A tight two 90 min episodes could have told the story better. I knew nothing about Anna Delvey and haven’t seen any of the actors in anything apart from Anthony Edwards a long time ago in ER (I think ?). The Anna Delvey character is played so dead pan and monotone it’s boring. I’m sure the real Anna would have had some lighter moments. Unlike others commenting I like the actress playing the journalist. Yes she’s obsessed but many investigative journos are. Plus she has a point to prove to the male bastions of the newspaper/magazine industry. I found this believable. Anna’s story is amazing in the detail she went to to pull her scams off. It also shows how gullible her shallow victims were. Money makes the world go around today and all of the investors saw dollar signs and not much else. That’s pretty typical in the finance industry. Everyone is out for a buck. I don’t understand how when it started to unravel she just didn’t get the heck out of town, but by then I think she really believed she was Anna Delvey and truly lived that life. Look, it’s not brilliant, but it’s enjoyable and it’s far from the worst thing I’ve ever seen. I think some of the ‘reviewers’ here were reading too much into it, commenting about Trump, Obama and an all white cast. Yes it was an all white cast cos that’s who she scammed!

David Tennant is brilliant as Denis Nielsen. The best performance of his career. He nails his cold dark lifeless eyes. Daniel Mays is terrific as Peter Jay, the detective who investigates the murders and wants to keep going until all the victims are identified, so the families can have some closure. The 3 episodes kept me riveted. No actual murders are shown. It’s not a standard murder drama. But it’s so This is well worth watching. But it’s so well done you dont need the gory bits. It’s chilling enough without them.

I’m Australian, so I didn’t know anything about Roger Ailes or Fox News, other than it was Trumps favourite channel. I happened to flick the channel to the movie Bombshell and found that interesting, so I sought info on Ailes and found this mini series. I’d never heard of it and am not sure it’s been on TV or cable here. I watched the first episode and was hooked. Over two days I binged watched the 7 episodes. Russell Crowe is fantastic as Ailes. He captures the craziness of the man, the anger, the paranoia, the sleaziness. No wonder he won awards for his portrayal. The whole cast were great. There wasn't one miscast actor. It’s worth watching for Russell Crowes performance alone. Naomi Watts was excellent as Gretchen Carlson, and Simon McBurney was a scarily accurate Rupert Murdoch. His Aussie accent is so good I thought he must have been an Aussie! The most interesting thing about the whole series for this non American was seeing how much influence the media has on politics. And as Murdoch runs the newspapers here it’s eye opening to say the least. Overall an enjoyable series that will make your skin crawl.