Subscription Addiction
Well a lot more streaming has been consumed over the past week or so. I had intended to get out more but rail engineering works and then flooding/trees /landslides on tracks meant I gave up my intended trips into London. And I still haven’t managed to get tickets for Paul Mescal in Streetcar at The Almeida. So, instead I have found myself subscribing to two more streaming services (BFI and MUBI - both trials at the moment but I am terrible at cancelling subscriptions). Little Joe Strangely gripping slow burn sci-fi thriller with hints of Day of the Triffids. Looks great, all red and green colours, a scratchy, eerie soundtrack and sense of something looming. With Ben Whishaw, Emily Beecham, Kerry Fox and Kit Connor, Little Joe is a genetically engineered plant named after its creator’s son, and designed to respond to human care. As the adolescent human son is increasingly left to his own devices, the plant baby, a potential cuckoo in...