Chatterbox - still talking nonsense

Mountainhead - I saw a preview screening, followed by Edith Bowman interviewing Jesse Armstrong the writer, producer and director, previously the creative genius behind Succession and Peep Show .  This is a very funny but bleak look at what could happen if Techbro billionaires  are allowed to do whatever they want.  Super alpha male, full of their own importance and genius, the world almost literally at their feet, we spend a weekend with them in a mountain retreat while the world burns due to a new social media launch which sends fake content rolling around the world.  These guys think they have the solutions but are only interested if it will actually benefit them personally, and because of their playground level of rivalry things escalate badly. The title is obviously a play on Fountainhead, the novel which champions the rights of individual genius against the needs of the ordinary people in the world (It’s recommended by Robbie the selfish asshole in Dirty Danc...

I was mainly watching TV this month, although there were a few films here and there that caught my attention. The Change - series 2 (streaming C4). Continues on from exactly where we left everyone in series 1. There’s a bit of a magical realism feel about this comedy where Linda (Bridget Christie) leaves her husband and children to take some time back in repayment for all of her unpaid and unappreciated work as a woman, wife and mother over the years.  Menopausal and pissed off, she ends up living in a small backwater in a caravan in the woods.  But she clearly still loves her husband (played subtly to pack the character with subtle unsubtlety by Omid Djalili) and although she finds a male friend he’s not a romantic interest which I love too. Riffing off of Christie's comic fury about the way women are treated, particularly as they get older, it’s also properly funny whilst being a bit misty eyed about the cycle of life too. I also get a bit of a Detectorists vibe from it thro...

(Some mild spoilers) I came to this series with absolutely no expectations apart from something along the lines of Walking Dead.   I never played the game that The Last of Us is based on because..... well I don't play computer games*.  I don't mind a zombie storyline but get bored if it is just new ways for zombies to come at the heroes for hours on end.    So, it was all a bit of an unknown.    If you have been in an internet free dungeon for the past 9 weeks, the plot is based around a human pandemic from a mutation of the fungus that in the real world turns ants into zombie.   The first episode was all a bit standard apocalyptic fare, but I liked the way the storyline with Joel and his daughter played out differently from the usual, and of course now that makes perfect sense.  From the second episode on, we are dumped into a world 20 years on from the outbreak, with plenty of flashbacks, sometimes taking up a whole episode. A quest to...