Category: Watch

Watched "Collateral" Episode #1.1 from Netflix
Directed by S.J. Clarkson. In South London a young man, Abdullah Asif (Sam Otto), is shot dead delivering a pizza. The detective in charge, DI Kip Glaspie (Carey Mulligan), quickly discovers that the pizza manager Laurie Stone (Hayley Squires), inexplicably sent Syrian refugee Abdullah instead of regular driver Mikey Gowans (Brian Vernel). At the crime scene, KIP dismisses pushy reporter Robert Walsh (Mark Umbers), and is ...
Not quite sure what to think of this. I’m not really very engaged and there isn’t a clear lead that I want to root or really care for. I am sort of curious how Carey Mulligan comes to do an up-the-middle sort of British television procedural in the midst of a burgeoning film career?
Watched Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) from Warner Bros.

IT’S SCRUMDIDILYUMPTIOUS!

Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden amid a world of Oompa Loompas and chocolate rivers?

Cut out some of the dull beginning and started at the figuring of percentages. I never really liked the song “Cheer up Charlie”.

I do really love Mr. Wonka’s exhortation, “Nil desperandum!” I need to use that more frequently.

Rating: ★★★★½

Watched Thomas Piketty: The long-run economics of wealth inequality from YouTube

Thomas Piketty, Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and bestselling author of Capital in the 21st Century, tells The CORE Project (http://core-econ.org) how he "tries to be useful" by collecting long-run data into the distribution of wealth - and what it tells us about the effects of wealth inequality on society.

Watched "Glee" Special Education from Netflix
Directed by Paris Barclay. With Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Jessalyn Gilsig, Jane Lynch. New Directions face fierce competition against the Hipsters and Warblers. Finn and Rachel and Emma and Carl experience relationship trouble.
The Hipsters singing The Living Years were pretty awesome in this despite their general lack of choreography.