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Puce Moment (1949)
It's blue
I watched this film and saw that the dress alleged to be puce was actually blue. Not bluish puce--just plain blue blue. Puce is defined as a reddish purplish brown. The dress was nowhere near that color. Why did they take a blue dress and call it puce?
Walker: Pilot (2021)
Rename the show "Ramirez"
The one good thing about this show is Lindsey Morgan as Micki Ramirez. She takes charge of the whole thing from her first moment on screen and she never lets up on her mastery of the role for one second. All the other characters (sorry, Jared) and every scene she isn't in pale in comparison to her. It's a very unbalanced cast: she has no one as a worthy foil for her talent. Morgan and Jeff Pierre strike sparks, as the only "chemistry" on the show exists between them. All else is just flat and dull. Rename the show "Ramirez" and you're on.
Charmed: Switches & Stones (2019)
The new Charmed hits its stride at last
Although the beginning of the season seemed kind of shaky in places, this episode, "Switches and Stones," has finally lived up to the promise of the Charmed reboot. It has even taken the narrative to a level the first series hadn't reached (no fault of the first series, just that the world in general has seen 20 years of progress for women since then). This was a thoroughly enlightening and satisfying episode of solid feminism. It brought a fresh look at the myth of Medusa and how she became what she was: a victim of rape, slut-shaming, and unjust punishment that forced her into being a monster. The way the Charmed ones, especially Macy, turned the narrative around and began the healing process for Medusa is a powerful example of healing for women who have survived rape and slut-shaming. This is where the show truly realizes its strength. At the end comes a shocking reveal that moves ahead the season's whodunit story arc.
In a subplot, it was fun to see Maggie and Mel trade bodies, where Melonie Diaz and Sarah Jeffery get to imitate the other character's speech, mannerisms, makeup, and fashions. Also, I've been on Team Jada all along and was pleased to see her vindicated!
Zhauzhürek myng bala (2012)
The bad guys disappeared from history but Kazakhstan is free and still going strong
Kazakhstan is fortunate in having a historical enemy to depict as bad guys without any concern for offending them, since the Dzungar Khanate went out of existence in the mid-18th century, not long after the events of this film. The exterminator of the Dzungar Khanate was of course Qing-dynasty China on their eastern front. That fact is barely mentioned in passing when Sultan Abilkhair points to his map and says the Dzungars have been cut off in the east. That was China making war on them. That Kazakhstan raised a rebel army strong enough to take on the western front in the Dzungar Wars is the stuff of epic legend. The scene right before the climactic battle has various divisions announcing their representation of all different parts of Kazakhstan. This is perfect for raising patriotic feeling over Kazakh history, while there are no remaining Dzungars to take offense at being shown as the unremittingly bad guys. What was then Dzungaria is now part of Xinjiang and is inhabited by Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Manchus, and Mongols as well as Chinese. It is at peace with independent Kazakhstan. This movie cast the Kazakhs in earth tones, mostly shades of brown, while the Dzungars are uniformly in black. The story is simple and easy to follow even without knowledge of this era of Kazakh history. A band of plucky teenagers becoming heroes of their nation. Go see it and feel good for Kazakhs.
Xena: Warrior Princess: The Bitter Suite (1998)
How many Tarot cards could you spot?
These are the Tarot cards I observed, in the order of appearance:
The Fool--Callisto
The High Priestess--Xena
The Wheel of Fortune
The Hanged Man--Joxxer
The Empress--Gabrielle
The Emperor--Ares
The Chariot--Xena
The Hermit--Joxxer
Death--Xena
Justice--Callisto
The Tower--struck by lightning
Judgment--ghosts rising from tombs with a trumpet playing
After that point, they continued without any more Tarot that I could discern.
They followed the designs of the Rider-Waite deck very closely, such as the Fool's green robe and dog, the High Priestess's two pillars, the Wheel of Fortune with its Hebrew letters and sphinx, the Chariot drawn by two sphinxes. Callisto says "Aleph am I," which is the Hebrew letter esoterically associated with the Fool card, and she quotes from The Book of Tokens, which is Rosicrucian meditations on the Rider-Waite Tarot.