Yesterday Viv and I went and saw Judas and the Black Messiah, at long last. It’s about the Black Panthers’ Fred Hampton and the FBI’s COINTELPRO, and was pretty good (Viv liked it even more than me).
I think I’d’ve liked more focus on Hampton and the other genuine Black Panthers and less on the rat (William O’Neal), but it still did well showing Hampton’s vision …
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve appreciated the ABC’s Exposed documentary series on the 1979 Luna Park fire, which killed seven. Having been born sometime afterwards I hadn’t heard about it before, but the accounts of the blaze from the first episode were harrowing, and then the second made it clear that NSW police had done a huge cover-up after eyewitnesses suggested it was …
Sometimes I feel like the only millennial who hasn’t just mainlined every episode of The Simpsons. I mean, sure I’ve seen dozens of episodes in my life… but this encylopaedic knowledge that some people (including Viv) seem to have? I can’t imagine.
In fact, actually, probably our best experience watching TV during our time in Mexico was when we found The Simpsons on. I could understand the Spanish, and Viv could understand because he’s memorised seemingly every line of dialogue in the whole show. Fun times 😆
An interesting, if niche, investigation into why the pilot episode of Yes, Minister has a different, gaudier, title sequence to the rest of the series on the DVD box set.
At last, a movie comes out that I really want to watch!
Jessica Smith is a left-wing feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also very interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.