What Can Be Trusted? - Aug 13 - Friday Video Distractions with Mike Norton
Something that landed a week ago o n Amazon Prime : Director and producer Leo Scott and Ting Poo have put together a biography of actor and cancer survivor Val Kilmer. They've tapped decades of the star's home movies and video, which are paired with new footage and input from Kilmer, to produce Val ( 1hr 49m.) Here's the trailer. It's an often artful, thoughtful use of the wide swath of material Val accumulated, not only of himself and some family, but of his acting contemporaries. A recent (Aug 6th) addition to Netflix is a horror film from France - The Swarm (2020 1h 41m). (Not to be confused with the 1978 Michael Caine movie about the swarm of Africanized honey bees that we were repeatedly warned were coming for us throughout the '70s.) In this new film, a woman and her two children have a business, running a farm where they raise locusts as a high-protein food. M...