{"id":2846,"date":"2022-05-10T13:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2022-05-10T13:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:23:48","slug":"ken-and-robin-consume-media-moon-knight-picard-and-a-javelin-throwing-cary-gratn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/ken-and-robin-consume-media-moon-knight-picard-and-a-javelin-throwing-cary-gratn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken and Robin Consume Media: Moon Knight, Picard, and a Javelin-Throwing Cary Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Con-Pink-Stamp.jpg\" \/> <meta content=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Con-Pink-Stamp.jpg\" property=\"og:image\" \/><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Ken and Robin Consume Media is brought to you by the discriminating and good-looking backers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/kenandrobin\">Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Patreon<\/a>. Each week we provide capsule reviews of the books, movies, TV seasons and more we cram into our hyper-analytical sensoriums. Join the Patreon to help pick the items we\u2019ll talk about in greater depth on a little podcast segment we like to call Tell Me More.<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>Recommended<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3wgwevU\">Blondie Johnson<\/a> (Film, US, Ray Enright, 1933) Desperate for a break, an unemployed gal (Joan Blondell) uses her smarts to rise in the ranks as a gangster consigliere, keeping the less bright accomplice she loves (Chester Morris) at arm\u2019s length. Peppy crime drama lightly gender-flips the Warners gangster structure.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n<p>This is the Night (Film, US, Frank Tuttle, 1932) To defuse the jealousies of his lover\u2019s javelin-throwing husband (Cary Grant), a put-upon sophisticate (Roland Young) hires a desperate young woman (Lila Damita) to pose as his wife for the duration of a trip to Venice, Droll farce given further oomph by a scene-stealing Charles Ruggles as our hero\u2019s enabler and rival.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n<h2>Good<\/h2>\n<p>The Bandit (Film, Italy, Alberto Lattuada, 1946) With his old life shattered, a POW returned from Austria (Amedeo Nazzari) becomes the lover of a hard-bitten criminal (Anna Magnani), assembling a robbery gang from the ranks of her hangers-on. Combines the arc of the gangster film, the stark, expressionist visuals of film noir, and, unfortunately, the shameless sentimentality of neo-Realism.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n<h2>Okay<\/h2>\n<p>Moon Knight Season 1 (Television, US, Disney+, Jeremy Slater, 2022) Meek Londoner Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) discovers that he is also American mercenary Marc Spector, who is also the superhero Moon Knight and a servant of an Egyptian god, and that the god\u2019s previous host (Ethan Hawke) has a plan to destroy the world\u2019s potential sinners. Once again for MCU TV, a winning performance and characterization builds to a disappointing conclusion.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n<p>Picard Season 2 (Television, US, Paramount+, Terry Matalas, 2022) An encounter with strange new Borg prompts Q to send Jean-Luc (Patrick Stewart) and his newfound crew to 2024 to prevent the emergence of the darkest timeline. A freeway pile-up of colliding homages to iconic Trek episodes epitomizes the crisis of referentiality rippling across the geek franchise space\u2014RDL<\/p>\n<p> <em>Ken has been consuming carnitas in Texas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken and Robin Consume Media is brought to you by the discriminating and good-looking backers of the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Patreon. Each week we provide capsule reviews of the books, movies, TV seasons and more we cram into our hyper-analytical sensoriums. 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