I'm with Bill Maher on this one. JHC. Where are all the happy uplifting movies?

Maiden Voyage about a yachting race around the world and first ever all women crew. True story.

Searching for Sugar Man. Great true story with wonderful music and unbelievable but true ending.

That scene when he opens his concert in South Africa gets me every time.

and thinks it is for someone else. I friend of mine lived in South Africa for a long while and went to one of his concerts.

If he really isn't dead . Maiden Voyage... Haven't found yet. Evidently another movie named the same thing about a cruise ship highjacking.

Some of the footage is just amazing. Let me know if you you do enjoy it.

Spoiler...

Am I the last person on the planet who has never heard of him? (My husband had already seen this and didn't say anything till it was all over) His music and lyrics and voice are transcendent. Morebeautiful than I had ever heard.

But, the documentary to me was very unsettling. It left me with millions of questions. Who was the mother of his daughters? Obviously someone made a ton of money. He doesn't care or didn't care? His daughters didn't care? They were all just so altruistic that they didn't even question it? Perhaps all the answers are out there and you have to look it up yourself?

those royalties. I googled him and I believe his daughter said he gave away most of the money he made from his South African concerts. And yes, what a voice and great lyrics. Next watch Maiden and you’ll love that as well.

I had never heard of him either until I saw the movie. I feel richer for having seen it.

But I agree - it's hard to find movies that don't make me feel tense or anxious.

much 100% below water?

shows. Columbo great example of how crime shows have gone to pot. Columbo was more about human behavior and deduction. Not about microscopic dna.

Love Peter Falk.

It was the last "cop show" that I really liked, other than some comedies such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

show but it takes place around 1900 in Toronto. The characters are nice and often funny. They also include all sorts of famous persons from that era into their episodes. Like Mark Twain, Houdini, Elizabeth Arden, Tesla, A. Graham Bell and others. Of course creative liberty is taken but they tend to get the personalities right. Like Tesla is a nice guy and Henry Ford is a real jerk.

One the other hand I am watching Your Honor now on Showtime and I am wondering if I should quit because it is so upsetting. If I knew it had a happy ending I would feel better but I don't know what is going to happen. So much cruelty.

I may check out Columbo again too. I have tried Midsomer Murders and that is good but their shows are 2 hours long and I don't have the patience for that.

Great lead in Peter Falk, and a very nifty way of turning around the basic detective story from a "whodunnit?" to a "howdidtheydoit"? My all time fav was when Johnny Cash was the guest star.

And I agree that on old TV alone, there are 10s of thousands of hours, if not more, of joyful, funny, and/or uplifting moments.

It was my go to viewing before bedtime. Now that I've seen every movie at least once. I'm watching "Cinematic Titanic, Rifftrax, and The Film Crew, streaming free on Tubi!

an Australian TV series. Two very different women teaming up running from the law. Think in top 5 of anything I've seen in years. And dialogue not difficult to understand
Hope I haven't already mentioned to you before

It's a 2020 release about a school where members of the senior class are randomly exploding. Doesn't sound like it but it's a romantic comedy about two teens who crack wise and fall in love amidst a time of fear and isolation. It's actually pretty fun and the leads (Katherine Langford and Charlie Plummer) are wonderful.