20130615, samedi

A. The Fall

1. 2013, BBC, 5 episodes, series 1
2. Gillian Anderson
3. My wife and I rated this one five stars of five; excellent.
4. Looking forward to the second series in 2014
5. British TV crime series set in Belfast, Northern Ireland
6. Anderson plays Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, who pursues a serial killer of young single professional women.

B.  The Numbers Station

1. 2013, 88 minutes, theatrical film, in HD
2. John Cusack and Malin Akerman as the mismatched leads.
3. Way too long; about 15 minutes of content
4. Said some rather trenchant things about the CIA, but nothing particularly new.
5. Cusack plays a disgraced assassin who muffed an assignment to retire (kill) a former CIA asset who tried to retire in the usual sense of the word.  His remedial assignment is to protect a clandestine radio station that transmits instructions sent encoded in numbers.  If protection fails, he is to retire the operator who calculates and speaks the numbers.
6. Rated 3 stars of 5.