HBO Go recently added some older made-for-HBO movies to their stable, so I caught up on two I hadn't seen before — The Late Shift and Conspiracy.

The Late Shift is the true-to-the-book account of the "Late Night Wars" in the early 90s, surrounding Carson going off the air and the fate of The Tonight Show, and who would get the job: Leno or Letterman? I had a lot of fun with this movie, in a very Pirates of Silicon Valley sort of way, and with the people in it. The actors playing Dave and Jay both did at least a good job, but the portrayal of Dave is eerily accurate (and sympathetic, just, eery). The guy playing Jay doesn't quite bring it so much, and is also bogged down by a truly grotesque chin prosthetic. Anyway. Not much to this movie, and there was some legal blowback to the book by folks claiming libel, so maybe take it with a grain of salt. But it's fun, and inside-baseball movies always intrigue me. Worth a watch.

Conspiracy I watched on Trey's recommendation, and holy shit you guys. I'll give you the elevator pitch, and then you have to promise me you'll pull it up and give it a watch: historical drawing-room drama, based on transcripts, simply walking the audience through the top brass of the SS getting together to figure out what exactly they're gonna do with all these jews they've been rounding up. Stanley Tucci, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth. It's intense as fuck, and it's goddamned riveting. And horrifying. And just... wow. I'm very glad somebody made this movie. Do yourself a favor.

Football-11 guys try to move a ball 100 yards and have four tries to do it. Move 10 yards get 4 more tries. Get 6 points for crossing the end zone. Other side gets a chance.

There you go

Hilarious!

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