And I'll never get over my desire for a Picard show that's just him, retired in his vineyard, having quiet local adventures, solving gentle unimportant mysteries every other week or so.
Every now and then he'd ring up an old friend for some help, or they'd drop in to ask his advice.
And that's all.

Look, Picard was... okay. I liked quite a lot of it, but I recognised that a fair bit of that was just getting to spend time with those characters again.

Along with Discovery, I *really* disliked the "Trek, but without optimism" direction it took.

Quantum Super Battery
Computing Technology
🤝
Being just 5 years away for
the past 3 decades

"NUDE"

So *that's* why you were there. (=

Altman's catalogue could fill a whole list (also, surprise Arnie!).

I watched Blowout too young, and found it deeply discomforting and unsatisfying - but it stuck with me. Revisiting it years later, it's still just as discomforting, but I can see now why I could never forget it.

(... also, and I will die on this hill, "Hudson Hawk". It failed spectacularly to be what those making it thought it was, and somehow emerged as this brilliantly surreal comedic caper. But I do recognise that if it doesn't work for someone, it falls very flat.)

"La double vie de Véronique" - A film without answers. Made me feel emotions I can't name. Alt ending was shot for the US, but for once it in no way diminishes the work.
"Brassed Off" - far better IMO than "Full Monty", and Pete Postlethwaite is superb.
"Heat" - Maybe Mann's best work.
(3/3)

"OSS 117 : Le Caire, nid d'espions" - an exquisitely accurate looking satirical pastiche of 60s spy films.
"Hunt for the Wilderpeople" - Awkward, warm, funny, and very New Zealand.
(2/3)

Good list. If you've not seen them, here's a mix of stuff I'd rate 5:
"Children of Men" - feels more grimly prophetic every day.
"Two Hands" - Heath Ledger's breakout role and one of the top three Larrikin Aussie Gangster films.
"The Fifth Element" - Métal Hurlant meets Hollywood.
(1/3)

Dunno if it'd help, have you got the ability to join a union? That should at lest give you the right to have a rep with you in such meetings.
Always good to have someone on your side...