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Darkest Hours is fantastic!

Gary Oldman is Winston Churchill.

Black Mirror any watch this on Netflix? I've watched the 1st 2 episodes and I'm intrigued enough watch another one. 4 season on Netflix, 1st 2 shows have been about unintended consequences with near future tech (VR and microchiping kids.)  

The Americans returns tonight.

I hadn't realized quite how much I am set in my ways; I watch the same types of movies and read the same type of books all the time and very seldom branch out into different genres.  I read for pleasure and escapism at times.
 
For books, I read mostly Stephen King, Anne Perry's William Monk series, Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter and Ichidian Universe series, Arcane Society novels (same author with different nom de plumes set in Victorian era, modern, and futuristic other worlds), and Suzanne Brockmann's Troubleshooter series, so I have to say I am mostly into science fiction / fantasy, detectives, or SEAL novels (I admit most of them are romances, but hey I like them and my favorite authors have that touch of humor I really like).

The genres I like in books pretty much bleeds into my viewing choices either movie or TV and thank goodness for HBO, so I watch a lot of:
Star Trek and Star Wars
Longmire, Blue Bloods, Hawaii 5-O
Westworld
Game of Thrones
Rome / The Tudors / Reign / The Originals / Buffy / Angel / Battlestar Galactica / Deadwood / The Walking Dead / Falling Skies

Of course, all my favorite movies and TV series I have on DVD, so I watch whenever I want to, especially those that are no longer airing except as re-runs.  Nothing I hate worse than having to sit through commercials, lol.  

I used to read quite a bit of non-fiction, but I have since tapered off into mostly fiction or watching movies when I take a break from working on family genealogy.  
Of course, the exception to the above is any book pertaining to the Huskers is a must read, lol.  

Barry finished up last night - did anyone watch it?  It was really good, and somewhat interesting on how quickly it would go from light natured comedy to dark and heavy.  I never liked Bill Hader much at SNL, but he was great here.

I found it interesting and quirky. It is definitely dark humor (starting now). I think I like it, I am interested to see where they take it.

I finally managed to see a non-kids movie in the theater recently. (Dunkirk).   Such a mixed bag, IMO. In some ways it was a terrific film, but it is very difficult to accept and set aside that the POV is so narrowly tailored as it renders the story somewhat meaningless.   I respect the cinematography, though in an IMAX can be a bit whoosy,  the minimal dialogue, the utility of the cast, save maybe one trivial character.  It is just so incomplete, the uninitiated likely walks out of there still wondering what the hell Dunkirk was all about.

I watched in on a plane and your summary is spot on I think.  But, it wasn't a documentary and included some historical errors of course.  A very mixed bag for me also, but I have no desire to watch it again.
The German side of that story if not completely understood even in serious histories.  I have my own opinions gleaned from reading a number of different historical accounts but it remains somewhat murky.  It doesn't help that Guderian survived the war and wrote a book about it all that was highly biased and supported by Liddell Hart's histories as "truth".

I spent some time reading up on William the Conqueror a while back and we even traced him in Normandy last summer a bit, went to Falaise for example.  I think his life story would make for a good docudrama kind of thing.

A lot of "us" know little about him when arguably he is one of the most pivotal figures in Western history.  Charles Martel would be a second example of someone less well known and who had a huge impact on the course of human events.

And his name really wasn't William of course, but Guillaime, or somesuch spelling.  I have a buddy with that name who is from Normandy, I have to look up how to spell it.

Guillaume it is.