Streaming and movies

THE LAST OF US  2023, HBO series, zombies

Cordyceps: Drink! Chicken-of-the-Woods: Drink! Turkey Tail: Drink! Oysters: Drink! Cordyceps again, DRINK! :) Very entertaining show, just don't overthink the mushrooms... :/ Or maybe DO overthink it... maybe it's a multi-species fungal infection that's taken over the human species??!

BTW Season 1 Episode 3 = Awwwwww <3 <3

PIG  2021, drama

Nicolas-freakin-Cage as a truffle hunter. Someone steals his pig! He must get back his beloved pig! "You want your supply! I need my pig!" You had me at Nicolas-freakin-Cage! Drama + accidentally campy + someone knows mushrooms = almost works as an enjoyable movie. As a mushroom hunter, I applaud the quote "know your trees".  

The Enterprise goes to a planet and gets infected with spores that make them fall in love & Spock gets a woman! Admittedly this might be about “plants”, but let's pretend it's about an alien fungus. ?I’m still wondering why Captain Kirk saved them from it?

THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS  2020, documentary

BEST MUSH-HUNTER MOVIE EVER! Elderly men hunt for mushrooms, sharing an intimate look into their Italian world of truffles. I laughed, I teared up, I wanted to go outside to hunt. The mushroom hunters – quirky men – totally made sense to me. 

FANTASTIC FUNGI  2019, documentary

Beautiful documentary about fungi. B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L.  but then the second half of movie obsesses over psychedelics :/ BUT cheers that this movie gets people excited to FUND research for fungi! Yes! Yay research!

MIDSOMMAR  2019, horror

A grieving woman goes with her boyfriend to a Swedish mid-summer festival. Their relationship is crappy. Anyway, they consume a psychedelic drink (mushrooms?) and participate in a cult-like ritual. Yadda yadda yadda – people get killed. Okay, so this isn't a movie about mushrooms, but I think it's quite brilliant and complex. Imagine the feeling if you'd allowed yourself to scream along with your friend? How freeing! (and potentially annoying.) Anyhoo, I haven't met a man who likes this movie! Yet I have so many female friends who love it. Hmmm. 

Paul Stamets states ways fungi can save the universe. Pretty sure all mushroom enthusiasts watch this at some point.