Hush (2016) - 7/10
Before I Wake (2016) - 6/10
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) - 7/10
Gerald's Game (2017) - 8/10
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Just another King extravaganza:::first belittling, then killing another White man from town for:
A. being White.
B. wanting to have fun in the sack with his hot wife, who's only hot to King's pen. Otherwise, you may as well try and catch the wind.
C. being White again.
I wish the you would, Spurm.
Poor Things was a lot of Emma Stone naked and in heat
Faces by John Cassevetes... 10/10
want to see the real dark side of people? movie was more disturbing than any horror flick. idk how Cassevetes pulled those kinds of acting performances out of his crew, but god damn is it haunting
I seen it around, but never ventured it. Some of his materiel is overdone and overwrought like the "Mickey/Nicky" thing with Columbo, but when he didn't try and overachieve -Rosemary's Baby- in the movies and his work on "Columbo" it was effective.
I'm going to initiate this "Faces" right now. Thank you.
Boy and the Heron was fantastic.
I did like Columbo in "A Woman Under the Influence"
Thought Falk was great there, but like any Cassavetes flick, Gena Rowlands steals the show. Hope you like "Faces." It's def one of those un-structured visceral experiences.
I'll check "Mikey/Nicky," been on my list... but reading your post, I didn't realize Cassavetes didn't direct that one, just acted. Pretty intrigued to watch him perform under another director's guidance, appreciate it, Thread
yeah it was. Liked that it was a loose sequel to "The Wind Rises" also... in the sense that Wind was Miyazaki's bio with his dad in mind, and Heron his mother. Def in the elite tier of Miyazaki/Ghibli's library.
Aquaman part 2: 3/10 as expected going in. If Momoa could learn some comedic timing, it could have moved the needle closer to 5 or 6
Oppenheimer
Really can't say much others haven't already said. Cillian Murphy deserves an Oscar...and he was flanked by one of the best supporting casts I've ever seen.
9.5/10
He did put a stopper in the old bottle on those oriental Sunday morning wake up calls, eh, bene?
"Huh, what? Okay, no problem...Again." - Harry S.
There's a small movie I caught about a year ago this time featuring Neville Brand as a Navy CPO -Return from the Sea- in 1954...it comes to a point where Brand is inquiring about a widow's first husband who perished in II. "What happened?"
The man's brother..."He was out there on the Arizona when it was hit. He's still out there."
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bene, sweetheart, pumpkinpuss; you need to make amends to kori about posting that address. Get on with it, son.
The Color Purple 8/10
Wife wanted to see this, so what was I supposed to do? Anyhow, I liked the original way better. This remake was more of a musical which I typically hate musicals. This one wasn't so bad. The musical parts weren't very long thank god!!
Sound Of Freedom: 2/10
The acting was atrocious, some of the lines were laughable, and the final act felt like a cheesy low budget action movie. I also read that the real life hero, Tim Ballard, has around 6 sexual misconduct lawsuits against him.
May December: 3/10
smh strange white people
Netflix
Ralph Dahl Stories put together by Wes Anderson’s 4 short films. 9.55/10
I don’t have a lot of time to know the elite of film adaptation of specific writers.
The above was absolutely delightful for me. So different…
The writer, the narrator, the actors, and the audience are all involved in these films.
They are wonderfully written in my opinion, and the films themselves are so interesting while moving along rapid fire (even though they might have slightly macabre themes) I just haven’t seen anything like this so for me, it was stunningly good.
I will watch them again. There was a lot for me to miss in the actor’s interplay with the story, the narrator, each other and the audience.
Im just new to this type of film. So I was captivated.
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The Theory of Everything - 4/10, worse the 2nd time around now that I know the director omitted some key events of his life.
The Drop 6/10
2014 Tom Handy, Tony Soprano and Naiomi Rapace
Handy is the bartender / mgr of bar owned by big fish in small pond Tony Soprano.
They run some kind of money drop that the oppresive local Euro gang (Russian?) forces them to give a huge cut.
I've seen this, Mult. It's standard fare but has a steady bite to it.
Netflix is featuring -30 Days of Night- '07 currently. That damn movie is not easily viewed.
Can’t wait for the sequel The Theory Of Everything 2: Journey To Epstein Island.
Fire In The Sky - 8/10
Extraterrestrial - 4/10
Extraterrestrial "Ending" - 7/10
The Iron Claw 7/10
Damn I used to love wrestling in the 80s and this was a cool throwback to that
Exactly. How did they leave out the orgies?
When the Wind Blows 9/10
Animated film about a retired couple in rural England trying to prepare for an inevitable nuclear strike from the Soviets by following the Protect and Survive guidebook that was to be distributed to every household in the UK when the government judged they were within 4 weeks of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. A pretty scathing critique of the UK government's attempt to placate its citizens into believing there was anything they could do to be prepared for nuclear war.
Trailer
Full Film
Also here's a small sample of one of these actual Protect and Survive videos which would be the last TV broadcasts ever transmitted in the UK in the event of nuclear war (they were leaked to the public in 1980).
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