The Green Knight
Interesting take on the story of Sir Gawain. He bravely accepts a challenge from a giant green dude who shows up at a Round Table gathering. It gets weird from there.
Bring It On on Peacock
Guilty pleasure.
Eddie Murphy doc on Netflix. Pretty good.
Riff Raff (Ed Harris, Bill Murray, Pete Davidson, Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Coolidge)
it was just ok
The Lighthouse
Being Eddie (Netflix) Good documentary, nothing really new to me and a bit repetitive. Loved his early stuff (48 Hours, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop) - but I was pretty much done with SNL by his time there and didnât appreciate many of his other stuff, especially as it became a lot of sequels and remakes. Great voice work, though.
Train Dreams (Netflix) Good western, just be aware it is more poetic than action packed. If that works for you, worth a watch
Bring Her Back (HBO) Well made horror, but it just didnât work for me, didnât like the move into the mystic, it seemed forced.
The Apprentice (Prime) I actually didnât know what to expect, in how far to one side or the other this would be. The acting was great and really walked a great line avoiding parody and imitation. It showed trump as the flawed person he was, without pounding you over the head with it. The movie, though, was not all that gripping in itself and only had value for watching the development of a famous person. I feel something was missing, and not really sure, As I thought there was a different persona for the 1980âs - 90âs trump and this implied what he was in the 70âs is what he has become.
Eddington (Netflix) Modern / COVID Western. Absurd social commentary, but I really couldnât tell what side of things the director was on, if either. And just no characters that I cared about. Too many arguments about masks / spread / other conspiracies and no matter the perspective, it came off as stupid and annoying.
Land of Bad (Netflix) Nothing new as a military rescue goes bad. Some unbelievable timeline stuff, but all in all a good action film.
A House of Dynamite (Netflix) Interesting look at US response to a nuclear attack. Three prong perspective of different segments of the US response teams. Not different perspectives, just more different sides of the conversations. Not the intensity of Fail Safe, but a good watch.
The Penguin Lessons (Netflix) Actually an edgier film than I expected (thought it was more of a family film). It was good, but not the transformational change in character I expected.
The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix) Documentary on a woman killing a neighbor by shooting through the closed door. Well done and disturbing, all done off police recordings.
Devo (Netflix) Was never a fan, first I heard of them was SNL and it was a true WTF moment. New of Mark Mothersbaugh as I watched a lot of Rugrats with my kids. Good documentary, there was a lot more to them that I did not know.
The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix) Great cast, but seemed like a fun payday. All in all a bit light and contrived, but enjoyable enough
Qui a tué les Expos de Montréal? (Netflix) Who Killed the Montreal Expos? It was ok, but it was almost strictly about the business end of things, was hoping more about the baseball and players
How to Train Your Dragon (Airplane) I enjoyed this, definitely one of the better live action remakes
Frankenstein (Netflix) A different take on the film, so worth a remake and all in all closer to the view of creating life that I feel the original book sought to bring forth
The Alabama Solution (HBO) Documentary on prison abuses, though well done, I didnât feel like it was anything new.
The Killer Shrews - it is Turkey day after all
Wicked and Wicked: For Good
That Christams. animated british. was cute
Zootopia 2 (Theater) Took the grandkids. Very funny, very good action, decent plot. and quite a few easter eggs for the adults to enjoy.
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Took my grandkids to see Zootopia some years ago but what kidsâ age group would enjoy the sequel?
Mine are 6 and 7. There was enough action, that even younger could enjoy even if didnât fully understand.
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Frosty the Snowman with the kids (4 and 2)
Triple Cross (1966) - Christopher Plummer, Yul Brynner, ⊠
Debbie Does Dallas (internet) for reasons. Wow, there were some serious problems with that one. Not for this thread, but if you havenât seen it, donât.
Zootopia 2 (theater) - great fun! Want to watch on streaming so I can pause and see if I can find all the easter eggs I thought I noticed as they zoomed past.
The Pledge (netflix) - Dark detective mystery starring Jack Nicholson as a retired detective who, on his last day on the job, makes a promise to a mother to find her daughterâs killer. A promising suspect emerges, and everyone thinks itâs a solved case. Hero is not so sure. In the end, heâs right, but he doesnât actually get the guy. But not because he didnât have the right guy, he clearly did, itâs just that circumstances intervened. Sending him into a spiral that he canât recover from. So, a tragedy after all.
I believe I saw it shortly after it came out. Pretty low key for porn. Worked for one of my collegeâs Movie Groups, we showed the classic movies rather than newer releases. However, to make money once a semester we needed a big money maker - an âexploitation filmâ
Porn - needed to double proof everyone
Rocky Horror - Mess to clean up
Monte Python
Horror or
Martial Arts
Michael J Fox as the Fox also what does the fox say
The maze - The Shining
Ratatouille under Lionâs hat
Good Pig (Babe)
Bob - Tiger = Bob Tiger
Tig Notaro - Big Tig
Bellweather - The Sheep in a Silence of the Lambs type lockup
Ed Sheeran being Sheep being Sheered
Almost felt a Wizard of Oz moment when they were on the road, but they didnât play it up, so probably not
Kikiâs Delivery Service with kids. I was enjoying it, but it only held the kidsâ attention for 20-30 minutes before they wanted to watch something else.
- Meersk for the shipping container, instead of Maersk
- I thought someone said âdik pikâ when talking about taking a picture of the âdik dikâ
- saw Ratatouille
- saw the Good Pig
- the Shining maze
- Silence of the Lambs
I liked the Zebros (as you should have guessed).
Mississippi Burning
1988 movie
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Frankenstein on Netflix. Needlessly long and not as enjoyable as I had hoped. You get the story told both from the doctorâs perspective and the creatureâs. Iâm sure there are some Oscar nominations in store, but it didnât do it for me.
Lost and Found in Cleveland at the theater. I didnât know anything about this going in. It is a take on Antique Roadshow that takes place in Cleveland. Very slow getting started, but the quirky people and the weird story lines work.
Die My Love at the theater. Jennifer Lawrence plays a new mom with either post-partum or other forms of depression. The film examines how her life is falling apart. I though the time line of the film was hard to follow. Seems like things happened over longish periods of time, yet the child never seemed to age.
Now You See Me: Now You Donât at the theater. Not as good as the first, better than the second. The acting was sloppy though and felt like a money grab more than anything else. Still fun to see the gang back together.
It Was Just an Accident at the theater. This could be the foreign film entry from France (or maybe Iran as that was where it was shot and the director is Iranian). It follows a day in the life of a group of people who were all political prisoners years ago and think that they have found the guard that abused them. They donât all know each other, but get connected by various people. I wasnât expecting to enjoy the film as much as I did. It is mostly a lot of dialogue around what to do with the possible guard. See, no one ever saw him as he always wore a mask during the interrogations and torture which we donât really see. Then we find out that the possible guardâs wife just went into labor and the team needs to decide what to do.
Hamnet at the theater. Very strong Oscar contender for most categories. I would expect Jessee Buckley to win best actress, she was just that good. It tells the story of how Hamlet was created. We are told at the beginning that Hamnet and Hamlet are interchangeable names.
The Running Man at the theater. A very different take on the Steven King short story. Iâve read it is more true to the original story. I enjoyed it. The action is pretty much non-stop and well done.
Wicked on Amazon. Needed a rewatch before going to see part 2. I had forgotten quite a bit, so it helped prep me for part 2.
Rental Family at the theater. Brendan Fraser is amazing in this. He should get nominated. He plays an actor living in Japan. He gets hired to play real life roles in others lives, a friend, a father who left his daughter when she was very young, etc. The story is quite novel and very touching.
KPop Demon Hunters on Netflix. Since this got so much buzz, we decided to watch it. It is Korean animation. Not my cup of tea. I didnât really buy the whole story line.
Zootopia on Netflix. Watched with my six-year-old grandson. He was terrified. We decided not to take him to see part 2.
Sentimental Value at the theater. Norwegian film with Stellan Skarsgard as a filmmaker who hasnât made one in 15 years. He is old now and wants to make one more movie. He wants his daughter to star in it as he wrote it for her. She has a lot of pent-up anger towards him. A lot of family history comes out. Excelletn film, highly recommend.
Wicked for Good at the theater. Decent follow up to the first one, but without very good music. The story could have been told in half the time as it is very simple. I liked how we learn about the back stories for Dorothyâs travel companions. Look for this to become a trilogy.
Eternity at the theater. This examines how you want to spend your eternity. Elizabeth Olsen dies shortly after her husband of 60+ years. When she jets to the junction, the place you choose your eternity, she finds her first husband, who died 67 years ago, still waiting for her. Very romantic. The film is essentially a romantic comedy and she needs to decide which husband to spend eternity with. On a deeper level, it asks the viewer to reflect on what choices we would make.
Fackham Hall at the theater. Think a British period piece written in the style of Airplane, only edgier. You may have gotten that from the title anyway. Jimmy Carr wrote it and plays a vicar. Set in 1931 England, a family needs to have one of their daughters marry their cousin to be able to stay in the mansion. All four sons (John, Paul, George and Ringo) have died young. It will take multiple rewatches to get all the jokes and easter eggs. Funny, but not a very good film.
Nouvelle Vague on Netflix. This is Richard Linklaterâs love letter on French new wave cinema. It tells a story about how Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard was created. Some say Godard created a masterpiece of a film. The film is almost all in French and is black and white which works. If I had a background in the new wave movement I would probably have loved all of the characters who appear, if only for a moment.
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100 Nights of Hero at the theater. We were interested in this one. Look kind of different. It is a fairy tale within a fairy tale. The story is set in another world. Women only serve to be mothers, they arenât allowed to read or write. It serves as a bit of a screed against the patriarchy. There is a god-like figure and he oversteps his bounds during the world creation by his daughter(?). The acting is simplistic, the story is slow, the message is muddy. Not a very good film.