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F1 (Airplane) I enjoyed this very much. Well acted and well paced. and proud to get a 2 1/2 hour movie finished on a 1 3/4 flight. Unfortunately on the return had the bulkhead pull up screen, so nothing watchable in the actual flight time.

Eleanor the Great (Netflix) Went into this with a completely wrong impression, recommended to MsPZ, has I thought it would be a fun, Walter Mittty - old lady lying film. It was so much deeper and much more meaningful. Even the title implied what I originally thought and doesn’t really fit. We really loved this. Amazing that June Squid at 94 can do this, though she is also on Broadway.

A Friend of Dorothy (online [Videos A.Friend.Of.Dorothy.2025.1080p.WEBRip.x264.AAC5.1-[YTS.BZ] | OK.RU]) Oscar nominated short about an older woman and a young man becoming friends over a mutual love of poetry. It was nicely done.

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Agree with you on Dorothy. Been looking for this and glad you pointed me to it. Thanks.

I also watched a couple other shorts.

The Singers on Netflix. This is also nominated this year. A seedy bar with a bunch of sad looking guys, many of them veterans of various wars. It turns into a sing off. Very touching.

Little Miss Sumo on Netflix. A short documentary from 2018 on female sumo wrestlers focusing on Hiyori Kon. A bunch of things I didn’t know.

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Finding Nemo - [Dory by Ellen is great!]

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The Best You Can on Netflix. Bacon/Sedgewick co-star.

was fine, will not win awards.

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The Singers (Netflix) Oscar nominated short. Dragged a bit to start, but nicely done, and entertaining.

Lilies Not for Me (HBO {i think}) 1920’s gay romance and a lot of focus on ways to cure the disease. It was good, but I feel it could have been developed more. Erin Kellyman was in this, the third film I have seen her in in a month.

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Crime 101 at the theater. Pretty strong cast (Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo). They could have used a decent director. Not worth the time and money IMO. You don’t build tension with crappy music drowning out dialog. Even the story was weak.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die at the theater. I heard that you’ll love it if you love Sam Rockwell, otherwise, not so much. It was great, and I do really like Rockwell. Time travel, saving the world, digital addiction, and so much more. A bit long at 134 minutes for the story and it dragged at the end just a bit. But otherwise, a crazy wild ride.

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The Chairman (1969) Gregory Peck well-done tale of Mao

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Cover-Up.

Great documentary on the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and the abuses of power he exposed over the past 50+ years.

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Bugonia
This one was pretty weird of course, and really good. Kept me guessing the whole time and the end is hilarious imo. Emma Stone and Jesse Plemmons are both great in this.

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The Alabama Solution
On my delta flight at 515am, I watched this documentary. it is enraging. the prisoners are being abused, killed, and used as slave labor. Alabama doesn’t care. The leader of the prisoner network is one of the most impressive dudes you will ever hear. Now i have to add prison reform to my list of important topics with more urgency than I had attributed it.

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How to Make a Killing at the theater. Seems like Glen Powell may have hit a wall with this mess. He has been everywhere the past couple years. After this, maybe not. It isn’t horrible, but it is very disappointing. Weak story telling, poor pacing, waste of talents, etc.

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Jurassic World: Rebirth (Netflix) meh. Lost me on the initial premise. Too much CG, killed all suspense. and the Mutated animals was absurd, are they that much scarier?

Den svenska länken (The Swedish Connection) (Netflix) Nicely done story of a Swedish bureaucrat who managed to save 1000 Danish Jew during WWII.

Earth Mama (HBO (i think))] Good, even handed look at single mothers in the system. Mostly from the mother’s perspective

Knox Goes Away (HBO) Michael Keaton as a killer for hire with a rapidly advancing dementia. Really good. Keaton, Pacino, Marsden, Marsha Gay Harden - how did I not know this existed?

Blue Moon (Netflix) Linklater and Hawke tend to be slow, dialogue driven films. That doesn’t mean they don’t work, but they don’t work for everyone. This wasn’t as good as the others. Very stagey, maybe on purpose. There odd references to famous people before they were famous, odder if you didn’t get the exchanges. Well acted, but it felt a bit cyclical with no advancement of the story and rather sad. Also, not a biopic, just a few hours in the life of.

Good Fortune (Starz) This had potential, but I just didn’t find it particularly funny. Seth Rogan, Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Oh. Ansari was not funny at all or particularly likeable, Reeves seemed to try too hard, in a role that would fit him being himself. Rogan did what he does, channeling Albert Brooks.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Starz) Elite squad with very special skills put together by (the worst rendition of) Churchill to sabotage German supply lines. Supposedly based on a true story and some interesting tie-in to James Bond as well. Fun and well done.

Butcher’s Stain (Kanopy) Oscar nominated short. Well done look at an Arab Israeli fired from his grocery job. Expected tension amidst all going on today, but well done and even handed.

The Long Walk (Starz) King story most likely an analogy for Vietnam as teenagers are recruited to continue to walk, with the last survivor getting their wish. Flawed, but interesting.

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Train Dreams
Follows the life of a logger who lives in Idaho around 1910ish. Beautiful scenery abounds, story moves kinda slow but that fits the vibe of the film. Kind of a nostalgic America type of thing with underlying messages about racism and capitalism and man’s place in the ecosystem. It was good, but not sure it’s oscar-worthy.

I Saw the TV Glow
Interesting movie about a kid becoming obsessed with watching a certain TV show. Weird stuff happens, then reality gets a bit blurry for a while. Not sure it really clicked for me, but I’m still ruminating.

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The Train Robbers (1973) - John Wayne, Ann-Margret: interesting

Fire Down Below (1957) - Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon: slow

Ride the Man Down (1952) - Rod Cameron: typical Western

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Private Life (Netflix); interesting family drama about a couple desperately trying to have a baby, to the point that it’s severely straining their relationship. And in the middle I said, “Damn it, I didn’t expect to cry tonight!” Quite compassionate in the end.

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Cars, Cars 2, Cars 3. Daughter is home this week and we watched the trilogy. I’m not sure I’d ever seen 3 before if I did it was on in the background and made no impression. I think those movies especially the later ones came out when my kids weren’t really into them. I think on the Pixar franchises the Cars one is one of their weaker ones, but the movies aren’t bad for what they are, just not great in my opinion. I enjoyed 3 more than 2.

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Yup.

Just waiting until my UK daughter arrives in mid-March after which undoubtedly one evening will be spent watching it with all my kids and grandkids.

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My kids f’ing love Cars 2 for some reason. It’s weird.

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Hoppers - theater. Reasonably cute in the vein of “underdog nature” v “big progress” found in Fern Gully, Avatar and similar stories.

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Previews I’ve seen (in the theater) makes me think of a “mashup of Avatar (the blue people) and Over the Hedge” . . .