Thanks, my bad, fixed 
I need to learn to hit āEnterā after thinking, not before. 
The Greatest Night in Pop (Netflix) The making of the We Are The World release. Not much I didnāt already know, but still interesting none the less. The cross over from folk / pop / rock and country all coming together was pretty amazing
Time of Death on Amazon. Execs from a company bidding on a Department of Defense contract start dying at 10:44 PM. First the CEO, then his son. The FBI sends a white collar crime agent to investigate and make sure the contract is still OK. She gets paired with a rookie detective, made detective a week ago. The story is interesting but the acting is pretty weak. The plot takes a few turns and the ending is predictable.
Good Grief Its Friday on Amazon. A knockoff Raymond Chandler movie made about 10 years ago. I canāt tell if the goal was to parody these types of noir movies or if everyone involved was just awful. Even the sets were the bare minimum. Iām leaning to the latter.
Drive Away Dolls at the theater. Went in cold. Decide to see it based on a poster that I saw at the theater last week. Ethan Coen directed and co-wrote the script. A tough movie to describe without giving much away. Set in 1999, two young women want to get out of Philadelphia for a while and decide to use a āDrive Awayā company, one that has you drive someoneās car to a destination, in this case Tallahassee. You get mistaken identities, a mysterious brief case, cameos by Pedro Pascal and Matt Damon, and a lot of lesbianism. This wonāt be everyoneās choice, but I enjoyed it enough. The story was resolved pretty well too.
Maestro. Excellent.
Great acting performances and an intimate treatment of Bernsteinās personal life. It didnāt mention his activism but that would have made it too long.
like his nose?
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Must admit that I did notice the nose.
Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken - meh Dreamworks film in a kind of reverse little mermaid? anyway it was amusing enough but no Scherk - Iāll probably forget most on it in less than a week.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (Max) just ok, like so many of these the humor is too forced. I love Nicole Kidman, but hated her in both of these.
Someone needs something original.
The opening monolog and the fight against the pirates ( who oddly had no real weapons) started this off poorly
Role Play on Amazon. Kaley Cuoco as an assassin and David Oyelowo as her clueless husband. She looks like she had a lot of fun with the movie, him not so much. It was OK for a Saturday afternoon. Kind of predictable and Bill Nighty was great in the small role he had.
Lift on Netflix. Heist movie with Kevin Hart. It was fun and had all the feels of old time Mission Impossible shows. Jean Reno as the bad guy was a bit of a waste of his talent though.
Dune on Max. Getting ready for part 2 as I didnāt remember any of the first one, never read the books either, so I needed the refresher. A ton of sand everywhere, I still feel gritty.
Itās been over 50 years since I read Dune, and a couple of years since I saw Dune - Part 1, so I found (and others might find) this NY Times refresher article to be helpful. Hope to see Dune - Part 2 in a week or so.
Dune 2 at my theater now . . . opened last Friday; last showing is Wednesday night.
Plan on watching it with my son Tuesday night.
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Somewhere In Time - Jane Seymour, Christopher Reeve 1980
Made You Look on Netflix - $80M fraud in the high end art market
A Rainy Day in New York on Tubi from 2019. If you didnāt know who wrote and directed this one, watching for maybe 10 minutes, or just possibly the name of the film would make it clear. A huge cast featuring Timothee Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Liev Schreiber, Jude Law, Selena Gomez, Rebecca Hall and others. Woody Allen seems stuck in a rut lately and while I enjoyed the film, it was very much just another view of New York and old guys hitting on young girls.
Dune - Part 2 ā Was very enjoyable. I found out that my son had NOT seen part 1 yet; but said he enjoyed the movie as it was with the bit of background I provided before hand and a few comments during the movie.
While the Part 1 was much more faithful to the book, Part 2 had significant deviations from the book, but not from the general spirit of the story that Frank was intending to tell.
Biggest flaw in the movie from my perspective relates to the sandworms: the mechanism used to control the worm goes contrary to both what is in the book and to general biological physics. The way the sandworm moves, their plates would generally have the openings toward the tail, not in the direction of travel.
The movie clearly ends with the expectation of another movie is going to be produced. Without that next movie, this one will be very disappointing IMO without re-working the ending.
But visuals and fight sequences were very well done and executed.
So taking my SIL, a SF buff, to Dune 2 tomorrow pm.
I was surprised that the ticket price was about double what I usually pay but possibly because it is a VIP Cineplex rather than a standard theatre? Reclining seats, etc., but I still have to pay for the popcorn.
Watched American Fiction last night. Really liked it.
Perhaps IMAX?
I know our theater was showing Dune 2 in IMAX (among other smaller screens).
The IMAX-type screens here are just a few dollars more than regular ones. In any event the screens in tomorrowās cinema are apparently just regular ones. My SIL wanted to go there and I try to be an accommodating FIL. I think I am paying mostly for comfortable reclining seats and an adults only theatre.
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The Last Repair Shop on Disney. Award nominated documentary on repairing musical instruments for all of the LA school system. Not what I expected but I liked it a lot. It delves into why 4 or 5 people that wok in the shop care about their impact.
Deep Passage on MAX. Bogart and Bacall. Interesting to see Bogie as the underdog who is a bit milquetoast. Heās escaped jail after being convicted of killing his wife. Bacall was at the trial and believes heās innocent.