TCM just went through its library A-Z.
only Oscar nominated films of the 350 or so for the month there were 11 I had not seen
Ah.
My Netflix browser (Fire tv) added a random/shuffle button recently. Iâm going to give that a try, sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the number of choices.
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mine too, device doesnât matter
Yeah I assumed not, but I didnât want to say it was available on all devices without knowing for sure.
The boy in the striped pajamas (2008)
Wow.
Unexpected ending.
Really? I thought the ending was inevitable.
Watched Love Happens and the Pelican Brief two nights ago. The first was fine for a Netflix movie, made me cry, the second was too long. Neither was terrible.
Watched Enola Holmes, really disliked the constant breaking of the 4th wall.
Well, I can think of several endings.
Singing in The Rain (1952). Twice, as my sonâs gf had never seen it, so, why not rewatch.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
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Just getting to this.
Wrath of Man - Love a good Jason Statham revenge flick and this lived up to it. Guy Ritchie directed so you know he is going for misdirection and you get that. You also go in expecting multiple looks at the same time frame and you get that in spades. This is the first theater movie Iâve seen in 14 months. Worth it.
Nobody - Bob Odenkirk as a man with a peculiar set of skills that he uses when his family is endangered. Another revenge based movie and very good. Recommend.
Boss Level - A spin on Groundhog Day, but assume 1000 times more violence. The start to each day is the hero getting attacked with a machete while he sleeps. Then his apartment is destroyed by a helicopter toting a huge machine gun. I really liked it and the violence level (off the charts) made it work.
The Mitchells vs. The Machines - Standard Netflix cartoon family fare, but the family is a bit dysfunctional. It tells the story of what happens when the machines take over (AI) and try to rid the Earth of the human population. One family stands in the way.
Mortal Kombat - The new version. I enjoyed it even though the good guys/girls never get to the Kombat tournament. Sets it up for a possible sequel. We get a ton of back story on the characters and having never played the game, I was OK with this.
Fatale - With Hilary Swank and Michael Ealy. He runs a sports agency with his best friend. His cousin is always looking for money. They guys go to Vegas for a bachelor party and he meets Hilary. They have a thing. He goes home and there is a murder, seems like he is the chief suspect. A ton more ensues from there. It seemed to have some trouble finding its footing, but the twists keep coming, some are pretty obvious, others not so much.
Obvious Child (2014) Kind of a romcom and growing up movie where a young comedienne gets pregnant and decides to have an abortion. It sounds bad, but was actually fairly honest feeling and is not a standard romcom. The movie would probably piss some people off because of its use of abortion almost as a MacGuffin. Itâs not really about abortion and it is just taken for granted and the discussion of it is limited pretty much to âoh, I had one tooâ. Itâs pretty well acted by Jenny Slate.
Minari â very nice. Grandmother was very good. A few editing issues imo and for an American film with subtitle I felt they could have been a lot more legible
Here Today Saw this at an actual theater. Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish. He is a comedy writer for something similar to SNL. She is a street performer (singer). Her ex win an auction for a lunch with Billy and she goes instead. They form a bond. His life is not what others think and she ends a hand. Pretty strong performances from both of them.
Army of the Dead on Netflix. A zombie movie with Dave Bautista as the leader of a group looking to âstealâ money from a casino in Las Vegas. Seems all the zombies are walled into the city after the initial outbreak. The owner of a casino sends the team into the zombie city to âstealâ the money from his vault. The team gets to keep 50MM. There are two kinds of zombies, the alphas which can move quickly and seem rather organized and the shamblers, your typical zombie. The level of gore and violence is pretty near off the charts. Quite a few things wrong with the continuity as well. Why do they need to crack the safe of the owner is telling them to take the money, for example. All in all, I still enjoyed it, but it wasnât very good.
Rollerball (1975).
Disappointing.
I attempted to watch a comedy last night, The Informant!, although Iâd argue it was more of a drama than comedy. Amazing that itâs a true story, Iâd recommend it.
Rollerball (1975).
I enjoyed that move when I first watched it probably in the early 80s. But it did not hold up well at all when I tried to watch it again one time.
I think it didnât show the âcorporate-style governmentâ as bad as it could have been. This the best they could do, make a game harder to play, and kill all the players just to kill one? How anti-productive.
Also, an R-rated movie showing half-penises (lengthwise!) and no breasts?? Disappointed.