But Costner did ok?
A bit stiff, IMO.
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Is it mostly Spanish?
So typical Costner?
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Si.
Kinds of Kindness (Hulu / Disney) A weird trilogy, with the same actors and character names but no other connection. All different degrees of weird, but none grabbed me.
Nightbitch (Hulu) A metaphor for a woman giving up the workforce to raise children, but it misses the mark.
Alien: Romulus (Hulu) Good in itâs own right, but not too much new that it was a necessary sequel.
Vesper (Hulu) a 2022 low budget dystopian sci-fi out of Lituania where genetic engineering has gone wrong and left Earth place with little food. It was interesting for what it was but it was low budget and left you to fill in some gaps. I found it while watching an âunderrated sci-fi films of the past few yearsâ segment on youtube.
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Did you like Kevin Costnerâs role in that movie?
I saw The Big Chill after seeing Return of the Secaucus 7 and thought it was a big studio ripoff. I wonder if ROTS7 holds up at all or if I just thought it was good because it was probably the first indie film Iâd seen. It certainly wouldnât suffer from the typecast issue, as the only person from the movie Iâve seen since is David Strathairn.
I thought he was a bit stiff
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I.e., NINJAâd!
And that goes for you, too!
In the Heart of the Sea [Netflix] - Moby Dick story with Chris Hemsworth 
Thanks for the heads up that this was available on Hulu. Watched it tonight. It is listed as horror but I donât see that. I feel like the male audience will get less out of this film than the female audience. The metaphors feel really forced as well. Still an interesting watch.
definitely not an horror, but, maybe if it went completely in that direction, instead of hovering in the middle somewhere it would have worked better
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Appointment with Death on Amazon. A Poirot movie from the late 1980s with Ustinov in the titular role. Lots of good people but a rather bland telling. Better Poirot movies out there.
Love Reconsidered on Amazon. Weird little movie about a young woman struggling to find her place and a strange woman she meets on a park bench offers her a job running her consignment shop in the Hamptons for the summer. She meets a bunch of very odd people, but sort of discovers herself in the process. The movie is from 2024 but feels a lot older and not in a good way.
Wicked. A lot of singing. My daughter really enjoyed it - I couldnât keep my eyes open
BC native Pamela Anderson has been very busy of late and has an interesting movie coming out that I will catch.
With The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson steps into a role sheâs been âaching to playâ.
I know a handful of movies arenât going to change 300,000 years of human attitudes about women, beauty and aging. I know many people feel #MeToo is over, and Hollywood is tiring of foregrounding underrepresented voices. But whoa, itâs been a relief to see films such as The Last Showgirlthat acknowledge how women are commodified and then discarded. And itâs great that the women behind it, including director Gia Coppola (Palo Alto), have such intimate connections to their subject.
Pamela Anderson plays Shelly, a single mother whoâs been performing in a Las Vegas revue, Le Razzle Dazzle, since 1987. Sheâs seen plenty of colleagues age of out of conventional sexual desirability, including her best friend Annette (Jamie Lee Curtis), a dancer turned cocktail waitress. Now itâs Shellyâs turn: Her revue, the last of its kind, is closing, and she finds herself in her 50s, with no transferable skills and a strained relationship with her adult daughter, Hannah (Billie Lourd), whom she neglected to pursue a dream of beauty and power that never quite came true.
Shelly is the kind of character Anderson, 57, has been âaching to play,â she said in a recent video interview, and one for which her life uniquely prepared her. She spent decades cloaked in Invincible Babe armour, all breast implants, false eyelashes and hair extensions, running in a red tank suit on Baywatch and posing nude for Playboy. But while Shelly clings to her old life, Anderson is giddily shedding hers. In recent years, sheâs wiped off her eyeliner, moved back to her childhood home on Vancouver Island and made a documentary (Pamela, A Love Story) and two series (Pamelaâs Garden of Eden; Pamelaâs Cooking with Love) that showcase the real her: ruminative diarist, animal activist, mother of two sons.
Good review in the LA Times, except for the end.
saw A Complete Unknown in a theater today.
i enjoyed it a lot.
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