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Blue Velvet on HBO. Definitely a strange one. I had never heard of it before but I’ve seen a couple other movies by David Lynch.

Inheritance at the theater. Dad is spy or money launderer and daughter gets roped into helping him once he is abducted. Very slow paced but the tension was very high. The hand held camera and the music fit the movie perfectly. Turned out to be very different from what I was expecting going in and that was good too. Not for everyone, but it was one of the better movies I’ve seen recently.

Wicked Part I :thumbup:

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Agreed

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Watched Striptease on Amazon Prime this past weekend. Demi Moore plays a divorced(?) mom who turns to stripping to earn enough money to win back custody from her scumbag ex of their daughter. I remember this movie being really big back in the 90s when it was released (Demi Moore topless). The movie has not aged well, though I see it won a Razzie for worst movie of the decade, so perhaps it has aged well and has just consistently stunk.

wasn’t that the same years as the equally bad Showgirls

Looks like a year after. As a teenager, I was so excited to see Showgirls once it was available to rent. I ended up falling asleep watching it. I think of the two, Showgirls is probably the better. On the other hand, I’m not positive as I don’t think I’ve watched it since the 90s, though I may have caught portions when it was on TV since then. However, I know people now watch Showgirls as camp, but I don’t think anyone does it for Striptease.

Sugarcane (Disney+) Documentary on Indigenous Canadians, forced to attend Catholic schools with the expected results of sexual abuse as well as the missing and dead children. Well done, could win, but I feel another movie like this comes out every year.

Elton John: Never Too Late (Disney+) More biography than concert film. Enjoyable, I love the music, but nothing earth shattering or very special

I am Ready, Warden (YouTube) Documentary short on a man waiting for his execution date. It was well done and different

Instruments of a Beating Heart (Youtube) Japanese Documentary short on kids getting assigned instruments, cute and a lot of pressure on the kids. Didn’t do much for me though

The Six Triple Eight (Netflix) Good story, poorly executed. The writing was obvious and forced. The acting was over the top, trying to be a character or feeling dated - or both.

The Only Girl in the Orchestra (Netflix) Documentary short on Orin O’Brien, the first woman to play in the NY Philharmonic. Interesting story, but a bit draggy. Might have been better to do it 50 years ago.

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Fun, as usual.

The Guns of Navarone - (1961) Peck, Niven, Quinn :thumbup:

DANG IT!!!

I have this marked to watch - but now…
Maybe ill save it as a plane ride movie

On the Dick Van Dyke show he was picked up by the police. His alibi was he went to the movies and saw Guns of Navarone.

When asked about the plot he said he fell asleep.

The repeated line became “You slept through the guns of Navarone?”

Reminded me of in Seinfeld “You made out during Schindler’s List?”

Rewatch of Apollo 13 with g-lassie whom had never seen it. Really holds up. Despite the constant technical details, it’s easy to follow and keeps up the tension the entire movie. And of course the acting is incredible with Hanks, Bacon, Paxton, Sinise, Harris. Great flick.

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one of the best examples of maintaining tension, even though everyone knows how it ends.

I like to fall asleep to the TV. Made the midtake of putting that on and had to watch it through

Watched The Tom Green Documentary on Prime at my son’s urging. He was a big fan of Green in his heyday but I was not Green’s target audience.

Green has matured and I found him to be thoughtful in the documentary: my son enjoyed the flashbacks to his ridiculous stunts in his twenties. Green sold his LA mansion three years ago and moved to a farm near his home town of Ottawa. His goal now is to change American perceptions of Canada (good luck with that Tom).

I had not followed Green’s career at all so did not know he was briefly married to Drew Barrymore. His reunion with her on her show after 20 years of estrangement was actually quite touching in the doc.

His documentary is good fun, especially the parts involving his long-suffering parents. Can you imagine being one of his parents?

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Elton John: Never Too Late on Disney+. As noted above, a pretty good documentary on Elton’s earlier career as well as preparation for his final performance ion 2022 at Dodger Stadium. Best original song nomination on the end credits.

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F on Netflix. Not great, but a fun follow-up to the earlier movies. Lots of nods to them as well. Nice cameo by Bronson Pinochet too.

The Seed of a Sacred Fig at the theater. This is the only best foreign nomination I’ve seen so far. If you get the chance, this is a fabulous film. The film was shot in secret and smuggled to Cannes. Would love to see how that was done. The film focuses on a few days around the unrest in 2022 when women took to the streets in protest. The metaphor here is so crazy it could apply to three or four people/regimes.

The Substance on Amazon ($5.99). Lots of nominations, but it took a Troma turn in the last 30 minutes that made it so much less than it could have been. Both Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley were wonderful as the two versions of the person taking the substance.

She’s Funny That Way on Amazon. A bit older film from 2014, with a huge cast including Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Rhys Ifan, Imogen Poots, Cybill Sheperd (directed by Bogdanovich), Richard Lewis, Will Forte, Debi Mazar and a very small cameo for Quentin Tarantino. So much slapstick type mayhem and misunderstandings make it work very well. Too involved for a plot description, although Aniston, as a therapist, clearly has no use for confidentiality.

Girl Haunts Boy on Netflix. A girl steals a ring and gets cursed. Boy has the other half of the ring and he and his mom move into the house she haunts. When he puts on the ring he can see her. She died in the 1920’s, so 100 years ago or so. Pretty entertaining film.

Emilia Perez on Netflix. Nominated for so much, and deservedly so. Such a complicated story with so many layers. Head of a cartel wants to become a woman, something he wanted since he was a child. He has a wife and children he must abandon in the process. Zoe Saldana (Rita) is the lawyer who works to make it possible and reappears years later after the transitioning is complete. The cartel boss, now Emilia, misses her family and tries to get them back. There is also some human rights stuff that goes on, a lot of singing too.

The Only Girl in the Orchestra on Netflix. A documentary short nominated this year, I think. Interesting story of the first woman to play with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein. She played the double bass with them for 50 years. Her niece shot the film around retirement time. Agree it was a bit draggy.

Mufasa : decent CGI; Hip_tiger_wife loved it.

Green and Gold. Farmer is having trouble with financing his old school run of a farm. Grandaughter is an aspiring singer songwriter but works on the farm. Farmer places a Super Bowl bet with the bank (Green Bay Packers win the SB in the 1994-1995 season) to get an interest free loan for a year to catch up.