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Black Mass - A-  Great movie about Whitey Bulger and the depths the FBI let him roam free. Depp, in his best role in a long time, was great as Bulger. But this was really Joel Edgerton's movie as the play loose with the rules John Connolly. You saw the depths he went to supposedly for the FBI, but it was really for his childhood chum Bulger.

My only knock on the movie was Benedict Cumberbatch's Boston accent. Just didn't work
I thought it was great most of the way but seemed to lose steam as it went along

 
My TCM movies of the week

Wednesday at 6:30 am Bringing Up Baby

Funny. Funny movie and a funny story. World class director Howard Hawks takes 2 of the greatest movie stars the world will ever see in Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant, he puts them in the zaniest of screwball comedies, throws in the most famous movie dog of the day (Asta is that you?) and a couple of leopards. Reviews are great. It's a big hit in it's premiere on the West Coast. Despite all of that, the movie is a total flop. Midwest and East Coast crowds stay away. Hepburn's undue description as "box office poison" is cemented and she is left buying herself out of her own contract and trying to figure out how to rebuild her career. She figures it out in a big way as she has a play developed just for her. When the play is a hit, she gets it put together for it's film adaptation. The Philadelphia Story becomes a box office smash and Hepburn ends up back on top of Hollywood. 

Friday at 5:45 pm A Face in the Crowd

The airing of this movie couldn't be more timely. I will let the description speak for itself

Ambitious young radio producer Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) finds a charming rogue named Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy Griffith) in an Arkansas drunk tank and puts him on the air. Soon, Rhodes' local popularity gets him an appearance on television in Memphis, which he parlays into national network stardom that he uses to endorse a presidential candidate for personal gain. But the increasingly petulant star's ego, arrogance and womanizing threaten his rise to the top.

 
Friday at 5:45 pm A Face in the Crowd

The airing of this movie couldn't be more timely. I will let the description speak for itself
I have a very special affinity for this movie. It, and a great & giving person, saved my life.

I had had two plays produced (the second in a 1500-seater in Boston) and a 2yr run w a syndicated radio comedy show before i was 25 but had never considered myself nor wanted to be a writer. I was just more or less chasing the tiger that was in my yard. I bounced around within that world for a few yrs because of the amazing amount of dough to be had but was happy to give it up after a bad experience w ABCTV in '82. Didn't look @ a typewriter for almost 15 years. I like to think - writing was like dictation, a chore.

Summer of '96. My wife had died that spring and i was fully in the grips of meth addiction. I'd become fat (yeah, go figure), sweaty, strokey and translucent and my friends had largely given up on me. Came home one night at the end of a binge and put the TV on hoping to vibrate myself to sleep. On comes "Face", which was Network 20 yrs before Network and i was blowwwwn away. Spent the next 12 hours lying there like a exhibit from the Se7en museum, working that story in my head and came up with a new take - one that dealt with race, which had always been the most important poilitcs to me.

Hadda tell someone, finally settled on this gal Peggy i dealt poker with who genuinely seemed to enjoy having shifters w me and nodding @ my mad ramblings for hours on end. Told her, in my high, scattershot way, about my notes for a Face reboot. After an hour, she gets up grabs me by the collar, she's taking me home. We'd been in the friendzone a loooong time cuz she dated my best pal when we met and she werent my type but i'm like "yeah, what the hell, we can #### this out". We get to her place, she makes some coffee, comes into the living room w a legal pad. "Tell me again" she says and starts writing down everything i said. Well, nothing except frantic party stuff had been just about me since the cancer had begun to erode my Mary into dust a couple years before and i loved it. She knew that, of course, though she made it about having wanted to be writer but not talented enough so this was her shot.

Every Tuesday and one worknight-instead-of-shifters each week for the next three months we worked on Face and she called me every day to see if i was staying on task. I lied alot, got high alot in secret (she knew, of course), excused a lot but slowly, surely started to care about my life again. Realized i couldnt beat the drugs with all the Mary cues surrounding me in Reno so i borrowed my uncle's hunting cabin in NH for a winter and took my own cure & got my life back on track. Peggy moved to coastal GA about the same time and i visited her every year for a decade and helped her unleash her own writing skills. Neither of us have made a success of it - never even finished Face - but we each have a pursuit that focuses and fulfills us and that i have a life at all is due almost solely to her and Lonesome Rhodes. Love you, Peg. Great flick - wikkid say check it.

 
I have a very special affinity for this movie. It, and a great & giving person, saved my life.

I had had two plays produced (the second in a 1500-seater in Boston) and a 2yr run w a syndicated radio comedy show before i was 25 but had never considered myself nor wanted to be a writer. I was just more or less chasing the tiger that was in my yard. I bounced around within that world for a few yrs because of the amazing amount of dough to be had but was happy to give it up after a bad experience w ABCTV in '82. Didn't look @ a typewriter for almost 15 years. I like to think - writing was like dictation, a chore.

Summer of '96. My wife had died that spring and i was fully in the grips of meth addiction. I'd become fat (yeah, go figure), sweaty, strokey and translucent and my friends had largely given up on me. Came home one night at the end of a binge and put the TV on hoping to vibrate myself to sleep. On comes "Face", which was Network 20 yrs before Network and i was blowwwwn away. Spent the next 12 hours lying there like a exhibit from the Se7en museum, working that story in my head and came up with a new take - one that dealt with race, which had always been the most important poilitcs to me.

Hadda tell someone, finally settled on this gal Peggy i dealt poker with who genuinely seemed to enjoy having shifters w me and nodding @ my mad ramblings for hours on end. Told her, in my high, scattershot way, about my notes for a Face reboot. After an hour, she gets up grabs me by the collar, she's taking me home. We'd been in the friendzone a loooong time cuz she dated my best pal when we met and she werent my type but i'm like "yeah, what the hell, we can #### this out". We get to her place, she makes some coffee, comes into the living room w a legal pad. "Tell me again" she says and starts writing down everything i said. Well, nothing except frantic party stuff had been just about me since the cancer had begun to erode my Mary into dust a couple years before and i loved it. She knew that, of course, though she made it about having wanted to be writer but not talented enough so this was her shot.

Every Tuesday and one worknight-instead-of-shifters each week for the next three months we worked on Face and she called me every day to see if i was staying on task. I lied alot, got high alot in secret (she knew, of course), excused a lot but slowly, surely started to care about my life again. Realized i couldnt beat the drugs with all the Mary cues surrounding me in Reno so i borrowed my uncle's hunting cabin in NH for a winter and took my own cure & got my life back on track. Peggy moved to coastal GA about the same time and i visited her every year for a decade and helped her unleash her own writing skills. Neither of us have made a success of it - never even finished Face - but we each have a pursuit that focuses and fulfills us and that i have a life at all is due almost solely to her and Lonesome Rhodes. Love you, Peg. Great flick - wikkid say check it.
Can't get a much better endorsement for a movie than that. 

 
I have a very special affinity for this movie. It, and a great & giving person, saved my life.

I had had two plays produced (the second in a 1500-seater in Boston) and a 2yr run w a syndicated radio comedy show before i was 25 but had never considered myself nor wanted to be a writer. I was just more or less chasing the tiger that was in my yard. I bounced around within that world for a few yrs because of the amazing amount of dough to be had but was happy to give it up after a bad experience w ABCTV in '82. Didn't look @ a typewriter for almost 15 years. I like to think - writing was like dictation, a chore.

Summer of '96. My wife had died that spring and i was fully in the grips of meth addiction. I'd become fat (yeah, go figure), sweaty, strokey and translucent and my friends had largely given up on me. Came home one night at the end of a binge and put the TV on hoping to vibrate myself to sleep. On comes "Face", which was Network 20 yrs before Network and i was blowwwwn away. Spent the next 12 hours lying there like a exhibit from the Se7en museum, working that story in my head and came up with a new take - one that dealt with race, which had always been the most important poilitcs to me.

Hadda tell someone, finally settled on this gal Peggy i dealt poker with who genuinely seemed to enjoy having shifters w me and nodding @ my mad ramblings for hours on end. Told her, in my high, scattershot way, about my notes for a Face reboot. After an hour, she gets up grabs me by the collar, she's taking me home. We'd been in the friendzone a loooong time cuz she dated my best pal when we met and she werent my type but i'm like "yeah, what the hell, we can #### this out". We get to her place, she makes some coffee, comes into the living room w a legal pad. "Tell me again" she says and starts writing down everything i said. Well, nothing except frantic party stuff had been just about me since the cancer had begun to erode my Mary into dust a couple years before and i loved it. She knew that, of course, though she made it about having wanted to be writer but not talented enough so this was her shot.

Every Tuesday and one worknight-instead-of-shifters each week for the next three months we worked on Face and she called me every day to see if i was staying on task. I lied alot, got high alot in secret (she knew, of course), excused a lot but slowly, surely started to care about my life again. Realized i couldnt beat the drugs with all the Mary cues surrounding me in Reno so i borrowed my uncle's hunting cabin in NH for a winter and took my own cure & got my life back on track. Peggy moved to coastal GA about the same time and i visited her every year for a decade and helped her unleash her own writing skills. Neither of us have made a success of it - never even finished Face - but we each have a pursuit that focuses and fulfills us and that i have a life at all is due almost solely to her and Lonesome Rhodes. Love you, Peg. Great flick - wikkid say check it.




 
wow - what happened in '82 with ABC?

 
wow - what happened in '82?
not sposeta talk about it (just did in another thread) - NDA.  well, #### it -

co-wrote a sitcom pilot - solicited by the network - based on the movie Car Wash w a pal from the comedy clubs. it was new & fresh, combined animation & live action (the lead in the movie had an alterego called The Fly thru whom he rose above ghetto life, solved his probs, got the girl, etc so we developed him as an animated co-lead), got sold, raved about, became the thing that changes lives for ever and then promptly crashed on a pile of worthless, egotist, hierarchical politics that confirmed and convinced for once & all that showbiz weren't for me.

 
not sposeta talk about it (just did in another thread) - NDA.  well, #### it -

co-wrote a sitcom pilot - solicited by the network - based on the movie Car Wash w a pal from the comedy clubs. it was new & fresh, combined animation & live action (the lead in the movie had an alterego called The Fly thru whom he rose above ghetto life, solved his probs, got the girl, etc so we developed him as an animated co-lead), got sold, raved about, became the thing that changes lives for ever and then promptly crashed on a pile of worthless, egotist, hierarchical politics that confirmed and convinced for once & all that showbiz weren't for me.




 
sorry man - thanks for sharing that.

 
Gaslight - 7.5/10

Good (Oscar winning) performance by Bergman. GREAT performance by Charles Boyer. I'm betting Ricardo Montalban was heavily influenced by Boyer.

I read an article the other day about Trump "gaslighting" Americans. It's a charge not entirely without merit.

 
I stream Hulu as well. It's got a nice mix of other shows. I tried a couple of the Fx ones like "You're the Worst" and such. I've tried "The League"  before and it didn't click for me. They were very meh, imo. I'm enjoying S1 of "Fargo" now and almost done with it. Anyone watched "The Bridge", "The Strain" or the like? I also tried "Difficult People" but kind of hated it. Enjoying "Casual" quite a bit. It's a little slick at times but it's entertaining. 

 
I stream Hulu as well. It's got a nice mix of other shows. I tried a couple of the Fx ones like "You're the Worst" and such. I've tried "The League"  before and it didn't click for me. They were very meh, imo. I'm enjoying S1 of "Fargo" now and almost done with it. Anyone watched "The Bridge", "The Strain" or the like? I also tried "Difficult People" but kind of hated it. Enjoying "Casual" quite a bit. It's a little slick at times but it's entertaining. 
I always give FX shows a try because they've always gone for original programming over hitbait and supported their shows better than other networks. Married and You're the Worst were good attempts at bringing indie snark to sitcoms and the female leads were special, but the lead male in each was poor and the writing didn't hold the promise. The Strain went too quick over-the-top in its hysterics and The Bridge was too obviously rippin Homeland when it premiered (might re-binge that). Fargo was a triumph - best thing since BrBa & Madmen - of course. The greatest disappointment was Tyrant - excellent premise but they went waaaaay soapy. Need to binge American Horror Story cuz i missed it from the beginning and can't pick up the vibe. American Crime Story was a traditional network show failure. The Americans is a good show i also needed to see from the beginning but can at least get into. Taboo is off to a good start. Loooove Louie - even the recent yrs - but dont like the spinoff too much. And watching Louie Anderson on Baskets is one of the great pleasures i've had in front of a TV in the last year.

 
Just watched War Dogs, the Jonah Hill arms-dealer movie, and it was ok.  I didn't know the true story it was based on, but it held my attention throughout.

More importantly though, there was this actress playing Miles Teller's wife (Ana de Armas) that was like a walking/talking piece of art.  MARONE this is a beautiful woman.  I was like Michael Corleone seeing Apallonia ... thunderbolt!
Watched this last night 7/10.   Movie had some funny parts and good scenes.  Overall enjoyable.

 
I always give FX shows a try because they've always gone for original programming over hitbait and supported their shows better than other networks. Married and You're the Worst were good attempts at bringing indie snark to sitcoms and the female leads were special, but the lead male in each was poor and the writing didn't hold the promise. The Strain went too quick over-the-top in its hysterics and The Bridge was too obviously rippin Homeland when it premiered (might re-binge that). Fargo was a triumph - best thing since BrBa & Madmen - of course. The greatest disappointment was Tyrant - excellent premise but they went waaaaay soapy. Need to binge American Horror Story cuz i missed it from the beginning and can't pick up the vibe. American Crime Story was a traditional network show failure. The Americans is a good show i also needed to see from the beginning but can at least get into. Taboo is off to a good start. Loooove Louie - even the recent yrs - but dont like the spinoff too much. And watching Louie Anderson on Baskets is one of the great pleasures i've had in front of a TV in the last year.
You forgot Sons of Anarchy!!

Agree 100% with the first statement, and outside of the premium channels, FX is the first channel I will look for as far as TV goes.  They have a long history of letting the shows do what they want and be their own thing without much outside interference.  Been that way for a decade + with shows like The Shield and Nip/Tuck. 

Still have to get to Season 2 of Fargo.  I really liked The Bridge, but I guess not enough people did, so that was cut too short.  American Horror Story definitely has it's moments.  The League I loved for the first couple seasons, but it got old quickly.  Damages is one that was good that I think went overlooked and I think people will like.  Glenn Close was fantastic. 

Agree about Louie.  I just started up on The Americans, and think it's great.  I have noticed it right up there with Fargo on people's lists, if not higher, as far as FX shows go.  I will for sure be powering through this one to catch up. 

Have never seen more than a couple episodes of Justified or Rescue Me. 

 
Black Mass - A-  Great movie about Whitey Bulger and the depths the FBI let him roam free. Depp, in his best role in a long time, was great as Bulger. But this was really Joel Edgerton's movie as the play loose with the rules John Connolly. You saw the depths he went to supposedly for the FBI, but it was really for his childhood chum Bulger.

My only knock on the movie was Benedict Cumberbatch's Boston accent. Just didn't work
Now, I'm not saying this is a bad movie - because it isn't. But I think I'm done with the threatening, sociopathic mob movies. They've been done so many times now, I need to see something that's a fresher take to be interested.

 
I stream Hulu as well. It's got a nice mix of other shows. I tried a couple of the Fx ones like "You're the Worst" and such. I've tried "The League"  before and it didn't click for me. They were very meh, imo. I'm enjoying S1 of "Fargo" now and almost done with it. Anyone watched "The Bridge", "The Strain" or the like? I also tried "Difficult People" but kind of hated it. Enjoying "Casual" quite a bit. It's a little slick at times but it's entertaining. 
The Strain is great in a campy, soap opera way. Some of the acting is spotty, but the effects are great and the story is well-paced. It's nowhere near the greatness of Fargo, but it's a lot more entertaining than most modern horror movies.

 
You forgot Sons of Anarchy!!

Agree 100% with the first statement, and outside of the premium channels, FX is the first channel I will look for as far as TV goes.  They have a long history of letting the shows do what they want and be their own thing without much outside interference.  Been that way for a decade + with shows like The Shield and Nip/Tuck. 

Still have to get to Season 2 of Fargo.  I really liked The Bridge, but I guess not enough people did, so that was cut too short.  American Horror Story definitely has it's moments.  The League I loved for the first couple seasons, but it got old quickly.  Damages is one that was good that I think went overlooked and I think people will like.  Glenn Close was fantastic. 

Agree about Louie.  I just started up on The Americans, and think it's great.  I have noticed it right up there with Fargo on people's lists, if not higher, as far as FX shows go.  I will for sure be powering through this one to catch up. 

Have never seen more than a couple episodes of Justified or Rescue Me. 
Powered through Atlanta the other day.  Lived up to the hype.  Lot of laughs too.

 
wikkidpissah said:
thx. yeah, it's been 35 yrs. i'm almost over it...................................
OK.. so GB find himself in a band in SoCal in the mid-late 80s with all the makings of superstardom: brothers or best friends at the core of it- super handsome RnRers who are both dating Stephanie Seymour. Song writer is schizo- actually hears voices in his head that he translates into songs.

They develop a big local following through their live shows and then get snatcher up by a major label. Label signs them to the record seeing amount for a new signing, and they find themselves in the studio, next door to bands like u2 and rolling Stones.

But then right before the album is released, there's a major upheaval at the label. The guy who signed then is axed and anybody associated with him is toxic. Their album gets zero money or attention for pr and disappears. As does Stephanie Seymour. And the band. 

But apparently, 30 years later they've gotten the band back together and are playing local gigs again. Sound better than ever tbh. 

So you never know, old pal. Car wash might just make it back!

 
OK.. so GB find himself in a band in SoCal in the mid-late 80s with all the makings of superstardom: brothers or best friends at the core of it- super handsome RnRers who are both dating Stephanie Seymour. Song writer is schizo- actually hears voices in his head that he translates into songs.

They develop a big local following through their live shows and then get snatcher up by a major label. Label signs them to the record seeing amount for a new signing, and they find themselves in the studio, next door to bands like u2 and rolling Stones.

But then right before the album is released, there's a major upheaval at the label. The guy who signed then is axed and anybody associated with him is toxic. Their album gets zero money or attention for pr and disappears. As does Stephanie Seymour. And the band. 

But apparently, 30 years later they've gotten the band back together and are playing local gigs again. Sound better than ever tbh. 

So you never know, old pal. Car wash might just make it back!
Oh, i took your friend Brent's advice to heart those yrs ago when i was back to shopping pilots. Wouldn't take a TV job now for girls or gelt. In fact i got a perfect vampire series idea a couple years ago and am writing it as novels (where i have good representation) so, should it ever find its way to any screen, i'll be the cheez.

 
The Drop  8/10

Trying to rewatch a few movies I've only seen once in the theater to see if my opinions changed.  I loved this when I first saw it and still can't say enough about it.

I'd be curious to hear the opinion of anyone that didn't like it just to see what the problem was for them. 

It was great acting.  Tom Hardy at his very best.  Gandolfini - plays a familiar tone, but he wasn't over the top. 

Michael Clayton   8/10

One of a few films I think Clooney is any good in.  (Syriana, The Descendants the only others).  Tom Wilkinson is so flipping great in this movie. 

It's a smart thirller,  I remember seeing this in the theater and not really liking it, but in this second viewing I loved it.   Hard to believe it's already 10 years old.  The scenes that include extended dialogue with Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton are exceptional writing.

 
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The Strain is great in a campy, soap opera way. Some of the acting is spotty, but the effects are great and the story is well-paced. It's nowhere near the greatness of Fargo, but it's a lot more entertaining than most modern horror movies.
I'm not sure where they're going after the finale last season (I Hate You Dad! :eek:   :lmao: ) but it's a fun show.

Baskets really is a great show too. Louie Anderson deserves all the awards he gets.

 
Baskets really is a great show too. Louie Anderson deserves all the awards he gets.
Great?! I dunno. ZG started w Baskets like CK finished w Louie - i'm hilarious, you love me, so i'm going to be as willfully obtuse as possible to see if you'll let me out - but Louie Anderson is channeling America's gonzofussy side like nobody's business. Don't know if the world is completely ready to take on the feminization-as-abuse thing head-on yet, but this is a good start. Mama Baskets just stuck a tap into Anderson and a whole lifetime of pamper/browbeat pathology is pouring out. A wonder to watch.

S2 premieres tomorrow @ 10 on FX

 
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Michael Clayton   8/10

One of a few films I think Clooney is any good in.  (Syriana, The Descendants the only others).  Tom Wilkinson is so flipping great in this movie. 

It's a smart thirller,  I remember seeing this in the theater and not really liking it, but in this second viewing I loved it.   Hard to believe it's already 10 years old.  The scenes that include extended dialogue with Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton are exceptional writing.
Love the ending with him in the cab too.  He said it was hard to do because people that drove next to the cab would recognize him and starting waving and going nuts.   When Denzel was asked about which good roles he turned down, this was the first one he mentioned.

 
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Love the ending with him in the cab too.  He said it was hard to do because people that drove next to the cab would recognize him and starting waving and going nuts.   When Denzel was asked about which good roles he turned down, this was the first one he mentioned.
I've gotten into the habit of reading everything on IMDB about a movie while I"m watching from the couch, and read that Denzel had turned down that role because he questioned the idea of doing a movie with a first time director.  Clooney apparently turned it down initially for the same reason, and then came around to doing it. 

 
La La Land.

Nice to look at Stone and Gosling.  But it wasn't enough.  I checked clock half way through and it was only 55 minutes into a 2-hour flick.  Was like, yikes.

It's well done and had some nice moments.  The two main songs are great.  

I'm not a huge musical guy but was hoping this would rise above and I'd agree with all the adulation.  Yeah, not so much.

Whiplash was far superior.  

7/10.  Will not make my top 10.

 
Presumed Innocent: 6/10 A not too bad courtroom flick that had me guessing if Ford was or wasn't the the killer. I could've rated it a 7 plus, but hated

[the wife's confession and his voice over explanation for not ratting her out]

edit: how the heck do i do spoiler hides?

 
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Presumed Innocent: 6/10 A not too bad courtroom flick that had me guessing if Ford was or wasn't the the killer. I could've rated it a 7 plus, but hated

[the wife's confession and his voice over explanation for not ratting her out]

edit: how the heck do i do spoiler hides?
I love that film! Book was excellent, too.

 
Presumed Innocent: 6/10 A not too bad courtroom flick that had me guessing if Ford was or wasn't the the killer. I could've rated it a 7 plus, but hated

[the wife's confession and his voice over explanation for not ratting her out]

edit: how the heck do i do spoiler hides?
write the word "spoiler", but replace the quotation marks with [ and ]. anything following will be in spoilers.

 
Moonlight.

10/10

Easily best pic.

I will vomit if La La Land wins.

If ensesmble cast was a category this would win actor noms.  Suffers since it's broken up into three parts.

Watch it.

Masterpiece.

 
Moonlight.

10/10

Easily best pic.

I will vomit if La La Land wins.

If ensesmble cast was a category this would win actor noms.  Suffers since it's broken up into three parts.

Watch it.

Masterpiece.
I haven't seen either- but hollywood loves anything that loves hollywood... and from what I understand, la la basically fellates it.

 

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