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[falguy]

I don't think I'll ever get the Holdovers hype. Feels like In Bruges. A movie that gets hyped and is just so-so

In Bruges is awesome! Not surprising that I love it since Colin and Brendan are 2 of my favorite actors. Haven't seen the Holdovers.

 

[Joey Wright]

I don't think I'll ever get the Holdovers hype. Feels like In Bruges. A movie that gets hyped and is just so-so

In Bruges is awesome! Not surprising that I love it since Colin and Brendan are 2 of my favorite actors. Haven't seen the Holdovers.

I enjoy both of these motion pictures!

 

[Tick]

Thanks to those that recommended Caddo Lake to fans of the show Dark. The trailer didn't do it justice and I probably never would have watched it. Obviously it can't get as deep as Dark was but it was a cool twisty timeline movie that had me pausing a few times to make sure I had things straight. Well done, imo.

I watched this tonight - I have the diagram to prove it. I liked it; they kept it relatively simple, which helped.

 

[General Malaise]

Watched Woman of the hour last night. Thought it was well directed by Kendrick, but was a little uneven in parts. Difficult subject matter for sure, but I'd recommend it if you like the serial killer genre and want to view it from the lens of women, who have dealt with being disbelieved or viewed as sex objects and little more. If you liked HBO's Unbelievable and the female leads (who were excellent) I think you'll appreciate this one. Kendrick is just a delight, no matter what she's in, IMO.

 

[Payne]

Watched Woman of the hour last night. Thought it was well directed by Kendrick, but was a little uneven in parts. Difficult subject matter for sure, but I'd recommend it if you like the serial killer genre and want to view it from the lens of women, who have dealt with being disbelieved or viewed as sex objects and little more. If you liked HBO's Unbelievable and the female leads (who were excellent) I think you'll appreciate this one. Kendrick is just a delight, no matter what she's in, IMO.

It was discussed a bit earlier. I thought it was extremely well done by her. Creep factor was through the roof.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

I liked The Holdovers, not sure I’d ever want to watch it again though

Loved In Bruges too, some memorable quotes I can’t post here

 

[Tick]

Boss Level (Hulu): 2021 action time loop movie, IMDB 6.8. Weird cast - Frank Grillo is the main guy, Mel Gibson and Naomi Watts as other mains, bit parts for Michelle Yeoh, Ken Jeong, Gronk (1 line), some UFC people. The story is explained immediately - we join 60 loops into a day where a guy has 10 assassins after him and no idea why. He dies every day and restarts, Live-Die-Repeat style. The action is good, it’s funny, and the story is fun. They also made good decisions jumping into the middle rather than having us go through that same first 30 minutes of loop movies, and also with the way the ending was handled. Good movie.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

Boss Level (Hulu): 2021 action tome loop movie, IMDB 6.8. Weird cast - Frank Grillo is the main guy, Mel Gibson and Naomi Watts as other mains, bit parts for Michelle Yeoh, Ken Jeong, Gronk (1 line), some UFC people. The story is explained immediately - we join 60 loops into a day where a guy has 10 assassins after him and no idea why. He does every day and restarts, Live-Die-Repeat style. The action is good, it’s funny, and the story is fun. They also made good decisions jumping into the middle rather than having us go through that same first 30 minutes of loop movies, and also with the way the ending was handled. Good movie.

I am Guan Yin, and Guan Yin has done this.

 

[Payne]

Boss Level (Hulu): 2021 action tome loop movie, IMDB 6.8. Weird cast - Frank Grillo is the main guy, Mel Gibson and Naomi Watts as other mains, bit parts for Michelle Yeoh, Ken Jeong, Gronk (1 line), some UFC people. The story is explained immediately - we join 60 loops into a day where a guy has 10 assassins after him and no idea why. He does every day and restarts, Live-Die-Repeat style. The action is good, it’s funny, and the story is fun. They also made good decisions jumping into the middle rather than having us go through that same first 30 minutes of loop movies, and also with the way the ending was handled. Good movie.

I remember enjoying this movie.

 

[Payne]

I liked The Holdovers, not sure I’d ever want to watch it again though

Loved In Bruges too, some memorable quotes I can’t post here

Agree. Don't see The Holdovers becoming part of my annual rotation.

 

[Eephus]

Movies I watched in November

Prizzi’s Honor (1985 - J. Huston)
We Were Strangers (1949 - J. Huston)
The Kremlin Letter (1970 - J. Huston)
The Other Side of the Wind (2018 - O. Welles)
Devara (2024 - K. Siva)
Bullet to the Head (2012 - W. Hill)
Cat People (1942 - J. Tourneur)
The Spy in Black (1939 - M. Powell)
49th Parallel (1941 - M. Powell)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972 - S. Pollack)
Moby **** (1956 - J. Huston)
Hundreds of Beavers (2022 - M. Cheslik)
My Old *** (2024 - M. Park)
Thunderball (1965 - T. Young)
Woman of the Year (1942 - G. Stevens)
Watchmen: Chapter I (2024 - B. Vietti)
Gladiator (2000 - R. Scott)
Will & Harper (2024 - J. Greenbaum)
Gladiator II (2024 - R. Scott)

Didn't quite make it to twenty this month. I've written up most of them already in this thread and the Huston one.

Bullet to the Head was a decent Stallone action vehicle with a cliched plot but solid action as you'd expect from Walter Hill. Cat People is still effective in spite of its age and tiny budget; it's not really scary but sets a creepy mood and does a lot with a little.

I went with a pair of mountain man movies Jeremiah Johnson and Hundred of Beavers. I enjoyed both but for completely different reasons. Will Geer's character in Jeremiah Johnson would have right at home in Hundreds of Beavers.

Squeezed in one more 007 movie before they went off Prime. I've seen Thunderball many times. It starts off so promisingly but grinds to a halt once it goes underwater. It's still peak Connery though.

Woman of the Year is a delightful romantic comedy with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. They have undeniable chemistry as a mismatched couple. The kitchen scene goes on way too long but its not enough to diminish everything that came before it.

Watchmen: Chapter I is a new animated version of the classic graphic novel. It sticks closer to the original story than the Zack Snyder version did. The animation was better than the voice acting but I'll still watch Chapter II when it drops.

 

[Tick]

The Time Traveler's Wife (Max): 2009 time travel movie with Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana, IMDB 7.1. Eric Bana has no control over when or to what time he time travels to. When he's gone, he's gone from the place he left - so he's still living the same number of years he's supposed to. This was good - there was a bit of a creepy angle to it that McAdams' character called out once, but since it seems impossible to change anything by traveling back, it means things are as they were meant to be. I guess as I think through the timeline, it wasn't really creepy, it just seemed that way. Anyway, a movie with this setting has to have some tragedy involved, but they did a good job of not letting it ruin the sweet romance story.

 

[Ilov80s]

Woman of the Year is a delightful romantic comedy with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. They have undeniable chemistry as a mismatched couple. The kitchen scene goes on way too long but its not enough to diminish everything that came before it.

Hepburn and Tracy had a really high hit rate. Just having them together made moviies so much better. Woman of the Year is one of the best but you are right, the end of the movie kitchen scene SUCKS. I know Hepburn must have hated having to film that.

 

[whoknew]

In the Land of Saints and Sinners - Just watched this. Didn't know anything about it until I saw it was on one of the movie channels. It was surprisingly good. Basically a bit of a slow burn crime thriller set in the middle of the 70s Northern Ireland/IRA world. Good movie.

 

[Tick]

Another Earth (Max): 2011 movie, IMDB 6.9. It's a sci-fi movie, but only barely. (this is all explained in the first 10 minutes, not really giving anything away) It's mainly about a woman who celebrated admission to MIT and ended up driving drunk and killing most of a family. When she gets out of prison 4 years later, she's a shell of a person and trying to figure out what she can handle doing. The movie is about her struggles.

Also, there's another Earth at the opposite point in our orbit.

The final couple scenes are understated but pretty great. This is a good movie, just don't go in thinking it's very sci-fi. I don't remember how it got into my queue, but I'm glad it did.

 

[simsarge]

Laurel Canyon.
A 2+ hour Documentary about the 60s - 70s music scene and the iconic LA suberb's place in it. I can't recommend this enough. Wether you like the music or not, it's really well done and fun trip down memory lane and a look back into life in that era. 5/5

 

[El Floppo]

Laurel Canyon.
A 2+ hour Documentary about the 60s - 70s music scene and the iconic LA suberb's place in it. I can't recommend this enough. Wether you like the music or not, it's really well done and fun trip down memory lane and a look back into life in that era. 5/5

Watched this recently... Very cool to see the origin story of so many bands tied to that place.

 

[Eephus]

Laurel Canyon.
A 2+ hour Documentary about the 60s - 70s music scene and the iconic LA suberb's place in it. I can't recommend this enough. Wether you like the music or not, it's really well done and fun trip down memory lane and a look back into life in that era. 5/5

There's another documentary about the same subject called Echo in the Canyon. I think the one you watched was better than Echo because the latter has Jakob Dylan doing the interviews and also organizing a Byrds tribute concert featuring Beck and Cat Power.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Another Earth (Max): 2011 movie, IMDB 6.9. It's a sci-fi movie, but only barely. (this is all explained in the first 10 minutes, not really giving anything away) It's mainly about a woman who celebrated admission to MIT and ended up driving drunk and killing most of a family. When she gets out of prison 4 years later, she's a shell of a person and trying to figure out what she can handle doing. The movie is about her struggles.

Also, there's another Earth at the opposite point in our orbit.

The final couple scenes are understated but pretty great. This is a good movie, just don't go in thinking it's very sci-fi. I don't remember how it got into my queue, but I'm glad it did.

This is one that I wrote down for @Scoresman's countdown and I wanted a rewatch. I remember really liking it and this one being one of those movies I'd recommend at the store to people looking for something under the radar. Marling wrote and starred in a couple others I also have the foggy feeling of also liking/finding interesting around that same time - Sound of My Voice and The East. I don't remember much about any of them, though.

 

[belljr]

The Christopher Reeves documentary is a tough watch.....I don't know if I feel sadder or more motivated after watching it

 

[Eephus]

Blast of Silence- the perfect transition from Noirvember into the holiday season. This super low budget 1960s B hitman movie is a mini masterpiece. Allen Baron wrote, stars in and directs. He got it made for about $20,000 and his family and friends mostly working in and on it as well as some cheap blacklisted high end Hollywood talent. This is one of the best independent B crime movies ever made. A Cleveland hitman returns home to NYC on Christmas on a job to rub out a mobster who has gotten a little too ambitious but along the way he starts to have second thoughts about his career choice. The holiday season is used really well to provide a juxtaposition to the hitman's lonely shadowy existance.

You inspired me to finally watch my recording of Blast of Silence from last year. I didn't like it as much as you did although it had some nice moments and the early 60s NYC street scenes were cool. The camera shot from the low position of the hitman walking into frame from a block away was a stunner.

 

[El Floppo]

Blast of Silence- the perfect transition from Noirvember into the holiday season. This super low budget 1960s B hitman movie is a mini masterpiece. Allen Baron wrote, stars in and directs. He got it made for about $20,000 and his family and friends mostly working in and on it as well as some cheap blacklisted high end Hollywood talent. This is one of the best independent B crime movies ever made. A Cleveland hitman returns home to NYC on Christmas on a job to rub out a mobster who has gotten a little too ambitious but along the way he starts to have second thoughts about his career choice. The holiday season is used really well to provide a juxtaposition to the hitman's lonely shadowy existance.

You inspired me to finally watch my recording of Blast of Silence from last year. I didn't like it as much as you did although it had some nice moments and the early 60s NYC street scenes were cool. The camera shot from the low position of the hitman walking into frame from a block away was a stunner.

I'd never heard of this, and now really want to see it.

playing this saturday at a theater in Yonkers. not at all convenient, but tempting.

doesn't appear to be streaming anywhere... ?

 

[Eephus]

Blast of Silence- the perfect transition from Noirvember into the holiday season. This super low budget 1960s B hitman movie is a mini masterpiece. Allen Baron wrote, stars in and directs. He got it made for about $20,000 and his family and friends mostly working in and on it as well as some cheap blacklisted high end Hollywood talent. This is one of the best independent B crime movies ever made. A Cleveland hitman returns home to NYC on Christmas on a job to rub out a mobster who has gotten a little too ambitious but along the way he starts to have second thoughts about his career choice. The holiday season is used really well to provide a juxtaposition to the hitman's lonely shadowy existance.

You inspired me to finally watch my recording of Blast of Silence from last year. I didn't like it as much as you did although it had some nice moments and the early 60s NYC street scenes were cool. The camera shot from the low position of the hitman walking into frame from a block away was a stunner.

I'd never heard of this, and now really want to see it.

playing this saturday at a theater in Yonkers. not at all convenient, but tempting.

doesn't appear to be streaming anywhere... ?

You'd probably really like it if for no other reason than to play spot the location and to see how much they've changed over 60+ years. There are lots of scenes of characters walking down city streets, many shot without permits from a passing car.

 

[Ilov80s]

Blast of Silence- the perfect transition from Noirvember into the holiday season. This super low budget 1960s B hitman movie is a mini masterpiece. Allen Baron wrote, stars in and directs. He got it made for about $20,000 and his family and friends mostly working in and on it as well as some cheap blacklisted high end Hollywood talent. This is one of the best independent B crime movies ever made. A Cleveland hitman returns home to NYC on Christmas on a job to rub out a mobster who has gotten a little too ambitious but along the way he starts to have second thoughts about his career choice. The holiday season is used really well to provide a juxtaposition to the hitman's lonely shadowy existance.

You inspired me to finally watch my recording of Blast of Silence from last year. I didn't like it as much as you did although it had some nice moments and the early 60s NYC street scenes were cool. The camera shot from the low position of the hitman walking into frame from a block away was a stunner.

Can't help but think of the recent Fincher hitman movie when watching Blast of Silence with all the voiceover and the unreliable nature of his own commentary of his life.

 

[Lehigh98]

Already have my IMAX tickets, so excited...
David Fincher's Psychological Thriller 'Se7en' Gets 4K Theatrical Re-Release for 30th Anniversary

Seven | Official Trailer 4K Ultra HD

I remember going to see this sophomore year of college and going back to see it again less than a week later almost 30 years ago. I can't think of any other movie I've seen where the tension and anticipation just build mercilessly to the climax. I'll be taking my sons (18yo & 16yo) and can't wait to see what they think. My 18yo has been getting more into the "older" movies I've been suggesting to him like Tarantinos and Nolans, hoping they've hit the age to appreciate Fincher. Wasn't sure about my 16yo but showed him the new trailer above and he was in.

"If we catch John Doe and he turns out to be the devil, I mean if he's Satan himself, that might live up to our expectations, but he's not the devil. He's just a man."

 

[El Floppo]

I wish my wife and I didn't say "what's in the box" every time we get a delivery.

 

[El Floppo]

But happy we say "it places the lotion in the basket" every time there's a lotion related comment.

 

[FarFromHome]

I wish my wife and I didn't say "what's in the box" every time we get a delivery.

I still drop that line regularly. Such a great movie moment. So great

 

[FarFromHome]

Watched Dune Part Two today. I read the books years ago. I enjoyed the original. Couldn't tell you all the houses, but I get the premise of things in that world. Reviews were mixed. Comments on this site were mixed. I really enjoyed it. Solid portrayal of things. Poor Chani. That had to sting. Ha ha

 

[beer 30]

Watched Dune Part Two today. I read the books years ago. I enjoyed the original. Couldn't tell you all the houses, but I get the premise of things in that world. Reviews were mixed. Comments on this site were mixed. I really enjoyed it. Solid portrayal of things. Poor Chani. That had to sting. Ha ha

Yu should give Dune Prophecy a run if you haven't yet, really enjoying it as well. On MAX right now.

 

[FarFromHome]

Watched Dune Part Two today. I read the books years ago. I enjoyed the original. Couldn't tell you all the houses, but I get the premise of things in that world. Reviews were mixed. Comments on this site were mixed. I really enjoyed it. Solid portrayal of things. Poor Chani. That had to sting. Ha ha

Yu should give Dune Prophecy a run if you haven't yet, really enjoying it as well. On MAX right now.

Yes sir. Qued up. Prolly gonna wait till the entire season is available. Ragnar!!!

 

[Tick]

Already have my IMAX tickets, so excited...
David Fincher's Psychological Thriller 'Se7en' Gets 4K Theatrical Re-Release for 30th Anniversary

Seven | Official Trailer 4K Ultra HD

I remember going to see this sophomore year of college and going back to see it again less than a week later almost 30 years ago. I can't think of any other movie I've seen where the tension and anticipation just build mercilessly to the climax. I'll be taking my sons (18yo & 16yo) and can't wait to see what they think. My 18yo has been getting more into the "older" movies I've been suggesting to him like Tarantinos and Nolans, hoping they've hit the age to appreciate Fincher. Wasn't sure about my 16yo but showed him the new trailer above and he was in.

"If we catch John Doe and he turns out to be the devil, I mean if he's Satan himself, that might live up to our expectations, but he's not the devil. He's just a man."

First date with my wife… it would be pretty funny to get us tickets. She swore never to watch it again.

 

[FarFromHome]

Already have my IMAX tickets, so excited...
David Fincher's Psychological Thriller 'Se7en' Gets 4K Theatrical Re-Release for 30th Anniversary

Seven | Official Trailer 4K Ultra HD

I remember going to see this sophomore year of college and going back to see it again less than a week later almost 30 years ago. I can't think of any other movie I've seen where the tension and anticipation just build mercilessly to the climax. I'll be taking my sons (18yo & 16yo) and can't wait to see what they think. My 18yo has been getting more into the "older" movies I've been suggesting to him like Tarantinos and Nolans, hoping they've hit the age to appreciate Fincher. Wasn't sure about my 16yo but showed him the new trailer above and he was in.

"If we catch John Doe and he turns out to be the devil, I mean if he's Satan himself, that might live up to our expectations, but he's not the devil. He's just a man."

First date with my wife… it would be pretty funny to get us tickets. She swore never to watch it again.

Ha ha. You reminded me of a time years ago when my wife and i went to the drive in. First movie was a chick flick and the second movie I told her was a romantic comedy. It was horror movie The Ring. Horrifying it was. We couldn't leave cause it was a drive in and that would be rude. She made me turn the speakers off. She was so pissed at me. Ha ha

 

[Ilov80s]

Getting ready to post my now 5th annual countdown of top 25 new watches of the year. I always post it in here but with all the countdown threads maybe I should just give it it’s own thread?

 

[snogger]

Wife and I watched Red One tonight on Prime.
Parts are fun, many moments, and the overall story was actually pretty good.
But it did drag on for about 30 minutes in the middle.
I'd give it a 3 out of 5.
Definitely worth the free watch, just glad I didn't pay to see it in the theater.

 

[Payne]

Wife and I watched Red One tonight on Prime.
Parts are fun, many moments, and the overall story was actually pretty good.
But it did drag on for about 30 minutes in the middle.
I'd give it a 3 out of 5.
Definitely worth the free watch, just glad I didn't pay to see it in the theater.

The family has agreed to watch it one night between now and Christmas.

 

[Eephus]

Maria (2024) is new on Netflix. It's a biography of opera superstar Maria Callas starring Angelina Jolie.

The film covers Callas in the last week of her life, alone with her servants and deserted by her magnificent voice, reliving her life through a combination of flashbacks and drug addled hallucinations. The movie is very slow and meditative but is held together by a great performance from Jolie who knows a thing or two about the life of a diva.

As recent classical music biopics go, I enjoyed this one more than Maestro but not as much as Tar.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

I can’t find the 90s movies thread but man I forgot Copycat with Sigourney weaver and Harry connick jr

Unfortunately holly hunter too

 

[brun]

Just watched Downfall on YouTube/Free . A 2005 German movie about the end of Hitler and the war.
Slow paced and long, I was still drawn in and felt it might be the best treatment of the subject I can remember. If WW2 and Hitler interests you, I would recommend.

 

[BlackCrowes]

Just watched Downfall on YouTube/Free . A 2005 German movie about the end of Hitler and the war.
Slow paced and long, I was still drawn in and felt it might be the best treatment of the subject I can remember. If WW2 and Hitler interests you, I would recommend.

GREAT movie

 

[Eephus]

Just watched Downfall on YouTube/Free . A 2005 German movie about the end of Hitler and the war.
Slow paced and long, I was still drawn in and felt it might be the best treatment of the subject I can remember. If WW2 and Hitler interests you, I would recommend.

GREAT movie

First ballot meme hall of famer as well.

 

[Ilov80s]

This will mark my 5th year logging the movies I've watched and posting a list of the 25 best NEW TO ME watches of the year. I wasn't sure if it was a good idea the first time I posted it but I got great responses from posters like @Eephus @krista4 @KarmaPolice and rip wikkid so I will hopefully do this as long as Joe keeps this place open.

25. Brooklyn (2015)- I am of Irish descent so I admit it could be bias that has me so enjoying the story of an Irish girl finding love in 1950s NYC, but this is one of the most romantic movies of the millenia to me. A movie about leaving home, finding home, missing home, returning home and not returning home. Maybe our real home is the relationships we create? Saoirse Ronan is an actress that I can't take my eyes off of. She's cute but not a supermodel and she's not especially kinetic. Yet, she is inherently interesting- proof that having "it" comes from a dimension just slightly beyond our senses. Standouts: Young Soairse arriving in the movies as a fully formed star. All of the art direction, costume, etc. It looked like it felt, perfectly captured time and place.

24. The Official Story (1985)- You adopted a baby, loved her and raised her. When she was a teenager you learned that as a baby she was taken from her mother without consent. Who's love is more real- the mom who spent her life raising the child or the mom who spent her life looking for her? And what if you find out your spouse knew the entire time? Welcome to the right wing military dictatorship of late 20th century Argentina. Standouts: Well there it is, we are at movie 24 and Norma Aleandro has given the performance "of the year".

23. A Hero (2021)- Stressful. This movie will make you feel desperate. It lives in the grey areas where well intentioned people find their little lies turning to quicksand. An Iranian man in a debtors prison makes up a seemingly harmless story about how he came into some money to buy his freedom but every step he takes to get free, only pulls him down further. Standouts: Not sure I have one. It just all seemed to be balanced perfectly so I guess that means the standout was probably director Ashgar Farhadi.

22. Petite Maman (2021)- The twin flame to All of Us Strangers. I actually don't want to say any more about the plot here because it's best to be discovered. I knew nothing of this going into it and I think it made the movie far better. It's from the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It's about parent-child relationships. It's 72 minutes. It's a sweet gentle fantasy of answers to questions we all had as kids but probably stopped considering decades ago. Standouts: The writer, director and editor and anyone else who let this movie be 72 minutes. It was as long as it needed to be which is actually the correct length for any movie. The twin girls are both really good in their roles. Maybe the language barrier hides deficits in their performance but to an English speaker, they come off like fairies born into HD.

21. Bullets Over Broadway (1994)- A Woody Allen movie with no Woody Allen. A gangster-theater-comedy-period piece, an Oscar winning performance for the great Dianne Wiest. It's just a jaunty little movie with a can't miss cast. Standouts: The casting director who got Jack Warden, Jennifer Tilley, John Cusack, Jim Broadbent and Mary-Louise Parker all together.

 

[krista4]

This will mark my 5th year logging the movies I've watched and posting a list of the 25 best NEW TO ME watches of the year. I wasn't sure if it was a good idea the first time I posted it but I got great responses from posters like @Eephus @krista4 @KarmaPolice and rip wikkid so I will hopefully do this as long as Joe keeps this place open.

25. Brooklyn (2015)- I am of Irish descent so I admit it could be bias that has me so enjoying the story of an Irish girl finding love in 1950s NYC, but this is one of the most romantic movies of the millenia to me. A movie about leaving home, finding home, missing home, returning home and not returning home. Maybe our real home is the relationships we create? Saoirse Ronan is an actress that I can't take my eyes off of. She's cute but not a supermodel and she's not especially kinetic. Yet, she is inherently interesting- proof that having "it" comes from a dimension just slightly beyond our senses. Standouts: Young Soairse arriving in the movies as a fully formed star. All of the art direction, costume, etc. It looked like it felt, perfectly captured time and place.

24. The Official Story (1985)- You adopted a baby, loved her and raised her. When she was a teenager you learned that as a baby she was taken from her mother without consent. Who's love is more real- the mom who spent her life raising the child or the mom who spent her life looking for her? And what if you find out your spouse knew the entire time? Welcome to the right wing military dictatorship of late 20th century Argentina. Standouts: Well there it is, we are at movie 24 and Norma Aleandro has given the performance "of the year".

23. A Hero (2021)- Stressful. This movie will make you feel desperate. It lives in the grey areas where well intentioned people find their little lies turning to quicksand. An Iranian man in a debtors prison makes up a seemingly harmless story about how he came into some money to buy his freedom but every step he takes to get free, only pulls him down further. Standouts: Not sure I have one. It just all seemed to be balanced perfectly so I guess that means the standout was probably director Ashgar Farhadi.

22. Petite Maman (2021)- The twin flame to All of Us Strangers. I actually don't want to say any more about the plot here because it's best to be discovered. I knew nothing of this going into it and I think it made the movie far better. It's from the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It's about parent-child relationships. It's 72 minutes. It's a sweet gentle fantasy of answers to questions we all had as kids but probably stopped considering decades ago. Standouts: The writer, director and editor and anyone else who let this movie be 72 minutes. It was as long as it needed to be which is actually the correct length for any movie. The twin girls are both really good in their roles. Maybe the language barrier hides deficits in their performance but to an English speaker, they come off like fairies born into HD.

21. Bullets Over Broadway (1994)- A Woody Allen movie with no Woody Allen. A gangster-theater-comedy-period piece, an Oscar winning performance for the great Dianne Wiest. It's just a jaunty little movie with a can't miss cast. Standouts: The casting director who got Jack Warden, Jennifer Tilley, John Cusack, Jim Broadbent and Mary-Louise Parker all together.

These and Eephus's monthly watch posts are must-reads! Happy to see #24 and #23 on here; loved both of those films. Brooklyn and Petite Maman will go on my watch list.

 

[whoknew]

Watching White Christmas for the ... who knows how many times. Danny Kaye was a treasure. He was very, very funny.

 

[krista4]

Watching White Christmas for the ... who knows how many times. Danny Kaye was a treasure. He was very, very funny.

Coincidentally, I'm on a cruise ship in San Juan about to leave port this evening, and I just saw that they're showing White Christmas on the top deck right now. I'd love to watch it, but 3 pm and 87 degrees just doesn't seem like the right atmosphere for it.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Wife and I watched Red One tonight on Prime.
Parts are fun, many moments, and the overall story was actually pretty good.
But it did drag on for about 30 minutes in the middle.
I'd give it a 3 out of 5.
Definitely worth the free watch, just glad I didn't pay to see it in the theater.

agree with this. Not a masterpiece by any means but it wasn't horrible.

 

[El Floppo]

We watched Carry-On on Netflix.

Carry on.

 

[snogger]

We watched Carry-On on Netflix.

Carry on.

I enjoyed it for what it was. Even though it kind of felt like die hard 2 without humor.
Many moments, but still a 3 out of 5 for me.

 

[Ilov80s]

Dear Santa- we wanted to watch a mindless new Christmas movie as we dozed off to bed last night. It’s a Jack Black vehicle where a kid with a learning disability accidentally writes a letter to Satan instead of Santa. It’s very bad as expected and the ending is actually kind of jaw droppingly bad. But it fit what we were looking for perfectly lol.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Dear Santa- we wanted to watch a mindless new Christmas movie as we dozed off to bed last night. It’s a Jack Black vehicle where a kid with a learning disability accidentally writes a letter to Satan instead of Santa. It’s very bad as expected and the ending is actually kind of jaw droppingly bad. But it fit what we were looking for perfectly lol.

How does a movie like this get greenlit?

Pitchman: It's a family movie.

Mogul: What's it about?

Pitchman: It's about a kid palling around with Satan instead of Santa. It's a hilarious setup because of the mis-spelling!

Mogul: Well okay, as long as you maintain the family feel while the prince of darkness hams it up.