Last Movie You Watched Thread
06-08-25 | 02:08 AM
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http://www.blu-ray.com/A-RAD-Documen...969696/#Review
06-08-25 | 05:18 AM
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Great review of a great film
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06-08-25 | 06:02 AM
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Drive-in double feature
TWICE THE BONE-CHILLING TERROR!
(1963) Still holds up. Hadn't seen this in at least 25 years. Watched a PAL DVD. It was in Cinemascope but 4x3 letterboxed. Color faded. Still enjoyable. Even with the effects of the day the triffids are scary.
(1958) A classic. Seen this several times but not for years. Never occurred to me before that the title monster is the little fly. Most of the movie is spent in search of it. The humanoid version that we're teased with pales to the alien horribleness of the tiny fly that they save till the very end.
TWICE THE BONE-CHILLING TERROR!
(1963) Still holds up. Hadn't seen this in at least 25 years. Watched a PAL DVD. It was in Cinemascope but 4x3 letterboxed. Color faded. Still enjoyable. Even with the effects of the day the triffids are scary.
(1958) A classic. Seen this several times but not for years. Never occurred to me before that the title monster is the little fly. Most of the movie is spent in search of it. The humanoid version that we're teased with pales to the alien horribleness of the tiny fly that they save till the very end.
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06-08-25 | 06:50 AM
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Andy Rooney, at least for me, was a revelation in this. I can’t remember him ever delivering a performance of this magnitude. He was the perfect man for the part. He helps sell the authenticity of the role. And Patricia Neal, oh my God, her VOICE is just incredible. She sounds like an old-fashioned radio performer the way she enunciates words and controls her cadence. And Walter Matthau must also be mentioned as kind of standing in for the voice of the writer, Budd Schulberg, as he espouses about the artificiality of the media and how it can be a corrosive and corruptive influence on society at large. Matthau manages to exhibit a certain world-weariness that perfectly suits the role, and he gets to deliver, more-or-less, the coup de grace to the Rhodes character when the time comes.
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06-08-25 | 07:16 AM
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06-08-25 | 11:33 AM
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Born on the Fourth of July Shout! Select 4K
Tom Cruise. Directed by Oliver Stone. 1989
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
This is the first time I’ve seen “Born on the Fourth of July” since seeing it in theaters over 30 years ago. I remember the film being talked about for years as an upcoming Al Pacino project, so Tom Cruise as "Ron Kovic" seemed a little too commercial at the time.
Writer-Director Oliver Stone approaches Kovic’s life as something of an Odyssey, visiting very specific levels as Ron evolves from an idealistic young man to a wheelchair-bound war protester. Stone’s script is typically hyperbolic and as subtle as a brick, but it certainly gets his ideas across. Some scenes are genuinely touching, such as when Ron bursts into his high school Prom to reclaim his girl for one last dance, while his final confrontation with his mother is so over-the-top that it made me cringe. Frankly, John Williams lush and evocative score did a more consistent job of getting to my emotions than all of Stone's angst.
The cast is filled with familiar faces, some prominent at the time, and others that would become better known down the road. You've got Raymond J Barry, Kyra Sedgwick, Lili Taylor, Frank Whaley, Jason Gedrick, Stephen Baldwin and Ed Lauter, just to name a few. I appreciated Stone giving cameos to Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe, his dueling father-figures from "Platoon", and the brief inclusion of Stone regulars Tom Sizemore, John C McGinley and Michael Wincott. But this is Tom Cruise's film, and he gives a sincere, powerful performance. Still, Oliver Stone got the Oscar as Director and Tom's still waiting for his nod.
I think I have see it 3 or 4 times and the first time on the USA Network in the early 90's and probably hacked and edited to death but with a 3 hr running time with ads.
That would have been something if Pacino did it though Cruise surprised everybody with his performance and if he ever got a Oscar this movie should have been at the top of the list for the award.
I wish Cruise would return to doing more movies like this instead of MI 30 or whatever sequel number they are on.
06-09-25 | 12:27 AM
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Goldfinger (1964) — Great third entry in the Bond franchise, Connery is wonderful as usual and Pussy Galore is an all-time great character name. Not sure where this ranks in the series but it's up there. ****/***** (4K Ultra HD)
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06-09-25 | 02:05 AM
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The Count Yorga Collection Arrow Video Blu-Ray
"Count Yorga, Vampire" / "The Return of Count Yorga"
Robert Quarry. Directed by Bob Kelljan. 1970, 1971.
"Count Yorga, Vampire": A couple invites a Count from Hungary, who recently immigrated to America, to conduct a seance for the woman's recently deceased mother, oblivious to the fact that he is actually a vampire.
"The Return of Count Yorga": Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
The first time I had heard of "Count Yorga, Vampire" was when I saw the newspaper ad that it was "Opening Friday" at the city's "Grindhouse Theater". "Count Yorga!?" The name sounded stupid to me. "Count Yorga" sounded like something The Brady Kids would stay up late to watch and then little Cindy can't get to sleep that night because she's so scared, and that teaches them some kind of lesson. A little later I read an article complaining because "Yorga" got a "GP" instead of the "R" it deserved. I began to think that maybe there was something to this "Count Yorga"....
As it turns out "Count Yorga, Vampire" is a pretty good "B" Movie. It doesn't have Darren McGavin or the manic energy of "The Night Stalker", but it has a certain low-budget creepiness, as when one of the male leads finds his girlfriend eating a kitten. The mix of laid-back California actors like Michael Murphy and the more formal (if not stodgy) Robert Quarry has a certain charm. "The Return of Count Yorga" is even better, with a horrific attack on a family by Yorga's "Vampire Women" echoing the "Tate/La Bianca" murders by Charles Manson's disciples.
Arrow provides a wonderful package of the two films. The transfers are bold and colorful. There are some slightly out-of-focus scenes in the earlier film, but I suspect that is the fault of the source. "Return" looks spectacular all the way through. Michael Murphy provides a look back at working on the original, but I'm guessing everyone else is gone now. Instead, Arrow provides commentaries and analysis from the likes of writers Tim Lucas and Kim Newman, and fans like Comics creator Steve Bissette.
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06-09-25 | 10:56 AM
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I liked it but I am a easy mark for a De Niro mob flick and they don't make a lot of movies for adults these days so you have to appreciate it even more a movie like this comes out.
It was not the greatest mob flick but adequate though if Scorese was involved it would have been a smash.
Surprised the supporting cast was really weak and if De Niro is involved you get everybody who is a big name in the cast or something close to it and not no offense Debra Messing as the wife.
I think Al Pacino was suppose to play the other gangster but he dropped out.
06-09-25 | 11:04 AM
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1983
Showtime
Vietnam movies wera all the rage back then and a separate genre and now it is rare if anybody makes one or any war movies though Europe can't get enough of WWII movies.
Don't want another war to pop up to revive the genre though there was a period of Iraq related movies in the aughts.
Surprised there are not a lot of Covid or Trump movies? I know there are some.
Hackman crying at the end was touching and then you get this int he closing credits.
Sad Gene, Fred Ward, Robert Stack, and Patrick Swayze are all part of the past and I thought Randall "Tex' Cobb to but he is still around.
Only in the 80's.
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06-09-25 | 11:14 AM
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It's always fun having my son home from college as we're working our way through movies I love that he hasn't seen. This past week we watched Easy A, Superbad, The Accountant and then most recently the original Scream.
06-09-25 | 01:27 PM
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Molly's Game Universal Blu-Ray
Jessica Chastain. Directed by Aaron Sorkin. 2017
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful, becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
"Molly’s Game” is within spitting distance of being a pretty terrific film. Its written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, master of the "Walk and Talk" (characters have a long conversation while walking somewhere) and he’s the word-happy creator of "The West Wing" and the screenwriter of movies like "The Social Network", "Moneyball" and "A Few Good Men". Sorkin’s films burst at the seams with smarty-pants dialogue and this is no exception.
Jessica Chastain gets a wonderfully showy role, where she’s usually the smartest person in the room, but she also gets to be vulnerable and damaged, and all the while dressed like "the Cinemax version of herself" (to quote the script). Chastain would have to glam down and bury herself in make-up as Tammy Faye Baker before she would win an Oscar. Idris Elba is Molly’s lawyer and verbal sparring partner. Kevin Costner is Molly’s father, and he gets a wonderful scene with her in the Third Act where they settle their grievances. The cast also includes Chris O' Dowd, Bill Camp, Jeremy Strong, and Michael Cera as “Player X”, an unnamed young Hollywood star that Cera says was actually Tobey Maguire. At 140 minutes "Molly's Game" is a bit too long, but it's an interesting story filled with clever exchanges, and Sorkin acquits himself well as a first-time director. This is one of those rare “Based on a True Story” films produced in the last ten years that doesn’t end with footage of the real-life players, though Bloom turns up for a moment in a three-minute EPK featurette that is the disc’s sole bonus.
Spoiler:
While watching I thought that "Player X" was based on Tobey Maguire and IMDB confirms it. I recognized Aaron Sorkin as one of the poker players.
06-09-25 | 05:11 PM
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Fire Birds Hoopla
Nicholas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones. Directed by David Green. 1990
When South American Drug Cartels turns to high-tech weaponry, the U.S. Army enlists the aid of the Apaches - America's elite airborne task force specially trained for aerial assault, -to take them down.
There have been memorable "Helicopter Scenes" in Movies, like "Apocalypse Now" or "Die Hard with a Vengeance", but not a lot of films focusing on "choppers" specifically. There's the great "Blue Thunder", of course, but I also fondly remember a TV-Movie from my youth called "Birds of Prey", which featured gravelly world-weary David Janssen as a Traffic reporter who witnesses a bank robbery and gives chase. Much to my surprise, I see that it's currently on Tubi. I should have known...
"Fire Birds" is a pretty obvious knock-off of "Top Gun". There's a great title sequence with Apache Helicopters flying against a sunset, all to an uplifting score. Nicholas Cage is the hot shot, and Tommy Lee Jones is the grizzled vet who's going to show him he doesn't know it all just yet. Jones is surprisingly low-key and good-natured but he's a reliable presence. Of course, midway through Cage will discover the Achilles' Heel he must overcome if he's going to save the day. Sean Young is a fellow pilot and old flame of Cage, who he tries to win over. Young brings her usual flinty energy, but Cage's flirting gets pretty obnoxious, and when they finally get together, there's not much in the way of sparks. The script makes a point of making one enemy pilot the "face" of The Cartel, -the one enemy Cage has to take out to finish the film. Unfortunately, the pilot is just a bearded face seen through the windshield and doesn't make that much of an impression. The film is just too by-the-numbers, but the final confrontation is quite good.
The picture quality is mediocre, -probably up-rezzed SD, -but at least it's anamorphic 1:78. The version on Amazon is apparently an SD "TV print" and in the 1:33:1. aspect ratio.
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06-10-25 | 04:54 AM
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Been on the list for a while, can finally check it off. Shouldn't have started it so late, as it was a bit longer than I thought it'd be. Great cast.
06-10-25 | 06:49 AM
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Count me in on the love for Predator: Killer of Killers. I watched it Sunday night and greatly enjoyed it.
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06-10-25 | 11:07 AM
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2025
AMC+
"Believing he witnessed an abduction, a young man turns to his next-door neighbour, a retired security guard, to help him find the missing woman."
It was not horrible but could have been a lot better especially the ending though Jeffrey Dean Morgan gave one of his better performances in his career.
Malin Akerman played the mom.
06-10-25 | 11:18 AM
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Peacock
06-10-25 | 04:39 PM
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Ex-Husbands Kino Lorber DVD
Griffin Dunne. Directed by Noah Pritzker. 2025
Manhattan dentist Peter Pearce faces a post-midlife crisis after his wife of 35 years leaves him. On the spur of the moment, he books a trip to Tulum, Mexico, only to crash his son's bachelor party.
I don't know if it's intentional, but "Ex-Husbands" feels like an homage to Independent Films of the past. The title and cover art put me in mind of John Cassettes' "Husbands". Griffin Dunne certainly did his share of character-driven films in The Eighties (and one particular role as "Werewolf Meatloaf"), and he's paired with Rosanna Arquette, his co-star in "After Hours". Dunne's father is played by Richard Benjamin, the very model of the Nuerotic Leading Man of The Seventies.
When "Ex-Husbands" focuses on Griffin Dunne as the grizzled, kvetching "Peter" it's an amiable film to follow, even though the script is more a collection of moments and behaviors than a strongly constructed plot. Peter's sons seem to come out of a more recent Independent Film, or some Hulu Show, and I found them pretentious and self-absorbed, often talking in cliches and jargon.
06-11-25 | 12:01 AM
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2025
"Teacher and homemaker Nancy Vandergroot's picture-perfect life with her husband and son in Holland tumbles into a twisted tale. Nancy and her colleague become suspicious of a secret, only to discover nothing in their lives is what it seems."
It got blasted by the critics and it started slow but the second hour was not bad and kind of a ambiguous ending.
I did not know until late Jude Hill who played the kid was also in Belfast.
06-11-25 | 12:02 AM
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Amazon Prime
it opens with a Warner Bros logo so does it hit HBO Max too later in the year?
06-11-25 | 12:37 AM
06-11-25 | 12:52 AM
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Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Dir. Louis Malle) – An absolutely brilliant French noir-tinged thriller from Louis Malle. I was blown away by this. It’s almost a comedy of errors at times, only most of the comedy is of the pitch-black variety. It’s best to know as little as possible going into the film, so all I’ll say is that it is about a man who conspires with his mistress to murder her husband, who also happens to be his boss, and to frame it like a suicide. But “best laid plans…”, as the saying goes…And soon everything goes awry in both comical and ironic fashion. And it is hilarious at times. Wryly and sardonically hilarious. And the intricate plot, reliant on chance and coincidence and the inevitability of fate, is reminiscent of certain Coen Brothers plots that were equally convoluted. Malle also takes care to insert an element of doomed romanticism, which is aided by a superb melancholy, jazzy score from MILES DAVIS!!! Jeanne Moreau delivers an outstanding performance as the duplicitous wife, and Maurice Ronet is wicked as the careful, methodical co-conspirator. The story works so well because, as absurd as certain events might seem, Malle ensures that they all feel logical and realistic. He doesn’t shy away from the darker aspects of the plot either, and even manages to insert a certain degree of social commentary into the film (specifically, about France’s military presence in both Indochina and Algeria). No lie, this is a DAMN GOOD THRILLER. A darkly humorous tale of lust and greed, one that frequently alludes to that old film noir adage about “fate lurking around every corner, just waiting to trip you up”; rarely ever have those words seemed so omnipresent and fitting. And genre stalwart Lino Ventura makes an appearance as one of the investigators…An intelligent, mature film…Malle knocked this one out of the park…
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06-11-25 | 01:19 AM
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06-11-25 | 09:45 AM
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06-11-25 | 11:50 AM
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Snow White Disney+ 4K
Rachel Zegler. Directed by Marc Webb. 2025
A princess joins forces with seven dwarfs and a group of rebels to liberate her kingdom from her cruel stepmother the Evil Queen.
To be honest, I’d grown up avoiding Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” because it looked too old-fashioned to me, as compared to more contemporary animated films. I mean, it was old when I was young. I remember when "The Brady Bunch" performed "Snow White" on an episode (avoiding Disney trademarks) and it was embarrassing. However, a few months back I decided I better take a look at it once and for all. The new 4k steelbook of the original certainly establishes the film's place in history as a charming work that should be paid a lot of respect. Obviously the "Live Action" remake was a bad idea, -so bad they apparently made it twice. Just watching the eye-rolling first ten minutes tells you all you need to know about why this film failed.
Rachel Zegler can sing, and she looks confident when she's belting out a "Broadway" number and I thought she was fine as "Maria" in Spielberg's "West Side Story". But when she’s just acting as "Snow White" she mugs a lot, pulling faces with her jaw jutting out and looking like a simpleton. Perhaps it's the haircut. Gal Gadot, on the other hand, gets two semi-musical scenes and a lot of scenery-chewing and it shows her limitations. I actually don’t have a problem with The Dwarves, who in this version don't consider themselves "Human". They're well-rendered but they really belong in a fully animated film.
After all the crowing about the unimportance of "The Prince", -you know, "Weird, weird, weird"- I was surprised Snow still had a love interest (a "Thief", not a Prince this time) but we still get Snow White's death by poison apple and resurrection by "True Love's Kiss", though it's all of five minutes of the story and as bland and flavorless as her rescuer and their love story. Don't worry if you feel you missed the message of the film, -they'll bring it up again, and again, and again. What really struck me is that for a really expensive picture, it looks very cheap, even with all the adorable CGI animals.