Shaolin Soccer by the same guy (Kung Fu Husle) is also fun.
Watched ‘Wrath of Man’ just because it had Jason Statham. A typical revenge movie. OK if you can handle a bit of violence. (JS is “cold as a reptile”; his story sorta justifies his coldness.)
Finally got around to watching ‘Blade Runner 2049’. A worthy sequel to the original. Gosling is fantastic.
Little Joe (Hulu) - An Invasion of The Body Snatchers retread as perhaps an analogy for the pharmaceutical industries contribution to our modern Prozac predilection. It didn’t work. The acting was a mess, the music was goofy, the bizarre screen shots weren’t unsettling but rather just seemed like a confused camera man kept falling asleep. Really, just a Black Mirror episode that runs too long. I stuck with it for some kind of twist at the end, I needn’t have bothered.
I don’t think there is anyone to which I would recommend it.
I loved it.
Kung Fu Hustle was entertaining, if a bit weird. I really liked the sequence with the stringed instrument and flying knives.
Also watched Nikita a French film from the 80s. (It spawned the remake Point of No Return.) A drug-addicted woman sentenced to life is prison if given a second chance as a government assassin. Despite the obviously low budget, the character work and the acting was riveting.
I used to watch the TV-show version, La Femme Nikita. The story lost me pretty quickly, but I watched it anyway just to look at Peta Wilson’s hair. 
Loved it. I actually think it is much better than the original. Most of the stuff people talk about in the original is just 40 minutes or so of a much longer, and honestly quite flawed, movie. The sequel is quite superior.
I think someone mentioned The Kid Detective upthread and I saw it over the weekend. It’s quite good. It reminded me a bit of Brick, in being a sort of noir film, and like that one, The Kid Detective was from a first-time director, Evan Morgan. Rian Johnson directed Brick as his first film and he went on to direct Knives Out, Looper and a Star Wars film.
Stowaway was god-awful. No argument. But in defense of Anna Kendrick, I think Mr. Right is worth seeing. Credit largely due to to Sam Rockwell, but still, AK does a good job.
Fans here may want to check out our discussion thread of the movie, if they’ve haven’t already: Blade Runner 2049: Seen it (Open Spoilers after the first post)
There’s an upper limit? P&F was an awesome show.
Half a film watched: Get The Goat (“Cabras da Peste”), a new Brazilian comedy currently on Netflix. It starts out as a brilliant postmodern homage to 1980s cop action films (Lethal Weapon, etc) with some excellent jokes and a Brazilian twist, but by the end of Act 1 it devolves into a mere pastiche of 1980s cop action film tropes (some of which should have stayed in the 1980s) and becomes considerably less funny and more predictable. I may go back and watch the rest as apparently the climax of the film is noteworthy according to the reviews, but the middle is quite a slog.
The main character’s name is “Brucuilis”. Pronounced “Bruce Willis”. That right there tells you all you need to know about this.
I do have a few nitpicks. Some of the nudity was gratuitous. Toward the end Gosling’s character needs everything explained to him in blunt terms; the revelatory scenes could have been done more subtly. And my most subjective nitpick is that the soundtrack at the very end did not match the mood of the scene (as Gosling’s character endures his most poignant moment). The sequel is a great movie but a notch below the original, which was a work of art. IMHO, of course.
Did you ever watch the one with Maggie Q, just called Nikita? I swear Nikita is a concept that has been portrayed a lot more often on TV and movies than one would expect.
Nope, I missed that one!
A Karel Zeman film that had eluded me for many years, it’s a typical combination of live-action with illustrated backgrounds and Monty Python-esque animation. Unlike The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1958) and The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1962), the art style is not Gustave Doré-influenced – and not as striking as a result – but there are still a number of impressive composites (which, unfortunately, get heavy reuse). The story is set during the 30 Years War and concerns the adventures of a plowboy conscripted by one side while masquerading as a nobleman, later escaping to the other side and a pre-arranged marriage. He is accompanied most of the way by an older mercenary (comic relief) and a cute farm girl pretending to be the nobleman’s jester.
Overall, not as good as the aforementioned Zeman flicks, or The Stolen Airship (1967), but better than A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955). A number of clips from the film are shown in this music video:
Re: Nikita
If you liked it, you will probably like Anna, a not dissimilar story written and directed by the same dude (Luc Besson).
The Thursday (1964)
7.5/10
Within minutes, I knew this had to be Dino Risi; it was very similar to “Il Sorpasso”, not as great, but maybe a bit more tender, since the two main characters are father and son, who haven’t seen each other in five years. Light-hearted, but not corny or dumb. Even funny at times. The father played by Walter Chiari is a very good actor, especially in this comedy.
Really the classic offshoot of Nikita is Leon: The professional, which " Besson described Léon as “Now maybe Jean is playing the American cousin of Victor. This time he’s more human.”"
The Interview, with Seth Rogan and James Franco, on HBO Max.
This is one of the strangest and stupidest movies I have ever seen.
I watched this on Hulu, and recommend that everyone give it a chance. It’s a mixture of Dave Chappelle, Phillip K. Dick — and some unique vision. The title, Sorry To Bother You, derives from the protagonist’s job in a call center, but the director/writer has also built a near-future world for the characters to inhabit.
The male and female leads are very appealing. The world they live in is borderline dystopia, but there’s fun and comedy to be found there.