Thanks for the suggestion…I’ve actually seen it. Pretty interesting. I think in the documentary Susan said her dad tried to molest her but it sounded like she fended him off. But googling now I find:
As the kid singer in The Cowsills, the prototype for TV’s Partridge Family , she survived early fame and fortune that disappeared as fast as it came - as well as a sexually abusive father.
Good Luck to You. Leo Grande. Retired Religious Studies teacher and widow Emma Thompson hires the title sex worker to reverse decades of missing oomph in the boudoir department. Told in four “sessions”.
Lots ot talking. I mean lots. And it pretty much is just the two of them. But at least the conversations are mostly interesting though I was starting to get burned out after a bit.
Good for Emma Thompson fans, perhaps not so much if you aren’t.
I give it 4 swipe rights.
The Card Counter (HBO)
Oscar Isaac plays a recently-released convict who spent his time in prison learning to play poker (yeah, I know, the title is about blackjack. That’s covered in about three minutes of the movie, then it moves on).
As one review I read said, “It goes nowhere and it takes a long time to get there.”
I really wanted to like this movie (I like Isaac), but it’s just not good. There are a lot of unanswered questions that just seem like bad movie making:
Anyway, my advice is to skip it.
This weekend, I saw Cha Cha Real Smooth on Apple TV+ and Jerry & Marge Go Large on Paramount+. Both are OK. If you subscribe to either streaming service, they’re probably worth your time.
Another remake that didn’t need to be remade: Father of the Bride with Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan. Castng a Cuban family doesn’t make up for the complete lack of chemistry among any of the characters and the total lack of humor. See the Spencer Tracy version (which we watched recently, it was good but not really great), or even the Steve Martin remake.
She fended him off the last time he tried to make a move on her at age 12 (kicked him and gave him a bloody nose, I think) and that was the last night she spent with her parents. She left and moved in with one of her brothers with her mother’s consent.
Anthony Zerbe did a turn as. what else, a creepy guy in Centennial. 78-79
Things Heard & Seen (Netflix, 2021) A young professional couple want to get out of New York and start fresh in upstate on a 100+ year old farm. The town has a bit of mystery as well as the previous owners and strange occurrences begin happening as well as a few characters secrets are revealed. Does the husband have something to hide or is he right that the wife needs medication and a cheeseburger? Is the house haunted? Do the townsfolk know something critical? Should you give a shit?
No, probably not.
In the horror genre apparently, but it doesn’t belong there. It isn’t a thriller either, but it was trying to be. Not really a mystery, at least not one the audience was inclined to care about. Adapted from All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage which is claimed to be a true story, my eyes cannot roll hard enough. Unless you are looking for The Shining but not as interesting or scary TH&S should be a hard pass.
Which creepy guy? (I’ve only read the book) - was he the con-man/murderer or the war-atrocity general? (or some other creepy guy)
ETA: Looked it up - conman/murderer
Yeah, I’ve never really cared for either of the previous versions (hated the second one a lot more), so I feel no need to see the Cuban version.
For a cute angle on the second Father of the Bride series, see under “Relationships” here: Brad Paisley - Wikipedia
Chef (2014).
Excellent cast: Jon Favreau, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, John Leguizamo, Robert Downey Jr., Oliver Platt, and others.
An acclaimed chef and family-oriented father reclaims his artistic vision by opening a food truck.
A thoroughly enjoyable film with a realistic view into the restaurant business world. Quite funny, too.
Favreau learned culinary skills by training with food truck chef Roy Choi. His vegetable chopping and other skills were very impressive in the movie. The film garnered so much buzz, Favreau and Choi opened a number of pop-up restaurants afterward.
This should be a must-see movie.
They have a great cooking show on Netflix called The Chef Show.
Cool, available on HBO Max, thanks for the recommendation
Just don’t expect much of a plot - it’s basically a “hangout movie”, the kind you watch for the characters, the atmosphere and the details, not the story.
I disagree a bit. Reclaiming artistic vision is the plot. Reconnecting with his child is the backstory. It was touching.
The plot was great - it’s just that there wasn’t that much of it. All of the plot-related events took up maybe half an hour of the running time; the rest of the movie was all food, jazz and talcum powder. Not a bad way to spend 90 minutes, mind you.
OK, with that I completely agree. You are back on my “good poster” list. 
I saw “True Stories” (by David Byrne) last night. I’ve been meaning to see it since 1986 - and as expected it’s weird but fun (a precursor to Twin Peaks maybe?)
Stardust on Hulu. A road film about David Bowie and his publicist. Boring and poorly acted. Marc Maron as the publicist is basically just playing Marc Maron and if the point of the film is that Bowie was as boring as dirt before he created Ziggy, they sure picked the right actor to play him. And all the songs “Bowie” sings are covers…the Bowie estate didn’t want to touch this stinker with a ten foot pole.