I watched The Outfit, starring Mark Rylance. It was worth a watch.
It’s a bit annoying to watch movies about Chicago gangsters use actors with NY accents to sound like tough guys. The TV show The Bear did the same thing.
I’m watching Black Sabbath (1963, 3 shorts with Boris Karloff introducing them)…
Um… my two word review is Black Water (in the RV sense).
If they’d used a Chicago accent, it would have been called “Da Bear”.
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A nostalgic character study set in early 1970s LA revolving around a 15-16 year old high school student/impresario who strikes up an unlikely friendship with an 25 year old woman who cannot find purpose in her life. More than anything, this reminded me of a kind of coming of age novel I would have read in high school (kinda like Catcher in the Rye) turned into a movie. It’s very quirky, somewhat self-indulgent, and quite long. It’s a movie where not a lot of “big things” happen, but there is a slow accretion of small things that lead to a fairly satisfying conclusion and character arc. Overall, I really liked it. The performances are excellent, from Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim in particular, and there are several notable cameos from Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, and Sean Penn, along with the entire Haim family.
The Hearse
I’d rather be in a hearse than see this movie again. Snoozefest. Totally boring.
I just watched Inheritance. It didn’t get very good ratings on IMDb. A lot of it is implausible, but it was entertaining enough that I stuck with it.
The Duke. (It has nothing to do with John Wayne). With Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. True story of 1961 theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the national gallery in London.
Utterly charming, sweet, funny, excellent. See it.
Been watching 007 with Roger Moore in several films.
See if you guess which ones?
Hints.
Bond goes in on the down low, but the villain already knows he’s there and it’s ‘him’
Several assignation ‘teams’ go after him, one after the next.
Bond kisses all pretty girls. None look particularly thrilled about it.
For every [good] flick I make my daughter watch, I have to watch one of her choosing. Last night she made me sit through Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
It was fun, in a tongue-in-cheek, cult-film sort of way. But, the premise and many of the scenes were quite macabre and eerie (who’s not afraid of clowns?). With a director like Tim Burton and better actors, it could have been a really good horror film.
You forgot the AWSOME theme song from The Dickies.
Uh… all of them?
News of the World, an oater with Tom Hanks doing his usual competent acting job. I liked it, but wouldn’t watch it twice.
Oh, I have so many good strong memories of that series! The Princess and Curdy, the little Lame Prince, and on and on. I’m almost afraid to watch it now and spoil the memories.
No joke, they are making a video game of Killer Klowns right now.
[matthew mcconaughey] cool, cool, cool! [/matthew mcconaughey]
Actually…that does look cool.
Ah Killer Clowns from Outer space, in the early days of comedy horror that was well regarded (Evil dead 2 being the starter mainly), but Frankenhooker is a fun bit of additional viewing.
I did not enjoy Frankenhooker, but Evil Dead 2 is amazing.
Ash is a man of few words. But effective ones. I do occasionally say the word “Workshed”. Just that word. They never really caught that aspect in followup films and series.
Messiah of Evil
Almost an early David Lynch movie, made years before he was active(movie is 1973). Interesting at times, a snoozefest at others. Yes, very David Lynch-ian indeed. Weird, strange, but not totally satisfying or scary. I’d probably recommend skipping it, but it is very weird and does have its moments.
I thought Frankenhooker was a blast. You have to realize that the film is a remake/homage to the 1962 cheap shocker The Brain that Wouldn’t Die, about the mad scientist trying to keep his girlfriend’s head alive and get her a new body. Not only is the plot the same, but Frankenhooker opens with a shot of the brain-with-an-eyeball-in-a-flask that features prominently in the poster for The Brain that Wouldn’t Die, but doesn’t appear in that film at all.
It’s played way over the top and sexier (the Monster In A Closet at the end isn’t a pointy-headed thyroid-chomping thing, but a collection of arms, legs, boobs, and butts that were the “spare parts” all fused together.)
It was made by Frank Henelotter, whose Basket Case is schlock movie gold.