Watched the Steven Soderbergh film Unsane last night. I thought it deserved better than the IMDb rating of 6.4. Pretty good psychological thriller with a rave review in Rolling Stone, rather remarkable that it was filmed in just 10 days. Proof that you can make an excellent film in a short time on a low budget if you have the right talent, and a screenplay that only requires modest production values. Soderbergh as director and Emmy-winner Claire Foy in the lead role was definitely the right talent.
I feel that one. In fact, my son and I have been planning a trip to Europe next year, and we both love that movie so much that it was just assumed we would stay a couple of days in Bruges to seek out all the nooks and crannies. Apparently the tourist bureau there will provide a map of all the locations.
Saw The Menu, our first trip to the in-person movies in years.
We all liked it a lot. But it was weird.
Mine, as well. Scott, Sim, Muppets and Mr Magoo are the best Christmas Carols out there.
My holiday viewing last night was Meet Me In St Louis. Not technically a Christmas movie but it’s the source of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” so it’s always available this time of year.
The character of Tootie is genuinely hilarious; and that little girl is more twisted than Wednesday Addams.
A cult of people who go to the gym and work on strengthening their core? Horrifying.
The one with Edna Mae Oliver and James Gleason? Love it.
Saw Avatar 2 and Titanic recently, I put my thoughts in their respective threads. Just watched 21 with James Sturgess and Kevin Spacey in a role which he excelled in: a very competent, but sleazy, professional.
I love movies about people doing their jobs well- Michael Clayton, Apollo 13, Steve Jobs (the good one), All the President’s Men, Margin Call, Wall Street, etc, etc, etc.
And Kevin Spacey was so, so, so good in those roles. Dammit.
That genre actually has a name: competence porn.
That Mars movie with Matt Damon(the one where he gets stranded there) was exactly this. It was thrilling to watch Matt Damon survive, thrilling to watch the science nerds save the day.
That was The Martian. Love it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ioOneTy8
Yes! It’s hands-down my favorite adaptation of the Dickens classic. Just terrific all around. I especially love the scene at the end where he pretends to be angry at Bob Cratchit and then tells his long-suffering clerk that he’s actually giving him a big raise.
It’s almost as good as the Muppet one. 
Oh, yes, it’s that William Powell movie. I was thinking of The Penguin Pool Murder.
Just watched Ford vs. Ferrari. I’m ashamed to say I never heard of Ken Miles and really glad I watched this. Three-ish hours that flew by…like a race car?
I’m not much of a racing guy, but I liked it, too. And this song stayed with me for a long time:
I saw Ford v Ferrari in the theaters and one very minor bit that struck me was at the beginning when Ford was discussing why it would be a good idea to produce that car. Someone pointed out that there were all these young kids who would want to drive (this was in 1963, so the first baby boomers were turning eighteen) a sports car, so there’s a large market (who could afford a car selling for, I think, $2,000). I was thinking that today, there’s no new car that the typical young person could afford.
I’d watch it just for Marley’s ghost’s scenes.
Watched The Legend of Molly Johnson on Hulu. It was fine until they injected modern day women’s rights activists into an 1800s setting. It wasn’t the material, but rather the way it was presented that was jarring.
I’m sure it will be like a fairytale. Just try to avoid the big dual carriageway when you get off the train.
So there is. And it’s just as good! I love how likeable all the characters are, and how confident the animation is. It’s so well done.
I was also impressed that they got to have U2 songs on the soundtrack, and then it turns out there’s a good reason for that.
Oh, did Bono write the music or something? I have vague memories of hearing that I think.
A movie I want to see soon (which will retroactively become a movie I’ve seen recently) is Down starring Naomi Watts (!). It’s a remake of a 1983 Dutch-language film *De Lift about a killer elevator and which was certainly…something.