I love My Dinner With Andre. It seems to have no meaning or message that I can glibly assign to it, just that maybe only that great conversations as often as not come with great friends. Hand in glove, as it were. They don’t have to fvcking MEAN anything. 
Mediocre indeed except for the dance number. Chain of Fools gets me movin’.
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues - A fun watch on HBO. A bit sad to see Rob Reiner, however.
There’s probably no evidence to support it, but I like to think his character was Bond (or an analog) who wasn’t forgiven for making a mess in America on some action*, and Her Majesty disavowed him.
*“A secret agent? On whose side?!”
I have watched a few recently including Real Steal, Greyhound, The first Equalizer movie and rewatched War of Worlds. I’m a anime fan so I’m interested in watching Silent Voice.
Hunt for Red October is a great movie.
I also love that movie because the conversation is just very engaging. I know it was scripted and both actors had, on stage, played both roles on stage(?).
I’m not sure what to say about it other than it is very interesting.
I saw it before he died and I thought it was OK. I agree it is sad to see now. All of Spinal Tap is alive, but poor Rob isn’t. And died so tragically.
I may be mistaken, but I thought I saw his son’s name in the credits, which is even sadder.
IMDB does not list this for him. I can’t picture when he would have appeared in the movie.
It was in the production credits, not the actors, but I didn’t catch the first name and as you say, there is no credit for a Reiner who is related to Rob in that movie.
I watched Finding Dory. It had beautiful underwater scenes, but it got far too unbelievable.
We do all know that tropical fish in Nor Cal Morrow bay wouldnt last very long, right?
(and the Fish in the bags post credit scene was funny, but those fish wouldnt make it more than a dya or two.)
Fun for kids, not some someone with Marine Biology Major. Still- lovely.
Fackham Hall (HBO Max)
Old school ZAZ/ Mel Brooks style humor. It’s the best of its kind I have seen in a while, in fact, I enjoyed it more than the Naked Gun reboot. Not a work of genius but a decent way to waste a couple hours.
Agreed. As a fan of PG Wodehouse fiction, the series You Rang M’Lord?, and The Windsors, and other parodies of English aristocracy, I found it quite enjoyable, well made and with mostly gentle humour.
I must say though that “better than the Naked Gun reboot” isn’t saying much. I thought that movie was absolutely terrible and Liam Neeson was probably the worst possible actor for that role – not a single laugh in the whole dreadful thing!
After this recommendation I decided to check Fackham Hall out myself. It’s a good giggle!
I disagree about Three Billboards – well cast, well acted, and tells a compelling story.
But thanks to you and some others for mentioning Seven Psychopaths, which I had not seen before. It’s a dark comedy-drama that weirdly blends the story of a screenwriter struggling to write a movie script with real-life events, all centered around the theft of a dog by a professional dognapper that happens to belong to a violent gangster. I have mixed feelings about the film but in the end enjoyed its creative quirkiness and would rate it “somewhat recommended”.
Scream 7
Slightly Recommended. Very slightly. Thumb sideways if I was Siskel-Ebert.
This movie got very negative reviews from critics. And you know what? Really none of the Scream sequels are very good. I’m more surprised some of the sequels get good reviews. I saw the first two in the theater back when they were released and considered them to be about all I needed. I caught up with the rest of them a few years ago.
Is Scream 7 bad? Not…..uh, really? I mean, it is no worse than any of the sequels to Scream. It has some lame idea, lame kills, lame reveals, and I will say the ultimate reveal of the killer is one of the worst in the series. Not exaggerating…..had to do a little lookup about it just to remind myself who it was.
Aside from that, the movie is standard Scream fare. I do love that this series went from Neve Campbell rejecting a return for money…..to Jenna Ortega(her replacement) now being re-replaced with Neve Campbell.
If you like Scream as a series, good news. This one is fine. If you don’t love Scream? Yeah, just another one of those. Nothing hugely daring or original.
Note: About an hour later, I could not remember which random cast-members survived the film. They are very bland.
Goodfeĺlas 1990 Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
This was the first time that I watched the entire movie. I had seen pieces of it channel surfing.
I liked Lorraine Bracco’s feisty character. She stood up to Henry Hill.
I enjoyed it. 8 out of 10 rating.
I kept waiting for the scene where Joe Pesci is stripped and rolled into a muddy grave. Which mob movie is that from?
That’d be ‘Casino’
Thanks. I’ll add Casino to my watch list.
That’s another film I’ve only seen pieces of while channel surfing.
We watched Casino the other night. First time I’d seen it in perhaps 25 years and only the second time ever, so I really didn’t know what was going to happen, other than the usual themes. It felt like Scorcese on steroids; loads of narration (honestly, tonnes of it), luscious sets and costumes, extreme violence at times, full of unlikeable characters. And yet very enjoyable. It does feel like a slightly less good version of Goodfellas though. And even at 170 minutes, the end was very abrupt. But perhaps that was deliberate, as a metaphor for the way many of the gangsters’ lives could come to a sudden end?