Thoughts? I just saw Theatre of Blood, a themed Vincent Price killer movie where he kills everyone with a Shakespeare flair. Fun.
A League of Their Own 1992 Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty etc.
On Sundance
I enjoy it more and notice new details after every viewing. Wonderful movie and a great legacy for Penny Marshall.
You don’t need to be a baseball fan to enjoy this movie. The story and characters are bigger than the game.
Not having read the book, I always wondered how much cool dialog was Melville, and how much was Bradbury. “There will come a day at sea when you smell land where there be none, and on that day Ahab will go to his grave. But he will rise again, within the hour…rise, and beckon…and all - all, save one – will follow.”
An American Werewolf in London 1981 David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, and Jenny Agutter
A thread earlier reminded me of this movie. I hadn’t seen it since it was released to theatres.
It holds up well. There’s not as much comedy as I remembered. It feels more like a 1950’s film. Slow pacing and suspense until the werewolf attacks.
Prime doesn’t offer a buy option. It can be watched free with ads.
I recommend it, if gore doesn’t freak you out.
Wikipedia says John Landis wrote the first draft of An American Werewolf in London in 1969 and shelved it for over a decade. He finally got funding after the successful comedies, The Kentucky Fried Movie, Animal House and The Blues Brothers.
The special effects for the famous transformation scene are incredible.
American Werewolf won Rick Baker an Academy Award for Best Makeup. He won that award 7 times throughout his career.
The werewolf transformation still looks very impressive. Also Griffin Dunne’s makeup as the undead corpse looks awesome.
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True. I am not actually a huge fan of the movie otherwise, but it’s quite impressive.
MotW: Ordinary Angels. Starring Hillary Swank. A woman in a Kentucky town decides to help out a family that has a serious health issue for one member. “Based on an actual story.” (I don’t see anyone mentioning this movie here.)
This is a soap opera-ish, tearjerker wannabe, etc. type movie. It is seriously overplayed in this regard. But because of the “actual story” bit, they were probably limited although they clearly added Hollywood touches. E.g., a key scene IRL took place in daylight. They moved it to nighttime.
No “names” of any sort, AFAIK, among the rest of the cast. Although there is a “Skywalker Hughes”.
Give it 2.5 shingles.
Rewatching Glengarry Glen Ross after all these years only reaffirms its place as a cinematic powerhouse. The film’s stellar cast delivers gripping performances, seamlessly bringing David Mamet’s razor-sharp dialogue to life. High tension from start to finish, it offers a hard look at the ruthless world of cold-call, door-to-door sales. With its masterful execution and unforgettable performances, Glengarry Glen Ross remains a masterclass of top-tier acting. Highly recommended!
Tin Men, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, and Barbara Hershey. Tin Men takes a more comedic route into the world of door-to-door hustlers. Unlike the high-stakes intensity of Glengarry Glen Ross, this film leans into sharp humor and charismatic performances to drive its story. That said, you can’t help but feel that Danny DeVito’s character, Tilley, deserved a bit more of a reckoning. Even so, Tin Men is a highly entertaining, hilarious, bittersweet take on the misadventures of small-time conmen. Watch it, you’ll like it!
Agreed! A very fine little movie where you can see the talent that would eventually blossom into directing big-budget productions. Very entertaining and well done and celebrated as a great TV movie.
I watched this for the first time a couple of years ago. I’d seen the play on Broadway, but not the movie. So i hadn’t seen the Alec Baldwin scene, which was written specifically for the film.
What was the name of his character again?
Conan the Barbarian 1982
Incredible film. I think Thulsa Doom is James Earl Jones best performance.
Conan played a large part in making Arnold a star.
Sandahl Bergman was a dancer. Sandahl has a excellent dance sequence at the end of All that Jazz. Her training gives Valeria a very smooth, cat like movement in Conan’s temple scene. Valeria is on all fours quickly moving around the temple, jumping on rocks, and killing guards. I love the choreography.
Highly recommended. I’d suggest watching with your older childen. Just remember the mild nudity and bloody swordfights. The decapitated heads are pretty graphic. It might be better to watch on streaming tv with that content toned down.
Conclave. Enjoyable performances but too many clues giving away the conclusion.
I watched the movie recently, and was struck by how Bergman was by far the best swordswoman in the film. Schwarzenegger was great at posing with a sword, but his actual fighting was pretty clumsy and amateurish.
Incidentally, the version I saw was a “special edition”, with many scenes I had never seen before. Watch it if you want to see more of the Wheel of Pain, the fighting pits and Zamora, and if you want to see Conan deliver a long monologue about picking blueberries with his father.
I was disappointed by the film. As I’ve often said, I want to see someone put Robert E. Howard’s vision of Conan on-screen, something that hasn’t been done yet. Arnold looks the part, but the stories don’t have any of Howard’s tropes or feel to them. Conan as a slave? NEVER. I got more of the feel of Howard’s stories from the otherwise abysmal 1982 Albert Pyun fantasy Sword and the Sorceror, released the same year, and shortly before the Conan film.
Wait, isn’t that literally the origin story in the book? I owned all of 'em and read them over and over, but might be misremembering.
It did give us that immortal dialog about What Is Best In Life (crushing your enemies, etc)
Only in the movie tie-in that L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter wrote after the movie was made.
You won’t find it in any of Howard’s writings.
Okay, well that’s the movie overwriting my book memories. Kind of hate that.