January 14Jan 14 1 hour ago, tbone_ said: Is count of Monte Christo a new version? Yes, there is a new french movie version from 2024. And just to help confuse you, there is an english mini-series from 2024 also.
January 16Jan 16 Red Rooms is on Shudder now if you have that. One of the best movies of 2024 for me.
January 17Jan 17 Fame - always pissed me off how lunch just turns into everyone dancing and playing instruments
January 17Jan 17 Nosferatu - perhaps the greatest cinematic expression of Dracula mythology to date The Brutalist - Act 1 great, act 2 drags, epilogue is meh. Give Adrien Brody the oscar tho
January 17Jan 17 Babygirl - meh. Lots of Nicole Kidman sex scenes but I didn't like the kid that played the intern. Antonio Banderas was funny.
January 18Jan 18 Saw Joker: folie a faux. Simply terrible. Boring, meandering, plodding from one song to the next with a pointless payoff. I like Phoenix a lot in general. I wasn’t even turned off by the musical aspect though its kind of an odd choice. It’s hard to believe something this boring got made in the super hero/popcorn movie genre.
January 20Jan 20 Conclave. Read the book last year. Wasnt able to make time to see it in a theater. I thought it was really good. Actor driven. Moved at its own pace. Loved the music and cinematography. Enjoyed the book and enjoyed the movie.
January 20Jan 20 Watched Raging Bull last night on TCM. Greatest sports movie ever made and might be the greatest performance by an actor in movie history.
January 20Jan 20 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent with Pedro Pascal and Nic Cage on Netflix. Fucking hilarious
January 20Jan 20 6 hours ago, Post Oak said: Conclave. Read the book last year. Wasnt able to make time to see it in a theater. I thought it was really good. Actor driven. Moved at its own pace. Loved the music and cinematography. Enjoyed the book and enjoyed the movie.
January 21Jan 21 Two AppleTV moviesWolfs (pitt and clooney) - OKThe Instigators (damon and casey affleck) - not OKMore groundbreaking movie critiques to come....
January 21Jan 21 On 1/19/2025 at 9:14 PM, Steamboat1874 said: Watched Raging Bull last night on TCM. Greatest sports movie ever made and might be the greatest performance by an actor in movie history. DeNiro and Pesci at their absolute best.
January 21Jan 21 Unstoppable (2024) About Anthony Robles, one legged national champion wrestler for AZ State. It was a typical biopic sports movie, reality was punched up a bit. J lo looked great..his real mom looks pretty good actually, good casting. I'm a former wrestler and a fan, so I enjoyed it, the wrestling scenes were done well. You can tell the kid who played McDonough was a high level wrestler. I know he worked really hard and it's inspirational, but he really did have a big advantage over other 125 pounders. He was built like a 157 pounder, so he completely manhandled everyone. He should've had to weigh in with a prosthetic, or add 20 lbs. I still think he would've been competitive.
January 21Jan 21 Saturday Night is a great love letter to SNL. All of the actors do a great job playing some real 70s icons. JK Simmons might steal the show as Milton Berle. Really great.
January 21Jan 21 On 1/14/2025 at 4:41 PM, rage-a-holic said: Yes, there is a new french movie version from 2024. And just to help confuse you, there is an english mini-series from 2024 also. You by any chance know where to stream these? One of my favorite books
January 21Jan 21 On 1/17/2025 at 2:28 AM, tx 3 putt said: Fame - always pissed me off how lunch just turns into everyone dancing and playing instruments I think the TV show was even worse.
January 22Jan 22 Conclave up vote. Of Mice and Men, the B&W version from the day with Burgess Meredith. Solid flick. Paint Your Wagon, Eastwood and Lee Marvin as gold mining partners. One of the last musicals of its time. We laughed and enjoyed it. Houseboat, Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, that's all you need to know. Recommended. Marty, Ernest Borgnine, solid movie then and stands the time test.
January 22Jan 22 8 hours ago, Billy Pilgrim said: You by any chance know where to stream these? One of my favorite books Sorry, no idea. IPTV or torrents is what I use.
January 22Jan 22 11 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said: Conclave up vote. Of Mice and Men, the B&W version from the day with Burgess Meredith. Solid flick. Paint Your Wagon, Eastwood and Lee Marvin as gold mining partners. One of the last musicals of its time. We laughed and enjoyed it. Houseboat, Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, that's all you need to know. Recommended. Marty, Ernest Borgnine, solid movie then and stands the time test. Seen all of those except Conclave and it's on my list. Paint Your Wagon is great even with the singing and dancing. Horton!!!
January 22Jan 22 15 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said: Conclave up vote. Of Mice and Men, the B&W version from the day with Burgess Meredith. Solid flick. Paint Your Wagon, Eastwood and Lee Marvin as gold mining partners. One of the last musicals of its time. We laughed and enjoyed it. Houseboat, Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, that's all you need to know. Recommended. Marty, Ernest Borgnine, solid movie then and stands the time test. Always been one of my favorites. Young Sophia Loren is incredible.
January 23Jan 23 On 1/21/2025 at 9:36 AM, Pokoloco said: Unstoppable (2024) About Anthony Robles, one legged national champion wrestler for AZ State. It was a typical biopic sports movie, reality was punched up a bit. J lo looked great..his real mom looks pretty good actually, good casting. I'm a former wrestler and a fan, so I enjoyed it, the wrestling scenes were done well. You can tell the kid who played McDonough was a high level wrestler. I know he worked really hard and it's inspirational, but he really did have a big advantage over other 125 pounders. He was built like a 157 pounder, so he completely manhandled everyone. He should've had to weigh in with a prosthetic, or add 20 lbs. I still think he would've been competitive. Watched it tonight, filming took some liberties with the story, but it was good. I was checking Wiki while watching and sort of giving my wife the stats as the movie progressed. Would recommend. I find some inspiration with the Spoiler letters being read in the box. Pretty cool.
January 23Jan 23 On 1/12/2025 at 1:11 PM, WBT said: I guess it doesn't have its own thread but I saw A Complete Unknown and loved it. Timmy did great. Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash also stole every scene especially near the end when he had to move his car. "June left last night with her mama..." gives look I enjoyed this movie too.
January 24Jan 24 Slingshot. Meh. I’m pretty forgiving to sci fi films, but “going crazy in space” has been done much better.
January 24Jan 24 Hell or High Water still holds up pretty well. It would be nice to see Sheridan show some restraint sometime and get back to that kind of writing.
January 25Jan 25 Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat. Excellent doc detailing the killing of Prime Minister of the Congo Patrice Lumumba. Excellent footage of some jazz greats highlight the historical recordings of Cold War activity between US, USSR, Belgium, and the Congo. Oscar nominated for best doc in 2024.
January 25Jan 25 Finestkind with Ben Johnson, Jenna Ortega and Tommy Lee Jones on Paramount Plus. A bit predictable but great acting and character development, I liked it.
January 25Jan 25 On 8/28/2021 at 5:49 PM, pyrohornIII said: The Great Debaters (Of Wiley College, Marshall, TX) Just did another watch yesterday. Didn’t know that was glen at the end. he looks so young. Before money and fame
January 25Jan 25 On 1/23/2025 at 5:44 PM, PittsburghTiger said: A Foreign Affair is on TCM tonight. Always one of my favorite post-WWII movies. I-away, I-away! That's where the tall corn grows!
January 25Jan 25 1 hour ago, RPM said: I-away, I-away! That's where the tall corn grows! Jean Arthur was fantastic in that role.
January 25Jan 25 18 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said: Jean Arthur was fantastic in that role. Marlene Dietrich was equally fantastic. Any time I think of her, it's saying "Oh Johnny!" It's a woefully underrated film. Those two played off each other perfectly. Billy Wilder knew what he was doing. Phoebe Frost : Exactly what is it you want from me Fräulein von Schluetow? Erika von Schluetow : Let's go up to my apartment. It's only a few ruins away from here.
January 25Jan 25 September 5. Having watched the 1972 Olympics and this tragedy unfold, this film shows a side that I never thought about, namely the broadcast crew and all the workers who had the monumental task as a sports crew to broadcast live coverage of the terrorist kidnapping of the Israeli Olympic squad. The actual live footage of Jim McKay's broadcast brought back memories of when I first heard his words letting the world know about the slaughter. Peter Skarsgaard as Roone Arledge and John Magaro as Geoffrey Mason are outstanding. September 5 is much more tense and definitely shorter than Spielberg's Munich.
January 26Jan 26 HBO did a special on McKay before he passed and he went into detail how hard he fought to keep the coverage instead of NY taking over the broadcast.
January 26Jan 26 Kraven. Yes I was bored. Not terribly awful but not good. The dialogue and casting of Calypso was off. Ending was very bad.
January 26Jan 26 On Prime - a chilling look inside a small group of white supremacists who declared war on the federal government and waged a campaign of terror across several western states in the early 80s. Jude Law is really great.
January 27Jan 27 Pirate Radio/The Boat That Rocked directed by Richard Curtis and jam fucking packed with talent. Good flick.
January 27Jan 27 Author Snack Shack. A coming of age teen movie set in the early 90's Nebraska. I was expecting more nostalgia and hijinks but this movie did not deliver. Edited January 27Jan 27 by F250
January 27Jan 27 Caught a bit of The Split the other day, good lord what trash that was and several big names in it, Brown, Borgnine, Hackman, Sutherland, Whittier, Klugman. The only redeeming thing in it was a smoking Diahann Carroll.
January 28Jan 28 Awakenings … 1990 dinero and robin williams. Feel good, great for the current times.
January 28Jan 28 54 minutes ago, troph said: Awakenings … 1990 dinero and robin williams. Feel good, great for the current times. Love it, but some scenes remind of some SNL shorts that mock the scenes of discovery in these types of dramas. Then I laugh, and the girl I'm probably watching it with gives me the, no sex for you, look.
January 28Jan 28 3 minutes ago, MissingInAction said: the girl I'm probably watching it with gives me the, no sex for you, look. avatar does not check out
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