Da 5 Bloods. A great movie, tough to watch at times. Delroy Lindo steals the movie.
Knives Out - pretty entertaining. Happy I saw it at home though
Well that was quick, "'Gone with the Wind' returning to HBO Max with introduction of 'historical context' by Black scholar Jacqueline Stewart."
Maiden
Well done doc about the first all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World (sailing) Race in 1989. Recommended. The misogyny they faced from both the sailing community and the press is both laughable and pathetic.
Wine Country.
Da 5 Bloods
Not bad but as is often the case I find Lee's heavy handedness a little too much. I did like the shifting aspect ratio depending upon the time frame of the scene.
@steve8 posted:Da 5 Bloods
Not bad but as is often the case I find Lee's heavy handedness a little too much. I did like the shifting aspect ratio depending upon the time frame of the scene.
Oh no. He said "aspect ratio." Now for those who have been following along what if you watch this on a channel that doesn't show the film itself in the correct aspect ratio? Well, it simply wouldn't work. FWIW Spike Lee's last good movie was She's Got to Have It.
@The Old Man posted:
Disagree
Do the Right Thing, He Got Game and BlackkKlansman were all good in my opinion
From my post on 8/23/18, ""BlacKkKlansman" 70pts. (69 plus a bonus point for Alec Baldwin at the beginning of the movie) Clumsy and obvious. Sledgehammers the message."
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On your scale - that is a decent score
@jcocktosten posted:On your scale - that is a decent score
Take Me. If you are looking for offbeat, quirky and odd, this one is for you.
Don’t Look Now
@bman posted:Lots of glorious shots of glorious Venice, one of my three favourite cities in Europe?
We don't know, is it?
@bman posted:Lots of glorious shots of glorious Venice, one of my three favourite cities in Europe?
I love Venice at night.
Did you see pictures of how clear the water had become during the pandemic?
@jcocktosten posted:Disagree
Do the Right Thing, He Got Game and BlackkKlansman were all good in my opinion
I wasn't crazy about He Got Game but did like the other two. I also liked Malcolm X and Inside Man. The latter was a departure for him and I thought Denzel Washington and Clive Owen were both really good.
" This time next week I'll be sucking down pina coladas in a hot tub with six girls named Emily and Tiffany.
More like taking a shower with two guys named Jamal and Jesus, if you know what I mean. And here's the bad news: that thing you're sucking on? It's not a pina colada."
Eat With Me
Suburbicon. 
@brucehayes posted:Suburbicon.
Perhaps this is a movie that actually improves in the wrong aspect ratio. 
@The Old Man posted:Perhaps this is a movie that actually improves in the wrong aspect ratio.
Darned if I know.
@brucehayes posted:Darned if I know.
If it was on FX it wasn't in the right aspect ratio.
"Ford vs Ferrari" -- 69pts.
Netflix.
@brucehayes posted:Netflix.
Then you did see it correctly. I was just scanning through "regular" channels the other day and spotted it being incorrectly shown.
@The Old Man posted:Then you did see it correctly. I was just scanning through "regular" channels the other day and spotted it being incorrectly shown.
Phew, that was a close one.
Tell No One 👍
Athlete A, a Netflix documentary about the child sexual abuse that was allowed to go on within USA Gymnastics. The title refers to the young lady who made a complaint in 2015, whose family was told by the president of the organization that it was being investigated. He also told the girl’s family that if they went public it would jeopardize an investigation that wasn’t actually taking place. Despite her performance at nationals, she was left off the 2016 Olympic team, even as an alternate.
The film also focuses on the team of investigative journalists at the Indy Star newspaper who delved into the matter and brought it to light. Indybob is a photojournalist for that paper and I believe also did work on the story for the Star. Highly recommended to watch, but parts are difficult for sure. It’s a good reminder of the importance of real journalism.
Straight Up
Zardoz - now this was a movie!
Wasp Network - wow, a good netflix movie.
The Skull - I love these kind of horror movies. Lee and Cushing are awesome.
Age of Innocence
The Good Liar
OK. Saved by the acting of McKellan and Mirren.
A Hologram for the King. Had never heard of this, tried it, and liked it very much.
Knife in the Water--93pts. For Roman Polanski's tremendous first feature length movie he set himself quite a task. There are only three people in the movie and most of it's set on a small boat with a little cabin. Also two of the actors were appearing in their first movie. Polanski himself actually dubbed the voice of the character billed as the "Young Man."
A husband and wife are going for their usual overnight getaway on their boat. The big up, and almost hitting, a handsome young man and he winds up going with them. Polanski's build up of tension revolves around a type of switch-knife and the dynamics of the two men in their need to be masculine. There's even a tense scene with the kids's game Pick Up Sticks. However Polanski will not have the knife play its expected roll and the title of the film eventually becomes clear. The movie was Polanski's only feature length film made in his native Poland. It was also the first Polish film nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film--losing out to 8 1/2 . The film has a great soundtrack features players from the then emerging Polish jazz scene.
Irresistible
Zodiac. An oldie but a goodie.
TCM alert for Friday night. Five John Wayne (who was a racist, I actually have a copy of the Playboy magazine with the infamous interview ), the three parts of the so-called "Cavalry Trilogy", the early Ford classic "Stagecoach and one of two Ford masterpieces, "The Searchers."
@The Old Man posted:TCM alert for Friday night. Five John Wayne (who was a racist, I actually have a copy of the Playboy magazine with the infamous interview ), the three parts of the so-called "Cavalry Trilogy", the early Ford classic "Stagecoach and one of two Ford masterpieces, "The Searchers."
... give me The Searchers, please.
Also, you can have Wayne as far as I’m concerned.
I love the opening, and of course, the closing shot. They're so epic. Sergio Leone would take it to the extreme with some of his frames within frames shots in some of his movies.
@The Old Man posted:I love the opening, and of course, the closing shot. They're so epic. Sergio Leone would take it to the extreme with some of his frames within frames shots in some of his movies.
Zero argument from me!
A Mighty Wind
Today - Hamilton