The Movie and TV Thread

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I started a thread here that I meant to put somewhere else,  and I erased it.  So what to discuss in the coffee lounge?

Have you seen any good movies lately?  

Last movie I saw was "The Last Duel". Pretty good.

Anyone seen "Dune"?  I see it's available for streaming and might rent it.  It's up for an Academy Award for best picture.  

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"You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah" is a Netflix movie from Adam Sandler and stars his youngest daughter in the lead role.  She does a good job.  

There are some laugh out loud funny moments and it offers a glimpse into Jewish culture, but ultimately it's more of a teen coming of age movie, a genre which I've come to not be so interested in and I didn't finish the movie.  But for some light hearted entertainment it's good and is getting really good reviews, just not my thing.

 

 

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"Joy Ride" is a raunch comedy that enjoyed good reviews and a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score.  I don't think I've seen a movie with a 90% or above score that I didn't like.  

That being said, I don't like raunchy comedy that's raunchy for the sake of being raunchy.  Somehow with its unapologetically raunchiness it works behind a deeper store of friendship, fitting in, internalized racism and what it's like to be a minority.   

There are many laugh out loud moments and I really liked this movie.  

 

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I normally don't like "someone in this house committed murder" mysteries because it's just so overdone.  But I like Branaugh and the cast, and the twist of horror, so I went for it at the theaters.

Really it was quite good.  Won't be in my top ten for the years but enjoyed it.

 

 

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"Emily, the Criminal" came to my attention when it was nominated for several Independent Spirit Awards (the Oscars of indie movies) including best lead and supporting role, as well best best first feature film and script.  I was pleased to see it come to Netflix.

It is a really good story about a struggling woman who gets tied up in committing credit card fraud and the fall out afterwards.

 

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Past lives in an Indie American movie, made by a South-Korean Canadian writer and director in her film debut.  It received universal acclaim from critics.  It really is a good movie, with great cinematography and attention to detail.  It chronicles two childhood friends in Korea who get separated when one of them immigrates to Canada with her parents.  They connect online 12 years later and drift apart again and re-unite in person 12 more years later.  

 

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Netflix suggested I might like this movie and looking for something to watch in the kitchen while I cooked, I clicked it on.  It's very cliche and predictable but I stayed with it.  

 

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"Cassandro" is an Amazon Prime movie about a star wrestler in a Mexican style of wrestling I'd never heard of.  It's very well done, and well acted.  It's a true story.

 

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Sisu is a roller coaster of a ride thriller about a gold miner in Finland who finds a large amount of gold and is bound and determined against all odds to let the Nazi's have it.

It's a a very violent movie, but a sit on the edge of your seat thriller.

From the net:   "Sisu is a unique Finnish concept. It is a Finnish term that can be roughly translated into English as strength of will, determination, perseverance, and acting rationally in the face of adversity. Sisu is not momentary courage, but the ability to sustain that courage. It is a word that cannot be fully translated."

DISCLAIMER:  there's profanity and violence in the trailer.

 

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"Jules" is an indie movie that only made 2 million at the box office.  It has a great cast to include Oscar winner Ben Kingsley and SNL alum Jane Curtin.  It's not necessarily great  but it's good cinema that explores getting older and losing your faculties, family and friendship.

 

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"What We Do Next" is a well written and acted story about the decisions we make which at the time we feel was for the best, but the fall out afterwards, and what we do to cover up the past.

 

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"A Million Miles Away" is an Amazon Prime movie that tells the true of Jose Hernandez, the only migrant farm worker to go into space.  It's a feel good story that gets all up in your feelings about sacrifice, family, perseverance and holding on to your dreams.  Nothing not to like.  Great movie.  

 

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"Bottoms" is a high school comedy.  A genre I've outgrown but it was getting some good buzz and liked the writer/director's debut movie "Shiva Baby" a lot so I thought I'd watch it.  The review from Variety states "Bottoms is unlike any high-school comedy you've ever seen. It's a satire of victimization, a satire of violence, and a satire of itself. It walks a tightrope between sensitivity and insanity (with a knowing bit of inanity), and it's full of moments that are defiantly what we once used to call incorrect"

Warning, the trailer is for adults.

 

 

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