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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"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.

 

 

What did you think?

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toomuchbaloney said:

What did you think?

Actually I enjoyed it for what it was.  I meant to say I agreed with the review

 

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"Killers of the Flower Moon" is an Apple/Paramount movie that is getting a wide release instead of the usual limited opening and then to streaming on Apple.   The rave reviews and 200 million dollar price tag might be part of the reasoning.  


It is done by now 80 year old legend Martin Scorsese.

The ultra-long 3.5 hour movie uses its time wisely and held my attention the entire time.  It's brilliantly acted by the three main stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and indigenous actress Lily Gladstone.  All of whom are getting Oscar buzz, along with the script and the movie itself.   Oil gave the Osage Tribe the highest per capita income in the US at the time, which naturally led to their exploitation and apparently up to 100 murders.  It's a story I didn't know and glad to learn more about.  

Apparently it will be streaming on Apple around the holidays and if you have Apple I would highly recommend this movie.

 

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"Theater Camp" is a comedy with a feel good ending and a very talented cast of young actors.   Loved it.

It's available to Hulu subscribers which I don't have.  

 

 

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"Talk to Me is Horror" movie that came to my attention when it got really good reviews and buzz and was an unexpected hit at the American box office.  It's a smaller budget indie movie out of South Australia.   

As you might notice horror is not a genre I generally watch.  This one was really scary and good.  In fact I had to stop watching it 20 minutes in to take a break and finish it the next day during the daytime so I wouldn't be spooked trying to sleep.

I'll include a review from Esquire.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a44693230/talk-to-me-a24-horror-movie-review/

 

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Tweety said:

"Talk to Me is Horror" movie that came to my attention when it got really good reviews and buzz and was an unexpected hit at the American box office.  It's a smaller budget indie movie out of South Australia.   

As you might notice horror is not a genre I generally watch.  This one was really scary and good.  In fact I had to stop watching it 20 minutes in to take a break and finish it the next day during the daytime so I wouldn't be spooked trying to sleep.

I'll include a review from Esquire.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a44693230/talk-to-me-a24-horror-movie-review/

 

I'm also not really into horror, outside of the Alien story and collection of movies. 

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"Showing Up" showed up on the Gotham Awards (the first, but not really significant, awards show of the season) with nominations for best lead role and best feature.  Three of the actors Michelle Williams, Judd Hirsch, and Hong Chau were all nominated for Academy Awards for different movies earlier this year.  So it's a good cast.  Indeed Michelle Williams was good.  I struggled with this movie because it was so slow moving, subtle and nuanced, (meaning boring).   Still, as I think over the movie it was relatively good in its dynamics of an unsuccessful sculptor and the people around her.  

I'll leave the NPR review.  

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/14/1169685359/showing-up-review-michelle-williams-kelly-reichardt

 

 

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"The Burial" is an Amazon/MGM movie available to Prime Members that stars Academy Award winners Jamie Lee Fox and Tommy Lee Jones.   It is a very light hearted courtroom drama that has the typical tense moments of a small business owner taking on a big corporation.  While somewhat predictable, it's getting really good reviews and I agree, it's a great movie.

Profanity alert, the trailer has a couple of curse words.

 

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"Fair Play" is a relatively good Netflix movie about a couple in the world of high finance having an elicit affair while one gets promoted over the other.  Things spiral out of control after that.

 

 

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"Rustin" is a Netflix movie produced by the Obama's production company "Higher Ground".  The movie is about Bayard Rustin, a forgotten civil rights leader that worked behind the scenes and organized the March on Washington.  It's a great piece of American history, as well as queer history as he was a gay man.  Obama gave him the Medal of Freedom posthumously in 2015 and his partner that is still alive, that was many years his junior, received it.  (Back in 1977 when they got together Rustin adopted him because there as no such thing as gay marriage).  

It's a really well acted, well scripted and feel good movie.  Despite the seriousness of racism of the times, it remained upbeat and hopeful.  

 

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I haven't watched a lot of movies lately.  Partly because I've been watching some series.  I like the series "The Wheel of Time" on Amazon which has two seasons and I'm on the tail end of Season 2 and liking it, although there's a lot going on and hard to keep up with.

Another is the Netflix series "High on the Hog" a food series about how African cuisine influenced America.  I saw Season One a while back and Season 2 was recently released.  It's start with how the enslaved Africans brought over the cuisine of Africa, and how over the years since emancipation how it's influenced the broader culture.  Season 2 goes into more modern times.  Each season is only 4 episodes.  Very excellent educational series.

Anyway, back to movies.  "May December" is a Netflix movie about an actress who is to star in a bio-pic of a woman who had an affair and children with a child who was 13 at the time and she later married.   It's a pretty layered and cerebral movie.  Well done.  The three leads were just nominated for Golden Globe Awards in acting categories.  Natalie Portman for actress and in the supporting categories Julianne Moore and Charles Melton.  Melton was named Best Supporting Actor by the New York Film Critics Circle Awards.  (He has a steamy sex scene in which he says he wore a penile prosthetic instead of showing himself full frontal.  Now you know.)

It's loosely based on a true story of a teacher that had an affair with a 12 year old male student and went to jail and later married.  

 

 

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We watched Leave The World Behind yesterday.  It was fun with many familiar faces.  

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