The Movie and TV Thread

Tweety, BSN, RN · Feb 26, 2024

The Florida Project is an acclaimed 2017 indie movie that last month was added to Netflix. Told from a child's perspective (the actress won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer) of her life growing up with a single mother in a budget motel outside of Disney World, Florida. The mother's life slowly unravels. The motel's manager is played by William DeFoe who got an Academy Award nomination for this performance.

It's one of those indie movies that you have to look beyond what's going on the screen and give it some thought. I liked it.

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The Florida Project is about growing up in the shadow of fantasy: the struggle to survive in real life while finding sheer and boundless wonder in the unreal. No matter what you decide to make of The Florida Project's deliberately ambiguous ending (more on that below), the film points to the inherent power of the imagination against the most heartbreaking odds.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-florida-project-ending-explained

toomuchbaloney · Feb 26, 2024

Tweety said:

The Florida Project is an acclaimed 2017 that last month was added to Netflix. Told from a child's perspective (the actress won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer) of her life growing up with a single mother in a budget motel outside of Disney World, Florida. The mother's life slowly unravels. The motel's manager is played by William DeFoe who got an Academy Award nomination for this performance.

It's one of those indie movies that you have to look beyond what's going on the screen and give it some thought. I liked it.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-florida-project-ending-explained

Sounds good.

barcode120x, RN, NP · Mar 1, 2024

Definitely recommend the new FX series Shogun! It was just released this week with 2 episodes. I've heard that it's arguable just as good, if not better than GoT by some and so far, it's great! Slow start, but that's expected and all the acting is top tier. Hiroyuki Sanada has always been a top tier actor in all his movies.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Mar 2, 2024

barcode120x said:

Definitely recommend the new FX series Shogun! It was just released this week with 2 episodes. I've heard that it's arguable just as good, if not better than GoT by some and so far, it's great! Slow start, but that's expected and all the acting is top tier. Hiroyuki Sanada has always been a top tier actor in all his movies.

I really want to see that. It's getting really good reviews. I read the book when it came out in the 70's and was introduced to the Japanese culture through that book. I don't have the services that it's on though.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Mar 2, 2024

Frybread Face and Me is a Netflix movie that tells the tale of a Navajo boy from San Diego that's excited to his grandmothers home one Summer while his parents under a divorce. It's there he meets his cousin aka "Frybread Face" and his adapting to life on the reservation.

Really good movie.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/frybread-face-and-me-movie-review-2023

toomuchbaloney · Mar 3, 2024

I watched Spaceman on Netflix today.

Adam Sandler delivered a solid and believable character. I think the story missed some opportunities but overall I enjoyed it.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Mar 4, 2024

toomuchbaloney said:

I watched Spaceman on Netflix today.

Adam Sandler delivered a solid and believable character. I think the story missed some opportunities but overall I enjoyed it.

It's getting mixed reviews which is why I haven't got it on my list. Sandler is a very talented actor given the right roles. He's had some dreadful roles in the past though and I'm not a huge fan.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Mar 6, 2024

"Scrapper" is a British Indie movie that got good reviews and a British Academy Award nomination for "Best British Film". It has some heart and a really good story about a girl on her own grieving her late mother while living alone pretending to live with an Uncle. Then her real father shows up after being absent from her life. Good movie.

toomuchbaloney · Mar 6, 2024

Tweety said:

It's getting mixed reviews which is why I haven't got it on my list. Sandler is a very talented actor given the right roles. He's had some dreadful roles in the past though and I'm not a huge fan.

It's a good movie to decide not to see. Sandler can't carry the plot failures.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Mar 7, 2024

"All of Us Strangers" is the best movie I've seen this year and is a masterpiece of film making. It's a British indie movie put out by Fox Searchlight and stars a powerhouse cast of Irish and British talent all of whom have won major awards for their acting over the years. The lead actor Andrew Scott got a Golden Globe nomination for this role.

It's a "romantic fantasy" of a gay man that returns to his childhood home to find his parents living there just as they had when they died 30 years prior. As he navigates his grief and closure, there is a romantic interest on the horizon in his neighbor. (No spoiler alert but there is a twist about this.)Just well done from all standpoints, script, cinematography, and especially the acting,. (That man that plays his father is the now grown up actor that won a British Academy Award for playing "Billy Elliot" as a tween.)

toomuchbaloney · Mar 7, 2024

Tweety said:

"All of Us Strangers" is the best movie I've seen this year and is a masterpiece of film making. It's a British indie movie put out by Fox Searchlight and stars a powerhouse cast of Irish and British talent all of whom have won major awards for their acting over the years. The lead actor Andrew Scott got a Golden Globe nomination for this role.

It's a "romantic fantasy" of a gay man that returns to his childhood home to find his parents living there just as they had when they died 30 years prior. As he navigates his grief and closure, there is a romantic interest on the horizon in his neighbor. (No spoiler alert but there is a twist about this.)Just well done from all standpoints, script, cinematography, and especially the acting,. (That man that plays his father is the now grown up actor that won a British Academy Award for playing "Billy Elliot" as a tween.)

Billy Elliot is such an excellent movie. I'll have to check this film out just because of that acting connection.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Mar 7, 2024

toomuchbaloney said:

Billy Elliot is such an excellent movie. I'll have to check this film out just because of that acting connection.

I agree. Billy Elliot was a great movie. He's had a relatively decent career as an adult. Somewhere in this thread I reviewed "Surrounded" a Western in which he plays an American and he did a good job.