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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Ran across George Clooney's 2011 The Descendants on hulu tonight.

I saw it when it came out and agree it's an excellent movie.

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"The Promised Land" is a Danish movie (I watched the English dubbed version) about a poor ex-Army Captain that sets out to farm a very inhospitable land in Denmark and the high price he and those around him pay.  

The lead actor, Mads Mikkelsen, apparently is well known in Denmark.  He stared in the movie "Another Round" that won the Academy Award in 2020 for best international film.  For this role he won Best Actor at the European Film Awards.  He's also done Hollywood movies as a character actor.

I enjoyed it a lot.

 

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I ordinarily wouldn't choose a movie like "The Miracle Club" but a friend recommended it and I like the cast.  The plot of "estranged child returns to hometown..." is a tired old one.  

Still, the movie wasn't that bad. The cast had a lot of demons to deal with as they took a group to Lourdes for various reasons.   I'd give it a solid B with good acting, emotions and a nice tear jerker of an ending.

 

 

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"LaRoy, Texas" is a suspenseful movie released simultaneously to theaters and streaming April 12th, and is about a mild mannered man that finds himself a hit man.  It's presented in somewhat of a light hearted way (like Fargo) and there are many layers added on to layers to its conclusion.  

It held my attention, I liked the chemistry between the two lead male characters, and would give it maybe a 4 of 5 stars.  

 

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"How To Have Sex" is a British film that received wide acclaim and got my attention by the good reviews and that it was nominated for Best British Film at the British Academy Awards.  The lead actress won a British Academy Award for breakout performance (an award the Academy Awards here don't have) and a British Independent Film Award for Best Lead Actress.

That all being noted, it's not a movie I generally gravitate towards.  On the surface it's a party movie about three girls vacationing in Crete.  But digging deeper it delves into peer pressure, friendship, regret, longing, jealousy and sexual consent.  It's rated PG-13 so it's not overly raunchy. The lead actress captures so much emotion without dialogue and it's not really what she says that is conveyed but what she means and feels.  

I really liked it, but I imagine others would relate to it more than me a 64 year old gay man. LOL

 

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"Damsel" is a Netflix fantasy action movie about a land long ago in an imaginary kingdom where a princess was tossed into a dragon's den as a sacrifice.  

It's good for what it is, some entertaining mind candy that's entertaining and not too deep.  It has a good cast that includes Angela Bassett and showcases the acting chops of "Stranger Things" star Millie Bobby Brown.

 

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June Again is an Australian movie out on Amazon Prime that I really enjoyed.  The main character is very well acted and revolves around a woman with vascular dementia after a stroke that mysteriously gets a reprieve and comes back to life to her old self, only she doesn't remember the prior five years.  She then interacts with her adult children who have moved on without her and not always in a good way.  It's a light hearted dramedy that deals with the devastation that dementia can be.  

 

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"The Last Stop in Yuma County" is a crime drama that was just released in theaters and streaming on May 10th.  I watched it based on good reviews.  It centers around a diner in which bank robbers are holding a traveling salesmen a waitress hostage.  It manages to keep the tension without being overly melodramatic, it's well acted and some tense twists and turns right up to the end.  I really liked it.

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/the-last-stop-in-yuma-county-review-1235997165/

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I love films that take place in the American west during the 1800s. There are a lot of good western movies like Silverado or Seraphim Falls.

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The Mattachine Family is a good movie that was released this week to streaming on June 4th.  It made the rounds of the LGBTQ+ movie circuit.  In honor of Pride Month I picked a queer movie to watch.

It tells the story of a gay married couple whose foster child they've bonded with over a year returns to his birth mother and the aftermath.  The 30-something protagonist goes through something like a midlife crisis trying to find meaning in his life.  His husband also gets a break in his career at this time and decides he no longer wants to foster or have kids.  

The acting is decent and the story line on what makes a family both with a chosen family of tight nit friends as well as having children in a non-traditional way.  

The title references "The Mattachine Society" which was one of the first American gay rights organizations in the 1950's.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattachine_Society

 

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"Aisha" tells the tale of a Nigerian woman attempting asylum in Ireland and her having to navigate that system.  She's played by Letitia Wright who is famous from being in the Blank Panther movies.  She does an excellent job of capturing the characters loneliness, stress and fear.  She meets a man with a past played by Josh O'Connor who won awards for his part as Prince Charles in the Netflix series "The Crown".  He too captures his characters voice very well.  

Really good movie, but the abrupt ending that leaves things unresolved was kind of a bummer.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/aisha-film-review-2024

 

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"Thelma" is a delightful story of an older woman that was scammed out of $10,000 and her quest to get it back.  She faces the reality of growing older as widow, as someone that's lost a lot of friends, and some family dynamics.  Great movie.

 

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