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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"The Hit Man" is a Netflix movie about a man played by red hot actor Glen Powel who works part time for the police pretending to be a hit man to catch people who want to hire a hit man for murder.  It gets complicated when he falls for a woman wanting to hire a hit man to kill her husband.  

Pretty good entertainment.

 

 

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"The Hit Man" is a Netflix movie about a man played by red hot actor Glen Powel who works part time for the police pretending to be a hit man to catch people who want to hire a hit man for murder.  It gets complicated when he falls for a woman wanting to hire a hit man to kill her husband.  

Pretty good entertainment.

 

 

I watched this a few days ago.  It was fun.  

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WIth a couple of days left in Pride Month, I thought I'd watch a documentary about queer comedians.  I really liked how it presented the perspective of comedians from decades ago to today and how things have changed.  It ends with commentary on the current situation for transgendered persons and how comedians are approaching this, but ends on a pretty positive upbeat note.  

Loved it.

 

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I watched Dune Part 2 and liked it okay.  To me it had some slow moving boring parts but overall the special effects and visuals were good.  It's obviously a big budget movie and made over $700 million at the worldwide box office.

 

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"I Am Celine Dion" is an Amazon Prime documentary that chronicles Ms. Dion's current condition with chronic disease.  She bravely allows herself to be filmed as herself without makeup and vulnerable.  Her grief and the loss of her ability to sing and tour like she once did is palpable.  I fast forwarded through an excruciating scene towards the end of the documentary of her having a seizure but otherwise really was captivated by this documentary.

I've been a huge Celine Dion fan from the get go.  When I finally joined the 1990's and switched from vinyl records (which I still buy) and started buying CD's hers was on of the first CDs I bought and I have her entire discography (only the English language ones).  I saw her live in her heyday around 1997 around when she was everywhere with the Theme from Titanic and again later in her career in 2019 with her last studio album.  Both times were huge 15,000 plus crowds and she was amazing.  As a fan I'm saddened to see her like this.  I wish her the best.

 

 

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"I Used To Be Funny" is about a woman struggling with PTSD and her connection with a teenager she was a nanny for that shows up missing.  It's promoted as a "dramedy"  but for me there wasn't much to chuckle about.  Really good movie.  

 

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"Civil War" is a really good movie.  Set in what appears to the present time or near future it's a time when a President refuses to leave office and takes a third term, causing California and Texas to secede and form an alliance called the "Western Forces" and declare a Civil War.   Florida secedes as well but not sure how they figure in.  The movie's focus isn't necessarily politics, and it seem intentionally vague as to how the war started,  but focuses on a group of reporters covering the war as they travel to DC from New York City.

Really good acting by star Kirstin Dunst who tries to cope with the misery of war that she's seen along with the loss of people she cares about.  It highlights a violent nation with a total lack of humanity or respect for human life.

Excellent movie.

  

 

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"Asleep in My Palm" is an indie movie that came out in March of this year.  I'll post a review that gives the plot about a father and daughter living off the grid.  Really good story that touches on a several topics about society at large.  Surprise ending that leaves some questions.  But quite satisfying.  The lead actor Tim Blake Nelson does a really good job.

I haven't figure out what the title means.  

https://stephensilver.substack.com/p/asleep-in-my-palm-is-a-well-done

 

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On Prime Video "Our Almost Completely True Love Story" is a romance about an aging once-famous actress (played by Mariette Hartley who is 84 and is an aging once-famous actress herself) who struggles with finding romance at her age and how she navigates that with a man who falls for her (played by her current husband Jerry Sroka).  

It's a cute movie that isn't earth shattering but decent enough to watch.  It has a few cameo appearances by the people like the once famous Morgan Fairchild, and 91 year old Bernie Kopell (who was on Get Smart and played the ship's doctor on the love boat).  

 

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"Ghostlight" is an indie movie about a man and his family grieving the suicide of his son.  He joins a small cast of Romeo and Juliet and eventually this begins a healing process for him and his family that he's been holding back. 

It really is well paced, well acted and the script is really good.  One of the better movies on I've seen this year.

 

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"The Taste of Things" is a French film that I've had on my watchlist for a good while now.  It's brilliantly done, great cinematography and set.

It holds a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, my go to for movies.

I will say it definitely is one for foodies and people that like a story and action wouldn't like it.  I love watching food and cooking shows on YouTube so it's right up my alley.  There are two long stretches of cooking with no dialogue.  At the beginning it was captivating, but the last seemed a bit too long, but again it was very well filmed.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-taste-of-things-film-review-2023

 

 

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"National Anthem" is an indie drama set in the New Mexico sub-culture of queer rodeo.  A young man with little opportunity and bearing the financial burden in his dysfunctional family,  finds himself at a ranch and feels a belonging he never had, and falls in love with a transgendered woman there that is not really available to him.

The backdrop scenery is really beautiful and the acting relatively good.  Overall I'd give it a four of five stars.  Good movie.

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

 

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