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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Toscana is a Danish-Italian 2022 film dubbed in English on Netflix.  It's a fairly predictable story about a man that inherits a restaurant in Tuscany.  It deals with scenes about his estranged relationship with his father and the people in Tuscany that knew him as a different person.  

 

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"I Used to be Famous" is a British Netflix movie.  Really good unique story with about a man's struggling that's struggling with grief and loss and looking for a new direction when he meets a young autistic drummer.  

 

 

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"I Used to be Famous" is a British Netflix movie.  Really good unique story with about a man's struggling that's struggling with grief and loss and looking for a new direction when he meets a young autistic drummer.  

 

 

I enjoyed this film. 

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"To Leslie" is a good indie movie that got such good reviews I put it on my watchlist over at Amazon last year, but never rented it.  I saw it just came to Netflix and watched it there.

Lead actress Andrea Riseborough caused some industry stink when she snagged an Academy Award nomination for "Best Actress" in a movie not many saw and equally good African American actresses in more popular movies got snubbed.  But no one denied it wasn't a good performance.

It really is a great story about an alcoholic that wins the lottery and loses it all and the difficulties she entails starting over.  Riseborough's performance is indeed stunning.

 

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Live to 100:  Secrets of the Blue Zones is a docuseries on Netflix that visits areas around the world where there's longevity.  I've been familiar with the Blue Zones and Dan Buettner so nothing new or interesting to me personally, but it wasn't until this documentary that I learned that he's been studying Singapore as a sixth Blue Zone.  

 

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Blue Jay is an indie film that Netflix put out in 2016.  It showed up as a suggestion to me as part of Netflix's algorithm of movies I might like.  I almost didn't watch it since it seems very Hallmark-ish with the theme of "small town boy returns home to take care of his late mother's house, high school sweetheart just happens to be in town and they run into each other in a grocery store".

I'm glad I stuck with it.  It's an interesting slow moving story that takes place over the course of one evening as the two re-connect.  For me the big theme here seemed to be one of regret.  It's in black and white, I guess to give it a nostalgic looking back in time kind of feel.  (Although it only goes back to the 90's).

 

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"Somewhere in Queens" didn't do well at the box office, but generally good reviews which prompted me to watch it.  It was a really well done story about family, dysfunctional though it may be, finding and being honest with yourself.  

 

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"You Hurt My Feelings" is an indie movie dramedy from indie studio A24 (that brought us Everything Everywhere All At Once) that was really good.  The premise is a writer get very upset when she over hears her husband saying he doesn't like her new book even though he told her to her face that he loved it.  

At the same time it deals with some themes that later middle aged people deal with such as getting older, finding meaning in their careers, helping their adult children.  It was very well done and acted.

 

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Streaming for free on Amazon Prime is a really good movie "The Year of the Dog".  The reference is the Chinese Zodiac years but the movie is about a man at rock bottom, dealing with addiction and the death of his mother whom he hadn't seen in 15 years but was sobering up to see her as she was dying, memories of his dead father whom he was close to.  Several good themes of loss, hopelessness and redemption.  

 

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You changed the title.  This is probably more descriptive and may create more interest.  

I enjoy your critiques and use them to make watching decisions.  

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toomuchbaloney said:

You changed the title.  This is probably more descriptive and may create more interest.  

I enjoy your critiques and use them to make watching decisions.  

Thanks.  I agree.  I wanted a title more reflective of what it turned into.  I was initially just looking for movie recommendations after I erased a post I meant to put in another thread.  LOL

Appreciate you reading.

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A British movie from Strand Releasing, a distributor that releases indie films, many of which are queer in nature that I rented with a friend today from Amazon was "In From The Side".  

It's about two men that are part of an all-gay male rugby team having an affair when each of them are in relationships with other men.  There is no happy ending, but it feels good at end, leaving you with the feeling that this is how it should be because relationships founded in deceit will continue to have deceit.  

Really good movie.  Well done considering it had a $60,000 budget.  

 

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