Not sure where you are getting it where you are, but here in the US I cannot recommend the Criterion Channel enough.
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Not sure where you are getting it where you are, but here in the US I cannot recommend the Criterion Channel enough.
Looks like a good lineup. It's amazing how many movies people have uploaded to YouTube and Daillymotion, which is where I found the movie.
Episode 4-6 of Arcane released on Netflix today. The best Netflix Original I have seen by a long shot. Amazing stuff. Great character and story development. Follows many cliches but well done and well voice acted. The animation and style are right up my street.
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The Twilight Samurai. 5/5.
So... Imagine Clark Gable and Jane Russell holed up in a tiny log cabin out in the wildness, trapped by a blizzard. They build a fire, and Jane must of course take off her clothes (because they're wet), and Clark must pull off her boots and stockings and rub her feet and then blow on them (He's gotta get Jane's feet warmed up!). Clark kills a rabbit (He's such a man, they don't even bother showing him killing the thing), and Jane cooks it up for him over the fire.
Clark says, "You sure do cook up some good rabbit, with that honey and molasses."
Jane replies: "That ain't honey and molasses. That's just girl."
How can I give this anything less than five stars?
To Live & Die in LA, 3/5 stars. I had not seen it previously. Definitely dated and overrated. (did this pre-date Miami Vice or vice-versus?)
This film has been mentioned a couple of times on these forums recently. I loved it when I saw it as a teenager but I haven’t seen it in years. I’m going to make a point of rewatching it soon.
** The Ry Cooder soundtrack is excellent
Feeling like crap again, and no smoking for today.
So, we watched Black Widow. What a totally unbelievable movie. Plus, for an origin story, they do a piss poor job. It's just a bunch collages of politicians with no real explanation. You just sort of have to pick up on inferences. Then, within two minutes Black Widow and her fake mother hatch a plan, create two perfect disguises, and also a few plan B and C's. Totally unbelievable. Do they have super human strength? At times they can kick in concrete and steel prison walls, and other times they can't break a zip tie... which is it? What's going on? Was I required to read something before watching this to make it make sense?
Then the totally physics defying fight scene at the end. WTF?
Then that weird scene with the Seinfeld chick at the end, WTF?
And, not once did we see Scarlet Johansen naked.
2/5, and only because she is a dead Avenger.
Then we watched Jungle Cruise. Ok, ok, I can better forgive a Disney fun time movie for the problems with physics and storyline issues, because the acting was killer. Using actual Disney World Jungle Cruise jokes that you'd hear on the actual ride made it worthwhile. Just fun. And, the Rock, rocks.
4.5/5, yeh, .5 reduced because I didn't watch it with any kids, and still like it, but there were still problems. I'm a picky son of a bitch.
So, we watched Black Widow. What a totally unbelievable movie. Plus, for an origin story, they do a piss poor job. It's just a bunch collages of politicians with no real explanation. You just sort of have to pick up on inferences. Then, within two minutes Black Widow and her fake mother hatch a plan, create two perfect disguises, and also a few plan B and C's. Totally unbelievable. Do they have super human strength? At times they can kick in concrete and steel prison walls, and other times they can't break a zip tie... which is it? What's going on? Was I required to read something before watching this to make it make sense?
Then the totally physics defying fight scene at the end. WTF?
Then that weird scene with the Seinfeld chick at the end, WTF?
And, not once did we see Scarlet Johansen naked.
2/5, and only because she is a dead Avenger.
Then we watched Jungle Cruise. Ok, ok, I can better forgive a Disney fun time movie for the problems with physics and storyline issues, because the acting was killer. Using actual Disney World Jungle Cruise jokes that you'd hear on the actual ride made it worthwhile. Just fun. And, the Rock, rocks.
4.5/5, yeh, .5 reduced because I didn't watch it with any kids, and still like it, but there were still problems. I'm a picky son of a bitch.
Ghostbusters Afterlife.
5 stars! *****
Fantastic all the way around.
5 stars! *****
Fantastic all the way around.
The Mechanic (1972) starring Charles Bronson. 3/5
Just completed watching The Royal on Britbox. It's a medical drama set in the 1960's and '70's in a small cottage hospital situated in a coastal town. Fun to watch, and the gruff surgeon is always smoking his pipe as he sees patients on his rounds, in the wards, pretty much everywhere except when performing actual surgery, and he's seen handing his pipe to a nurse just before entering the operating theater.
The critics hated it for not being more modern, complex, and highbrow. Fuck 'em!
5 out of 5 for being such fun.
The critics hated it for not being more modern, complex, and highbrow. Fuck 'em!
5 out of 5 for being such fun.
The 3rd and final season of Narcos: Mexico on Netflix.
I thought the original 2 seasons of Narcos that dealt with the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar were easily the best but it was still a decent watch.
3.5/5
I thought the original 2 seasons of Narcos that dealt with the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar were easily the best but it was still a decent watch.
3.5/5
Binge watching Homeland big time. How did I miss this when it was on? Really enjoying it, 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Just watched a couple of episodes of the live action reboot of Cowboy Bebop.
I rate it as sucks, big time.
I rate it as sucks, big time.
I recently heard that there is Dexter reboot, New Blood. I never saw the original series, which first aired on Showtime in 2006 and lasted 8 seasons. I decided to check it out, and just finished watching the first season. In a nutshell, it’s about a vigilante serial killer who works for a police dept. 4/5
We are into The Royal, 3 episodes deep, and it's pretty good. I think, although with my interpretation of English, that the doctor that smoked a pipe has moved on already. But, I hope he returns. The stories are like a 3/5, the acting is maybe 4/5 for British standards, but the music makes it a 5/5, IMO. I'll hang with it. We are just waiting on the current full season of Grantchester to drop.
The pipe smoking surgeon figures prominently in every season.
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