Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Billy Wilder on a lunch break during filming The Apartment in 1960
#Iwatched #TheApartment (1960) again. #BillyWilder had already sympathized with the role of women in #SomeLikeItHot. This classic looks at their bleak modern work situation. Like that of elevator girl #ShirleyMacLaine who falls for a company boss that […]
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Dylan and a Suze Rotolo on a staircase in NYC. The real Dylan requested that they don't use her name, so she goes by Sylvie Russo in this film.
Joan Baez and Dylan on a stage. She looks at him like she's in love with his singing.
#Iwatched the #ACompleteUnknown (2024). As a biopic it's kind of a miss. It's not historically accurate by far, nor does it provide insights into Dylan's mind ("I'm Not There" did that). He arrives in NYC 1961 as an introverted asshole with genius song writing […]
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when I was new to the internet and hanging out on forums someone posted an image of what looked like a classifieds ad in a newspaper. you know the one about going back in time. today #Iwatched a film inspired by this famous ad. and even though I had heard it […]
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every day is the same for Bob Odenkirk in Nobody (2021)
after apparently failing to defend his family during a home intrusion he has lost their respect. his wife sleeps behind a wall of cushions.
until he comes across a gang of Russian thugs on the bus and disposes of them all in hyper brutal hand to hand combat
which escalates to fighting the Russian mafia, leading him to re-unite with his father and his best friend. and regaining the respect and love of his family of course.
#Iwatched Nobody (2021) — a brutal, fun action romp. The influence of #JohnWick creator Derek Kolstad is felt in the spectacularly choreographed action scenes. The story about a middle aged ex-CIA-killer, now sandwiched between a boring office job and a […]
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Julia Roberts as Alma Imhoff looking rather groggy waking up
Julia sitting on a couch with one of the film's weakest points: Andrew Garfield who plays her good friend and colleague. He is clearly supposed to be a charming rule breaker, a man's man with swagger. But Garfield can fill none of that and her affection for him remains puzzling.
Ayo Edebiri plays Maggie, Alma's protégée and in this film the stand-in for the younger generation in many ways. She's a black girl from a wealthy family who have sponsored half the campus.
a poster for a public talk at Yale with the title: The future of Jihadism is female the best moments in this film happen on the side like that
#Iwatched #AfterTheHunt (2025) with a phenomenal #JuliaRoberts as a Yale prof caught between her fave student accusing her friend & colleague of sexual assault. Both sides expect her blind support and thus the stage is set for the film's dissection of each […]
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Ricky and Hector live for months in the bush
#Iwatched #HuntForTheWilderPeople (2016) with #SamNeill and some fat kid, who both played well. The story was entertaining enough, sometimes funny too, but not as often as it wanted to be. Mainly though the hunt has no real stakes in anything. It's an escapist […]
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In Trading Places Eddie Murphy is being held at gun point by a vengeful Santa Claus
In St. Elmo's Fire Ally Sheedy has to decide between Judd Nelson and Andrew McCarthy, oh my!
In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara end up in bed for no discernible reason
#Iwatched
- #TradingPlaces (1983) good comedy fun with #DanAykroyd, #EddieMurphy. contains boobs :awesome: and some dated gay jokes :lost:
- #StElmosFire (1985) the #bratpack movie and #Friends precursor suffers from shallow script, unlikable characters and […]
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Molly Ringwald is a mysterious girl that hangs around the country house of a lonely Patti D'Arbanville
this is where Andrew McCarthy meets her and they both fall in love but she has a few secrets, first among them she is married
while Andrew McCarthy and his friend Ben Stiller seek a lawyer about an anulment of her marriage, she is placed in the side room
Viggo Mortensen is her possibly abusive husband in a small but excellently played role he instantly sees through the dynamic of the couple's relationship
#Iwatched Fresh Horses (1988) in which rich young #AndrewMcCarthy falls for an uneducated, possibly underage and sexually abused #MollyRingwald. The gritty story is conventionalized as film noir characters in a 1980s teen romance: Ringwald plays a terrific […]
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#Iwatched Brats (2024) a documentary by #AndrewMcCarthy in which he interviews other members of the #bratpack about the impact this label had on their careers and lives. It originally came from a scathing magazine article about these young actors, who didn't […]
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rational forward thinking Americans care for pretty children
meanwhile rural conservatives are a bit dim at best and just one crazy messiah away from child sacrifices
Thomas Jane and Toby Jones (from Detectorists!) contemplating whether it was a good idea to show the monsters in this film, or if they should have just stayed an unnamed terror in the mist maybe, while fighting some CGI tentacles, ahem
#Iwatched the 2007 adaption of #StephenKing's #TheMist in which good actors have to take their last stand in a closed off supermarket against generic monsters on one side and generic survivors on the other, which turn a bit too quickly into hysterical […]
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Armin Müller-Stahl plays the head of the mob family and also owner of a Russian restaurant
Vincent Cassel plays the prince of the family, Viggo Mortensen his right hand and driver
the restaurant hosts a sentimental evening for Russian expats
for a Cronenberg film the gore is rare, but when it comes it is filmed with uncontained authenticity
#Iwatched #DavidCronenberg's #EasternPromises (2007) in which #ViggoMortensen plays the driver for the son of a violent Russian mob family in London. When an English nurse inquires about a diary she found on one of her patients, she gets dragged into their […]
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late 1970s getaway car in an underpass under neon lights
James Caan cherishes his freedom, but he needs money
Tuesday Weld is quite aware of what she's getting herself into when she commits to him
corrupt cops are on his tail
#Iwatched the heist thriller Thief. #MichaelMann's 1981 debut features many of his trademark neon night driving scenes. It's the story of ex-convict #JamesCaan trying to establish a normal life with waitress #TuesdayWeld, an adopted baby, a house in the […]
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Mia Wasikowska falls into the crafty hands of...
...Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain, who have...
a collection of affordable CGI ghosts in their closet.
#Iwatched the gothic horror film #CrimsonPeak (2015) by #GuillermoDelToro, inspired by his favourite classics from #TheInnocents to #TheExorcist. A high mark that this film misses by a long shot, because del Toro can leave nothing to the imagination. The […]
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Two beers
Linda Kozlowski in the bush
Hogan the tourist
this is a knife
#Iwatched Crocodile Dundee (1986) with the roomie, who had never seen it before. The story of an Australian backwoods joker visiting NYC holds up quite well, especially the situations in which he can apply his bush smarts in the concrete jungle of course. And […]
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Oh yeah, he's played by a CGI monkey. And it's really well done. So well in fact that it doesn't make any difference. You stop noticing pretty soon.
#Iwatched the #RobbieWilliams bio-film #BetterMan (2024). I was never a fan of Williams or Take That, but I did like some of his solo material. And I thought that the cocksure coolness he displayed in music videos like The Road to Mandalay would translate well […]
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Benny Bauer
Memorial Day Run Milwaukee 1966 by Danny Lyon
Cowboy at a Rogue Picnic South Chicago by Danny Lyon
Crossing the Ohio River near Louisville 1966 by Danny Lyon
#Iwatched The Bikeriders (2023) which tells of the origins of the Outlaws motorcycle club in the 1960s, from a bunch of guys doing dirt races on weekends to a sprawling violent club scene that slowly spirals out of the control of it's president and his […]
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the Gecko brothers en route to mayhem
I'm convinced that Amal Clooney watches this film secretly sometimes
Juliette Lewis who among other badass achievements sang on a Prodigy album (Always outnumbered, never outgunned)
Salma Hayek makes a lot out of a small role
since a recent post reminded me of it, #Iwatched #FromDuskTillDawn again today. and I think that knowing what to expect, I enjoyed it a lot more than in 1996. #GeorgeClooney is impossibly cool, #Tarantino is hilariously creepy and #JulietteLewis is the secret […]
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#Iwatched the 3rd season of #TheWhiteLotus and while it wasn't as boring as the 2nd season, it still had storylines that went nowhere, gaping plot holes, missing motivations and many script decisions that felt more random than surprising. It also kept up the tradition of killing the only likable […]
Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano in a double role as two very different brothers, but the first is quickly gone
#Iwatched There Will Be Blood (2007) which traces the road to success of a misanthropic oil drilling man who is coincidentally but repeatedly validated in his suspicions about people and grows increasingly bad tempered about it. Extremely well acted by Daniel […]
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Cassie, Michelle, Sid, Tony, Anwar and Maxxie
#Iwatched the 1st season of #Skins (2008) which starts out kinda like #FerrisBueller, with Tony (Nicholas Hoult) as the super-checker at the center of a tightly knit group of friends. Beginning with the second episode it takes a very different turn tho and […]
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a geodesic dome containing a biosphere mounted to a space freighter
botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) tending to plants in a spacelab
Lowell has a printout of the Outdoor Life Conservation Pledge near his bed
the robots Huey and Dewey are working on the outside of the freigher
#Iwatched eco-scifi film Silent Running (1972) in which space freighters carrying the last bits of nature in geodesic domes are instructed to jettison those domes and return to earth for commercial service. Despite planet sized plotholes the careless attitude […]
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So I finally #Iwatched the last season of #Archer and while they did screw up by inserting an annoying new character and trying to update the cold war spy spoof template to uh...modern sensibilities, they did manage to give the series an appropriate send-off. But seriously, they probably should […]
Just finished #WhiteLotus season 2, but only with some long timeouts and a lot of willpower. While the first season was somewhat entertaining with the one-upmanship between the rich asshole and the resort director (who was a great character) and touched on some contemporary issues, if in a […]
Ryan Reynolds is living in a box
#Iwatched #Buried (2010), a claustrophobic and ultimately depressing film that would have been better as an audio drama without #RyanReynolds. But then most people would have never heard of it. Not that Reynolds was bad, but his star face doesn't exactly help […]
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Marilyn singing on the prairie to a 9 year old boy, the farmer son of Robert Mitchum's character
she appreciates a strong guy looking out for her
although the white knight gets quite rapey
but in the end a woman belongs with a kid and his father. because that's a family. and singing in the saloon is just short of prostitution
#Iwatched River of no Return (1954) with #MarilynMonroe and #RobertMitchum. And while MM is beautiful and graceful as ever, the film is a pile of awful #western clichés and questionable morals, including cartoony indians, kids with guns and 1950s gender roles […]
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fight club training scene shows a bunch of girls standing in a circle in the gym while our two heroines PJ and Josie circle each other, anxious to throw the first punch
PJ likes being held down in a fight way too much
the football team has a hard time coping with minor discomforts
it all ends in a bloodbath, but it's fun!
#Iwatched #Bottoms (2023) about two lesbian virgins at the bottom of the highschool popularity scale who start a girls fight club, ostensibly to empower women, but really to finally get laid. From there the stakes just keep escalating. The film doesn't try to […]
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#Iwatched #Shrinking which everyone is watching so I don't have to explain. EXCEPT for the fact that at the end of season 1 this dramedy has already abandoned the comedy part in favour of lots of mushy feelings. It was always a bit cringy, but I didn't expect them to use initial gags to rope us […]
view into the cab from the windshield at night, Dakota Johnson is leaning into the opened window of the passenger seperator, smiling at Penn who's at the wheel talking amused
Dakota Johnson in the back of the car seen through the rearview mirror while driving through a tunnel with tiled walls
#Iwatched #Daddio (2023) in which #DakotaJohnson takes a cab ride through NYC with #SeanPenn. Although it doesn't initially seem that way she's at a low point in her life and the cabby gets her talking and shares his opinions about her problems. He isn't […]
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#Iwatched #FireAndIce (1983) a film by #RalphBakshi and #FrankFrazetta. The story is so bad, you may not notice the racism. Even the animation is often sloppy. Its only redeeming quality may be seeing Frazetta's preferred body type animated in the rotoscoped […]
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