He probably lost a lot of weight filming those segments!LOL, the end segment where he runs through all the scenarios is great! So funny and what a great performer!
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He probably lost a lot of weight filming those segments!LOL, the end segment where he runs through all the scenarios is great! So funny and what a great performer!
You must read it, Danie! It is one of the great novels from that era. A great read!!! One of the alltime great warnovels. In spite of not taking place in the battlefields.Two James Franco movies (I started watching Freaks and Geeks and now I'm on a Franco kick):
Every Thing Will Be Fine - very slow-moving, but the cinematography and pay-off at the end are worth it. Loved Franco's performance.
Wild Horses - Robert Duvall wrote, directed and starred. Josh Hartnett, whom I hadn't seen in a long time, was enjoyable, as was Franco.
Last night, also watched a film titled Suite Francaise with Michelle Willliams. She's always good, and I enjoyed it. Suite Francaise was based on a book that was written in secret as the Nazis occupied France. It was never completed because in 1942, the author, Irene Nemirovsky, was arrested for being Jewish and died in Auschwitz. Her handwritten manuscript lay unread in a suitcase for nearly sixty years until it was discovered by her daughter. The novel was finally published in 2004, and the film is based on part of the book.
I bought it last night for my Kindle! Only $5.39 too. Thanks for putting it at the top of the TBR pile, Kurt!You must read it, Danie! It is one of the great novels from that era. A great read!!! One of the alltime great warnovels. In spite of not taking place in the battlefields.
Her daughters has said that it was her plan to write a series of 5 novels called Suite Francaise but she only managed to finish two of them. They were published together after discovery. (the daughter thought it was a journal, diary kind of thing and so did not look at them until at the end of the 90-ties because to painful but when she realised it was novels she had them published). There exist a short sketch of how she had planned the third novel to go. Nemirofsky is a good author. I can recommend The Wine of Solitude. Its fictional but has a lot of autobiographical parts in it. About a girl growing up in Ukraine, just like Nemirofsky did. Not a happy family......I bought it last night for my Kindle! Only $5.39 too. Thanks for putting it at the top of the TBR pile, Kurt!
I also recently watched "Split". I thought that was a very good movie. A nice return for M. Night.
I'll have to add it to my viewing list.Bull Durham
A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.
Knock Knock
A devoted father helps two stranded young women who knock on his door, but his kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.
(Don't let wet, scantily-clad, young women in your house when you've been hitting the blunt and your family is out of town. Just saying.)
Trilogy of Terror
Three bizarre horror stories all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing tormented women.
(I love Karen Black and I really enjoyed watching this for the gazillionth time.)
Misery
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
(Yassss)
Rosemary's Baby
A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.
(I despise Rosemary's husband. Muther muther.)
The Dirties
Two best friends are filming a comedy about getting revenge on the bullies at their high school. One of them isn't joking.
(I really liked this movie.)
Southbound
Five interlocking tales of terror follow the fates of a group of weary travellers who confront their worst nightmares - and darkest secrets - over one long night on a desolate stretch of desert highway.
(I'm pretty good at watching scary scary movies but...I had to stop midway through this because it was late at night and I wanted to be able to go to sleep eventually. Finished it the next day. skimom2, fljoe0 , kingricefan , Doc Creed I think y'all would enjoy this movie.) (Not for young people.)
Bull Durham
I have forgotten about this thread.
Watched "Wait Until Dark," 1967, with Audrey Hepburn playing a blind woman, last night. A little bit of the style was offputting, and the first 20 minutes or so moved slowly. I almost bailed.
But the story gained momentum, Ms. Hepburn was sure entertaining to watch, and for the last half hour, all the prior contrivances and ploddings were forgotten in the build to the climax. We were glad we saw it.
The Street with No Name, 1948, Mark Stevens and Richard Widmark.
It was okay. Grandma liked it better. It was a reasonably interesting yarn with generous sprinklings of contrivances and staid formulae, right down to keeping it a "City with No Name" as well, "Center City." At one point, I thought they might be talking about St. Louis.
Mark Stevens played the undercover FBI guy, and he was sympathetic in the role. Richard Widmark played the "mob" boss, but as mob bosses go, it was kind of wimpy. Yeah, he was brooding and menacing, and quite good at that, but his "mob" was a stick-up crew of about half a dozen pitiful bachelors.
It was interesting, seeing the technology - or lack of it - they had to work with and the results they got from it. And of course, the narration was straight out of "The Untouchables" or whatever other law-enforcement-adoring cinematic efforts were going on at the time, give or take a couple decades.
Grandpa, you're starting to remind me of me.Wait Until Dark. A decent 1967 movie, although the title sequence makes you think of a television show. Audrey Hepburn plays a winsome (well, she can't help that) blind woman and does so pretty convincingly. Alan Arkin makes his appearance as a surprisingly good bundle of menace and malice. I thought I was going to bail in the first 20 minutes, but it picked up, and I was glad I stayed. The plot development came together, and the last 20 minutes were truly suspenseful.
The Street with No Name, 1948. It was... all right. A decent enough plot but somewhat contrived and artificial in the telling. Richard Widmark turned in a solid performance with fairly mediocre material. I can't say I was sorry I watched it, but if we hadn't, I wouldn't have missed it.When the guy says something to the effect of, "No! Let her come to me," or whatever, I actually yelled out, "You're a d!ck!" Good thing we were watching at home.
Grandpa, you're starting to remind me of me.![]()
As long as it doesn't flow the other way, because I wouldn't want to wish being like me on anyone.
Sorry for the delay! My full review:What did you think of GIFTED? The trailer looked interesting, and Evans has done good work in several films.
Just finished Lion based on the book A Long Way Home: A Memoir. Excellent film. Highly recommend. Performances by Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and the little boy who played Patel's character as a child, Sunny Pawar, are all mesmerizing. Love Rooney Mara too. I immediately downloaded the book to my Kindle.
I did catch that! Hadn't read these details but definitely assumed it meant more to come...I liked Split as well. You did notice
A last-minute cameo from Willis revealed that Split is set in the same universe as Unbreakable. In January, Shyamalan revealed to Heat Vision that Split villain Kevin Wendle Crumb (McAvoy) was actually included in his first drafts of Unbreakable, but had to be cut out. He also revealed he was hoping to write and direct a third film that would include characters from both films.
Shyamalan revealed Wednesday that both McAvoy and Taylor-Joy will return for Glass. Here's the logline Universal has released: "Following the conclusion of SPLIT, GLASS finds Dunn pursuing Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men."
Read more here
That's a great movie. Every time I come across it on cable I end up watching it...Watched Clue with Tim Curry. Pretty funny movie! Hadn't seen it in years and forgot a lot of things that happen in it. Stellar cast!