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Neesy

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kingricefan

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Adderall Diaries starring James Franco, Christian Slater, Amber Heard and Ed Harris. Timothee Chalamet has a small role playing Franco's character as a teenager. Here's the description on the package: A struggling writer becomes dangerously involved in a high-profile murder case in this true-crime thriller. James Franco plays an author who's first book is about his childhood and the abuse that he endured by his father. It became a bestseller and while promoting it at an author event and describing how his father had been dead for a while, a man stands up at the back of the room and begins shouting that the book is all lies. It's Franco's character's father, who is played by Ed Harris and is not dead. Harris meets up with Franco during the course of the movie to give his version of what happened and why. Very well acted. Ed Harris looks terrible in this movie, haggard and almost emaciated. I don't know if he lost a lot of weight for this role.
 

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Uncut Gems. Got to 36 minutes of it and wondered why we kept with the last 26 of those. We didn't like the characters, couldn't have cared less what happened to them. The dialogue was so dense as to be incomprehensible at times, and we finally gave up.

We did some more browsing and ended up with...

Ford v. Ferrari. We really enjoyed this. The characters, with some being somewhat stereotypical, were still present with depth and feeling. It was a very interesting story, interesting dynamics. And its 2 hours and 32 minutes went by quite nicely, compared with the three relative days consumed by the 36 minutes of the prior offering.

Good, fun, interesting flick.
 

Dana Jean

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Repulsion -- directed by Roman Polanski, the first of his Apartment Trilogy on The Criterion Channel.

Rosemary's Baby is the second and The Tenant is the third. I have not seen The Tenant.

I look at Polanski's work through different eyes and with new information these days, and with that added knowledge, the movies take on any even more sinister tone beyond what was intended.

Still, these films are made by many talented people, so I will not throw the baby out with the bathwater. I can champion other's work in the making of these films. Polanski did not work in a vacuum or alone.

 
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We have watched a few '80s movies with the kids. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (they had seen this one before) and The Breakfast Club (first time for them....wow that is a depressing movie as the parents of teenagers vs being the teenagers. Sheesh!) I have Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo's Fire ready to record soon but those will probably be just for me and Ali to watch. Chick flick night! ;)

Watched Zombieland Double Tap the other night. Was pretty funny. I still do not get Emma Stone and whatshisname together though. Completely implausible, zombie apocalypse or not. :D
 

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Yes, --POMS is an uplifting comedy about Martha (played by Diane Keaton), a woman who moves into a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad with her fellow residents, Sheryl (Jacki Weaver), Olive (Pam Grier) and Alice (Rhea Perlman), proving that it's never too late to follow your dreams
 

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Rosemary's Baby is the second and The Tenant is the third. I have not seen The Tenant.

Rosemary's Baby was quite the splash when it came out. I watched it. Was unimpressed then, and I was a lover of well-done horror at the time. Seriously, I could not see what the fuss was about. Okay, I'm an outlier.

We have watched a few '80s movies with the kids. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (they had seen this one before)

We watched a little bit of Ferris Bueller and were reminded of how much we enjoyed that flick. Now we have to return to it.

On a separate note, I listened to the local public radio film critic who was making Age of Contagion recommendations while hunkered down at home. One of them was His Girl Friday, with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. He was persuasive. We're gonna check it out. I remember nothing of it.
 

morgan

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Freaks (2018). Bizarre, but like nothing I've seen before. Streaming on Netflix. Definitely worth checking out. I wish they revealed more backstory (maybe there's a prequel/sequel in the works).

Emile Hirsch is always amazing. The little girl who plays his daughter is incredibly talented (reminds me of the young boy in Room). The movie gave me vibes of Firestarter and The Girl with All the Gifts.
 

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His Girl Friday, with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. 1940, directed by Howard Hawks. It was recommended by a movie critic in a local NPR station as a good "pandemic watch," and we found it free on Prime.

An enjoyable romp of a classic movie, and quite egalitarian/feminist for its time. Some plot devices and scenes are a little clunky and dated, but it's easy to overlook that in the clever plot, the sharply drawn characters, and the packed dialogue.

Macao, 1952, Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. We happened to see it as we went past TCM while channel cruising, and it looked interesting.

It was okay, if nothing else than to watch Mitchum and Russell chew up the scenery, as they say. The plot had decent bones, with the execution carried out adequately. Wasn't sorry we watched it; don't intend to see it again. As endorsements go, that's as tepid as I can muster.
 

Dana Jean

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Peeper - starring Michael Caine and Natalie Wood

I adore Michael Caine. My all time favorite actor. Whether he's in a piece of crap or a blockbuster, he gives his performance 100%. Unfortunately, this was terrible.

And I guess the director, Peter Hymas was considered "cold as ice" when it came to the failure. Nobody wanted to work with him. But, fortunately, he went on to make Capricorn One, which is a very good film.
 
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