What Films did You Watch Last Week (04/07 - 10/07) CLOSED

Welcome back to another week of the BEST & WORST edition of 'what movies did you see last week?' thread. For those who haven't been part of it before, basically your host (me) posts my weekly movies and you can comment on those and list your movie for the same time frame. I will get back to you on yours and you can talk to other users here about their films. It's a great place to talk about film.

FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING

Park Row (1952, Samuel Fuller)
Set in New York’s 1880’s newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner. Strong story, direction and performances.
7/10

Jasper Jones (2017, Rachel Perkins)
Netflix
Australian coming of age movie with a mystery in the middleman it. Mostly solid affair with a few bright spots but also a few cliches.
6.5/10

Q&A (1990, Sidney Lumet)
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him. It’s a solid enough production but the dialogue feels like it’s trying a bit too hard.
6/10

Men (2022, Alex Garland)
I’ve seen all of the directors film and television projects and this is the first to be a bit of a let down. I liked the first half with its more subtle creepiness but didn’t care for the second which devolved into body horror.
5.5/10

The Odessa File (1974, Ronald Neame)
An okay enough post war thriller but it all feels a little stiff.
5/10

Terror on the Prairie (2022, Michael Polish)
This gory western is nicely enough made visually with beautiful scenery but the story and characters did little for me and the two leads were not too great either.
4.5/10

REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING

Ghosts of Mississippi (1996, Rob Reiner)
Alec Baldwin stars in this film based on actual events where a black activist is murdered in 1963, and much of the evidence points towards a white supremacist (James Woods). Solid stuff all around with a great leading performance from Alec Baldwin as the prosecuting attorney.
6.5/10

FIRST TIME DOCUMENTARY VIEWING 

Girl in the Picture (2022, Skye Borgman)
Netflix
A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all. Unfortunately the documentary is not as exciting as the true story it’s based on, although it is solid enough.
Solid Documentary 

FIRST TIME TV VIEWING

The Umbrella Academy  (2020, Season Two)
Netflix
Well i started watching this season when it came out and sporadically from then on and now I’ve finally finished it. It’s patchy at times but the last few eps land.
Good TV

WEEKLY FILM AWARDS

BEST FILM: Park Row
BEST ACTOR: Alec Baldwin - Ghosts of Mississippi 
BEST ACTRESS: Jessie Buckley - Men
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Paul Calderon- Q&A
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Toni Collette - Jasper Jones
BEST EDITING: Phillip Cahn - Park Row
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: John L. Russell- Park Row
BEST SCORE: Antony Partos - Jasper Jones
BEST SCRIPT: Samuel Fuller - Park Row
BEST DIRECTOR: Samuel Fuller - Park Row

10/10 - Perfection (or as close to it as possible)
09/10 - An Excellent film
08/10 - A VERY Good film
07/10 - A Good film
06/10 - A Solid film
05/10 - An Average film
04/10 - Below Average film
03/10 - A mostly bad film
02/10 - A mostly terrible film
01/10 - Awful through and through
00/10 - Not only awful but offensive too