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Post by kijii on Jan 19, 2021 4:47:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2021 7:00:23 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 19, 2021 11:06:41 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jan 19, 2021 17:52:26 GMT
6/10. Not bad but a little overly sentimental. (yes yes I know it's Capra)
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Post by brandomarlon2003 on Jan 19, 2021 23:20:01 GMT
Bad Day At Black Rock
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Post by persistenceofvision on Jan 20, 2021 0:31:30 GMT
Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 20, 2021 0:53:08 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 20, 2021 4:59:32 GMT
Hidden in the cast list are Charles Buchinski, Alfalfa, Mr. Magoo and Lucas McCain. This famous quote turns up as well !
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 20, 2021 5:44:09 GMT
FANTASTIC VOYAGE 1966 - Most the fx still look great. As for the ship--well, supposedly white corpuscles ate it. But one would think the dissolved matter would grow...James Brolin is quickly seen and heard when they are going aboard the ship.
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Post by teleadm on Jan 20, 2021 7:42:10 GMT
Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 directed by Carl Franklin and based on a novel by Walter Mosley. Starring Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Maurey Chaykin, Terry Kinney and others. Old-fashioned noirish crime detective story taking place in the late 1940's, with a difference. It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins (Washinton), an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright (Sizemore), who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA's Black community. This woman, Daphne Monet (Beals), happens to be the fiancée of a wealthy "blue blood," Todd Carter (Kinney), who is currently the favorite in the city's mayoralty race. Daphne Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright's offer, however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. I actually liked this movie, that sadly never found an audience at the time of release, and maybe a series of movies was originally planned too. "In a world divided by black and white, Easy Rawlins is about to cross the line"
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 21, 2021 3:31:23 GMT
Love Crazy (1941, dir. Jack Conway). Cute little Powell-Loy movie in which they’re a married couple who are broken up by Loy’s scheming mother. Powell resorts to outrageous silliness to win Loy back. And it’s good silliness, and it’s William Powell and Myrna Loy, so no matter what it’s going to be good. Some of the comedy bits are as good as anything Powell and Loy had to work with—particularly the ending, in which Powell… No, I don’t want to give it away! All in all, though, it just doesn’t hold together, and even some of those fine jokes and gags suffer from some too-reticent direction on the part of Jack Conway (an OK filmmaker who helmed some good movies but was never more than OK—and certainly not distinctive). Woody Van Dyke would have paced this thing like lightning—a Van Dyke trademark not only in comedies like The Thin Man but also dramas like Manhattan Melodrama. All through watching this I was comparing it with Van Dyke’s I Love You Again (1940), another non- Thin Man Powell-Loy comedy, and the Van Dyke film came out on top every time. Mostly I think that’s because Conway paces things a bit too slowly and because some of his comic timing is off. None of it is bad, and again some of the jokes really work, but—well, I found an online review calling it “uneven,” and that’s perhaps the best word for it. Still, it is Powell and Loy, and spending an hour and change in their company is never a bad decision.
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Post by kijii on Jan 21, 2021 4:35:52 GMT
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) / Bryan Forbes
This B&W thriller is one of Kim Stanley's two Oscar-nominated movies. While being a very good Forbes film, its denouement is a bit of a let down after the plot development.
Myra Savage (Kim Stanley) : You know what I sometimes wish? I sometimes wish I *were*... ordinary. Like you. Dead ordinary. Ordinary and *dead* like all the others.
Myra Savage : What we are doing is a means to an end. Now you agree with the end, don't you? Well then you must agree with the means! You can't have one without the other. : You know what I sometimes wish? I sometimes wish I *were*... ordinary. Like you. Dead ordinary. Ordinary and *dead* like all the others.
Myra Savage : What we are doing is a means to an end. Now you agree with the end, don't you? Well then you must agree with the means! You can't have one without the other.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 21, 2021 5:39:12 GMT
Exciting it is not BUT thanks to whoever recommended it to me ages ago .... Some genuine LOL moments !
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2021 7:01:07 GMT
Saw this for the first time tonight. Was planning to only watch thirty minutes and then take a shower, but I got so caught up in it that I just watched the entire thing. Definitely one of my favorite Hitchcocks now. It maybe drags for a few minutes in the middle but the rest was excellent. Especially the ending. Fantastic monologue by Stewart. I’m surprised this doesn’t make more top ten lists. I put it above The Birds and North by Northwest, but still below Vertigo, Rear Window and Psycho.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 21, 2021 7:15:37 GMT
HELL IS A CITY 1960 - And that city is Manchester! Stanley Baker is a fed up cop (what else kind is there?). He wants children, his wife doesnt because he doesn't earn enough. John Crawford is a crook and murderer that Baker wants to catch. Funny to see Crawford as the co-star when within a year or two he usually is in bit parts quite often.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 21, 2021 13:51:43 GMT
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) Revisited this 90's classic yesterday. It's hard not to enjoy this movie. Of course, it was my first time seeing Mr. Connery in a movie since his passing.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 21, 2021 18:31:10 GMT
Exciting it is not BUT thanks to whoever recommended it to me ages ago .... Some genuine LOL moments ! Oh, happy you saw this, Bat—not sure if I’m the person who recommended it to you, but I (and everyone I’ve shown it to) found it hilarious.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 21, 2021 18:36:26 GMT
Nalkarj I was not sure if it was you or Doghouse6 or both. It WAS funny. I was hoping for a Butch and Sundance reference when they were on the ledge ... maybe just the shrug ! . That talky girl was a hoot ! Turns out I have it on books on tape as well.
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Post by teleadm on Jan 21, 2021 18:52:22 GMT
Zero Hour! 1957 directed by Hall Bartlett and based on a story by Arthur Hailey. Starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, Geoffrey Toone, Jerry Paris, Peggy King and others. It's a decent old-fashioned nail-biter drama thriller in itself. In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog. Since I'm very well aware that parts of the plot and lines where used for laughs in the parody movie Airplane! 1980, there is a lot of aha moments. The three main actors takes their roles seriously and invests a bit of drama and tensions, and it's not a bad movie in itself. "A PICTURE YOU'LL TALK ABOUT AND REMEMBER AS LONG AS YOU LIVE!" (but not in a way that original tagline intended)
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 21, 2021 18:53:36 GMT
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