What movie did YOU just FINISH watching?

Did you enjoy it Archelaus? THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS is the only film starring either Nicholson or Dern (two of my very favorite actors) I have not seen yet. I bought it on Blu Ray recently and will be watching it shortly. 

I wasn't too enthralled with this movie. The opening scene was great and it has nice cinematography with the muted backdrops of Atlantic City. Jack Nicholson uniquely plays a character out of his usual element that's reserved and introspective. Ellen Burstyn and Julia Anne Robinson do pretty good in their parts. I just wasn't too involved with the story. I suppose it's a 1970s commentary on how unobtainable the American dream is. Overall, I found it to be a weaker film than Bob Rafelson's earlier film Five Easy Pieces.

Back to the Future (1985).

SHADOW OF A DOUBT 1943 - The fascinating thing about Hitchcock movies is how dense they are for character and story elements. There's never any waste or filler. Everything matters. Little things-sometimes humorous such as the joke on the train with the doctor saying the passenger he is playing cards with looks sick and then we see his card hand instead of his face.
Or two men discussing how to murder each other. That's always a Hitchcock theme-how the normal society may be hiding murder and insanity underneath.

The friend with glasses who gives eye contact to all the men she encounters--and also the waitress stood out. She's like the underside of the town--she is working different jobs--seems kind of worn out. She's the opposite of Charly and also the widows that get mentioned.

I didnt miss the quick comment that Uncle Charlie hit his head as a child and maybe that's the reason he changed. It is clear he and his sister are very cozy while the husband is rather wimpy. Notice that there are no other younger men around. Except the military people in the bar?
But even our detective boyfriend is not present to help Charly by the end. She has to deal with it herself. I do find the sudden jump to the train moving while she is still on it kind of jarring.
There's a couple of lines that caught my attention--someone says the remark that compared to the locals in town, foreigners are better at speaking (referring to Uncle Charlie)..and then right at the end-how the world gets crazy sometimes and needs watching. I almost expected Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce to drive by and mention war bonds.
But that was a pretty subtle wartime reference.

My Bodyguard - a teen film about bullying.
Stars Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, a young Joan Cusack, Martin Mull, Ruth Gordon and Matt Dillon

Across 110th Street 1972 directed by Barry Shear and based on a novel by Wally Ferris.
A very violent and brutal crime move about amateur thieves who manages to steal from the mob in a Harlem apartment masquerading as policemen, the robbery becomes very violent and bloody, the police have to solve the crime as real policemen also were killed, and the mob want's revenge and their money back. There is also racial issues. Anthony Quinn plays the older police on the case, who is not beyond using very brutal methods to get answers, but he is put aside, since the top brass want's a back policeman on the case instead, played by Yaphet Kotto. Anthony Franciosa plays the man from the mob who also uses very brutal methods to get answers, revenge and the money back. Anthony Fargas, before he became "Huggy Bear", plays one of the thieves who can't keep low, but starts spending the money, with flashy clothes, drugs, and goes openly to flashy places, and that's were the mob finds him. We are spared some of the most brutal things the mob does to him, but what we see is rather graphic anyway.
Though the movie is very violent and brutal, it's still a very good movie.
Great music score by Bobby Womack and J.J. Johnson, and good use of very seedy real New York locations.
The violence shocked me once, in the 1980's, seeing it again, it's still very violent and raw, yet feels more realistic than in an ordinary action movie.

Compañeros! aka Vamos a matar, compañeros 1970 directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero, Thomas Milian, Fernando Rey, Iris Balban, Jack Palance and others.
Spaghetti Western, taking place in Mexico, but made on Spanish Locations."A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way".
Been trying to catch up on my little knowledge of Spaghetti Westerns, but I have a hard time feeling enthusiastic about them, so I don't think it's a genre I will follow too closely, only occasionally.
This one was said to be one of the better of it's sort, combining violence with humor, that was not made by Sergio Leone.
Some great scenes and music by legendary Ennio Morricone helped a bit
Franco Nero plays the Swedish arms dealer and his name is Yodlaf Peterson, no Swede has never been named Yodlaf, but if you read it in another way... You'd Laugh.