Saturday, November 2, 2019
Friday, November 1, 2019
First Lines: Neal Stephenson - The Confusion
He was not merely awakened, but detonated out of an uncommonly long and repetitive dream.
The Movies I Watched in October
1922 2017 7
Ad Astra 2019 6
Ah-ga-ssi (2016) 8
The Blood Beast Terror 1968 5
Cake 2014 6
City of Ember 2008 6
Clinical 2017 5
Cry of the Werewolf 1944 5
Don't Kill It 2016 5
Doomed to Die 1940 5
Evasive Action 1998 5
Eye in the Sky 2015 6
The Florida Project 2017 7
The Forest 2016 5
Gerald's Game 2017 6
Green Book 2018 7
High Life 2018 6
Hombre 1967 8
Hush 2016 6
I am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House 2016 6
In the Shadow of the Moon 2019 6
In the Tall Grass 2019 6
Kawaki2014 6
L'ordre et la morale 2011 6
Our Godfather 2019 6
Peaky Blinders, Season 6 2019 7
The Ritual 2017 6
The Second Woman 1950 6
Side Effects 2013 7
The Sun Sets at Dawn 1950 5
Suspect Zero 2004 6
Tomie: Anrimiteddo 2011 6
True Detective, Season 3 2019 7
Ad Astra 2019 6
Ah-ga-ssi (2016) 8
The Blood Beast Terror 1968 5
Cake 2014 6
City of Ember 2008 6
Clinical 2017 5
Cry of the Werewolf 1944 5
Don't Kill It 2016 5
Doomed to Die 1940 5
Evasive Action 1998 5
Eye in the Sky 2015 6
The Florida Project 2017 7
The Forest 2016 5
Gerald's Game 2017 6
Green Book 2018 7
High Life 2018 6
Hombre 1967 8
Hush 2016 6
I am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House 2016 6
In the Shadow of the Moon 2019 6
In the Tall Grass 2019 6
Kawaki2014 6
L'ordre et la morale 2011 6
Our Godfather 2019 6
Peaky Blinders, Season 6 2019 7
The Ritual 2017 6
The Second Woman 1950 6
Side Effects 2013 7
The Sun Sets at Dawn 1950 5
Suspect Zero 2004 6
Tomie: Anrimiteddo 2011 6
True Detective, Season 3 2019 7
Bullet (2014)
A tough cop takes the law into his own hands when his grandson is kidnapped.
OK actioner is tough, but utterly predictable and has a plot littered with hole; and Danny Trejo does his usual thing.
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Fear in the Night (1947)
A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.
Good Cornell Woolrich adaptation with a capable cast captures the author's nightmarish noir atmosphere quite well.
Halliwell**: "Intriguing small-scale puzzler later remade to less effect as Nightmare. Adequate performances and handling, but the plot's the thing."
Maltin***: "Nifty chiller..."
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
This Tarantino movie shows all the panache, high production quality, good set pieces, cinematic allusions and top performances and cameos, for which the director is generally celebrated, - so there's lots to be found here to please the senses - but it's essentially without a plot and therefore outstays its welcome; it's very superficial and mainly a buddy movie with outstanding DiCaprio and Pitt chemistry combined with a heavy streak of nostalgia for a bygone Hollywood era - and the Manson family (plus Sharon Tate) angle is cynically pitched in as a stilted plot device.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Tiger House (2015)
A young woman sneaks into her boyfriend's house to share some bad news, but their conversation is cut short when a gang of armed thieves break in and take the family hostage.
OK thriller staged mainly with the confines of one house - and Kaya Scodelario wins as the sole hero of the show.
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