Primal Fear is on tv now. I love that movie and love to hate Edward Norton. He looks so young!
We watched Oddity over the weekend. It’s mystery murder thriller movie based in Ireland. It’s very good. You’re not sure if it’s a ghost/supernatural murder or just a normal murder until the end. We liked it quite a bit. I think it was $6-7 on Amazon prime.
My daughter and I were looking for something to watch yesterday and settled on Wicked Little Letters. We loved it. I looked up the true story it’s based on and was surprised at how much was actually true.
H and I watched Red Eye last night - a 90 minute thriller from 2005 with Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams. We both liked it (honestly just looking at his blue eyes is enough for me).
Watching The Supremes at All-You-Can-Eat Joe’s (Hulu). I’m enjoying it!
Amazon Prime finally suggested something I actually wanted to watch last night - Driveways (2019). A slow, gentle, slice of life movie mostly about a boy and older man dealing with life from opposite ends.
Watched both 21 and 22 Jump Street! I haven’t laughed this hard in a while!
From my favorite movie critic, among her recommendations of “oldies” to watch in September:
“Screening in a new restoration, the animated 1982 science fiction film “The Time Masters ” is at The Beacon for a week (Sept. 6-12); René Laloux (“Fantastic Planet”) is the director.”
Don’t think I’ll be able to drag my husband into the city, but my goodness I will absolutely have to watch it on Amazon or whatever! Such a great animated movie.
We watched Young woman and the sea (available on Disney Plus) last night. Highly recommend!
Thanks for the recommendation! My husband and I both enjoyed it.
We watched Arthur the King recently and really enjoyed it. A must see for dog lovers.
This one looks very promising!!
“Eighteen-year-old Elliott (the delightfully fast-talking Maisy Stella) is spending her last summer in her family’s rural town before heading off to college; she is, in the way of 18-year-olds, in a hurry to get life going, and generally uninterested in her parents, her two younger brothers and really anything except hanging out with her friends. One night, while hanging, Elliott ingests a lot of mushrooms and meets someone unexpected: her 39-year-old self (Plaza). It’s a shocking realization for Elliott, delivered by Plaza with her trademark deadpan: “Dude, I’m you.” After dispensing some advice and wistful observation — “I forgot how simple everything seems” when you’re young, she ponders — the older self vanishes, leaving a contact on Elliott’s cell: My Old Ass.”
D2 and her bf saw this and said it was really good!
Just saw Speak No Evil. More a psychological thriller than a horror movie. James Mcavoy and Mackenzie Davis steal the show with their performances. Yes, it’s scary with some gore, but worth a watch. Kind of reminded me of a worthwhile M Night movie.
Last night, DH and I watched “The Adjustment Bureau” (2011), a sci fi/fantasy movie with Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. I’d never heard of it before, but we enjoyed it. It’s based on a book by Phillip Dick. There were a lot of plot holes but I thought it was worth watching. The chemistry between Damon and Blunt was convincing.
It leaves Netflix on September 30 if you want to see it.
I just watched Will and Harper, a documentary on Netflix. I loved it. Everyone needs a friend like Will Farrell.
OH! My love and I just watched Will & Harper on Netflix - a beautiful documentary about Will Ferrell & his long time friend taking a road trip through the US as his friend Harper grapples with going through small towns USA as a recent trans woman. It’s touching and there’s humor. We loved the film from start to finish.
His Three Daughters on Netflix, well done.
That hit a little too close to home for me! Two Daughters in my case, but a lot of the film rang true.
It was well done; I teared up at times, it was quite moving.
I’m glad they chose to include the place in which the situation became more and more tense, along with Ferrell’s emotional response and his contrition around that encounter the next day—recognizing how he’d put the two of them on the spot in ways that the shield of his celebrity and innate goodwill (it’s that funny guy Will Ferrell!) was no longer enough. If there hadn’t been cameras there, I hesitate to think how the situation would have been different.
Contrast the response in that place, to their offhand encounter with folks just watching a game outside on the bleachers, or in diners: friendly and kind. And the time they spend talking with her kids.
It was well done, and heartwarming.
My sister and I, plus our dad, my husband and some of my kids were with my mom when she passed in her home, on hospice. We had been sitting vigil with her for days with her lifetime best friend (a PA which helped). I lived 3 minutes away, my sister a 2 hour flight. I probably could’ve written a screenplay about the situation, and I’m guessing most in similar situations could as well. It was sometimes a hard watch (my dad had Alzheimer’s and really didn’t understand what was happening, sometimes it brought in some humor).