Blue Jay is a nice movie. The only characters on screen are former high school lovers who meet by chance 20 years after the fact. It’s also shot in black and white, so the director was gambling, but I like his choices.

Sarah Paulson and Mark Duplass had a lot of chemistry and do a good job capturing the nostalgia of youth. It’s pretty unique for a romance and free on Netflix. I recommend it.

Agreed. I loved it. Probably a top 5 Pixar for me, and the best one since Up.

The Post

I'm a sucker for a newspaper movie, and this is a good one. Featuring very good lead performance by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, The Post is obviously a shot across the bow of Trump's war against the free press.

Strep plays Washington Post owner Katherine Graham, who's company is about to go public just as Hanks as Post Exec. Editor Ben Bradlee receives the Pentagon Papers from Daniel Elsberg.

This is structure almost like a thriller - will the Post be able to jump though all the legal hoops and the threat of prison, in order defy the Nixon administration and publish these top secret documents?

But it's not just that - Streep, as Graham also must navigate an all-male world as she both decides to go public with her company and make the final decision to publish the Papers. This decision can very well destroy the family-owned newspaper she's been trusted to helm.

So this movie is both a timely one, not only for its stance on a free press, but also in the time of the #MeToo movement and the idea that to truly be a free republic, women must have a place at the table.

Like All The President's Men and Spotlight before it, The Post certainly puts newspaper men and women on a pedestal, and rightly so - Graham and Bradley are American heroes, and they're bravery and defense of the First Amendment should not be forgotten.

Besides the two others you named, are there any other "newspaper movies" of note?

Shattered Glass is a good one.

His Girl Friday
Citizen Kane
Zodiac
State of Play
Absence of Malice
Ace in the Hole

A few non-modern (however you’re defining that) horror movies I watched recently that kick ass, especially if you like suspense and/or black humor: Diabolique and Pretty Poison and The Stepfather (1987).

For those who have Filmstruck, I highly recommend the hard to get anywhere Cure, a horror/mystery classic.

I saw Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer recently too, but I can’t recommend that (even though it has genuinely funny moments and good acting all around, esp from the two male leads). It’s just too hardcore.

On Prime I caught a strange one … It has two titles and I can’t remember which one Amazon uses, either Night of the Eagle or Burn, Witch, Burn. It’s a great-looking B&W, compelling even with its silly premise. Briskly paced.

I'd enjoy hearing any thoughts/recommendations.

The Paper was pretty good.

Haha, I wouldn't go quite that far. I'll take our boys dying on the beaches at Normandy and you can have these ace newspaper reporters.

I watched Nocturnal Animals the other day, found it very entertaining. Really enjoyed the mood/style

Leave it to kiosk to drop in with the incredibly stupid right wing take.

Hint: two things can be true at once.

All the President's Men

Ive finally seen enough of 2017s movies to make my “best of the year” list & very close to the top, if not the top, is Brigsby Bear. I loved this movie so much & feel like it is insanely underseen & underrated. Anyone else see this gem?

+1

you do realize they're not mutually exclusive right?

Sausage Party made me laugh. It’s obviously really silly, but in a more original way than I expected. First 10 minutes were predictable and I almost turned it off, but it’s definitely got some good bits.

I didn’t realize we could only choose one.

I liked this as well. Almost like a 2-character stage play, but the dialogue and characters were very believable and authentic. My only quibble was that Paulsen was so fantastic in it that it made Duplass' limited acting range stand out. He did a pretty good job also though... but this is Paulsen's movie.

Watched I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, it won the grand prize at Sundance. I wasn't feeling it. Just a goofy story about a depressed woman who thinks everyone is an a-hole, who then gets robbed. A bunch of violence at the end that seemed to be played for laughs but wasn't funny to me. Bad guys were laughable b-movie caricatures. Lead actress was quite good in it though, for what she had to work with.

One of my favorite movies of all time. You're the first person I've ever heard mention it, seems like no one saw it

The Rise http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981140/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

A guy who was framed by a local drug dealer gets out of prison and plans his revenge.
Pretty good British crime drama, better than I expected it to be.

I like it alot and have seen it multiple times and while it's a minor nitpick (and understandable given he died while embedded in Iraq) I didn't like how they portrayed the first editor mike kelly.

if you actually read up on the whole scandal kelly is not a very likeable character (tho they did get the aspect of how protective he was of his reporters) and they made him out to practically be a saint.

but like I said it's a minor nitpick and overall it's a fantastic film and really faithful to the real story didn't go all bull **** Hollywood like so many "true stories" do.

entire cast is outstanding.

Based on review scores I thought brawl in cell block 99 was some American History X level stuff

Lol Vince Vaughn, wtf was that accent?

The Ipcress File - considered a classic of the spy genre bu it’s somewhat dated. Harry Palmer is the anti-Bond; wears glasses, working class background, cockney accent, has no gadgets and likes to cook. He’s in a trying to retrieve a kidnapped scientist while other spies and his own bosses get in the way.

It’s certainly decent and I can understand why it would have impressed so much back when it was released. However it’s lacking compared to modern thrillers’ more sophisticated plot and character development. We don’t get closely enough into Palmer’s head and the plot twists aren’t impactful or surprising enough.

Phantom Thread ..I've seen a lot of strange movies at the theater but I don't think I've seen a movie paralyze people like this movie did at the end. There was about a good two or three minutes as the credits rolled where everyone in the theater had no idea what to make of the ending or the movie.


Overall felt like Phantom Thread was overly long and and I fell into a lull during certain portions of the movie but it all culminates to one scene that is absolutely masterful which makes most of what happened before it worth it, DDL is amazing as usual and hopefully this isn't his last role because he's the GOAT.

Only PTA could make a movie about dress making interesting and although it was beautifully shot with a ton of attention to detail still kind of feel like it could have been cut by about twenty minutes. Still very good PTA

Can't wait to see phantom thread