Furiosa - Very entertaining from start to finish. It was a little more Fury Road prequel than I was expecting. I feel like there was a good balance of keeping it within the Mad Max universe while also giving us her backstory. Fury Road is probably my favorite action movie of all time. Furiosa isn't on that level but it’s on the next tier. 8.5/10. Its a 9.5/10 on the perfect Sunday afternoon popcorn movie scale.

a friend invited me to see Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes yesterday. I have not seen any previous films from the series. they do give a brief introductory explanation in the opening which I was thankful for.

a pretty movie with a ton of pretty good CGI, but it was incredibly boring and slow and uninteresting. none of the characters were engaging. I was never emotionally stirred. it presented zero desire to see any previous or future installments.

Furiosa needed to be 35 minutes shorter. Like just about every ****ing movie being made right now.

Furiosa needed to be longer...I would see a ten hour Mad Max movie

Brats, Andrew McCarthy, 2004

Fascinating doc by Pretty In Pink actor on the 80s "Brat Pack" designation on those young actors and what it meant to them all and how it affected their careers.

It's fascinating because you have actors like McCarthy, Emilio Estevez, and Ally Sheedy - who never quite grew out of the label in their careers - and others like Demi Moore and Rob Lowe - who later became big stars - talking about the label. McCarthy, Estevez, and Sheedy all somewhat feel the label really hurt their careers, as it came with a lot of baggage and prevented them from getting interview or auditions with serious filmmakers.

However, both Moore and Lowe think of it as something interesting and good - they will always be linked to the zeitgeist of that time period, and, as Moore eloquently says, you can olny give power to the label if you let it.

McCarthy also interviews various writers, movie execs, directors, Malcom Gladwell, etc...and you can really see McCarthy working through the damage he feels the label did to him. The film is basically his therapy.

In the end, he also sits down with writer David Frum, who wrote the original Brat Pack article and coined the term. It's quite fascinating, because Frum is defensive and unapologetic, and you can sense McCarthy is looking for an apology that never comes.

This is an interesting movie...well-edited and directed...that goes much deeper than most movie docs.