That's a shame....Mandy and Pig are both great.

Thx for the recommendations. I added them to my queue(s).

I just ordered a Chromecast with Google TV to try out on my office TV as I am sick of jumping from app to app now that I canceled YT TV in place of every major streaming service instead. If I like the interface and flow I will have to order 2 more for the other TV's in the house.

pig is really fantastic you should def check it out.

Speaking of Nick Cage, last week I saw Lord Of War (2005). It was very good, better than I had expected. Not sure how I missed it when it came out, I had never even heard of it, just happened to find it while browsing Netflix.

i really enjoyed it when it came out, never understood why it wasn't a big film

then a few years back i rewatched it - having gone on that voyage before all the novelty of the lifestyle which made it exciement tourism was gone and i felt the film really fell flat and began to understand why it didn't boom

still a great film but watching it a second time better demonstrates its limitations

You were an arms dealer for third world countries?

Reminds me that I never got round to watching The Notorious Mr. Bout, documentary about Victor Bout, who the film loosely based on.

Looks a bit like Cage

lol my phrasing is pretty poor

It was the 80s, who wasn't?

I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I was in that movie. I had been looking forward to seeing it for two months, and then when I was in the theater, I couldn't wait for it to end. Aside from the 25/15 thing, I found the characters to be completely unlikeable. And the screenplay just seemed to be a series of unrelated skits all put together, some funny, but most not. I almost walked out before the end, but figured it had to get better at some point. It didn't. I really don't get the accolades for this.


I agree with pretty much all of this.


One of my favorite films of the year.

ya i was massively disappointed and incredibly bored by licorice pizza don't understand what all this best picture of the year nonsense is about.

Kenneth Branagh was the interview guest on Real Time last night, talked about Belfast, if that's of interest to anyone.

Dial M for Murder. Hitchcock Film. Grace Kelly’s hair is so perfect no matter what that it made me puke. The Plot is too clever by half. I would have like the movie much better if Kelly would have been hung for the murder and the too clever bad guy got away; and the last scene would be him sunbathing on a south sea island. That would be perfect. Hitchcock screwed this film up Royally. A black mark for him in an otherwise stellar career.

Top marks for setting it in Maida Vale, though.

Don't blame Hitch, it was impossible for Grace Kelly to look anything but perfect. The most beautiful woman ever made - she looks better in B&W than anyone else does in living color.

Marty says you're supposed to watch it in 3D.

Adam Project was enjoyable. Good weekend watch.

CODA was charming, although I'd say largely uneventful. Not much more to say about it, really.

Funny that we got back-to-back years of hearing-impaired stories as BP nominees, alongside Sound of Metal.

was he talking 3d like the old 3 d with the paper glasses. or cinemascope which came out in color and better picture with more depth.


anyway those paper 3d glasses make watching fireworks incredible.

Tried to watch Belfast; gave up after 50 minutes or so. I just didn't care about some 10-year-old pursuing his school crush. I realize they're trying to personalize it and provide a human context for The Troubles, but scene after scene of the grandpa giving him some droll life advice or him sitting in class, while I'm waiting for the movie to get things rolling with the conflict, got a bit tiresome. I figure 50 minutes is more than enough before I quit from boredom. I don't fault people for liking it, but I didn't want to watch a pre-teen coming-of-age movie.

Started watching Grumpy Old Men because it's free on YouTube; was actually more into it than I expected to be. Chemistry between Matthau and Lemmon was great. Then a scene about 20 minutes in killed it for me: The beautiful woman who just moved in across the street knocks on Lemmon's door in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, not because anything is wrong with her bathroom, but because... she thinks you can really tell a lot about someone from their bathroom? And she's all domineering and waltzes right upstairs, despite the fact she's never even met Lemmon before? That was the best plotline the writers could come up with? The movie leading up to this point had some silly moments but was grounded in reality. How "Let's have her go over to his house in the middle of the night to use the bathroom because she likes bathrooms" made it into the script is baffling. Turned it off right there.

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R.I.P. William Hurt - he just passed - he was a great actor imo


he was so great in "Body Heat" - one of my fave flicks


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Yes.

damn William Hurt passed away.

he was so good even when his part was so small.

This could be Marty describing his first acid trip.

Although he thinks it's set in Mayfair LOL. Schoolboy error.